Mastodawn

> Those who have known him personally say that before immigrating from Malta he had been born in the Soviet Union.

Source: https://thedispatch.com/article/a-loyalists-loyalist-in-charge-of-personnel/

Also repeated here: https://malteselivingabroad.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/069-MALTESE-PRESENCE-FEBRUARY-2025.pdf

A Loyalist’s Loyalist in Charge of Personnel

Trump devotee Sergio Gor will head one of the most important offices in the new administration.

The Dispatch

Musing Mouse 13h ago

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amlor 16h ago

@briankrebs He has a face of a russian officer. Source: am russian (not officer)

WT holy F, this is Director of White House Personnel?

How is this man even near the White House?

Musing Mouse 13h ago

Alan Lewis 20h ago

SHOULD AMERICANS BE AFRAID OF THEIR OWN MILITARY?
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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16cfdukGrr/

Eightysix47

: #democrats #democrats #eightysix47 #petehegseth #uspol #uspolitics :

3K reactions · 137 shares | Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., questioned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about any orders he has given to the military in the deployment of troops to handle protests in Los Angeles in response to immigration actions by the administration. During the hearing, Slotkin said she was asking because Trump’s defense secretary during his first term, Mark Esper, rejected such an order from Trump during protests after the death of George Floyd. She joined @nicollewallace on @deadlinewh to discuss her reaction to his response. | MSNBC

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., questioned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about any orders he has given to the military in the deployment of troops to...

Musing Mouse 13h ago

Otter Raft 17h ago

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel

https://lemmy.ca/post/46423975

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel - Lemmy.ca

> As Israel and Iran trade blows in a quickly escalating conflict that risks engulfing the rest of the region as well as a more direct confrontation between Iran and the U.S., social media is being flooded with AI-generated media that claims to show the devastation, but is fake. > > The fake videos and images show how generative AI has already become a staple of modern conflict. On one end, AI-generated content of unknown origin is filling the void created by state-sanctioned media blackouts with misinformation, and on the other end, the leaders of these countries are sharing AI-generated slop to spread the oldest forms of xenophobia and propaganda. > > If you want to follow a war as it’s happening, it’s easier than ever. Telegram channels post live streams of bombing raids as they happen and much of the footage trickles up to X, TikTok, and other social media platforms. There’s more footage of conflict than there’s ever been, but a lot of it is fake. > > A few days ago, Iranian news outlets reported that Iran’s military had shot down three F-35s. Israel denied it happened. As the claim spread so did supposed images of the downed jet. In one, a massive version of the jet smolders on the ground next to a town. The cockpit dwarfs the nearby buildings and tiny people mill around the downed jet like Lilliputians surrounding Gulliver. > > It’s a fake, an obvious one, but thousands of people shared it online. Another image of the supposedly downed jet showed it crashed in a field somewhere in the middle of the night. Its wings were gone and its afterburner still glowed hot. This was also a fake.

Musing Mouse 14h ago

skry 14h ago

#USPol

Oregon's Senator Merkeley:

"The Senate budget resolution calls for $5.3 trillion in tax giveaways to billionaires and the very wealthy, paid for by cutting $4 billion from critical programs that help working families, low-income Americans, children, and our seniors, and adding $52 trillion to our nation’s debt over 30 years.”

Musing Mouse 14h ago

DrD 14h ago

It's strange there was no permanent scarring on Trump's ear, the "blood" looked more like syrup - but most telling of all, a known coward like Trump, cosplayed being a tough man by immediately fist pumping after being "shot".

And it's strange that Trump backers got control of election technology just before the 2024 election, Trump won all 7 swing States (never done before) with just enough votes in each State, and in one NY County Kamala Harris got 0 votes.

Remember: Trump only "wins" by cheating and fraudulence.
#USPol #trump

Musing Mouse 1d ago

BrianKrebs 1d ago

[[important update: It appears there is a critical error in my previous analysis. The email address returned by Constella for that 12 digit was actually sergio-gor@gmail.com, not sergio.gor@gmail.com (the latter being the address that registered steveking.com back in the day). Please accept my apologies for this horrible oversight on my part.]]

So I've been looking at this guy Sergio Gor, who's been described as one of the most powerful figures in the Trump administration: Director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.

Per The Times of Malta:

"While not the most glamourous sounding position, Gor’s role will see him wield considerable influence in the Trump government, responsible for vetting the appointment of thousands of employees.

https://timesofmalta.com/article/meet-sergio-gor-the-maltese-man-heart-trump-administration.1104244

Meanwhile, The New York Post wrote on June 17 that Gor still hasn't been vetted himself:

"...three administration insiders told The Post that the vetter-in-chief has not turned in his Standard Form 86, or SF-86 — a more than 100-page set of questions required for officials who need security clearances."

"Among the questions applicants must answer under threat of criminal penalties is where they were born and whether they have any foreign connections."

"Gor claims to be from the island country of Malta, though an official there could not confirm his birthplace when provided his exact birthday, saying: “No acts are registered with the provided details.”

"Gor declined to divulge his birthplace to The Post, other than to say it was not Russia."

His Wikipedia page says he was born in 1986 in Malta, and later moved w/ family to Los Angeles. But there indications he was born in Russia in 1980.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Gor

Sergio Gor is known to have worked on the campaign of the conservative former Rep. Steve King, and a search in Domaintools finds Sergio Gor registered Steveking.com way back when. Domaintools says Gor used the email address sergio.gor@gmail.com, which was also used to register the vanity domain sergiogor.com.

Constella Intelligence, a threat hunting platform that indexes breached data, finds this email address used the rather unique and long password: 961649507273. Constella further finds that this password is almost exclusively tied to a bunch of email accounts for the same name, including sgoryachev999@rambler.ru, goryachev-sergey@yandex.ru, sergio-gor@yandex.ru
sergio-gor@qip.ru, goryachev-sergey@ya.ru, goryachev-sergey@list.ru and goryachev-sergey@gmail.com.

Constella also says goryachev-sergey@yandex.ru has multiple entries in Russian government databases for a Sergey Anatolyevich Goryachev, DOB, Nov. 20, 1980, phone +79689210000. This person appears to have lived in Saratov, RU, has a tax ID number, etc.

Here's a mind map I put together on these findings. The password thing is very hard to get past.