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Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Monday, June 23 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-23
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Admin note: TCG offered some good tips on critter herding last night. I have two points to raise in addition to what she said:
1) Although it is highly recommended, it takes a while to get someone set up as an Editor. I won’t reiterate the steps it takes, but with communications lags and misunderstandings factored in, expect to wait for upward of a day to pull it together. Details available upon request.
2) It is highly recommended that (unless some coordination is understood by all) no one but the author edit the Shade . It would be very easy to overwrite the author’s work. Consider peeking ahead as a privilege.
Additional volunteers are encouraged.
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Let’s get going!
This mega DDoS attack broke all records - huge 37.4TB bombardment in 45 seconds against a single victim is the largest ever recorded (MSN)
Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks usually use a network of compromised devices to bombard a server with an unusually large amount of data in order to render a service unusable. But Cloudflare says it recently blocked a monumental DDoS attack which attempted to dump almost 38TB worth of data in just 45 seconds - making it the largest such attack in history. For comparison, 38TB is the equivalent of downloading 9,350 full-length HD movies, or 9.35 million songs, or 7,480 hours of high-definition video.✂️
I’ve said it before; no computer security person I’ve ever met is excited by “The Internet of Things” (IoT). Anything that you are plugging into your network is a potential attack vector. I try not to have any computer on my network that I can’t get to a command line on. IoT devices are really not a good thing for security and they’re generally more of a novelty than anything else.
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NYT gift link (I think through Allison Gill on BlueSky)
Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
A day after President Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been “completely and totally obliterated” by American bunker-busting bombs and a barrage of missiles, the actual state of the program seemed far more murky, with senior officials conceding they did not know the fate of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium. “We are going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel and that’s one of the things that we’re going to have conversations with the Iranians about,” Vice President JD Vance told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, referring to a batch of uranium sufficient to make nine or 10 atomic weapons. Nonetheless, he contended that the country’s potential to weaponize that fuel had been set back substantially because it no longer had the equipment to turn that fuel into operative weapons.✂️
It’s a good article. Since it’s free, open it up and read it later.
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x Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it
[image or embed] — Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) June 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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(Wired magazine)
What Satellite Images Reveal About the US Bombing of Iran’s Nuclear Sites
When the United States bombed Iran in the early hours of Sunday local time, it targeted three facilities central to the country’s nuclear ambitions: the Fordow uranium enrichment plant, the Natanz nuclear facility, and the Isfahan nuclear technology center. Newly released satellite images show the impact of the attack—at least, what can be seen on the ground. The brunt of the bombing focused on Fordow, where US forces dropped a dozen GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators as part of its “Midnight Hammer” operation. These 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bombs are designed to penetrate as deep as 200 feet into the earth before detonating. The Fordow complex is approximately 260 feet underground. That gap accounts for some of the uncertainty over exactly how much damage the Fordow site sustained. President Donald Trump shared a post on his Truth Social platform following the attack that declared “Fordow is gone,” and later said in a televised address that “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” His own military, however, was slightly more circumspect about the outcome in a Sunday morning briefing. “It would be way too early for me to comment on what may or may not still be there,” said general Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.✂️
Another good article. It was free for me, but that may just because I hadn’t hit my limit this month.
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Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
Why Karoline Leavitt is so annoying
Few voices in the MAGA-sphere make me want to flip the channel more than Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Only the grating voice of Donald Trump himself can make me dive faster for the remote as I promise myself that I'll read the transcript later, because it's my job as a journalist to know today's official White House lies. I love being on Greg Sargent's New Republic podcast, but I often have to steel myself because I know what clip he'll play for me: Leavitt scolding reporters like she's the uber-Karen, dressing down a waitress for putting three ice cubes in her tea instead of the requested two. Judging by social media, my irrepressible loathing of Leavitt's smug visage and pompous voice makes me typical of my demographic: progressive, college-educated women between the ages of 25 and 65. Among this set on Instagram and TikTok, making fun of Leavitt is a popular sport. I would like to report that her critics take the high road of focusing on her job as spokesperson for a wannabe dictator, but mostly it's just about how weird and annoying she is. She's mocked for having one mode: perpetual tight-lipped outrage, as if she wants to call management on literally every person she meets.✂️
Testify, Amanda! Testify!!!
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x I know many political figures misread pop culture, but I think the puppets should have given away that "Team America: World Police" was a satirical movie.
