RosaLSmothers

@RosaLSmothers@mstdn.social
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Fmr @CIA @DefenseIntel Cyber Threat Analyst & Technical Intelligence Officer ‘04-17. #cybersecurity, #infosec, #natsec, #emergingtechnologies and #geopolitics nerd, amateur linguist and pianist, travel enthusiast & excellent 🐶mom. #T1D #insulin4all #LLAP 🖖🏻

RT @Olivia_Gazis@twitter.com

National Security Council's John Kirby says U.S. will designate Wagner Group a transnational criminal organization, paving the way for sanctions. From the podium he shows satellite images of apparent North Korean arms being shuttled to Russian forces by train. https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1616501532295368707

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Olivia_Gazis/status/1616503756413145096

CBS News on Twitter

“WATCH LIVE: White House discusses actions against Wagner Group in Ukraine https://t.co/ZJ6BGe26D9 https://t.co/Wh4S7slJjC”

Twitter

i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.

the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.

so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:

it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.

“ Albuquerque police on Monday arrested the man they say is the “mastermind” behind a recent string of shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers’ homes.

The suspect, Solomon Pena, is a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for office in November, has made <b>repeated claims that the election was rigged and appears to have attended the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in Washington, D.C.”<b>

https://www.abqjournal.com/2565117/solomon-pena-arrested-in-shootings-targeting-new-mexico-democratic-politicians-homes.html

Failed Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians' homes

Albuquerque police on Monday arrested the man they say is the “mastermind” behind a recent string of shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers’ homes. The suspect, Solomon Pena, is a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for office in November, has made repeated claims that the election was rigged and appears to have attended the Jan. 6, 2021, riot […]

Albuquerque Journal
“Santos, in this telling, had an uncanny, Forrest Gump-like biographical connection to these momentous historical moments, his own life changing at just the same moments that challenged the identity of the nation. It’s not hard to see why this fiction appealed to Santos, and why it appealed to his voters. It made him into an avatar of America itself.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/14/george-santos-politician-americans-deserve
Serial liar George Santos is the politician Americans deserve

The congressman’s many lies are the product of a political system that incentivizes dishonesty and punishes sincerity

The Guardian
I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.

I really need Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu to win Oscars this year 🥇🥇🥇

Also, Chunk was Data’s entertainment lawyer which is very EEAAO multiverse if you think about it…

https://www.avclub.com/ke-huy-quan-goonies-jeff-cohen-everything-everywhere-1849971328

Ke Huy Quan's Goonies co-star helped seal his Everything Everywhere All At Once deal

Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies, now serves as his co-star Ke Huy Quan's entertainment lawyer

The A.V. Club

Today in 1926, 97 years ago: Ibn Saud, proclaimed king of the former independent kingdom of Hedjaz, currently incorporated into Saudi Arabia.

#OnThisDay

RT @Sandbagger_01@twitter.com

"Prosecutors in Poland have charged two men, a Belarusian and a Russian, with spying for Russia's military intelligence, the GRU".

https://www.rferl.org/a/poland-russia-belarus-spying-gru/32207632.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Sandbagger_01/status/1610915475621556224

Russian, Belarusian Arrested In Poland On Espionage Charges

Prosecutors in Poland have charged two men, a Belarusian and a Russian, with spying for Russia's military intelligence, the GRU, a spokeswoman of the Polish Prosecutor-General’s Office said on December 4.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
"To mark two years since the insurrection on the Capitol, the President will host a ceremony at the White House on Friday, January 6th where he will deliver remarks and award the Presidential Citizens Medal to individuals who made exemplary contributions to our democracy surrounding January 6, 2021," White House announces.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my more than 20 years in Congress.”

—George Santos