3 key elections today:
#Florida: 2 special elections for seats in the US #House to replace disgraced congressman & initial #Trump US AG pick, #MattGaetz & obviously incapable #NationalSecurity Adviser who set up a detailed military operation group chat on Signal & added a journalist to, #MikeWaltz.
#Wisconsin: voters will pick a new member of the state’s Supreme Court in an election #ElonMusk has contributed millions to & is essentially paying people to vote for his MAGA candidate.
Virginia Commonwealth University: Belief in AI as a ‘Great Machine’ could weaken national security crisis responses, new VCU research finds. “Virginia Commonwealth University researcher Christopher Whyte, Ph.D., investigated how emergency management and national security professionals responded during simulated AI attacks. The results reveal that the professionals were more hesitant and […]
As Trump's allies start turning on his DEF Sec, Jennifer Rubin explains how Pete Hegseth's tenure will get much worse—& why it'll become untenable for Trump & the GOP.
Trump’s top advisors discussed war plans in an insecure chat, a scandal that continues to shake the admin. This comes as a poll finds that 74% of Americans see the leak as a serious problem, incl 60% of Rs.
J Rubin on Sec Marco Rubio
#DOD #SignalGate #NationalSecurity #Rubio #Hegseth #USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/193361/transcript-trump-text-fiasco-worsens-knives-come-hegseth
The court filing provides an accounting of the access #MarkoElez & other #DOGE employees have inside certain sensitive & secure databases. And it comes as federal judges in other cases have found the #ElonMusk-led effort has likely broken the #law & has been largely unable to explain why it needs such sweeping data access.
The #DOGE staffer who resigned from his post over old #racist tweets — & who broke data-sharing rules, an audit found — has been rehired to work w/sensitive data at several #FederalAgencies.
The staffer is #MarkoElez, a Dept of #Labor employee detailed to the DOGE entity within the #Trump WH, acc/to a Saturday court filing. It says the Labor Dept is aware of 4 other agencies, including #HHS, where Elez is also detailed or employed.
#law #privacy #NationalSecurity #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5345708/doge-data-access-labor-cfpb-hhs
Ars Technica: FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado . “A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows […]
@br00t4c
How come NO ONE has asked #OrangeHitler to explain WHY obtaining #Greenland (or even #Canada) is so vitally important to "#NationalSecurity"?
Is he worried about his best buddy #Putin now? Does he think #Russia might attack the United States next? 
If THAT is the threat he's worried about, maybe he shouldn't have been encouraging Putin's expansionist fever dream in #Ukraine?
Just a thought.
How Joe Biden's oil bet went sideways
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-joe-biden-s-oil-bet-went-sideways/ar-AA19s5qf
