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Given that Trump's critics call it a kidnapping, and Trump says it's an apt term, I see no reason for the media not to use it. Literally both sides agree it's the proper description of what happened.

Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center. We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.

You wouldn't expose war crimes... would you? ddosecrets.com/submit

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ theonion.com/netanyahu-th...

Loder, who has shifted to Mastodon, said that for social networks “the product you’re selling is content moderation” Now that Musk appears to be reworking content moderation to tilt the playing field in favor of far-right extremists, Loder added, Twitter “is going to turn into Gab with crypto scams”

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Spending my flight reading Escape from Incel Island! a novella by @margaret.bsky.social

Still holds up

It's been a big year at Signal. Thanks to you, more & more people are speaking privately and freely. Thanks to you, we hit the top of app stores in multiple countries & served as critical global comms infrastructure. It's an honor to build Signal for you, with your support. 🩵

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

Sinatra has gone woke

Should @ddosecrets.com start accepting archives of footage of ICE?

Not at #39c3 but I kinda want to watch this talk now

At the gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3 You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message. Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed. gpg has not fixed it yet.

This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.

MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert.bsky.social, who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone: a profile of @rondeibert.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...

Oh my god.

I wanted to figure out what changed between the DOJ's initial Epstein Files Vol. 8 document dump (which they quickly pulled) and the version they replaced it with. I had a few hours of free time for PDF forensics hacking today. Here's my initial analysis of what changed: github.com/chad-loder/e...

Reminder that Bari Weiss held the 60 Minutes piece on migrant gulags with the suggestion that Stephen Miller (whose number she has) should comment. Maybe if 60 Minutes could just post this video alongside the story, it would meet Weiss's vaunted editorial standards.

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.

Here's a good book on the skills I think will be useful to journalists and citizen-researchers of the future, written by my colleague @micahflee.com

With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism: Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches. Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

For folks going through the recently released files and need a better process, I would suggest you take a look at @micahflee.com book Hacks, Leaks and Revelations hacksandleaks.com/contents.html

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

There are many interpretations of Hanukkah, including resilience in the face of tyrannical empires attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community. Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:

Nine former Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit www.latimes.com/california/s...

a good and necessary read for many

Breaking News: The Trump administration is sharing all air travelers’ names with ICE officials to find people with deportation orders.

How do you think Santa is handling cyberthreats? With Dangerzone of course! (Yeah, it took some training.) If you feel like testing his security team, you should know it has a challenge for you: Craft Santa a letter that can bypass Dangerzone's defenses and earn a bounty! 💰🎅 […]

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

👀 A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code www.wired.com/story/new-an...

And make sure you check out @micahflee.com's excellent @defcon.bsky.social presentation on Signalgate, too! micahflee.com/we-are-curre...

Advent of Code gets tricky fast

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I have subscribed to America's Finest News Source @theonion.com

“As a wealthy, powerful, elite criminal hoping to avoid prosecution for his crimes, it’s not especially surprising that he was interested in [hiding money.]” @micahflee.com reports on Epstein’s Kindle library revealing his interests in Lolita and obsession with Trump. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/epstein-ki...

don’t cheapen your slides! there *are* places to get free, human-created, rich, visual content on this bitch of an internet, some on this list: livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

13,000 of the DDoSecrets-released Epstein emails are now public. (again: these are DISTINCT from the Congress-released ones.) ddosecrets.com/article/epst...

I'll be joining the folks from @2600.com and @offthehookradio.bsky.social to talk about the Epstein emails released by @ddosecrets.com.

Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club." They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.

Epstein emails (2.5 GB) Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years. ddosecrets.com/article/epst... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets