Kevin Trumbull

Tech junkie since 1980. *nix guy. Decency and respect are the hallmarks of worthwhile people. he/him

[Kevin Trumbull @KevinTrumbull]

Friday night was an adventure. Young man scared out of his mind at my front door. Ended up driving him to the town his sister lives in. Loaned him my phone to try to reach someone around 2-3am.

Got home after 5am.

His mom called yesterday morning and his sister texted this.

[auonsson @auonsson]

400M users worldwide have had their TVs and phones hijacked by a company selling the private bandwidth to corporate customers who want to appear as normal users on internet.

You know, like being infected with a botnet, but this is "legal" because page 354 on your telly said so.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️🚨 An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch.

Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200+ on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't.

Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control.

To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running.

Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default.

Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.

[Kevin Trumbull @KevinTrumbull]

@Cmdr_Hadfield This is adorable. The picture. This exchange.

This is the exactly the kind of thing that I wish I saw more of in the world.

[Kevin Trumbull @KevinTrumbull]

@SeeRacists Don’t let the door hit you on the way out…

[Kevin Trumbull @KevinTrumbull]

@sherrod_im @PaulSkallas @ciaomegan_ I live in Phoenix. You don’t want to be here in the summer.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Senator Ed Sutton @EdCSutton]

Never in my wildest imagination did I think I would be called into special session over Memorial Day weekend and have to argue that military members and their spouses deserve to have their votes counted after they already cast their ballots.

But here we are.

South Carolina is trying to rush through new congressional maps while the election process is already underway. Military and overseas voters followed the rules. They requested their ballots. They voted. They sent them back.

Now, because politicians want to change the maps at the last minute, those voters could have their ballots thrown out through no fault of their own.

That is unacceptable.

I have an amendment that says if the congressional primaries are moved to August, those military and overseas voters should automatically receive a new ballot for the new primary.

That should not be controversial.

But apparently, some folks are fighting me on it.

Some days it feels like I am living in the upside down. It is Memorial Day weekend, and I am having to fight to protect the voting rights of the very people serving our country.

If we say we support our veterans, our military members, and their families, then we should start by making sure their votes count.

Standing strong. Holding the line.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Two Sisters. Twelve and Seventeen. Buried Together in Kyiv Today.

Liubava was 12. Vira was 17. This morning they were laid to rest side by side in Kyiv, killed along with 22 others when a Russian missile struck the residential building where they lived.

Their father, Yevhen Yakovlev, was killed in combat in 2023 defending Ukraine. He never came home. Now their mother has lost her husband, her daughters, and her home.
One family. Completely gone.

When we talk about missile strikes on residential buildings, we are talking about this. Not infrastructure. Not statistics. Families. Children who had names, ages, futures. A mother who now has none of them.

Russia does not accidentally hit apartment buildings. It targets them.

Remember Liubava and Vira.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

On May 4, The Washington Post won two Pulitzers. To stream the announcement live, the paper had to bring back two of the video operators it had laid off in February. Nobody left in the building could run the equipment. They walked past the new opinion studio on their way in.

The new opinion studio was built with $80,000 in video gear. Its flagship podcast has 515 YouTube subscribers after 186 videos and more than 20 episodes. Apple Podcasts users have given it 2.3 stars. The most positive review on record: "This is bad and the people making it should feel bad."

Dave Jorgenson, the journalist who built WaPo's TikTok presence, left last year. His personal YouTube channel now has 358,000 subscribers. The opinion podcast has 515. A former WaPo journalist working with a small team has built more than 600 times the audience of the flagship new show.

Bezos was warned by his own opinion editor that the rightward pivot would cost subscribers. His documented response, per the New York Times: "I don't care."

The piece's own summary is the only sentence needed: "Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He's funding the people who lose the subscribers."

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

America can’t afford to help homeless veterans, but they can afford to pay violent crybabies who beat cops?

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

NEW

They quietly brought back cyanide bombs on public lands.

Spring-loaded traps that fire sodium cyanide into animals’ faces.

These devices have reportedly killed pets, endangered wildlife, and even injured children in past incidents. And now they’re back.

