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Trump broke the federal email system and government employees got blasted with astonishingly vulgar messages (futurism.com)

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Summary

A vulnerability in the new OPM email server allowed anyone to send mass messages to federal employees, exposing poor cybersecurity.

Over 13,000 NOAA staff received spam and vulgar messages, including crude jokes about Trump and bizarre newsletters, causing widespread outrage.

The breach resulted from an overhaul led by Elon Musk that installed underqualified personnel and an insecure in-house system, sparking a class-action lawsuit for cybersecurity failures.

The unsecured system also inadvertently revealed ties to Project 2025 and a plan to gather government employee data as Trump’s loyalists reshape federal operations.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yep, she dropped out before Iowa because she was polling this badly when she ran for President in her own right. So yeah:

no primary (Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson would not have been the only candidates if there was a competitive primary).
everyone in the media just throwing away their credibility by claiming Biden was a young spring chicken, despite us seeing him have senior moments on the regular.
gaslighting people about the economy (inflation is down, wages went up, stock market is up). Sure, those metrics were all technically correct, but all of those were skewed by the high end of the income scale, and the average person was still worse off than before. I don't think Biden could've done a lot more besides manhandling Manchin and Sinema to get a higher minimum wage passed and renewing the child tax credit, but at least be honest about this and acknowledge that there's more to be done, and have done plans about what you'll do about it in a next term.
all those previous things (and you could add more stuff to that, like Gaza and the tiktok ban), that were obvious to anyone with eyes, and destroyed the credibility of all mainstream media when they talked about project 2025 and Trump being the next Hitler (again, true things, but you need credibility to get through to people).
wasn't helped by Kamala running around with the most unpopular politician around that isn't liked by Democrats or Republicans, and her unwillingness to draw any contrast with Biden in a change election where he's underwater in the polls.

The people running her campaign committed malpractice, and because of the 2 party system, it's but like voters can vote for another party without throwing away their vote (which they still should've done outside of the swing states, but the left again didn't have their shit together and the whole thing was a shitshow with Cornell West wasting everyone's time running for a Greens nomination he wasn't going to get).