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#3358662 30-Mar-2025 07:13

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/556588/fresh-charges-against-andrew-tate-by-his-ex-girlfriend-as-she-seeks-temporary-restraining-order

Andrew Tate has been accused of sexual assault and battery by his former girlfriend Brianna Stern

Who in their right mind actually listens to - and follows - the crap this moron spouts? "Women belong in the kitchen" and "the haka is gay".

This is 2025 we're living in, right...or have I unknowingly gone back to the colonial days? 🙄

(for my part, I've already told my boys not to engage with any content from this a-hole at all)

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#3362249 9-Apr-2025 11:11

The #TelsaTakedown campaign has reached NZ

Photographed in Island Bay, Wellington today 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Takedown

Another version of this poster:

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#3363294 12-Apr-2025 18:34

RFK to add to Elon's cabinet of dumber than sack of rocks.
Even a broken rusty clock is right twice a day.
But in that case Musk was being self serving about Peter Navarro's hurt to his car company.

RFK touts a steroid also touted for covid, for measles, that is counter productive.

'How is it possible that you have this job?': RFK Jr.'s incompetence becomes too glaring to overlook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJQUQJnUOI0

Oh and like the Ginzu Knife wait there is so much more including wanting WRITE access to a vaccine safety database.
Like DOGE potentially rewriting history , why is read access not good enough and why write ?

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#3365988 20-Apr-2025 14:06

Deplorables usually seem to be on the right, as shown in this illustrative example.

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#3366424 22-Apr-2025 07:21

The NY Times - Kristi Noem’s Bag, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen

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A handbag belonging to the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem containing her passport, department security badge and $3,000 in cash was stolen on Sunday night at a restaurant in Washington, the department confirmed.

... Ms. Noem’s bag also contained her driver’s license, medication, apartment keys and blank checks. ...

As homeland security secretary, Ms. Noem runs a department that is in charge of the nation’s security.

Its responsibilities include border control and immigration, terrorism protection and cybersecurity ... and the Secret Service.

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#3366438 22-Apr-2025 08:41

Karma? She did do this, after all...

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/kristi-noem-el-salvador-prison-cecot-video-rcna198394

I did see one comment that made me LOL, something like "she wants to secure the border but can't even secure her own handbag!"

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#3366504 22-Apr-2025 13:28

Noems bag of blank cheques.

See America is a civilised country, they use cheques !

Where would Trump court case have been if they did not have those cheques with big old signature.
Showing he did see the payments personally, approved them, as he liked personally signing everything.
That way he could always ask, do we really need to pay this, can we pay less, can we stiff this vendor.

No chance all the passwords to Homeland Securities systems written on a postit note ?

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#3367102 24-Apr-2025 11:09

The NY Times - As Musk pulls back, here are 5 things he got done

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Elon Musk announced yesterday that he was stepping back from his work at the Department of Government Efficiency to focus more on his companies, particularly Tesla. ...

Here are five bullet points on what Musk achieved in Washington: [headings only]

He tanked his company.
He became unpopular.
He cut some government spending, but we don’t really know how much.
He became the country’s biggest political donor.
He scooped up a ton of personal data. *

* Through his executive order creating DOGE, Trump granted Musk’s group access to “all unclassified agency records” - a category that includes sensitive information on virtually everyone in America. ... Musk’s team has tried to access databases that track more than 300 separate pieces of data, including not just Social Security numbers, but immigration status, gambling income, student loan balances and even professional job references.

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#3367127 24-Apr-2025 13:53

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The NY Times - As Musk pulls back, here are 5 things he got done

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Elon Musk announced yesterday that he was stepping back from his work at the Department of Government Efficiency to focus more on his companies, particularly Tesla. ...

A different headline for the same story: https://www.thebulwark.com/i/161961106/quick-hits

ELON LEARNS HOW TO PULL OUT 😆

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#3367744 26-Apr-2025 19:53

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The NY Times - George Santos Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Identity Theft

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George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman from New York whose penchant for lying led to one of the oddest sideshows in modern U.S. politics, pleaded guilty on Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

While Mr. Santos’s plea will allow him to avoid a trial on a total of nearly two dozen charges - including money laundering and stealing public funds - it all but ensures he will face at least two years in prison and as long as two decades.

