@#67 ... But Republican lawmakers, including some former service members, praised the new testosterone screening as a necessary and medically sound intervention that would shore up military readiness. ...

So, those Republican lawmakers effectively admitted that some troops may need gender-affirming care in order to shore up military readiness?

@#1 ... But Republican lawmakers, including some former service members, praised the new testosterone screening as a necessary and medically sound intervention that would shore up military readiness. ...

So, those Republican lawmakers effectively admitted that some troops may need gender-affirming care in order to shore up military readiness?

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... Members of Congress on Thursday lambasted a new Pentagon program offering testosterone replacement therapy to U.S. soldiers, as some Democrats compared the initiative to the gender-affirming medical care vehemently opposed by the Trump administration.

But Republican lawmakers, including some former service members, praised the new testosterone screening as a necessary and medically sound intervention that would shore up military readiness. ...

@#9

I do not disagree.

But that is just more substantiation for the "throw the bums out" tendency I have been seeing.

@#5 ... Immigrants are much less likely to hurt me or my family than people like Trump and you. ...

While that may be true, there are that trolling current alias' multiple attempts to deflect and denigrate many threads on this most august forum.

Why does it do that?

What is it so afraid of discussing?

... An employee of The GEO Group, the private-prison company that operates the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora ...

Murder for profit?

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... How Russian Hackers Exploited Doorbell Cameras

The use of doorbell cameras and similar IP-based security devices has increased significantly in recent years, both at homes and within businesses. According to Dutch intelligence agencies AIVD and MIVD, Russian threat actors targeted these devices specifically along critical NATO military sites and weapons transport routes supporting Ukraine. The compromised cameras were used to gather ground-level surveillance data that is otherwise difficult to obtain with drones or satellites.

The attacks came to light in July 2024 after a detailed investigation by Dutch authorities. The agencies warned affected organisations with IP cameras on or near military routes, urging immediate action to secure their devices. The countries directly affected include the Netherlands and Ukraine, but the risk is relevant to all NATO member states, including the UK, where similar camera deployments are common.

Technical Details: Attack Timeline and Methods

The hackers took advantage of several common security weaknesses found in many internet-connected cameras, including: ...

@#4

Here it was a burning-woodsy smell. Similar to logs in a fireplace.

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... Entitled "Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and their Impacts," the 254-page paper updates a 2016 assessment by the same institutions, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).

"Significant progress has been made over the last decade, with major advancements in methods and modeling that allow for more robust assessments of extreme events," said James Hurrell, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University and chair of the committee that wrote the report.

Operating under a charter signed in 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln, the prestigious Academies are independent nonprofit institutions tasked with advising the government on scientific policy.

But these are no ordinary times under the administration of President Donald Trump, who has attacked the very idea that burning fossil fuels is warming the planet.

-- Getting specific --

Scientists have no such doubts. They have known for decades that climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of several types of extreme weather events, including hurricanes, heat waves and extreme rainfall.

But the field of attribution science allows them to move beyond detecting broad trends to investigating individual events -- what the authors call extreme event attribution (EEA) -- which can provide vital information to policymakers.

EEA studies compare an event's characteristics, such as its probability and intensity in the current climate, to a "counterfactual" world without human-caused emissions. ...

Yesterday, the sky here in Connecticut was an orange-brown color, with dim sunlight.

The daytime temp was about 5 degrees cooler than expected due to the lack of sunlight.

When I stepped outside, I could smell smoke.

I noted in a prior comment that the newfound popularity in certain areas of socialists may be more due to rejection of the current occupants of the elected offices than a support of the socialist paradigm.

That aside, MAGA is actively trying to put an autocrat in charge, with the help of his appointed SCOTUS.

@#39 ... All this rancor over trump speech and stolen election while the DSA comes out with its platform that would create more of a " supreme Soviet " ...

Still trying the lame deflection attempts?

Maybe, along the election interference topic of this thread, your current trolling alias might want to discuss...

Pres Trump's posts on his social media site have moved the stock markets.

So, is Pres Trump effectively selling insider information to those investors who are willing to pay for it?

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... Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department's computer systems -- with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel -- leaving some of the nation's most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government's cloud computing business a decade ago, relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage.

But these workers, known as "digital escorts," often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, ProPublica found. Some are former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work.

"We're trusting that what they're doing isn't malicious, but we really can't tell," said one current escort who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, fearing professional repercussions. ...

@#6 ... Blanche just slipped up and admitted he is Trumpy's personal lawyer. ...

That was an astounding admission for him to say.

@#29 ... In 2 years or even less (the mid terms and accountability IS coming) ...

Tangentially related ...