either way the end message is that the US doesn't give 2 shits about freedom and libraries so long as they get to make more money

@TimStone if it's from a network he doesn't like, he'll just call them mean and tell them to get out

want to see if someone from Fox has the balls to do that

we know OAN, if they were to interject, it would be just to ass kiss

@TimStone she's horrible for what's she's (alleged) done, but i want her to make a deal in exchange for getting other arrested

like if she drops evidence on Prince Andrew, we know he'll hide out in the UK until the Queen disowns him and exiles him to the Colony

Canada politely declines U.S. politicians’ request to kill thousands of our residents t.co/SW2fDeNOoO t.co/nXiQAdhxof

The Beaverton has improved so much in the last few years.

They're essentially the Canadian version of The Onion.

Have any states other than California announced stricter covid policies?

I think I heard something about mandatory masks in Texas.

Asked why Black Americans are killed by police, Trump responds, "So are White people"

it's actually worse

> "So are White people. So are White people. What a terrible question to ask. So are White people," Mr. Trump told CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge at the White House. "More White people, by the way. More White people."

@Memor-X But again, he's not racist folks!

@Wipqozn you didn't miss anything

@MadScientist Sounds like I missed the last bit of your brain melting away into mush though.

It just couldn't put up with the insanity any longer.

My brain feels better today, but the speech was really, really dumb in a boring way

He was probably hoping he could talk about a reopened Canadian border, which didn't happen.

I think it was a replacement for the rally that was canceled

> Elon Musk, not Johnny Depp, responsible for Amber Heard's 'cuts and bruises', court hears,

lolwat

@Wipqozn It helps when your country doesn't take the Onion as domestic policy.

@Yuuki lollolol

The Onion for President

The Onion mostly doesn't seem that great these days simply because our reality is weirder than their satire.

Whereas Canada is at least marginally sane.

MONMOUTH POLL OF PENNSYLVANIA: Biden 53 - Trump 40

Adviser says Kanye West no longer trying to run for president: 'He's out'

@BradC how shocking lol

@Stormblessed He apparently lasted one full Scaramucci

(Via @TomTolesTunes)

(Oklahoma Governor) Kevin Stitt 'pretty shocked' to be first governor to test positive for COVID-19

> Kansas GOP Rep. Steve Watkins is facing multiple felony charges related to him registering to vote using the address of a UPS storefront

lol the White House is pulling out the old playbook and talking about MS-13 now

> The National Security Council sent a list of allegations about Lt. Col. Vindman to the Pentagon after he testified in the impeachment proceedings against Trump. The Pentagon received the document as Vindman was on track to be promoted

> I can’t explain Peter Navarro. He’s in a world by himself. So I don’t even want to go there.

theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/…

That quote is from Fauci

@TimStone You know, for a party that's s concerned about election fraud, the GOP sure do commit a lot of election Fraud.

@Wipqozn Classic conservative behaviour: do as I say, not as I do

> Starting today, US hospitals are banned from reporting COVID data to the Centers for Disease Control. Instead, they must report it to a no-bid, privately-contracted server under control of the Trump political apparatus.

The President and his children are posing with beans

@TimStone Honestly this is just completely unbelievable at this point. Frankly if a single republican gets reelected in november, it'll be a huge embarrassment. The sheer amount of incompetence and corruption at play here is just unreal.

> Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state

No way shocked_pikachu.gif

> Conservative MP Julian Lewis has been appointed chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, and not Chris Grayling as had been expected

So BoJo tried to set up Chris Grayling for the easy win to maintain control over the situation, but Julian Lewis orchestrated a coup to get himself voted in instead, and now the Tories have stripped Lewis of the whip because he "worked with Labour and other opposition MPs for his own advantage"

Anyway that committee votes on releasing the UK's Russia report tomorrow

> An individual poured an accelerant on and set on fire an unmarked Supreme Court police vehicle parked on Maryland Ave. near First Street, NE. The car was totally burned and an adjacent Court vehicle was also damaged...

They apparently accidentally set themselves on fire too and were arrested and transported for medical care

If anyone wants to see some more history in the making: theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/15/…

Essentially, someone decided to replace what was the statue of Colston with a BLM protestor

@Wipqozn It's the same story (although presumably not as bad) with the Tory cabinet in the UK

> U.S. Nut Glut Is So Big Branches Are Breaking From Heavy Crops

ಠ_ಠ

Not releasing local numbers of cases until recently, giving e.g. PPE contracts to companies they're 'on friendly terms' with, despite those companies clearly being among the worst possible options

Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and the Bitcoin Twitter account have all been hijacked to promote cryptocurrency scams

Does that last one count as a hijack

That kind of sounds like business as usual

I mean technically

Also the Winklevoss crypto company, lol

Same question

Yes

> @QuinnipiacPoll finds Biden up 52-37 over Pres. Trump. That's Trump's lowest level of support in the poll in the past year

Incidentally a soggy piece of bread is polling at the same level but hey, I guess we'll take it. At least as things get worse for Trump he'll definitely not get more unstable

Oh my god and @Apple

Someone has one hell of a twitter vuln

Wot

How does that happen

I have no idea

One would think like, @Verified or someone else in support would be on this faster

To at least keep it from getting posted and embedded that yeah even Apple got hacked your security is awful Twitter

I'm not seeing it though?

Now deleted

lol Kanye now too

That explains it

Obviously uh, don't give money to people who claim they will double your money

That's runescape scams 101

They're being deleted quickly, at least?

There's rumours an employee with access to user management was compromised but tbh all these accounts probably use some publishing service too

@Unionhawk Apparently $60k so far? lol

Ah there's Bezos

@TimStone yeah people wouldn't post Bitcoin scams in Elon's replies as fake Elon accounts if it didn't work

So actual Elon posting it?

@Unionhawk Oh hmm so not sure if they actually did have third-party access

Forever branded as An Account That Has Tweeted

Ah they got Biden RIP

Didn't even customize it for a donation scam

I'm really curious about this

It's probably more of a vulnerability of Twitter itself than those accounts, if I had to guess?

@Unionhawk on Biden’s too

I'd still bet on a marketing tool vulnerability and not a core Twitter one, but both are possible

@MadScientist What do you mean?

@Wrigglenite My understanding is that everyone doing social media in a professional capacity uses various tools to schedule and manage tweets, or analyze metrics and all that stuff. Those tools have write access to a lot of Twitter accounts

I see, that'd make sense

That would make sense, though does Elon do promoted tweets?

Some of these accounts make sense for that some don't

Elon is one case that doesn't fit the theory entirely

A core Twitter exploit would also be a more interesting story

I'm seeing claims that an administration panel was accessed via a compromised remote employee

I don't uh, understand how that could possibly cause this because well you know

One interesting part is certainly that Twitter can't seem to shut this down quickly

Why would the admin panel have either "post as someone else" or "login as this person"

Or any variant of "reset password"

Other than one that strictly goes to the original registered email

A lot of admin tools can indirectly give you access to everything else

Supposedly it's that last one and you know damn well they didn't do it correctly lol

This is Twitter

So possibly a set of "change this user's email address" plus "reset password"

Equals "access this user's account"

That seems like a plausible tool that would be needed in some cases

Yeah, like "my email address was changed by someone who hijacked my account"

That's not a joke that is an actual use case

Though it is funny that "literally this happening" is a use case for this tool

It's a shame they didn't hack Trump's account

It's true, really confused why you wouldn't turn around and try to do GoyaCoin

Though it's a bit scary what you could do with Trump's account if you didn't try to scam some bitcoins

@MadScientist Get people to inject bleach?

