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The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media in their explicit capacity, beyond the reporting of news, of wielding influence in politics. The derivation of the term arises from the traditional European concept of the three estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.

-Wikipedia

And billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk – who is overseeing the administration’s controversial effort to rapidly shrink the federal government – has criticized ActBlue, seeking to tie it to protests and acts of vandalism against his electric-vehicle company Tesla. He has argued, without evidence to substantiate his claims, that some prominent Democrats – including one who died in 2019 – were funding ActBlue and the protests.

“Something stinks about ActBlue,” Musk posted earlier this month on his social media platform, X.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27446672

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DER SPIEGEL reporters uncovered private contact details and passwords of senior U.S. security officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, through public data leaks and commercial search engines.

The leaks revealed active phone numbers linked to Signal, WhatsApp, and social media accounts, raising severe security concerns.

This follows an recent exposed Signal chat discussed military plans against Yemen’s Houthi militia.

Security experts warned of phishing, spyware, and deepfake risks from the leaks.

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/radio-address-nation-canadian-elections-and-free-trade

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In the normal world of 65 days ago, this would have led to multiple resignations in shame. If it were any other employees of the government, they would be looking at an FBI investigation, and possibly prison. But in this hellscape, Kash Patel is more concerned about a hippie holding a “swasticar” sign in front of a Tesla dealership, and Republicans are stumbling all over themselves to say it’s not a big deal, just a little oops! Like when a waiter tells you to enjoy your meal and you reply “you too.”

. . .We should say again, these are ALL people who should have never been texting anything but a grocery list on fucking Signal to begin with; the app is known to have been breached by Russian and Belarusian hackers, and the phones themselves could be hacked or intercepted. Also, it’s against federal records law. AND fucking WAR PLAN conversations should have been in a secure facility! For security! These rules exist for a reason! All things that every single person on that list ought to know. And they are ALL people who should have been like hey, wait a minute, who’s even in this Signal chat? Maybe hiring unqualified loyalist dipshits who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing and have little to no experience at their jobs was a bad idea?

And OH LOOK, Steve Witkoff was on there too, texting the most emojis of all, five in a row (two hands-praying, a flexed bicep, and two American flags)! And guess where Steve Witkoff happened to be on Thursday, March 13? Why, in RUSSIA, getting choked up while Putin told him he’d prayed in church for Trump after he got shot in the ear. If every single emoji ever typed on Witkoff’s phone wasn’t captured by the time he got back on his plane with tears in his eyes, Russia is seriously slipping.

Ha ha! It's really bad! 😭

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27301443

The New York Times reports that the Pentagon planned today for Elon Musk — currently the world’s richest man, who bought the presidency for Donald Trump, who secretly jibber-jabbers with Vladimir Putin about fuck-knows-what, and who is right now terrorizing the federal government like a ketamine-fueled nerdass version of Osama bin Laden — to get a top secret briefing on the US’s most closely guarded secret plans for what the country is going to do if war with China breaks out.

Now that this news has been reported — and not just by the Times — all the liars from Donald Trump on down are screaming AIYEEEEEE FAKE NEWS!

So that’s reassuring.

Would this be fine, if it were to happen? Haha fuck no.

Wouldn’t this be kind of weird, considering Elon has all these sweet contracts with the US government AND ALSO Tesla is basically a Chinese car company that happens to be controlled by a South African-born apartheid pubesack who now has American citizenship and somehow also is holding the American presidency by the balls? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

. . . Every country in the world is more serious than the United States right now.

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(From March 4th but I didn't see it then)