I’m not so sure. I’d take a sock full of quarters over a sock with a 3.5" spinning disc hard drive in it any day of the week.

This is an article about an article. The original Atlantic article that contains the messages themselves is here

This is an article about an article. The original Atlantic article that contains the messages themselves is here

Please don’t spread FUD. That memo does NOT claim Signal has been compromised by Russia.

The actual claim is that Russia has used deceptive e-mail style tactics to trick people into authorizing a malicious “linked devices” request. This is a social engineering vulnerability, not a technical one.

Unsecure ≠ Insecure

Unsecure in this context generally means not in compliance with military and classified security practices and procedures for “securing” information.

Signal is secure in the sense of being strong end-to-end cryptography.

Hate to break it to you, but that’s a longstanding practice.

Last week, the group challenged the legitimacy of the orders signed by Biden claiming that an “autopen signature” was used across almost “every document” it could find.

However, a Fox News examination of President Donald Trump’s executive orders during his first and second administrations found “the signatures were also the same.” Twenty-five of Trump’s signatures on the Federal Register’s website from across both terms also found signature matched, according to a separate analysis by the Daily Mail.

Israel’s record on that one is going to be tough to beat.

Badge of pride.

Unfortunately, the headline overstates their support:

transgender and gender nonconforming students shall be permitted to participate in physical education classes and intramural sports in a manner consistent with their gender identity. Participation in competitive athletic activities and contact sports will be resolved on a case-by-case basis.

So “play” yes, but “compete” is still very much a question mark.

Fucking finally!

If only there was any will at all to do this at the federal level.

Yes.

See my comment to the other reply here

Not as many problems as traveling without one.

Having traveled before with someone in that exact situation, yes, there will be harassment and TSA may very well intentionally force you miss your flight and end up waiting to fly standby on the next one. But as of now, you generally do get through, which cannot be said for traveling internationally without any passport at all.

Will that change? Highly likely. Soon? Probably.

But there are a not insignificant number of people who only recently decided it’s no longer safe, applied for passports, made plans to leave, and saw recent stories about passports not being issued. This type of scare mongering does not help them, and can be actively harmful to their mental health and well-being.

Edit: Obviously the longer they stay, the higher the chance this changes.

After hearing she was still issued a passport at all? Yes, actually. There are quite a few (trans) people who probably feel a little bit safer than they did yesterday when they thought they were trapped in the country.

Not subject to filibuster per se, but there was absolutely something they could have done. From TFA:

Under the process, Senate rules allow for members to propose an unlimited number of amendments.

So while not literally a filibuster, they could have effectively filibustered it by simply continuing to propose amendments, preventing the bill itself from ever coming to a vote. Once again, the Democrats are showing themselves unwilling to play hardball.

The quote is from the documentation of Trump’s 2019-07-25 phone call with Zelensky, modified to substitute “Germany” for “Ukraine”

The only good cops. Now if we can just convince the rest to follow their example …

True, but this looks like it may be different. Based on the article, it seems less like she’s deciding whether to do it than trying to figure out how. It has never been done before and there are multiple steps but the process is only loosely defined.

Edit: Not different.

Pardons would only help with criminal contempt charges. In this case, the judge would probably be applying civil contempt to compel compliance with the court order. Since they wouldn’t be held on a criminal charge, pardoning the crime wouldn’t get them released.