Electric Weblog Machine
Remember, don't believe "sources said" by the VERY dishonest media. If they don't name the sources, the sources don't exist.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
A 'confidential source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama has added over $6T to the new national debt & ruined US credit.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2012
Lots of fertile source material in the reddit TrumpCriticizesTrump
In light of how the Republican Congress sold the citizens privacy to the ISPs, here are a couple of reviews of VPN service.
The Wirecutter: VPNs Are for Most People–Including You
Macworld: Protect against potential ISP snooping by using https and a VPN
Via Ken White I found two projects that provide Ansible scripts to roll your own: Algo and Streisand.
Trump Hotels tried to have a Twitter conversation about favorite travel memories. Twitter rose to the occasion. Here are a few of my favorite.
At 18 my father fled the Nazis. 2 strangers from a youth hostel put up £200 for his UK visa. They saved his life. https://t.co/kg3IlYXp0C
— Adam Ganz (@harbinger) January 29, 2017
@TrumpHotels Visiting San Francisco – the American city my grandparents settled in after leaving the Philippines after WWII.
— Cate Sevilla (@CateSevilla) January 29, 2017
@TrumpHotels They escaped concentration camps and a country devastated by war. They weren't turned away and I'm here today because of it.
— Cate Sevilla (@CateSevilla) January 29, 2017
@TrumpHotels That time my parents fled apartheid South Africa and immigrated to America where my father became an advocate for abused children.
— Joshua Hale Fialkov (@JoshFialkov) January 29, 2017
.@TrumpHotels My father as a baby, with his brother and mother, aboard the SS Statendam, fleeing Nazi Germany. #NoBanNoWall pic.twitter.com/VUsWPOQl52
— Laura Brahm (@laclabra) January 29, 2017
@TrumpHotels I traveled to LA last weekend, and it was so much fun. pic.twitter.com/sZigl4in40
— Melissa Wantz (@mwantz) January 29, 2017
.@TrumpHotels It was probably this moment yesterday at SFO when Niloufar revealed her father was just released from illegal detention. pic.twitter.com/E3CHp3lGwb
— Peter Corless (@PeterCorless) January 29, 2017
Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…”
You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.
— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) January 28, 2017
For better or worse, history is giving us an opportunity to answer this question for ourselves. Think carefully. Make sure you make decisions that you’ll be proud to explain to your grand kids. To St. Peter, if you like. To your future self in the mirror. And remember: silence is consent.
From a September, 2016 NY Times article on Anwar al-Awlaki, Al Qaeda recruiter:
Today, with the war between Muslims and the West escalating,” Anwar al-Awlaki said in the video, “you cannot count on the message of solidarity you may get from a civic group or a political party, or the word of support you hear from a kind neighbor or a nice co-worker. The West will eventually turn against its Muslim citizens.
It was an audacious pitch. No matter what you may think, the American-born Mr. Awlaki told Western Muslims, sooner or later your governments and fellow citizens will come after you. So you must join our violent cause.
Now, Donald Trump does his best to prove him right. I’m sure ISIS recruiters everywhere are celebrating. Luckily, it appears they are receiving substantial support from their fellow citizens.