Trump is only embracing masks out of terror of his crashing poll numbers: NYT’s Maggie Haberman

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-is-only-embracing-masks-out-of-terror-of-his-crashing-poll-numbers-nyts-maggie-haberman/

Climate activist Greta Thunberg says she will donate 100,000 euros — part of a humanitarian prize she won — to help fight the spread of Covid-19 in the Brazilian Amazon
https://cnn.it/3jp3biD https://t.co/1AjDE9vpqy

Damn it.
Why can't we do high speed rail in America ???

Japan debuts new bullet train that can run during an earthquake.

"It's also fitted with lithium-ion battery self-propulsion system -- This system allows the train to run for a short distance on its own during a power outage and will make it possible for it to move to a safer location at low speed if stranded in a high-risk area -- on a bridge or in a tunnel, for example -- during an earthquake."

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/japan-new-shinkansen-model-n700s/index.html

#FLASHLOL - Trump will hold telephone rallies moving forward instead of in-person because no one was showing up to his events. If you buy the Trump campaign spin that this is for the safety of everyone, you missed where they attempted & failed multiple times to hold super spreader events.

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine
- Mussolini had the Black Shirts
- Hitler had the Brown Shirts
- Hitler also ordered some of his people to dress up in Polish uniforms and fight fellow soldiers to justify the invasion of Poland.
- Putin had Unidentified Russian soldiers in Crimea.

Using a private unidentifiable security force united by uniforms is not new. It works. It provokes.

HA! Genius!

THE POSER "Destroyer of Civil Rights and Liberties" This looks like an amazing statue but they are actually protesters posing as statues. Amazing. This is on Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.

ATTENTION PORTLAND OREGON PROTESTORS:

If you were kidnapped by unmarked men in unmarked vehicles, and cited for ANY crime and then released. the charges are invalid, consult an attorney. If these men were federal officers they have NO jurisdiction in Portland,...
DEMAND DISCOVERY, including a full arrest report, the ID of every officer involved with your 'arrest' and DEMAND a jury trial

I assure you they will drop all charges, and once they do, file a civil rights lawsuit

Joe Biden Says He’s Receiving Intelligence Briefings Again and Warns of Russian, Chinese Election Interference
IN THE KNOW

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-hes-receiving-intelligence-briefings-again-and-warns-of-russian-chinese-election-interference

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I wonder when “pulled a Parler” will become a widely understood descriptive reference.

As in, “I almost pulled a Parler and told my kid the location of my secret chocolate stash.”

🧐😄

#SocialJustice

This might be a really good time to remind Federal employees that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders.

Every adult in this country knows it's illegal to take unmarked vans, and kidnap random people.

Everyone who participated in these kidnappings knew what they were doing was immoral and illegal.

Everyone who participated in these kidnappings needs to held to full account - at every level.

Rest in Power, Rep. John Lewis

Tweet by @ repjohnlewis:
“Even though I was arrested, I smiled bc I was on the right side of history. Find a way to get in the way #goodtrouble”

#CoSoMusic

On October 2, Matt Berninger of The National will release his first solo album, Serpentine Prison, produced by Booker T. Jones of famed Memphis soul group Booker T. & the M.Gs. Here is the brand new music video for "Distant Axis," a stunningly beautiful track that Berninger co-wrote with Walter Martin, formerly of The Walkmen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGF7FNVOP58

Probably my first "toot" here ever... Sorry if this is poor netiquette and not sure if this will "get" to anybody, but I have a question I cannot find an answer to: morals aside (for obvious reasons), is it constitutional for the POTUS to nominate a new justice for the #SCOTUS after loosing an election but before the new president is sworn in? Is it constitutional for that nominee to be confirmed by the senate during that transition period? Thanks! Stephane.

How China Built a Twitter Propaganda Machine Then Let It Loose on Coronavirus — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus

James Dyson getting lots of favorable press about saying that his company will make ventilators.
What most people failed to notice:
1. He is filing patents on the product
2. Other companies (notably GTech) already offered to make ventilators from currently available parts.

Fuck

#FLASH - Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer for WikiLeaks, was present when Rohrabacher allegedly made the pardon offer...in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London on Aug. 16, 2017. Also present with Rohrabacher was Charles Johnson, a conservative political activist.

#CoSoSec

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Voatz Internet Voting App Is Insecure.
By Bruce Schneier

"We find that Voatz has vulnerabilities that allow different kinds of adversaries to alter, stop, or expose a user's vote,including a sidechannel attack in which a completely passive network adversary can potentially recover a user's secret ballot."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/voatz_internet_.html

(Paper)

https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SecurityAnalysisOfVoatz_Public.pdf

This is how democracies die — not in darkness but in full view of a public that couldn’t care less.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/15/this-is-how-democracy-dies-full-view-public-that-couldnt-care-less/