no, i didn't know that the June 2019 US Politics thread was nasty

This is why I tell people to never put their dob, pob or even full name on any type of social media website.

can't believe i'm gonna be denied entry to the states because the opsec around my marxist naruto slashfic tumblr wasn't watertight, smdh

Are they expecting to get links to all my long-forgotten livejournal accounts? even TSA don't deserve having to look through that

I had to work with Palantir once who was trying to gain access to a bunch of our databases of which I was one of the owners. They just wanted a datadump per the wishes of our company but there was absolutely no rationale about why they needed it or what they would use it for. We refused and eventually, eventually they were like "oh, we don't need it." It was kind of absurd.

i think the elephant in the room is whether or not we have to reveal our Ello accounts

I'm depressingly fatalistic about identity privacy because for every good actor like Yerac there's another company that's just handing crap over, or opportunistic services just selling metadata as their entire business model :/

it is with a heavy heart that i must inform you that jared kushner has stepped in front of a camera once more

Jared Kushner deflects when asked if he disapproves of Donald Trump's promotion of birtherism, saying he wasn't involved with it. @dctvny @hbodocs pic.twitter.com/D2wINVHLIx

— Axios (@axios) June 2, 2019

I'm depressingly fatalistic about identity privacy

as a former fed, my personal info (sometimes including SSN) has been stolen at least 7 times, and those are just the incidents i know about. feds make sense as targets, i guess, but also as canaries in the goldmine. everyone should be fully prepared to either become an obsessive data security champion or get used to the idea that soon everyone's information is just going to be...out there

canaries in the goldmine

hmm

i guess the good news is that it's not a typo

(that is my low key way to recruit fellow supervillains to help me collect personal data and profit. it is a veritable gold mine out there)

Trump has pretty much been a daily illustration of what would happen if your crazy loud uncle at Thanksgiving were to become president.

― earlnash, Sunday, 2 June 2019 18:46 (yesterday) Permalink

if only

im pretty fatalistic about any real chances for individual data security too fwiw (almost nothing). and mh is right, bad models and actors do dominate that space.

maybe every space. in this world of “greater fools” (in a nonstandard, nonecon sense), and of trumpy zero-sum transactionalism, maybe the biggest surprise to me is that no non-state bad actors have acquired some reaaaally crazy shit and pulled a ransom extortion using explosive nukes. or like, just used nukes.

*consults DM Guide* the world feels like it’s gone from lawful evil to chaotic evil. or it could be just i’m really aging out, and realizing the world is always chaotic evil, and that my assumption of post ww2 lawfulness, as limited as it was, was even more a fallacy than i suspected.

great now we need to get rid of donny AND end the existence of the two party system. because fuck that idea, pete.

sorry, im playing on the phone and...i’m hanging up now.

a means to expand ways to later deport someone for submitting supposedly misleading/false documents

otmfm. it has a barely plausible connection to counter-terrorism to use as a cover story, but it will only be used as a handy stick to beat anyone they don't like and want to deport, similar to using loitering or vagrancy laws to beat up on homeless people.

jared has spoken!

Dear @FBI @CIA @NSAGov @ODNIgov @DHSgov: I sure hope you don't share any classified information with Jared Kushner.#MondayMorning Thoughts https://t.co/Rb3G9uBlcu

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 3, 2019

If you had a Dave Matthews fan page on Geocities, you probably deserve deportation or worse. Especially if it autoplayed a song upon opening.

Add ten years hard labor for every dancing teddy bear animated GIF.

eh, no exporting that shit to other countries, deal with your own problems, USA.

pic.twitter.com/PZLjvpOoAO

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) June 3, 2019

i hope this slicked hair is the new look

but more than that, i hope he d1e5

this is the water and this is the well

trump is the most lynchian president

https://images.haarets.co.il/image/fetch/w_1081,h_625,x_161,y_21,c_crop,g_north_west/w_609,h_343,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none/https://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.5665466.1515416005!/image/1018316866.jpg
We've met before, haven't we?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/03/so-much-land-under-so-much-water-extreme-flooding-is-drowning-parts-of-the-midwest

this seems like some seriously bad shit and quite underexposed in the news, from this end at least.

