And from the WTAF dept, quite a bombshell from ProPublica today:

"Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found."

"The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing business a decade ago, relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage."

"But these workers, known as “digital escorts,” often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, ProPublica found. Some are former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work."

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-15

"5 months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid prgms, the Trump admin:🚨to incinerate food instead of sending it to ppl who need it🚨waste, fraud..: it costs $130K to burn food worth $800K."

I post about the atrocities committed by the #TrumpRegime, but this is one of the worst Trump/Rs have ever perpetrated.💔Torching food instead of sending it to starving ppl, mostly black & brown ppl (promised thru #USAID) is beyond the pale.
Amplify.
#Racism #Protest #USPol https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zJJXeoRe3IYCW9n7SieVJ0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

🐾🐾🦴🦴ODIN FAQ🦴🦴🐾🐾

- Odin is our Newfoundlander. He was born in January 2024 in the Netherlands; he is nine months old in the attached photos.

- Yes, he is very, very, very big. He grew indescribably quickly and yes, he is still growing. We expect him to top out around 80kg.

- He is incredibly sweet, loving, and kind. He has never once shown aggression towards another dog, even though many have tried to preemptively fight him off. He rarely barks. On the other hand, he has no social graces and cannot take a hint when another dog tries to tell him to leave them alone.

- He's an enormous cuddlebug and I have the scars and bruises to prove it.

- We live on the edge of an enormous park, he gets plenty of time to go outside. Newfies are not very high-energy, we don't need some sort of mansion with a private meadow to accommodate his movement needs.

- What he does need is thorough grooming every single day. Yes, he sheds absolute mountains of hair.

- Yes, he inhales thousands of calories of food a day. It will decrease when he's no longer growing like a black hole.

- The drool. You cannot imagine the drool.

- My husband and I love this dog with all our heart and soul. We're often asked "did you realize he'd get this big?", and trust us, it was the most intentional decision of our lives

#dogs #dogsofmastodon #newfie

people have forgotten a vital thing about the 1950s and what made those years so great ...

#poverty #taxes #Billionaires #GreedyBastards #CorporateGreed #Fascism #FascistAmeriKKKa #politics #tyranny

If your prison is deliberately designed to concentrate 25-30 prisoners per cell, that is not a prison, that is a concentration camp.

If your concentration camp is deliberately designed to torture prisoners with maggot infested meals and permanent bright lights denying them sleep, that is not a concentration camp, that is a torture camp.

If your torture camp is deliberately designed in the most dangerous possible flood zone, infested by alligators and disease riddled mosquitoes, that is not a torture camp, that is a death camp.

And if you are kidnapping women and children, locking them in death camps, and live streaming their torture for money, you are not the President, you are a sadist. And you will be dealt with accordingly.

ICYMI

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Rep Wasserman Schultz was shaken after touring #AlligatorAlcatraz.

“We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.”

After the delay, the MOC assumed the facility would be somewhat sanitized, but it was revolting:

She just visited & came away shivering: "It's 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, & defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don't come close to the stench.”
#Detention #Sadism #Fascism #Protest #USPol