If the USA's national security is imminently in danger via Tiktok - let's do this ...

1) Pass legislation in April 2024, ordering ByteDance to divest the app by Jan 2025.
2) Delay the deadline for divestiture 5 times! That is 10 months so far.
3) Line up some number of investors, 4,5,6, we are not sure how many, including Abu Dhabi-based state-owned investment firm MGX (huh!) to take over operating TikTok in the USA.
4) License a copy of the app’s algorithm - likely a violation of Chinese law
5) Re-train the algorithm - good luck with that!
6) Set the value of TikTok @ $14B - WWWHHAAATTT - that is way TOO LOW

Sounds like a plan! Finally, we will sign a worthless piece of paper and tell the Chinese government what we are going to do! Ya, this is going to work and protect USA's national security.

#ByteDance #TikTok #USAGov #MGX #Oracle #AndreessenHorowitz #SilverLake #FoxCorp #Fail #ChuckleHeads #NationalSecurity #China #SocialMedia #Congress #Legislation

A thing no one is talking about - interesting read.

"Deals" by Trump Admin. with Law Firms violate federal spending laws notably:
1) The Anti-Deficiency Act specifically bars the government from accepting voluntary services without compensation.
2) The Miscellaneous Receipts Act (MRA) mandates officials deposit all funds received by the government into the Treasury, to prevent the executive branch from redirecting funds outside of the legislative control.

In doing this the Administration is ignoring it's own DoJ that has reaffirmed these legal restrictions.
https://www.justsecurity.org/112943/trumps-law-firm-settlements-congress-federal-laws/ #Law #DoJ #Trump #FederalSpening #Power_of_the_Purse #Congress #USAgov

Update: Judge temporarily parts of Trump EO on Perkins Coie

Judge compared the president to the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland,” noting that the rash queen’s outbursts — “Off with their heads!” — are entertaining to read about but “cannot be the reality we are living” under our Constitution.

Judge indicates Trump’s order likely violates the First Amendment for retaliating against protected speech and that it also likely runs afoul of due process protections and the Perkins Coie’s clients’ Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

“issuing an executive order targeting the firm based on the president’s dislike of the political positions of the firm’s clients or the firm’s litigation positions is retaliatory and runs head-on into the role of First Amendment protection.”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5191623-trump-executive-order-perkins-coie/ #POTUS #PerkinsCoie #lawsuit #defamation #DoJ #USA #USAGov

Law firm Perkins Coie who are the subject of an Executive Order have filed a lawsuit against Trump administration. The Trump administration is picking a fight with some of the best and brightest lawyers in America.

POTUS and team Get ready for a MAJOR smack down!! One example of positions in the complaint.

"Because the Order singles out Perkins Coie, it denies the firm the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.... the Order constitutes retaliatory viewpoint discrimination and, therefore, violates the First Amendment rights of free expression and association, and the right to petition the government for redress. Because the Order compels disclosure of confidential information revealing the firm’s relationships with its clients, it violates the First Amendment."

DL the entire complaint here: https://abovethelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/03/Perkins-Coie-v-DOJ-20250311.pdf #POTUS #PerkinsCoie #lawsuit #defamation #DoJ #USA #USAGov

Some people understand what it means to take an oath!

Approx. 1/3 of the remaining technology staff at the United States Digital Service (engineers, data scientists and product managers) resigned en masse today.

“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter ... “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”

https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c #fail #doge #musk #idiots #USAgov #engineers #software #datascience #USDS

Let's put some experts in there - part 2!

Musk claimed Social Security Administration (SSA) is paying benefits to 150-year-olds.

The reality, SSA systems are implemented in COBOL. When a birth date is missing or incomplete the system defaults to a reference point of May 20, 1875, indicating those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ #fail #idiots #musk ##usagov #doge #cobol #software #SSA #socialsecurity

USA administration recipe for success = gutting CISA and CRSB - NOT!

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/trump-fires-cyber-safety-board-salt-typhoon-hackers

Salt Typhoon continues to breach telecoms and internet service providers with five new breaches identified. Also, more than a dozen universities from Utah to Vietnam breached in December and January. Targeting internet facing web interfaces of Cisco's IOS.

“They've only gotten more bold,” “I strongly suspect it's much larger than what we’ve seen.”
https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-salt-typhoon-spies-are-still-hacking-telecoms-now-by-exploiting-cisco-routers/ #SaltTyphoon #cybersecurity #CISA #CRSB #Breach #Fail #idiots #internet #USAgov #wired #Telecom

Exclusive: U.S. Ambassador Meg Whitman Talks Gen Z Protests and Kenya's Role in Haiti

What US Ambassador Meg Whitman Said in an Exclusive TV Interview with Citizen TV Kenya

"Whitman countered claims that the diplomatic community had been silent during the Gen Z protests, pointing to statements and actions made by the U.S. and other international representatives."

#US #USA #USAGov #Kenya #AGOA #DFC #AmbWhitman #CitizenTVKenya #KenyaNews #Politics #PoliticalNews #GlobalNews #DiplomacyNews #USDiplomacy #USAfricaRelations #USKenyaRelations #DiplomacyMatters #ManiaNews #ManiaAfrica

https://mania.africa/exclusive-u-s-ambassador-meg-whitman-talks-gen-z-protests-and-kenyas-role-in-haiti/

Interesting how #Meta is super nervous about being banned on #USAGov computers & mobiles since they are 1 Million times worse than #TikTok

#Meta is the global #KiwiFarms #GangStalkingForums in #MenloPark that attack #siliconvalley with #propaganda from their #FakeAccounts #FraudsterNetwork #Meta 📰📰📰📰👀👀

#TikTok 👀👀

#BanMetaOnGovernment #uspol #infosec