“I will be fine, but Edgardo is not going to be fine and the rule of law is not fine.” - NYC comptroller Brad Lander speaks after being released by ICE

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

Full-size image: https://storage.mollywhite.net/trump-family-crypto-projects.png
Disclosures: https://oge.app.box.com/s/k0hxcezgk7j1cyqoue16cillsi9srmfu

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

“Corporate media again refuses to call MAGA supporters who commit violence to further the movement’s political agenda what they are: MAGA terrorists,” writes @DeanObeidallah: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/there-were-two-maga-terrorist-attacks

#Canada dropped plans for the #G7 to issue a strong statement on the #war in #Ukraine after resistance from #Trump….

Canadian PM #MarkCarney said Ottawa would provide C$2 billion ($1.47 US billion) in new #military assistance for Kyiv as well as impose new financial #sanctions on #Russia.

A Russian attack overnight on Kyiv & other cities that killed at least 18 people "underscores the importance of standing in total solidarity with Ukraine," Carney said.

#geopolitics #allies #alliance #Putin

#Trump refused to sign a #G7 statement on #Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky will
leave the Group of 7 summit on Tues w/new #aid from host #Canada for its #war against invader #Russia but without a joint statement of support from members or a meeting with Trump [lucky Zelensky].

The G7 nations struggled to find unity over the conflict after Trump expressed support for Russian President Vladimir #Putin & left a day early.

#geopolitics #allies #alliance
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/ukraines-zelenskiy-seek-g7-support-trumps-early-exit-puts-dampener-summit-2025-06-17/

MAGA: “Why are we sending money to Ukraine when we should be taking care of our own?!”

Also MAGA: *cuts SNAP benefits*

A family relying on SNAP is facing cuts and food restrictions : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5432809/trump-snap-food-assistance

Update 2: As far as I can tell, the servers that caused the leak belonged to the DOJ in Montana. We reached them in two ways:

• Through this post we got contact to the vendor of the software. With the Serial# (in the extraction reports) they could identify whom to call.
• A friend had a contact in one of the affected police department and they reached out to the DOJ.

Thanks to this community I was also able to get a contact within the FBI. Furthermore some media contacted me and a lot of Mastodon users provided me with additional contacts.

Event though I contacted the AG in Monatana and one PD, no one has reached out to me from the DOJ side.

Update 1: Leak is closed. Will write more tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who helped.

Phone forensics

Usually law enforcement is very secretive about them analyzing the phones of suspects.

But a forensic lab in #montana is extremely transparent about it. They put the dump of every phone on a public share. Everyone with Internet access can access those dumps.

While I am usually a proponent of government transparency, this takes it a bit too far even for my taste.

Every phone dump is one directory and some case names can be easily connected to crime & death headline news in the U.S.

So for one case I am pretty sure, that I can even say which Sheriff is responsible for that one of the investigations.

I sent that Sheriff an email, i sent him a text message and I even spoke on his voicebox. I even sent him the extraction report from Graykey.

It is really frustrating that I get no response at all. The leak is still open.

The security researcher that found the leak also tried some contacts but had as little success as I do.

I personally believe that this leaks even constitutes a federal crime. Some cases have names ending on CSAM. The security researcher stayed away from any of those and I did not access the files on that server at all.

So does anybody know someone within the #fbi that would give a shit about that. I am getting very tired.

#graykey #cellebrite #forensics

#Kyiv, #Ukraine
A Russian drone attacks a building in the Ukrainian capital

Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

@photography
@ukraine
#drones

How to share your meeting point privately. Cómo compartir tu punto de encuentro de forma privada.
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/06/17/how-to-share-your-meeting-point-privately-como-compartir-tu-punto-de-encuentro-de-forma-privada/
#what3words

“I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said U.S. District Judge William Young, a Massachusetts-based jurist who took the bench in 1985.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/16/judge-rebuke-trump-nih-cuts-00409095

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-nih-grants-cut.html

#healthcare #biomedical #research #grants #funding #academia #NIH #DEI #diversity #equity #inclusion #lgbtq #transgender #discrimination #courts

Let's be clear: this is a red state healthcare executive telling people that rural red states will be gutted. “The further the cuts that are made, the more devastating it is,” said Shantel Krebs, president and CEO of Avera St. Mary’s, a hospital in South Dakota. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Hospitals stunned by Senate GO...

Medicaid cuts will lead to hospital closures across the country, especially in rural and underserved areas.

By showing up at our local hospitals and speaking out, we can hold our elected officials accountable for putting billionaires ahead of working families, seniors, and people with disabilities. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18akI6pQ5i709XUChvvZnKu80CbH9Cp7-j0Zxjf8j1IE/edit?tab=t.0

@Tooden @DoomsdaysCW And ... Rising sea temperatures around Antarctica are having dramatic effects in Australia including a deadly toxic algal bloom along South Australia's coast that's killing marine life and making a visit to the beach very unpleasant.

@DoomsdaysCW Antarctica is thawing. Emperor penguins are in dire peril, as are Humpbacks, Southern Right Whales, and Blue Whales. White Pointer sharks are mysteriously suffocating.

