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

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 4h
This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them. I needed a diagram.
Diagram showing how former White House crypto council officials Bo Hines and Harry Jung connect to the consulting firm NXUM, Tether and Tether US, the Fellowship PAC, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, including payments of $6.3M+ from Tether and $6.5M+ from the PAC to NXUM, and a loan from Tether to Lutnick.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 15h
I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 16h
Vladeck sees the Supreme Court as an engineering problem to be solved, not a political problem. The problem is not one of design, but that its current majority has behaved egregiously anti-constitutionally. That is a political problem to be addressed by punishment, dismantlement, and deterrence.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13h
An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h
I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.
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So good. I almost can't believe the journalist ask the question
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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 6h
YIKES #mesen #mepolitics
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4h
Bloomberg reveals that Marc Andreessen is so upset with Democrats because they wanted to regulate crypto, regulate AI startups and tax billionaires. He eventually began to rage against "the woke mind virus". Truly living the dream of you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4h
The Army's top general warned of a critical missile defense shortage before the Iran war began, officials say. www.cbsnews.com/news/randy-g...
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Ousted general warned of years-long missile defense shortage before Iran war
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, later ousted by Defense Secretary Hegseth, said the shortage of missile defense munitions would extend into 2030.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h
This can’t be. I was assured by the Manhattan Institute that this sort of thing never happens.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 8h
It’s a miracle of pure dumb luck that this person’s gun jammed before he was able to carry out the attack, but this stuff is a symptom of all the of the rising anti-Indian racism online that desperately needs to be pushed back against
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Kevin Hassett should boast about how Trump has brought down the price of cocaine. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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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.
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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...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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.
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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. 🤡
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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
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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...
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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
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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.
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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!”
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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.”
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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%.”
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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."
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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...
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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.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I am the house.” @pkrugman.bsky.social substack.com/@paulkrugman...
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
JFC
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A typical MAGA voter at the grocery store.
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Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻 @ebensmind.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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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.
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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
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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...
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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-...
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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-...
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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...
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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…
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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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...
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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.
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Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻 @ebensmind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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My Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
The Wire, Breaking Bad, True Detective (Season 1) and 7 more.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Eben ❤️ 🇺🇦 🌻 @ebensmind.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Self-Recommending post about what regulatory capture theory is. This isn't it marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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What Regulatory Capture Actually Looks Like - Marginal REVOLUTION
It’s amazing how a theory can take over a brain. Consider the idea that people believe what serves their interests. As heuristics go, it’s a good one. I use it all the time. Yet when Dario Amodei says...
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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.
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Turkey arrests dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists
The arrests are an escalation in the Turkish government's campaign targeting LGBTQ+ community and activists.
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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?
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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...
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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.
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