Recent deaths of multiple ICE detainees were preventable, according to internal agency documents I obtained for @tytinvestigates.

In one memo, an ICE official warns Acting Director Albence their health services department is “severely dysfunctional”https://t.co/OnUrFgeLiL pic.twitter.com/Z1FrQAQSNN

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 3, 2019

New: The House Judiciary Committee will continue hearings focused on the alleged crimes and misconduct laid out in the Mueller's report.

The next hearing will feature former White House Counsel John Dean as well as ex-U.S. Attorneys and legal experts. https://t.co/tJnD6zhOyl

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 3, 2019

a blast from the past

the clips from this kushner interview are just...I don't even know anymore

https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-palestinians-trust-peace-plan-2824a0fb-305a-4835-9a46-51f8611fe421.html

for once, Jonathan Swan earned his paycheck.

his incredulity is refreshing

https://i.imgur.com/xNQotPY.jpg

Meanwhile, the effort to retrofit Trumpism with conservative legitimacy churns onward: https://nationalconservatism.org/?fbclid=IwAR3r_8T3XyFkha3NR9GdtAanT9FlwddV-H2nG5tVA8-1YKgyTFkiEyFUBmY

Is the new American and British nationalism a hostile usurper that has arrived on the scene to displace political conservatism? Or is nationalism an essential, if neglected, part of the Anglo-American conservative tradition at its best?

You'll never guess which one they pick ...

calzino thanks for that midwest flood link, yes it is terrifying and underreported

I watched the Kushner episode, and I have to ask, is axios an elaborate joke? it seems like a parody of the NEW MEDIA company who dares to BE DIFFERENT by taking you BEHIND THE SCENES (accomplishing the same thing that anchor banter does)

is axios an elaborate joke?

You wish.

Check out its founders.

the joke is coming from inside the beltway

china's ministry of culture and tourism otm

BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday issued a travel alert for Chinese tourists traveling to the United States.

Noting the frequent occurrence of shootings, robberies and theft in the United States recently, the ministry warned Chinese tourists to fully assess the risks of traveling there.

Chinese tourists are urged to learn about the information about the public security situation and related laws and regulations of tourist destinations, to raise safety awareness and step up precautions to stay safe.

The travel alert is valid until Dec. 31, 2019.

Fair comment surely?

Should have made it valid until Jan. 20, 2021

more of a sick burn than anythng else

I mean you're not likley to get shot here unless you're doing something really weird like sitting in a classroom or being at your job

This plan to bring John Dean and friends in to testify about the Mueller report seems extremely stupid to me. Is there any point to this at all?

Is there any point to any of it?

anyone else ready for really vigorous, really shitty rallies chanting “HIGH CRIMES! MISDEMEANORS! HIGH CRIMES! MISDEMEANORS!” not for any candidacy, but like, for fun and nancy. and with no impeachment proceedings resulting. just let the pressure rise.

not sure of best venue yet

is axios an elaborate joke?

The handheld cameras on that kushner interview were an elaborate joke, holy shit. Like watching the blair witch project, starring an empty vessel

the GOP should subpoena G. Gordon Liddy and we can get to the bottom of this Watergate hoax

Good morning!

is axios an elaborate joke?

Mike Allen and a guy I think was Jim VandeHei sat next to me at a cocktail bar over here. I didn't know who they were at the time, but I tried to make light conversation with Mike Allen. He noticed me but deliberately ignored me. Then I saw all the Axios stickers on his macbook and did some googling, found out it was him.

Kind of a dick.

hi American thread 👋🏻 the Queen secretly owning Trump discourse is like shit Christmas

Speculating on whether or not famous/powerful people are subtly owning Trump in their interactions with him is QAnon for liberals https://t.co/SKtcuComS2

— Paul Blest (@pblest) June 4, 2019