Zack LabeICYMI - my first take on a timeline of global change. More at https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/
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CarveHerNameVery early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
Matt Blaze- Mass deportations without trials
- Extrajudicial imprisonment in foreign concentration camps.
- National registry of autistic people, who are declared "nonproductive"
- Arrests of judges
History is rhyming pretty hard right now.
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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯Holy shit the details of this story about #DOGE taking over the #NLRB's systems are nuts.
1. Demanded full control of NLRB's #Azure cloud
2. Disabled logs and network monitoring
3. MFA turned off
4. Russian login attempts with valid (new) credentials
5. 10 GB exfiltrated from #NxGen, the NLRB's legal case database
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1913023007263543565.html
#ElonMusk #cybersecurity #CISA #infosec #Russia #Putin #vladimirPutin #GRU #FSB #crime #Elon #TeslaTakedown #Tesla
Steve HermanIn the latest edition of the National Press Club's Update-1 podcast, I speak with the club's Broadcast Podcast Committee member Tom Young about the effort to revive the Voice of America and protect other outlets such as RFE/RL. https://www.press.org/newsroom/voas-chief-national-correspondent-leads-effort-revive-network
VOA's Chief National Correspondent Leads Effort To Revive Network
A legal battle seeks to put Voice of America back on the air after its silencing by the Trump administration. VOA Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman serves on the National Press Club's board of governors, and he's taking part in the court action. In the latest edition of Update-1, Steve speaks with Broadcast Podcast Committee member Tom Young about the effort to revive VOA and protect other outlets such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Besides playing on Press.org, Update-1 can be heard on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube Music, Audacity and TuneIn by searching for "NPC Update-1."
Brian JopekEmily Jazmin Tatum Perez was a West Point graduate. While serving in Iraq, she was killed in action by an I.E.D., the first black female officer in U.S. military history to die in combat and the first female graduate of West Point to die in Iraq.
The video documenting why she chose to serve in the Army and in combat has been deleted by the Army under the Trump Administration.
Erasing her from the collective memory of America will not be tolerated. - Mel Tansill
Brent Toderian“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and ...
Finland ends homelessness and ...
My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth, are being silenced this weekend. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried?r=1g77q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Kee Hinckley“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
-Elon Musk, Feb 28, 2025
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge/index.html
Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy
Americans are still in the dark about the scope and scale of what Elon Musk is doing with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is working to drastically shrink the size of government by aiming to cut $1 trillion or more in government spending.