Sign in

Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻

@ebensmind.bsky.social
649 followers 3K following 373 posts

@eben@infosec.exchange Love to ask questions + learn. YIMBY. Into politics, tech, nature, strategy, markets, infosec, philosophy, dogs, birds +/- jokes. Colorado sports too.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h
Kevin Hassett should boast about how Trump has brought down the price of cocaine. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
wsj.com
Why U.S. Airstrikes Are Failing to Stop the Global Cocaine Boom
Smugglers are shifting routes and using new tactics to evade military targeting, resulting in record supplies and plunging prices.
1824340
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“.. Since the final F-150 Lightning rolled off the assembly line in December, it has become one of the most coveted cars in America ..” @bloomberg.com $F www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
81949260
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
31578882230
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Funny that the WSJ opinion pages had a lot to say today, but not about Trump's capitulation to Putin to enable a dubious diesel price headline.
0484
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Sunflower state of mind @blueintheheartland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
lol. Then he tries to act magnanimous by saying they paid double but they paid less than the interest he charges women in rural Kansas for medical procedures. It’s be over $2000 in interest if figured on what he charges and that’s without 6 years in penalties. 🤡
126535
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
propublica.org
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
7725431169
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I feel like half of this place thinks liberation day tarriffs, as originally announced, are either still in effect or were eliminated by the courts way down the road and not something the admin themselves walked back almost immediately because of how apocalyptic they would have been
517213
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie.
221931462
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A picture of the soldier touching the bug alien from starship troopers and shouting “it’s afraid!”
229926
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”
19647209
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BILELLO: “.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit. Instead, .. The deficit didn’t shrink. It increased 8%.”
641597654
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
304769822765
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026
INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out
Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.
18494236
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I am the house.” @pkrugman.bsky.social substack.com/@paulkrugman...
37640153
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
JFC
6554
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A typical MAGA voter at the grocery store.
3253
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
791625694
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Private jets account for 16% of FAA operations but contribute just 0.6% of the taxes that fund it. Does that mean we should raise private jet taxes 25-fold to make up the difference? Why, yes, in fact Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Table: Private Air Travel Is a Carbon Bomb

Of the 3 quickest ways to travel from NYC to DC, private jets produce by far the most CO2 emissions per passenger. 

Rail - 5.2 kg per passenger or 14.3 g per passenger/km
Commercial air - 44.38 kg per passenger or 128.62 g per passenger/km
Private air - 538.5 kg per passenger or 1500 g per passenger/km