Oh geesh, @Tooden ! There's a lot going on Down Under!

Extreme weather could send milk prices soaring, deepening challenges for the dairy industry
Phys.org
6 days ago
Australia's dairy industry is in the middle of a crisis, fueled by an almost perfect storm of challenges.

The future for Northland weather: Storm alerts are 'the new normal'
rnz
1 day ago
This year has already brought almost every possible weather extreme to Northland, with record rain hot on the heels of a drought, a cyclone and even a tornado. Is this a sign of things to come?

5 killed and thousands affected by latest Australian floods
World Socialist Web Site
25 days ago
Another extreme weather event on Australia's eastern coast highlights government inaction on disaster preparation and climate change.

Parts of Australia got months worth of rain in just a few days. | CNN
CNN
26 days ago
Rescuers in parts of Australia are saving people trapped in their homes by flooding. The area got months worth of rain in just a few days and more rain's coming. CNN's Lynda Kinkade has the story.

How Australia's climate is changing amid week of weather extremes
Sky News Australia
80 days ago
Australia is famously a land of "droughts and flooding rains" - but the climate is not the same as when Aussie poet Dorothea Mackellar wrote her famous poem describing the "sunburnt country".

#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe
#RenewablesNow #BigOilAndGas #Degrowth #Oiligarchy
#Capitalism #AustraliaWx #ExtremeWeather

#Greenland and #Iceland saw #RecordHeat in May. What does that mean for the world?

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY
Updated 1:42 PM EDT, June 11, 2025

"Human-caused #ClimateChange boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May #heatwave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting #ArcticIce has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday.

"The Greenland ice sheet melted many times faster than normal during the heat wave, according to the analysis by World Weather Attribution, with at least two communities seeing record temperatures for May. Parts of Iceland saw temperatures more than 10°C (18 °F) above average, and the country set a record for its warmest temperature in May when Egilsstadir Airport hit 26.6°C (79.9 F) on May 15.

"The findings come as global leaders put more focus on Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments that he would like to annex the mineral-rich island.

"Burning #FossilFuels for electricity and transportation releases pollutants such as carbon dioxide that cause the planet to warm unnaturally fast. The Arctic is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth.

"Even in today’s climate, the occurrence of such a strong heat wave in the region is relatively rare, with a 1% chance of occurring in a year, the analysis said. But without human-caused climate change, such an event would be “basically impossible,” said Friederike Otto, associate professor of climate science at Imperial College London, one of the report’s authors.

"The extreme heat was 40 times more likely compared to the pre-industrial climate.

Global impacts from a melting Arctic

"Otto said this extreme weather event affects the world.

"As the Greenland ice sheet melts, it releases massive amounts of fresh water into the salty oceans. Scientists say this could slow down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [#AMOC], an ocean current that circulates water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe and then the Arctic.

"Such a slowdown could disturb global climate and weather patterns.

“The nature of weather in the Northern Hemisphere is directly tied to what’s happening in the Arctic, because that ice floor basically at the bottom of the atmosphere helps determine the weather patterns that we get,” said Waleed Abdalati, who heads an environmental sciences institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was not involved in the WWA analysis.

"The Greenland ice sheet and other ice covering the Arctic can influence where and when wind blows, how much water content the wind has and whether precipitation falls as rain or snow.

"Most of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet happens in June, July and August. The May heat wave means there will be a longer melting season this year.

"Melting ice sheets and glaciers also contribute to #SeaLevelRise that is threatening to flood coastlines globally and inundate low-lying island nations in the Pacific Ocean.

"#Indigenous communities in Greenland are increasingly encountering dangerous travel conditions as sea ice that was once constantly frozen begins to thaw. Access to traditional hunting locations are lost, and sled dogs can no longer travel the same routes. Thawing #permafrost can destabilize buildings and increases the risk of #landslides and #tsunamis caused by landslides."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/iceland-greenland-heat-wave-arctic-climate-weather-2f156f6a0c6d1d5f7f3881917c539b83

#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe #FossilFuels #RenewablesNow #BigOilAndGas #Degrowth #Oiligarchy #Capitalism

Clarity of context: Back in 2015, the nuclear deal inked under Obama stopped their program. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed under the Obama administration in 2015, and at the time Iran was a few months away from a functioning nuclear weapon. 🧵 1/3 #USpol #iran #nuke

On the off chance that the U.S. Government removes it from the web, this is the March 25, 2025 testimony of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that Iran is _not_ currently developing nuclear weapons and it is at least 2 to 3 years from having a bomb ("breakout").

source: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/congressional-testimonies/congressional-testimonies-2025/4059-ata-opening-statement-as-prepared

#USpol #iran #nuclear #war #intelligence

#BradLander, the #NYC #comptroller who is running for #mayor, was arrested on Tues by federal agents at an #immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

Lander, a #Democrat, was at the city’s main immigration #courthouse, at 26 Federal Plaza, to observe court proceedings where an increasing number of #immigrants who appear for court have been arrested by #ICE agents in recent weeks.

#law #RevengePolitics #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyregion/brad-lander-immigration-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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