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[?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
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[?]The Gaffer [he/him] » 🌐
@thegaffer@hobbitwhispers.social

a serious looking young boy. The words "I spoke to mitch mcConnell for about 20 minutes today" are superimposed on the image.

Alt...a serious looking young boy. The words "I spoke to mitch mcConnell for about 20 minutes today" are superimposed on the image.

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    [?]♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote » 🌐
    @skykiss@sfba.social

    NYT will occasionally write something pro-democracy to hide their century-long support of fascism.

    The NYT is uncharacteristically accurate and bold, in addition to a piece about Vance, Miller, and attempts to suspend habeus corpus/invoke the Insurrection Act, they said Todd Blanche "already damaged the Justice Department ... misled ," and "the should reject his nomination."

    They may have an inside source that is telling them the nomination is DOA in the . The NYT has studiously avoided angering the orange felon such that they won't go out on a limb unless they're confident that Blanche doesn't have the votes. Reporters confirmed that Blanche was at the white house situation room cover-up meetings.

    The New York Times
Todd Blanche Is
Unfit for Office

Screenshot of a NYT Editorial Board Headline:

The New York Times
Opinion

    Alt...The New York Times Todd Blanche Is Unfit for Office Screenshot of a NYT Editorial Board Headline: The New York Times Opinion

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      [?]ProPublica » 🌐
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      NEW: A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One

      Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace.

      In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildfires, while still owning stock in the company.

      propublica.org/article/tim-she

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        [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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        Al Gore Invented the Internet.
        Joe Biden invented PGP encryption.
        Cypherpunks write code.

        Joe Biden gifted humanity with PGP encryption (in a roundabout way). Phil Zimmermann created PGP in response to a anti-privacy bill clause proposed by Senator Joe Biden.

        https://www.americanscientist.org/article/cypherpunks-write-code

        "In 1990, the FBI launched an over-the-top crackdown on computer hackers, known as Operation Sundevil. This was swiftly followed, in early 1991, by a proposed piece of U.S. Senate legislation that would force electronic communications service providers to hand over people’s personal data. (The key clause, S.266, was pushed by the then chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Joe Biden.)"
        "On learning of Biden’s S.266 clause, Zimmermann feverishly set out to complete the project, almost losing his house in the process. When he finished his software in 1991, he published it all online, free for anyone who wanted to use it. He called it “Pretty Good Privacy,” or PGP for short, and within weeks it had been downloaded and shared by thousands of people around the world. “Before PGP, there was no way for two ordinary people to communicate over long distances without the risk of interception,” said Zimmermann in a later interview. “Not by phone, not by FedEx, not by fax.” It remains the most widely used form of email encryption to this day."
        Joe Biden's first panopticon bill:

        https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/266

        "SEC. 2201. COOPERATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law."
        As they say in Texas: That dinosaur don't hunt.