[image or embed] — Steve Mullis (@stevemullis.net) June 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Three via MSN on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Judge says Justice Department failed to make case for Abrego Garcia’s detention ahead of criminal trial
A judge in Tennessee said the Justice Department hasn’t made a convincing case that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be kept in pretrial detention, though the mistakenly deported man who was returned to the US is likely to remain in federal immigration custody regardless. Abrego Garcia is being held in Tennessee as he faces a federal indictment of smuggling undocumented immigrants across state lines in 2022. The US returned him from El Salvador this month after the indictment was unsealed, ending a political standoff over his due process rights.✂️
Judge denies government attempt to keep Abrego Garcia in detention; hearing set on release
✂️In a 51-page ruling, Holmes said the federal government “failed to meet its burden of showing a properly supported basis for detention on grounds that (Abrego Garcia) poses an irremediable danger to the community or is likely not to appear." Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "Rather, the Court finds that it can impose conditions of release to reasonably assure the safety of others and the community and (his) appearance," she wrote. "Ultimately, conditions of release are not intended to guarantee community safety or ensure a defendant’s appearance, but rather serve to reasonably mitigate the risk of dangerousness and likelihood of nonappearance."✂️
Judge Embarrasses Stephen Miller in High-Profile Court Ruling
✂️ Miller has been vocal in his opposition to the case of Abrego Garcia. Last month, Miller said, “The Department of Justice has indicted the illegal alien terrorist from Maryland, the so-called Maryland man who is actually a foreign terrorist from El Salvador to make him face justice for his monstrous crimes against humanity.” Miller claimed Abrego Garcia had committed “some of the most heinous crimes I’ve ever read about,” while Noem called him a “very dangerous person.” In April, he pushed the claims to Fox News’ Jesse Watters that, “He is an illegal alien” and “implicated in human trafficking.” He added: “Deport, deport, deport!”✂️
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Does Stephen Miller Know Pam Bondi Is Harboring Criminal Aliens? (EmptyWheel)
The magistrate judge who presided over a detention hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia (KAG) last week, Barbara Holmes, has ruled that the government is not entitled to further review of his detention, but even if they were, they would not meet the standard under the Bail Reform Act to keep him jailed pre-trial. The takeaway of her ruling is that the government’s attempt to claim the alleged presence of minors in the van he drove made his alleged crime — transporting undocumented migrants — serious enough to merit detention failed. The evidence didn’t pass the sniff test. But the ruling is important because it documents just how shitty the case against KAG is, which (as far as I saw), just Adam Klasfeld and Katelyn Polantz attempted to do before this.✂️
All the reasons that Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case is going to go nowhere, but make his life miserable for a few years.
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x A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.
[image or embed] — Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) June 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I’m not a sports guy, but Chris Kluwe WAS a Minnesota Viking. He makes me proud.
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Today is…
..quiet. I didn’t find much.
NATIONAL PECAN SANDIES DAY
If you enjoy cookies, then National Pecan Sandies Day on June 23 is a day worth celebrating. This American food holiday is observed annually and offers bakers and cookie lovers a chance to enjoy a classic cookie.
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NATIONAL PINK DAY
Each year on June 23, National Pink Day colors the world in vibrant shades of pink and explores everything it represents.
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National Porridge Day
Porridge might be considered by some people to be the ultimate comfort food! Warm, soft and filling, porridge, in its most basic form, can find roots in a wide variety of human civilizations. From Asia to Europe to the Americas, porridge touches people all over the globe.
For lack of anything better…
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International Women in Engineering Day
International Women in Engineering Day is an international awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry. It celebrates the outstanding achievements of women engineers throughout the world.
The second career I had was doing IT for an engineering consulting firm. It was far and away the longest I’d ever stayed at any job. I had no previous experience in an engineering firm (or IT for that matter, I was a computer programmer), but I was always engineering adjacent, so I fit just fine.
The office I worked out of had many women engineers, I’m guessing upward of a 50/50 split. I thought that maybe times had changed and that the engineering schools were churning out equal numbers of male and female engineers. I was wrong.
I ran into a female coworker at the dog park and we did the roughly 45 minute walk down to the end and back (almost all of it on the banks of the Mississippi) and we talked about it. She said that her school was still heavily skewed with male students, it was just that our company recruited more women. I appreciated the company all the more after that.
When I was in high school, the upper-level math classes were close to a 50/50 split and the top students were pretty evenly split. Since I’d never known anything else, I assumed it was normal. I regularly got my ass kicked by more talented women. I never questioned it.
So, here’s to all of those women in STEM! We need more of you.
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