Shawnie Mc

Married. Kids. CA transplant loving FL.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

BIG PICTURE: China/CCP collects massive amounts of data (buying, stealing or hacking) to exploit vulnerabilities.

President Trump said tonight the CCP's operations obtained 220 million voter records.

In 2015, 22 million security clearance applications, known as the SF 86 (it's a road map to your life) were hacked by China.

The threat comes from combining the data: weaponizing voter roles, health care records, and security clearance applications can build an entire profile of a US citizen.

This can be used for fraudulent voter registration, identity theft, targeting US citizens for recruitment by China.

[Mickey from Arcadia @mickeyhardy]

The 10 craziest parts of the ChatGPT lawsuit.

Apple says:

1.) A former Apple engineer named Chang Liu quit Apple in January 2026 to join OpenAI, secretly kept his Apple-issued laptop instead of returning it, then discovered a bug that let him log back into Apple's private servers from his new desk at OpenAI.

He didn't report the bug. He didn't log off. He texted a friend still working at Apple: "LOL, I found out I can access the [server], so funny." Then he spent weeks downloading over 1,000 pages of Apple's confidential engineering files while actively building competing hardware for OpenAI.

2.) Apple is suing OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer a man named Tang Yew Tan who spent 24 years at Apple as VP of Product Design for iPhone and Apple Watch before leaving to co-found OpenAI's hardware division.

Apple alleges that when Tan interviewed Apple employees for jobs at OpenAI, he told them to physically bring Apple hardware to the interview. Batteries. Circuit boards. Logic boards. Prototype parts. Actual physical components taken from Apple's facilities.

One candidate was so caught off guard he said he "didn't even know we could take those from the office."

3.) Apple's lawsuit reveals that OpenAI was circulating a confidential internal Apple document, one marked "Need to Know," intended only for Apple's own managers, among new OpenAI hires.

The document details Apple's security procedures for when an employee resigns.

OpenAI was sharing it with recruits before they even told Apple they were leaving, so they knew exactly what checks to expect and how to avoid them. OpenAI employees referred to it as "a checklist that Tang put together" even though it was clearly an Apple internal document.

4.) Apple's investigation found that OpenAI was actively coaching Apple employees on how to handle their exit from Apple.

The advice included: don't sign anything at your exit interview. And if Apple asks you to sign something, contact OpenAI immediately. OpenAI was running legal interference on Apple's own offboarding process in real time, from the inside.

5.) Tang Tan, the former Apple VP who is now OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer, was reportedly warning Apple employees he was recruiting not to tell Apple they had accepted jobs at OpenAI.

The strategy: stay at Apple as long as possible, keep your badge and system access active, and keep gathering information.

Apple says it found a clear pattern of departing employees skipping exit interviews, ignoring security outreach, and taking steps to evade the procedures designed to protect Apple's confidential data.

6.) OpenAI's interview process for hardware candidates, many of them current Apple employees, required them to prepare a "Technical Deep Dive" presentation with slides about their work.

The instructions asked candidates to disclose which vendors Apple uses, how Apple selects hardware components, what software tools Apple uses for system integration, and how Apple manages its supplier relationships.

7.) Apple's lawsuit alleges that OpenAI interviewers, former Apple insiders who knew the company's internal language, were using Apple's secret project code names during job interviews to ask candidates about unreleased Apple products.

Apple documented at least one case where a candidate began screenshotting and downloading confidential Apple files in the hours before his OpenAI interview.

During the interview, Tang Tan asked him about the exact same project. Apple says this has become an established pattern.

8.) Apple alleges that OpenAI, through its hardware subsidiary io Products, approached one of Apple's trusted industrial design partners and had them perform Apple's proprietary metal-finishing technique the multi-step process Apple developed over years to produce the distinctive look and feel of its products.

OpenAI told the partner that Apple had given permission. Apple had given no such permission. The partner was bound by exclusivity agreements with Apple that explicitly prohibited doing this work for anyone else.

9.) The engineer who broke back into Apple's servers, Chang Liu wasn't acting alone. Apple's lawsuit alleges he was simultaneously coaching a current Apple employee named Alyssa Peng on how to copy files from Apple workstations without triggering the security team, directing her to specific confidential project folders, and using Apple's stolen data to help her prepare for her own OpenAI job interview.

To keep all of this hidden, Liu told Peng to stop communicating over Apple devices and switch to a separate private messaging app called LINE.

