Hail to the hackers who protect our democracy
Congratulations this evening are due to the folks at University of Michigan’s computer science department. Encouraged by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics last week to identify vulnerabilities in...
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Earlier this month, I told you about a University of Michigan team headed by Professor J. Alex Halderman that successfully hacked their way into a new electronic voting system launched by the D.C....
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Ypsilanti City government takes a stand on my penis
A few days ago, at lunch, I received a strange call. Ypsi’s new City Manager had somehow gotten his hands on my cell phone number. He was calling to apologize. I can’t remember his exact words, but he...
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Amanda Sari Perez on winning this month’s A2Awesome grant, and the geodesic...
Today, the trustees of A2Awesome handed over $1,000 to Amanda Sari Perez for the creation of an enormous geodesic dome, which she hopes will serve as a platform on which others in the community can...
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Donald Trump implicated in making the decision to use the Seth Rich...
In time, every lie of the Trump administration will unravel, and the truth will be known. It’s just a matter of time. Today, thanks to a lawsuit that was just filed against Fox News on behalf of former...
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With the Papadopoulos guilty plea, Trump can no longer call Mueller’s...
I don’t have a lot of time, and it’s already old news by this point, but, as I didn’t have time to mention it last night, I wanted to at least note the fact that, yesterday morning, as promised, the...
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What the John Conyers case tells us about how sexual predators are treated in...
Late last week the Washington Post added a little more fuel to the “Jesus Christ, Men Really Suck” bonfire when they reported that Congress’s Office of Compliance has paid out approximately $17...
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Turns out, it was the coffee boy who spilled the beans
Remember George Papadopoulos, the member of the Trump campaign team who, not too long ago, pled guilt to lying to the FBI? Remember how, Trump, playing it all down, referred to Papadopoulos as a “low...
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The Dutch not only watched online as the Russians stole the DNC emails, but,...
I know it’s been a bit crazy this weekend, what with the news about Trump friend Steve Wynn having to step down as head of Finance for the Republican National Committee amid multiple horrifying...
View ArticleWhat we know about Russian evolving role in voter suppression
In the months after the 2016 election, as you may recall, it was reported that the Russians had attempted to breach the election systems of 21 U.S. states. Well, thanks to an NBC News report, we now...
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Ypsilanti once again has a payphone… only this time it’s free
Last summer, I posted an interview here with a fellow in Portland by the name of Karl Anderson. Anderson, as you may recall, had formed an activism/public arts entity by the name of Futel with the goal...
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Four things you need to know today
1. Attorney General Jeff Session just fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, one of the three senior FBI officials who can corroborate Jim Comey’s allegation that Trump asked him to kill the...
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OK, with Trump heading into a private meeting with Putin just days after...
As I’m not sure where to start, or where this post may go, I’m just going to jump right in and start rambling. Hopefully you can follow along. If not, I apologize. Earlier this past week, before Donald...
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Rudy Giuliani, moving the goalposts, says “collusion is not a crime”
Late last week, as we discussed here, the President’s former “fixer” Michael Cohen signaled through his attorney that he was willing to testify that Donald Trump knew in advance of his son’s meeting...
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Jerome Corsi, Julian Assange and the attempt to blame the DNC hack on the...
Yesterday, Jerome Corsi, the man who once held the hilariously ridiculous title of “InfoWars DC Bureau Chief,” publicly apologized for his role in spreading the disgusting conspiracy theory that 27...
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Six Takeaways from the Mueller Report
I hate to start out yet another post talking about Attorney General William Barr, but, as I’m sitting here, making my way through Robert Mueller’s incredibly dense 448-page report, I find myself with...
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What’s all this nonsense about CrowdStrike?
A friend wrote to me yesterday and asked it I could explain what Donald Trump is trying to get at when he invokes the name CrowdStrike. What follows, slightly edited, is my response to him. I thought...
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