>>22011558 Attorney General Merrick Garland Delivers Farewell Remarks at Southern District of New York PN

Bullshit all the plans in NY with James and Bragg was done at the Southern District of New York, they planned for years to launch the fake, phony and stupid coup there. I'm pretty sure Garland and his gang are deleting and cleaning up documentation that the DOJ in NY is as corrupt as the MAFIA in NY. But there's always a quiet whistleblower who preserved the documents long before they thought of burying them, or destroying them.

Library of Congress says hackers got access to its emails with lawmakers' offices

The Library of Congress didn't specify who was behind the hack.

Nov. 18, 2024, 3:18 PM EST By Kevin Collier and Julie Tsirkin

The Library of Congress said hackers broke into its communications systems andwere able to read its email correspondence with congressional offices for most of this year.

In a private notification sent Friday to some congressional offices, obtained by NBC News, the Library of Congress said that hackers “accessed email communications between congressional offices and some Library staff, including the Congressional Research Service.” The hackers had access from January until September, the notification said.

The Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, offers a dedicated research staff for Congress. Last year, it gave congressional staffers more than 76,000 custom responses to inquiries, according to its most recent annual report.

Bill Ryan, director of communications at the Library of Congress, told NBC News in an email that the software vulnerability the hackers used to gain access has been “mitigated.”“The Library has referred the matter to law enforcement and is also conducting its own analysis of the breach,” Ryan said.

The notice did not cite who was behind the hack, only referring to the hackers as “the adversary,” a term sometimes used in the cybersecurity industry.

Countries with strong cyber espionage operations, including the United States, routinely try to target adversarial countries’ government networks and lawmakers’ communications in order to gather intelligence. In recent years,

China and Russia, which both have strong cyber espionage agencies, have conducted sophisticated hacking operations to spy on the U.S. government.

Four years ago, the U.S. accused Russian cyber spies of hacking a commonly used software made by a company called SolarWinds, giving those hackers access to multiple U.S. agencies, as well as hundreds of private companies.

The Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., previously called the attribution “groundless.”

The U.S. has also accused China of multiple cyberespionage operations against the country, most recently one that hacked into several American telecommunications companies to spy on both parties’ recent presidential campaigns, as well as the staff of outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy previously declined to comment.

(We have the most incompetent protection of our agencies, that any shit hackers can get in and they don’t notice it for 9 months, WTF is wrong with the US Government?)

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/library-congress-says-hackers-accessed-emails-lawmakers-offices-rcna180662?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=673bbc6930a1c700018df807&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

2021-2024 was not included, it's probably tripled.

https://x.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1858552385267769798

Health care organization launches ‘Stop RFK War Room’

Group aims to convince swing GOP senators.

Megan Messerly 11/18/2024, 3:41pm ET

Democratic-aligned health care advocacy groups are putting together a strategy to fight Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be HHS secretary.

During an organizing call on Monday, the details of which have not been reported publicly,more than 200 people from several dozen of those groups, along with other advocacy organizations, discussed strategies to oppose Kennedy’s nomination. That included which Republican senators to targetand the most effective way to talk to them, according to Brad Woodhouse, executive director of Protect Our Care.

“We’re nowhere near conceding he’s going to be the next HHS secretary,” he said.

On the call,Woodhouse’s organization launched a new “Stop RFK War Room” effort focused on persuading not only GOP moderates like Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, but others like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who survived polio, or Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who is up for reelection in 2026. Normally, the group would be prioritizing its lame duck work, but it sees Kennedy as such a serious threat that it’s starting now and delaying its lame duck work until after Thanksgiving, Woodhouse said.

Protect Our Care is hiring teams in several states, including Alaska, Idaho, Maine and West Virginia, to lobby senators at the state and local level through experts and personal stories, with events slated to begin as soon as next week.

Woodhouse acknowledged that while some of Kennedy’s ideas might have broader support — like his efforts to ban certain food additives — his views on vaccines and his plans to cut the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are “too dangerous” to take his nomination laying down.

“Just because Hannibal Lecter has a couple good ideas on something, doesn’t mean I want to invite Hannibal Lecter to dinner,” he said.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/18/congress/health-groups-aim-to-stop-rfk-00190215

1 in 5 U.S. adults get their news from social media influencers, according to Pew report

Across platforms, male news influencers outnumber women, and creators with explicit political orientations lean conservative.

Nov. 18, 2024, 10:00 AM EST By Daysia Tolentino

Social media influencers were a hot topic during the 2024 presidential race as both parties courted creators ahead of the election.Now, a new Pew Research Center survey reveals just how impactful so-called news influencers are in the current information ecosystem.About 21% of U.S. adults are turning to news influencers for information, with most saying creators “helped them better understand current events and civic issues,” according to the study.

The number washigher among young adults, with 37% of people ages 18 to 29 saying they turn to influencers for news. Pew surveyed 10,000 adults and analyzed 500 news influencers, which it defined as individuals who regularly post about current events and have over 100,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X or YouTube.

“News influencers have emerged as one of the key alternatives to traditional outlets as a news and information source for a lot of people, especially younger folks,” said the study’s co-author Galen Stocking, a senior computational social scientist at Pew Research Center, in a news release. “And these influencers have really reached new levels of attention and prominence this year amid the presidential election.”

The rise of social media influencers, and in particular news-focused creators, has been slowly embraced by politicians in recent years. Almost a decade ago, then-President Barack Obama surprised some by granting interviews to major YouTube creators.

Since then, the influencer world has continued to grow, culminating in an election cycle in which everyone from long-form podcasters to short-form video creators landed candidate interviews, generating hundreds of millions of views.

This year’s Democratic convention in Chicago was the first to open its doors to social media content creators, credentialing 200 of them for the four-day event in an effort to connect with younger audiences. The Republican convention in Milwaukee hosted more than 70 influencers as part of a content creator program.

Throughout the election, young creators were also driving messaging to their audiences on political topics, including Project 2025, a conservative policy road map from the Heritage Foundation aimed at laying the groundwork for a future Republican administration.

Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris both appeared on podcasts hosted by popular online personalities ahead of the election. Trump, now the president-elect, was a guest on various shows appealing to men including “This Past Weekend With Theo Von” and “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Meanwhile, Harris was on an episode of “Call Her Daddy,” a podcast hosted by Alex Cooper that is popular with women.

During Trump’s celebration on election night, social media personalities including Rogan, Von, the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross and the hosts of podcast “Bussin’ With the Boys” were given a shoutout onstage by Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White.

After Trump’s win,there was debate on the left over how to appeal to young people. Some suggested ways to amplify left-leaning spaces online,including the creation of a Democratic version of Rogan.

Across platforms,Pew found that male news influencers outnumber women roughly 2-to-1, and influencers with an explicit political orientation lean conservative. The exception is TikTok, where the gender gap is 5% and news influencers with an explicit political orientation lean liberal.

X is the most popular platform among news influencers, with 85% having accounts on the platform. Instagram was the second-most popular site, with 50% of influencers having accounts. Most influencers use more than one platform to post, according to the study.

Only 23% of news influencers have experience in the news industry. These influencers are less likely to express a clear political opinion, according to the study. Meanwhile, influencers without a background in media are more likely to take a stance and link themselves with various identities such as LGBTQ.

The survey was a part of the Pew-Knight Initiative, which is a partnership between Pew and the Knight Foundation. The Pew-Knight Initiative supports research about how Americans get information about civic issues, engage with their communities and form their beliefs.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/news-influencers-social-media-pew-report-rcna179786