You seem to believe that those Republican voters won’t hold their democratic representatives accountable.

Has any media outlet asked these Republicans who exactly they are afraid of firebombing their houses?

Has any media outlet asked them whether the FBI should investigate these threats?

If not then the media is complicit.

tbf IAM is the bastard child of many cloud providers.

It exists to provide CISOs and BROs a level of security that no one person has access to their infrastructure. So if a company decides that system A should no longer have access to system B, they can do that quickly.

IAM is so complex now that it’s a field all in itself.

It’s safe to assume anything redacted is Trump. They have the burden of proof to say it’s not.

I was on a non profit board where the founder realized he wasn’t the right person for the job after 20 years of growing the org. It finally got to a point that he felt like the growth was beyond what he ever imagined or wanted.

He was, on every metric, very successful. He grew the org from nothing, got millions of dollars in donations, amassed a huge base, and no one would have thought different if he just kept going.

I remember sitting down with him one-on-one and asked him why. He thought about it for a minute and said, “It’s time for someone to make it even better.”

Looking back, I think I see the exhaustion. To constantly innovate, to push people forward, to push the org, the mission…it was all one person at a time. He reached a point in both age and in life that it just wasn’t something he could keep doing.

He loved the mission so much he knew it deserved better.

If that isn’t leadership, I don’t know what is.

Trump 1. When I saw very close friends who voted for Trump, not because of who he was but the fact that abortion would be over turned.

That’s when I knew that these people would vote in Satan himself if he promised to get rid of abortions.

It took almost 2-3 to get from “I’m not voting for Trump” to progressive.

I sat in the middle for a while as a conservative leaning independent but still caring about social issues. But once I understood that conservatism was really about oppression, I hard lefted to be a progressive.

The only way to give her a chance is if she commits, right now, to vote to impeach Trump. If she does this, then I’ll say she’s serious.

I say this as a once very strong and vocal conservative who has now turned full 180-almost anarchist progressive.

At least they are admitting that they have lost.

“Do Not Split”

Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast

But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.

And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.

If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.

It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.

Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.

You say that…like that changes anything.

He’s already declared martial law by sending in military units to cities. He’s already done it.

What the fuck do we have to lose?

this is, in a round about way, making a right. Democrats are being disenfranchised in Texas and to make up for it, Republicans are being disenfranchised in California. If you want to complain, fucking ask the Republicans in Texas. They can easily and quickly unfuck this whole situation by making no changes to their districts.

Want to know the test on the whether the Republicans want to play fair? Republicans in California should be scolding their colleagues in Texas for redrawing maps unfairly but instead are blaming Democrats in California.

The Democrats are finally starting to realize you can’t play chess with a child who refuses to acknowledge the rules.

Do you remember what the Trump administration promised to deliver two weeks ago?

That’s why it works.

It’s true in the same way that he had a chat with the president of Puerto Rico.

The fact that police officers can lie but people can’t shows you the terrible power imbalance in our law enforcement.

Remember: Shut the Fuck Up

Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.

Do you think he fucking cares? He just wants the gold shiny so he can be like Obama.

I point this out every time GOP and ObamaCare and Repeal are mentioned.

Republicans in 2016 fucking RAN on repealing the ACA. It was a full blown blitz. In the final years of Obama, Republican-controlled House and Senate fucking PASSED full repeals of the ACA. Obama, of course, vetoes each one of them. They amounted something like 80+ bills to fully repeal it.

Trump runs on getting rid of “ObAmAcArE!” He wins the White House with, again, a Republican-controlled House and Senate.

Not ONE single bill to repeal the ACA was ever introduced. Famously, Republicans said “TWO WEEKS!” for their plan that never came to fruition.

Republicans know how popular the ACA is. They also knew that Trump would be dumb enough to sign a repeal into law.

This is all performative politics: gaslighting their base so that they will look good in upcoming local elections. Republicans, again, fully control the House and Senate and could repeal the law full-cloth but they don’t. Because they know they’ll get slaughtered in the elections.

The sad (but predictable) thing is that it worked.

Republicans HATE Obamacare. But don’t you dare try to take away their Affordable Care Act Medicaid!!

In case folks aren’t aware, AWS status page is not live. It is a human-driven page that is updated manually.

The fortune 100 company I used to work for would be notified prior to the status page being updated for an issue before the status page is updated.

Do not rely on their status page to tell you there is a problem.