What kind of country are we becoming?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Three billionaires just bought a House seat for $32 million.

Paul Singer. John Paulson. Miriam Adelson.

They funded a super PAC that ran an AI-generated deepfake showing Rep. Thomas Massie in a fake “throuple” with two Democratic women. The disclaimer that it was AI showed for 4 seconds.

AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition spent millions more.

The President personally visited the district.

The Defense Secretary traveled to Kentucky the day before the vote.

Yesterday, Massie lost by 10,035 votes.
The lawmaker who wanted the Epstein files released lost.

The lawmaker who opposed the Iran war lost. The lawmaker who voted against the spending bill lost. Three billionaires. One Cabinet Secretary on the road. A sitting President campaigning against a member of his own party. $32 million.

That’s not how primaries used to work.

That’s how primaries work now.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Harrison Ford: “Humanity is a part of nature, not above it. We need cultural change. We need to extend social justice. We need to respect and elevate the indigenous people that are being marginalized, and in many cases, killed in cold blood. The world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess”

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were caught on video illegally stopping a man in Cathedral City, CA… after racially profiling him… then trying to drag him out of his car and handcuff him.

In the video, the agents are demanding his ID, calling it “fake,” and completely ignoring him when he explains that he is legally present in the United States.

They already HAD his identification. They just decided they didn’t believe it.

That’s not how constitutional rights work.

Law enforcement does not get to detain someone indefinitely because they “feel” like the documents are fake… especially without evidence, probable cause, or a warrant.

And let’s be honest about what this was…

A man was targeted, pulled over, and nearly disappeared into federal custody until his wife rushed over with MORE paperwork to “prove” he belonged here.

Think about how insane that is.

An American street just turned into an immigration checkpoint where federal agents tried to rip a man from his car without proof he was undocumented.

That is the exact kind of unconstitutional abuse the Fourth Amendment is supposed to protect against.

Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Protection from the government detaining people without lawful justification.

Protection from federal agents deciding someone “looks illegal” and escalating by force.

And the most disturbing part?

If his wife hadn’t shown up with additional documents… what would have happened to him?

Because this is what racial profiling turns into when it’s combined with unchecked federal power.

Rights stop meaning anything when agents can ignore valid identification, escalate by force, and only back off after a family member scrambles to prove someone deserves freedom.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[Kevin Trumbull @KevinTrumbull]

@ChrisKe92812358 @chemimommy Separate but equal was always a lie. I attended one of the Brown vs Board schools. My father was the principal there. Those in power did everything in their power to undermine public education there. They failed. Get over it.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨ICE deported a U.S. born citizen.

Brian Morales is a U.S. citizen, born in a hospital in Denver, Colorado, with documentation to prove it…

And yet, after a traffic stop in Texas, he was taken into custody and deported to Mexico with no charges, no conviction, and no due process.

Morales repeatedly told officers he was a citizen and had proof, but instead of verifying that, he was threatened with fraud charges, and prison time, if he didn’t comply.

He was ultimately pressured into signing removal paperwork out of fear… which is coercion, and illegal.

There is no law in the United States that allows the government to deport a U.S. citizen.

Citizenship is not something ICE can ignore because they don’t believe you, and it’s not something that can be stripped through intimidation.

If you are born here, you belong here… period.

DHS claims he admitted to being undocumented… even though he had proof he was not… and we’re expected to accept that version without questioning how that “admission” was obtained in the first place.

This also didn’t happen at the border, it happened after a routine traffic stop in Texas, which means the standard here wasn’t immigration enforcement at the border, it was treating citizenship like it’s conditional, and revocable, on the spot.

If citizenship can be ignored, if proof can be dismissed, and if people can be threatened into signing away their rights, then due process is being bypassed entirely… and if this can happen to Brian Morales, it can happen to anyone.

[Kevin Trumbull @KevinTrumbull]

@martinbostok @ProgressNow00 @RpsAgainstTrump @DanaBashCNN A jury of his peers disagrees with you.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.

Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.
https://t.co/aZiAxu5pXH