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The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access”

So signal not compromised, but a member of the chats was leveraged to share its contents.

Every instance I’ve seen with actual details has been improper use of real property tax exemptions. In many states you get a discounted tax rate by declaring your home as your primary residence. If you own several properties you only get the discount on one, which is supposed be the one you live at the most (ie primary residence).

The “fraud” part comes in play if you claim multiple properties as your primary. It’s harder to do that if the properties are in the same state, but it’s easy if they’re in different states since states don’t talk with one another. It’s so easy that it’s often accidental.

We’re talking a few grand a year in tax savings. It’s ripping off your state by under paying and people in these positions should know better so it’s harder to give them sympathy, but elevating what may be an accident to a supposed major scandal is a silly headline making exercise.

And why is this happening? Retribution, of course: first person I recall being attacked in the manner recently was MTG.

Better provocative headlines:

“Trump approval still at 39% despite months of controversies”

“39% of US citizens unaware of fall of nation”

Yet another misleading headline.

The article goes on about Yang’s dislike of the two party system, that he made his own party to break from the system, and is supporting others who want to do the same.

Nothing in there said Yang agrees with or supports Musk’s political objective beyond challenging the two major parties.

Actual article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-07/sequoia-partner-maguire-s-posts-on-mamdani-spark-founder-petition

The Sequoia referenced here is Sequoia Capital Partners, the prominent venture capitalist firm.

It appears President Donald Trump won’t be getting anywhere close to the $20 billion he demanded from CBS and its parent company Paramount Global now that a mediator proposed a $20 million settlement instead.

The proposal would include a $17 million payment to Trump’s presidential library, $2 million more than ABC’s settlement with Trump in December, and another $3 million in legal fees and public service announcements covering antisemitism

Someone give him more quarters!

This is a story about a story that provides fewer details.

See the full thing here: https://www.vox.com/scotus/411185/supreme-court-religion-charter-schools-oklahoma-drummond

There’s a setting for that. It’s open invite or admin invite. Default is open invite.

Doubtful any of the participants knew that, though.

Android -> other I often use Share via HTTP.

https://github.com/marcosdiez/shareviahttp

What an utterly depressing column. I can’t help but agree. Sigh.

I’d like to say I’m hopeful that society will remember the last century of slow progress after the next four years of getting it’s ass kicked, if not for the fact that we just went through this shit a few years ago.

It’s the same as the article title. Horrible nonetheless.

If all candidates are on the same timeline then I agree. That’s not the case here. 100 days vs literal years of planning.

I buy all my supplies from companies making more than 25m, who buy from other companies making more than 25m, and so on. My COGS will go up a minimum of 3%, more than likely closer to 10% when you compound the entire supply chain. I don’t care that I won’t pay into the general tax fund, but I sure as hell care that I’ll have to convince my retail customers to pay 10% more on my products after already struggling with inflation cost increases the last few years.

Good. Don’t let Congress inaction in the pursuit of election politics work, and take credit for yourselves instead.

This is broken governance in action, but at least we have action this time. Pray the courts stay out of it for the sake of the people being helped by this move.

Brilliant being combative with strangers in the same echo chamber as you. Glad we spent this time together.

I’ve been hearing it for over 8 years now, to varrying degrees of intensity across the media spectrum. I’d assume anyone else paying even the least amount of attention has, too.

Yet here we are at a 48% split with 3 weeks to go.

So yeah, keep reporting. Maybe that fraction of a percent will make the difference; it’s close enough that it could! But don’t hold your breath, and don’t keep beating on the same horse as if doing so will make a difference.

I think we’re at a boy who cries wolf point. News pieces like this are almost a daily occurrence. Those who don’t care won’t simply because it happens again. If anything it will further galvanize their resistance.

There’s a sense that these things must be reported and recorded for reasons of history, but for whatever effect one would like to happen as a result it is probably useless.