The trial was set to begin next month. ...

Santos also agreed to pay $373,749.97 in restitution and forfeit another $205,002.97 before his sentencing.

And off to prison he goes!

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/george-santos-sentencing-fraud/index.html

Santos was sobbing in the courtroom on Friday and said he “betrayed the confidence entrusted in me” while giving a brief statement to the judge.
“I cannot rewrite the past, but I can control the road ahead, I have tried my best,” Santos said.

[US District Judge Joanna] Seybert pointed out Santos was making money from social media appearances, a documentary and podcasts, and she found it “incredible” that he didn’t open up a savings account to pay back restitution and that he kept up with the lies and continued to blame the government.

Grifters gonna/gotta grift...

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#3369163 30-Apr-2025 13:59

A geeks' view of "Signalgate" :

The Washington Post - Hegseth shouldn’t be using Signal, but the SCIF system is terrible

30 April 2025

The cumbersome, outmoded SCIF* technology is a bad fit for the demands of national security work.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used poor judgment and sloppy security practices when he sent highly sensitive targeting information to colleagues, friends and family on the Signal commercial messaging app.

But the “Signalgate” flap illustrates a problem that transcends Hegseth’s poor performance at the Pentagon.

Government technology for viewing and sending classified information is so cumbersome and outdated that it drives people to use insecure work-arounds such as Signal.

Using the government’s current technology, military and intelligence officers simply cannot move at the speed needed to operate most effectively.

The heart of the problem is the requirement to handle classified information in what’s known as a SCIF, or sensitive compartmented information facility.

These are often cramped, stuffy, windowless rooms that don’t fit the real-world need for mobile, dispersed, secure communications. Worse, inside a SCIF, military and intelligence officers often can’t use the internet or the newest AI models.

The system imprisons information more than it protects it.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used poor judgment and sloppy security practices when he sent highly sensitive targeting information to colleagues, friends and family on the Signal commercial messaging app.

But the “Signalgate” flap illustrates a problem that transcends Hegseth’s poor performance at the Pentagon.

* Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.

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#3369189 30-Apr-2025 17:01

quickymart: And off to prison he goes!

In the U.S. federal system, for non-violent offenses, the time between sentencing and self-surrender to prison typically ranges from a few weeks to a couple of months.

But of course when you're rich and/or powerful you're likely to get delayed surrender for business reasons.

In this case, 3 months before he has to surrender

There's a personalized video messages on the platform Cameo.

Following his expulsion from Congress in December 2023. Initially, he priced these videos at $75 each, but due to high demand, he progressively increased the price to eventually up to $500 per video .

By February 2024, Santos claimed to have sold approximately 1,200 videos, generating an estimated $400,000 to $500,000 in revenue.

I guess a business making Cameo videos are more important than speedy justice.

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#3370166 3-May-2025 11:16

Sooo..Zuckerburg

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

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#3370218 3-May-2025 15:05

sir1963 , Yes Sooo. Zuckerburg indeed, though unlikely anyone getting news in certain social media will see much of it, and maybe a passing reference, without deeper implications.

Zuckerburg after years of helping China's Communist Party / Xi with tools to track and control the social media space. To tune of $18B or more.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/facebook-whistleblower-testify-meta-zuckerberg-b2730365.html

Zuckerburg finds another Autocrat that he can be best friend too, Donald Trump.

The tools, a decades or more development onward from Cambridge Analytica.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

Cambridge's problem was seeking money, power with Zuckerburg's data.
Money, Power, Influence being stolen from Facebook/Meta.
So Zuckerburg went full in on his own version working closely with feedback in ideal test market China.

Its ok if Facebook is banned, if you are still making money out of China developing surveillance and control tools for them. They give you feedback on what an autocrat needs and what works best.

This is not just that people were manipulated or voices buried by shadow bans.
In China under Xi and CCP there are real physical consequences, torture, disappearance, execution.

Zuckerburg probably responsible for more imprisonment, torture, and executions by speeding identification of targets. I mean China was getting something tangible for its $18B.

Zuckerburg sleeps well. Unimportant casualties, NPCs.
Cos, like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel etc without empathy, its all about themselves, their empires.

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#3370444 5-May-2025 09:23

And on to Australian politics.

Suck shit you gronk.

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