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dhs is for like, big tent coordination between the different ghoulish agencies, iirc. It was created after the failure to put the pieces together in the leadup to 9/11

NSA is specifically signals intelligence, like mass data gathering at the telecom level, and crypto shenanigans, CIA is foreign espionage (and whatever the fuck they want tbh), FBI is domestic law enforcement/espionage. But each of them is so big and unaccountable that there's a lot of overlap in practice. They are genuinely different, but they all serve the same purposes really. CIA is the only one that really stands out for its brazen disobeying of the civilian government and complete unaccountability, since they fund their own shit via trafficking, etc. in addition to the normal budget process

someone posted the other day that the betting markets have trump's odds at only 30%

I wonder if the NACS thing is set in stone yet (are cars coming off the assembly line with it yet, mainly)...

Because elon somehow killing that adoption by making it useless would be very on brand.

don't get arrested, simple as

"I am one of tens of thousands of people participating in one of dozens of protests around the country" isn't exactly doxxing yourself. I mean fair enough, be careful, but I think we're all capable of judging our own risk level here and not posting about anything too cool-zone

as much as I can while having a fulltime job and not being a student. hooked them up with a bunch of supplies (though honestly there's no shortage of most things except power to charge phones lol), and hung out/held space for like half the day yesterday. They seem to have hit critical mass to where the police/administration don't want to fuck with them right now, but I'm sure that won't last.

Also basically zero counter protesters, nothing like UCLA at all. Literally saw like 2 cranks all day doing their "debate me" schtick and yelling at people, and mostly just getting effectively handled by marshals

because it's gender neutral. similar thing with folks(/folx, ugh) In some cases it's also used to be condescending/ironic, plus s just love appropriating turns of phrase from black people

I’m going after the journalistic priesthood, like Judith Miller’s editor for her bogus Iraq WMD stories, whose punishment was being made editor-in-chief of ProPublica (salary: $480,000) and chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Apparently this is referring to Stephen Engelberg. Google shows mostly glowing profiles of him, and some samples of his work, including his byline on a NYT article from '89 entitled IRAQ SAID TO STUDY BIOLOGICAL ARMS

aye!

I'm also posting from my local campus protest. Gotta leave soon but I'm trying to help set up infrastructure and might camp here if they are taking non-students. It's got some decent organization at the top it seems like but I'm just showing up with supplies tbh I don't know anyone

the point about bush is a very good one. Pretty sure some of my relatives are literally only democrats because of how deeply the "bush lied" stuff stuck. They're shitlibs, but young people who are already tending left may be radicalized rather than begrudgingly voting more liberal.

I see we've graduated from "everything is hamas" to "everything is iran"

I don't think, at this point, it'd even be a fight, just a request (I hope).

@CARCOSA@hexbear.net any chance this could be considered?