Source: Institute for Policy Studies
216553
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“.. China's trade position has never been stronger. .. some supply chains are now moving back INTO China. German firms are boosting their China investments .. And polls find China is viewed more favorably than the US in numerous countries for the first time.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
931448555
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
8634301342
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Jim O'Hara @jimohara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"New: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes." www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
031
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC), and…
1637789
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
13153701942
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here we go, again. Different year, different outcome. Ohio voters won’t be fooled. Sherrod will win. The Crypto Industry Aims to Crush One of Democrats’ Top Senate Candidates www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
nytimes.com
The Crypto Industry Targets Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Top Democratic Senate Candidate (Gift Article)
Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
723432
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
MAGA truckers are now posting TikToks about how they miss Joe Biden. ~~ I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
7748
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Kabir K. @kabirkhanna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With primaries in rearview mirror, it's obvious Democratic enthusiasm translated to big 2026 turnout increases From TX and NC in March, to MI in Aug, and NH recently, Democratic vote totals surpassed GOP totals in several high-profile races (not all) Hasn’t happened in TX for quarter century! 1/3
3124
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Data science teams at DraftKings built models to identify likely losers and target them with promotions, while efforts to build predictive models for problem gambling were shelved. The counterpoint on self regulation is companies can be more incentivized to avoid identifying harm than addressing it
nytimes.com
At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
915862
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From 2021 to 2025, Stephen Miller was making $567K/year as head of his America First "think tank." He owns $100K-$250K in Palantir stock alone. His estimated net worth: ~$2 million. The immigrants he's deporting to third-party countries to be tortured and disappeared don't get an attorney at all.
21893280
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Ryan (Ry) Warner @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scary stuff in Turkey, whose flagship carrier flies to Denver and sponsors a major arts festival here.
bbc.com
Turkey arrests dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists
The arrests are an escalation in the Turkish government's campaign targeting LGBTQ+ community and activists.
1225
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes, all his businesses failed. But I do wonder how someone this stupid continued to be in a position to have new businesses to drive into the ground. Now he's just selling his power. But who was having conversations with a guy this dumb in the 80s and 90s and then writing him a check?
1261340209
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poll watching right now is like, "Normal candidate with normal opinions ekes out small lead against sweaty bag of farts who sends dick picks to orphans and once dropkicked a puppy with leukemia."
221149222
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Trump administration is deliberately withholding and redacting documents that legal residents need to prove their status. Claiming they can't find the documents is bad enough. But to turn them over only after redacting them to the point that they're useless is another level of evil.
nytimes.com
Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
2279161
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In addition to everything else, this is just unnecessarily sloppy. The dude made $250 million in failson dividends last year. He couldn't pay for his own goddamn wedding? (I know, I know. That's the point.)
22922148
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One thing I fully believe is that campaigns under invest in oppo research particularly long shot campaigns given what we know about the impact of scandals on elections. Fortunately that’s not an issue Adam Hamilton has given his staffing. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
nytimes.com
Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
1206
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Chasing Side Deals, Flexing Influence: Lewandowski’s Power Moves at DHS: Kristi Noem’s close adviser effectively controlled billions in spending at Homeland Security.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Chasing Side Deals, Flexing Influence: Lewandowski’s Power Moves at DHS
Kristi Noem’s close adviser effectively controlled billions in spending at Homeland Security; Lewandowski denies seeking business or playing any role in agency’s contracts.
041
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Just Say Jan! @justsayjan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The mechanics of the campaign are that they pay huge sums of money to people—many of whom appeared to be outside the U.S.—𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗢𝗣."
theatlantic.com
Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media Feed
A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.
033
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We must stop these socialists before they tell companies who they can and can't hire, threaten executives into giving the government part ownership of their companies, pick winners and losers through selective tariffs, subsidies, and regulation, and dictate private sector personnel and HR policy.
25476100
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You know, ordinarily I’d say centrally planned economies are a bad idea. But what if — and hear me out, here — what if we switched to a centrally planned system, except there was only only one planner, and he was a corrupt, senile, 80-year-old man who had driven multiple businesses into the ground?
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Bad Bet on Beef
A new plan to lower prices is causing a rift in his own party.
341264309
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Last year people were cheering on a trillionaire laying off government workers such as food safety inspectors because they thought it would lead to DOGE refund checks. Now we can’t eat mangoes, popsicles, lettuce, sprouts, eggs or jalapeños given recalls. We are a confederacy of dunces.
919136
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Goolsbee Odd Lots interview is great because he has a structural view of what normalization should look like, admits that the data points aren’t necessarily pointing in that direction, and he’s trying to wrestle with that.
2332
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Tim Mathews @timmathews.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Many of the senior Army officers fired or forced out by Mr. Hegseth gathered Thursday at Fort Bragg, N.C., for General Donahue’s retirement ceremony. The tone at the gathering was somber — one former military official in attendance described it as a ‘state funeral.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
nytimes.com
Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens (Gift Article)
The turmoil has left a leadership vacuum in the Army at a moment when it is trying to find ways to defend troops against the threat posed by cheap drones.
42613
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'll confess that I don't know much about extradition law. What I do know is that this cop recklessly shot a man and lied about it, that Abbott rarely operates in good faith, and that if this weren't an ICE agent, he would have been extradited done months ago.
nytimes.com
Judge Sides With Texas Over Minnesota on Extradition of ICE Agent
The two states have waged an unusual court battle over the agent facing charges over a shooting in Minneapolis. The agent could be released from jail on Thursday.
933269
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Someone should put the Grim Reaper on a PIP.
313515
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just want to say that these lunatics accused me of being a *secret CIA agent* while DataRepublican is literally working for the govt while pretending to be an ordinary influencers, & receiving leaked docs. The Trump admin is running ops, as they say, but for real. Every accusation is a confession.
Konstantin Toropin
@KToropin
G...
The Pentagon confirms -
"Ms. Pounds serves at the Department of War as a Special Government
Employee."
AF. AF Post •
@AFpost • Aug 21
Jennica Pounds, aka Data Republican, a Department of War employee, alleges that Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers is attempting to "entrap" Pounds by providing her with information to "leak" under the guise of offering her a
"scoop."
161804384
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
Doge meme

Big muscular doge: Bessent talking shit about Europe and Canada
Small crying doge: Bessent when asked if he'll do anything about China and Russia helping Iran
422844559
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
By the time you realize you’ve made a strategic error, it’s already too late. This headline from last year is a precursor of many foreshadowing moments over the next few years. Similar to how hiring a Fox News TV host to lead the U.S. military led to an embarrassing and unwinnable war with Iran.
213522
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Bolts @boltsmag.org · 23/08/2026
“When we put people in solitary confinement, we create mental illness and we exacerbate mental illness,” says an attorney with the ACLU of Colorado. “What is happening to folks in the jail right now is an acute emergency.”
boltsmag.org
The Jail That Replaced Boulder’s Mental Health System   - Bolts
Colorado’s dysfunctional system for restoring competency for defendants with serious mental illness leaves people cycling in and out of jail, where harsh conditions can further erode their mental health.
08529
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Pretty rich they they’re dong this at the same time that his neglect and stupid ego war have turned an aircraft carrier into Lord of the Flies.
1536685
Reposted by Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Governor Abbott's new claim in the Minnesota/ICE extradition case is that his office is looking into whether Castro "is a fugitive." One problem: #SCOTUS has held—over and over again—that governors in the "asylum" state don't have *any* discretion to make that kind of determination for themselves:
stevevladeck.com
Bonus 244: Minnesota v. Abbott
Governor Abbott is ignoring his duty to extradite an ICE officer indicted in Minnesota. He has no viable legal claim, but may be trying to run out the clock.
371017287