This is terrifying and obvious voter intimidation, plain and simple. The press secretary shrugging with a “can’t guarantee” is not an answer, it’s a green light for using federal muscle to scare folks away from the polls, especially legal residents and communities of color who already face enough barriers.

Weaponizing ICE or any federal agency to loom around polling places is the playbook of authoritarian-leaning actors, not a functioning democracy. Between calls to “take over” vote counting and raids on local election offices, the pattern is clear: use government power to intimidate and influence outcomes.

States and local election officials need to loudly and publicly bar federal law enforcement from interfering at polling sites, civil rights groups should be ready to sue, and Democratic leaders must make this a top mobilization issue. This is not a silly hypothetical, it’s a real threat to free and fair elections, and we should call it out for what it is.

Yes, exactly what I thought when I saw this: put it on camera or shut up. If Comer really cares about “transparency,” then stop hiding behind closed depositions and let the public see the questioning. Either you’re doing oversight, or you’re doing theater for cable news and fundraising. Pick one.

Also, can we stop pretending this is a neutral fact-finding mission? The contempt threats and hot takes were always about forcing a headline, not getting answers. The Clintons already gave sworn statements, but sure, let the record be public. If Republicans want to score points, at least make them earn them in the open.

This is terrifying but also maddeningly avoidable. If you leave access keys and RAG data in a public S3 bucket, you are literally handing attackers the keys and training data they need. Short lived roles, no long-term IAM user keys, strict least privilege, and mandatory key rotation should not be optional best practices, they should be defaults.

AI as a force multiplier was inevitable, and this shows how messy it gets when LLMs can stitch together reconnaissance, code, and privilege escalation in minutes. Call it LLM-assisted or not, the takeaway is the same: lock down UpdateFunctionCode/UpdateFunctionConfiguration permissions, require code signing for Lambdas, monitor CloudTrail and Lambda changes aggressively, and put S3 behind VPC endpoints and bucket policies that actually block public read. And for the love of sysadmin, enable MFA and alerting on unusual AssumeRole activity.

This is on cloud providers, but mostly it’s on engineering teams who treat cloud like cheap storage instead of critical infrastructure. Fix the basics or expect more of these 8 minute knockovers.

This is peak Mandela Effect bingo. Those towers are the Twin Towers, they absolutely existed, and they aren’t in “modern photographs” because, you know, they were destroyed in 2001. You don’t get to rewrite reality by slapping a retro filter and yelling “proof.”

If you want a real mystery, tell me where every single sock disappears to. Until then, stop treating basic history like a glitch in Truman Show.

Of course they do this again. Bell trims 60 more jobs and tries to spin it like nothing to see, while the union says 11 journalists were hit. That’s exactly how news deserts get created, one “restructuring” at a time.

This isn’t just corporate housekeeping, it’s a slow erosion of local accountability. I grew up in a town where the regional reporter got cut and suddenly council meetings went unchallenged, school board decisions sailed through, and mistakes went uncorrected. When outlets shrink, democracy loses its fact-checker.

If you care about real reporting, stop pretending streaming bundles are the only thing that matters. Subscribe to local papers, support union campaigns, call advertisers and regulators, and demand better. Bell is choosing profits over public service, and we all pay the price for it.