Beginning around 2022, while still in high school, #Coristine ran a company called DiamondCDN that provided network services, acc/to corporate & digital records reviewed by Reuters & interviews w/half a dozen fmr associates. Among its users was a website run by a ring of #cybercriminals operating under the name "EGodly," acc/to digital records preserved by the internet intelligence firm DomainTools & the online #cybersecurity tool Any.Run.
Under Pressure from #Trump admin, #ICE Ramps Up Warrantless, Legally Dubious Arrests — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law
"Trump Family Venture Plunges Deeper Into Crypto With New ‘Stablecoin’"
Vicky Ge Huang for @WSJ
#EdwardCoristine is among the most visible members of the #DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the U.S. government.
Past reporting had focused on his youth - he is 19 - and his chosen nickname of "#BigBalls," which became a pop culture punchline. #Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month that "Big Balls is awesome."
"Trump Pardons Former Business Partner of Hunter Biden Who Testified About the Bidens"
Luke Broadwater, Kenneth Vogel for the New York Times
Exclusive: #DOGE staffer, '#BigBalls', provided tech support to #cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon #Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data & #cyberstalking an #FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
#USpol #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Trump
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
"There is talk about Nord Stream. It will probably be interesting if the Americans use their influence on Europe and force it not to give up Russian gas,"
PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)—Stung by his omission from the Trump administration’s recent war-planning chat, on Wednesday Kim Jong Un demanded to be included in all such group chats in the future.
“Why was this Goldberg person, who doesn’t even have nuclear weapons, included?” the North Korean dictator asked. “This should never be allowed to happen in this country.”
"The #Trump team, taking its cue from the #president, is trying to pursue two #ContradictoryVisions at the same time — to maintain #America’s status as the world’s leading power while also trying to scale down its international commitments. They want to simultaneously #dominate the #world and #withdraw from it.
https://www.vox.com/on-the-right-newsletter/405758/signal-leak-trump-vance-hegseth-foreign-policy
Or, put differently, Trump is #Stalin and everybody around him is trying to guess what he wants.
Reuters:
Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
Edward Coristine is among the most visible members of the DOGE...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
All the Ways Trump Officials Are Downplaying the “War Plans” Group Chat.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-atlantic-signal-war-chat-leak/ #Politics #NationalSecurity #WarPlansGroupChat #ForeignPolicy #TrumpAdministration #Trump #Musk #USA
Ukrainians Will Fight “With Bare Hands” if Peace Terms Are Unacceptable, CIA Director Says #Ukraine #USA #UK #EU #Europe #Czechia #Poland #Lithuania #Trump #Latvia #Estonia #Germany #France #Austria #Hungary #Romania #Slovakia #Japan #Taiwan #Australia #Switzerland #Canada #Italy #Ireland #Netherlands #Finland #Sweden #Denmark #Iceland #Norway #Spain #NATO #RussiaIsATerroristState
"Rada Miasta Barcelony otrzymała pismo od Ambasady Stanów Zjednoczonych w Hiszpanii, wzywające do niestosowania polityki różnorodności w programie nauki języków obcych dla młodych ludzi prowadzonym przez lokalną bibliotekę, jeśli nie chcą, aby wycofano im finansowanie.
Polityka Donalda Trumpa wymierzona w różnorodność dotarła do Barcelony, a konkretnie do biblioteki publicznej w stolicy Katalonii, która od 2016 roku prowadzi projekt o nazwie American Space Barcelona.
Program ten promuje wymianę kulturalną między Barceloną a Stanami Zjednoczonymi i był gospodarzem około 2000 wydarzeń, w których wzięło udział ponad 77 000 osób."
Całość [EN]:
https://www.thelocal.com/20250326/trumps-anti-woke-policies-threaten-barcelona-library
#Trump #DOGE cuts hit struggling food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cuts-hit-struggling-food-101121569.html
"George Washington University law professor #MaryAnneFranks argued that the most egregious acts of #censorship were being committed in real time by the #Trump administration. In a 60-second video posted to Bluesky by Senate Judiciary Democrats, Franks described how Trump has "unleashed the greatest assault on the #FirstAmendment since the #RedScare."
"The #censorship-industrial complex is a thought-terminating, gaslighting cliche that attempts to portray the most powerful people in the United States as oppressed and silenced," Franks said. "The current president of the United States is ordering lawful residents to be surveilled, kidnapped and expelled from the country because of their speech. He is attempting to dictate what words people are allowed to use, what educational institutions are allowed to teach, what values businesses are allowed to promote. He is calling for critics and dissenters to be imprisoned and assaulted. He is threatening journalists, students, judges, lawyers, religious leaders, governors, anyone he deems insufficiently loyal and insufficiently obedient."
Bernie Sanders Issues Epic Takedown Of Trump, Musk, And 'The Greed Of The Oligarchy'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EirWe1z3kk #BernieSanders #Trump #Musk #DOGE #coup #oligarchy
"Look, we've been ripped off by other countries for 45 years. And, you know, these are friends and enemies. But often friends, so-called friends, were worse than enemies. Look at the EU, what they've done to the country, how they've robbed it" Trump stated.
>> I believe the end game may be that Donald #Trump wants to stay in office in perpetuity.”
That is what he said himself, right ("you'll never have to vote again") ?
Though he is also a notorious lier, it does not mean that he is not accidentally telling the truth from time to time.
“The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years, to ancient Rome."
- The wit and wisdom of Donald John #Trump