@Wrigglenite Declare War

If this is an admin panel breach then uh

Why haven't they like, checked the audit log on "people who have changed Elon Musk's email address", found an anomaly from today, and shut down that person's access

> We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. We will update everyone shortly

I'd disable the tool entirely for an hour, if that was the case

inb4 the support account tweets the scam

Surely they have an audit log on that tool right

At minimum

Right

Look they're just gonna tweet through it

It's fine

Anyway I regret to inform the President that for national security reasons we must ban his Twitter account

The hack still seems active

@Unionhawk The one thing that makes this somewhat unlikely is if you have access to an account you can revoke existing sessions and they…didn't do that. But they're also running a bitcoin scam so maybe they're just dumb

@TimStone I figured this would be the same here, but turns out 35 hours at minimum wage in NS would bring in 1700 per month. 1 bedroom would run you 1k or less (but could also go a lot higher). That said finding apartments right now is difficult, and a lot of minimum wage workers only do part time hours.

The fact minimum wage workers in the US would need to work upwards of 70 hours (according to that twitter thread) is absolutely absurd.

> In fact, the average minimum wage worker in the U.S. would need to work almost 97 hours per week to afford a fair market rate two-bedroom and 79 hours per week to afford a one-bedroom, NLIHC calculates. That's well over two full-time jobs just to be able to afford a two-bedroom rental.

> The report, released Tuesday, defines "affordable" as spending no more than 30% of monthly income on rent, in line with what most budgeting experts recommend.

Oh, that makes more sense

Which would then be the same in NS

Okay, that's terrible, but not as terrible as I thought.

@Wipqozn The 30% rule isn't really achievable in bigger cities in quite a few countries

@MadScientist Yeah, it's not. I make good money and I'm just at 25%.

I thought the article meant you needed to work 80 hours at minimum wage in the US to have enough money for rent

And then have no money left over

> This is BuzzFeed News reporter @Walldo on my old alt account. It appears that no blue checkmarks are able to tweet right now as Twitter chaos continue

lmfao if true

(it's true, amazing)

uh are all verified accounts except ones in Japan unable to tweet right now?

Yes, it's glorious

ok nvm at least now -- many in English twitter.com/…

including Scott Adams ugh

@MadScientist Exactly what I was thinking. It would be easy enough to make people think it's him and he's serious.

@MadScientist Yeah, that's really common in my experience.

> The op-ed against Dr. Fauci by @PeterNavarro45 was "a violation of well established protocols that was not supported overtly or covertly by anyone in the West Wing," @WhiteHouse Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows told reporters on Air Force One during the flight back from Atlanta

Trump also said Navarro shouldn't have done it, lol

Would be extremely funny if it backfired so hard on them that they had to throw him under the bus completely

> A conspiracy theory accuses furniture retailer Wayfair of trafficking children via high-priced items that allegedly share names with missing children. @louis_baudoinL found that various children tied to the claim are not currently missing

I saw mention of that briefly and of course people thought that, jfc

Dumbest timeline

> Now the LA Times is reporting that Trump authorized the op-ed -- and encouraged Navarro to write it. That explains why Navarro was not fired

lol

> Copyright troll lawyer Richard Liebowitz has done lots of crazy shit. But this is beyond crazy: he's been filing lawsuits without telling his clients, and when called on it just says: "You roll the dice, you see what you get."

@TimStone That's...gotta be criminal.

It definitely seems not good!

again verified accounts can't tweet

hmm actually no

Big if True (that they intercepted SMS reset codes but also that it was the Quebecois)

I mean sure it could have been someone using 7 proxies terminating in Quebec but we all know better

Nearly 5,000 U.S. citizens tried to enter Canada for shopping, recreation amid pandemic: CBSA ctvnews.ca/canada/…

> According to new data from the Canada Border Services Agency, more than 10,000 U.S. citizens have been turned away at the Canadian border during the pandemic — and almost half of them were hoping to enter Canada to shop, go sightseeing or simply for recreation.

:/

I honestly don't understand

like I get people don't give a fuck and want to travel, aka plenty of Americans have lied to get in

but surely they realize they'll be turned away at the border if they just want to shop, right...?

We're willing to accept that children should die going back to school for the sake of stonks

> You may be unable to Tweet or reset your password while we review and address this incident.

There you go finally lol

lmfao @TemporaryNBCNews:

I did check that account is real

Or at least, it is being retweeted by @NBCNews