10.) Apple's lawsuit frames this not as the actions of a few rogue employees, but as a deliberate institutional strategy. OpenAI now employs over 400 former Apple engineers and executives.

Apple alleges that OpenAI built its entire hardware recruiting pipeline around extracting Apple's proprietary knowledge from manufacturing processes and supplier relationships to unreleased product designs and that as a result, OpenAI's nascent hardware business is, in Apple's words, "rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets."

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@TheLaurenChen My 9 year old reads 900 +pages a week and my 7 year old reads about 400 pages a week. Just depends on the parenting.

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@Sunny61120 @DataRepublican @RealCandaceO @AndrewKolvet Uh I watched the front of the car on video here is a screen shot totally different than the image you’re showing

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@BrianEntin 🤣🤣🤣

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@EricLDaugh You forgot he asked his boyfriend for a dremel so he could carve words into bullets.

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@DefiyantlyFree Between ads for Gold and Ivermectin 🤣🤣🤣

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@TheBereanPost @RealCandaceO Did you see the court videos today? He was on campus 4x they even have video of his car and him exiting his car in a parking garage that is registered to him. 🤷‍♀️

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

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[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@Becky_Weiss_ Truth 🙌

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@GeorgeEthoughts @BrandiKruse Totally! My wife and I would never take our kids to a gay pride parade.

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@BrandiKruse They’ve been walking like this in the SF Castro for EVER. Pride is not for families it’s to hook up.

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@Geiger_Capital We don’t say “I quit” 🤣

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@GregMartone @SLOTUS @OldNavy They are in the heart of San Francisco super duper liberal

[Ida Turan 🇮🇷 ایده توران @iranidaturan]

🛑 STOP reacting and panicking over President Trump’s harsh ultimatums.

He is not speaking to ordinary Iranians. Right now, he is directly addressing his real adversaries, the corrupt elite who actually run the IRGC.

Iran is practically being controlled by the IRGC, a mafia-like terrorist organization. It is not merely a military force; it also dominates large parts of the economy through illegal activities, smuggling, monopolies, and money laundering.

The IRGC has clear layers: at the bottom are the brainwashed Shia jihadi foot soldiers, poor, low-IQ, and indoctrinated with apocalyptic ideology.

They truly believe they must burn the world to bring back the Mahdi and see America as the Great Satan. But these soldiers hold no real power; they are simply tools.

The real power lies with the top leaders. These men pretend to be religious and chant “Death to America” in public, yet they live a completely double life.

While they brutally oppress millions of women over hijab, chant slogans in parliament, and order the killing of Iranians seeking freedom, their own daughters and families enjoy luxurious lives in US and the West, without hijab and like royalty.

But how do they get all that money?
They have built massive monopolies inside Iran. China and Russia have heavily invested in the market, with kickbacks flowing straight into their pockets. They sell oil through illegal networks in Dubai, pocketing half the money meant for “jihad” and missiles, while their own soldiers live in extreme poverty.

President Trump understands this reality perfectly. These bosses do not care if America strikes missile sites or nuclear facilities. They do not care if their brainwashed Basiji soldiers die. What they fear is losing their personal wealth and foreign assets.

If Iran is destroyed, their investments turn to ashes. That is why Trump is pressuring them: control your fanatic soldiers, prevent stupid and dangerous moves, and keep the Strait of Hormuz open. It is not only about the strait, it is also about the 400 kg of highly enriched uranium.

I personally predict that soon there will be some sort of coup inside IRGC where these top gangsters get rid of those who no longer serve them.

We Iranians have watched this hypocrisy for years. These terrorists have left no other path to save Iran. I hope they behave and get their act together. But if they don’t, the full responsibility for whatever happens will lie solely with this regime.

President Trump’s enemy is not Iranian people, he has told us thousands of times.
This regime is a cancer destroying its own host because it refuses to die. To save Iran, we need aggressive therapy before it is too late.

Be brave and trust the process.

🆘 Please share and help us to hold the regime accountable and stop destroying Iran

[Jennifer Van Laar @jenvanlaar]

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[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@Scott_Wiener https://t.co/UIZdIDAFo1

[BDW @BryanDeanWright]

Fmr CIA officer here.

Let me share how elections get stolen — and the role of intel agencies.

We all know that the CIA and NSA create and execute clandestine operations that are designed to go undetected. That ranges from recruiting human spies, tapping phone systems, and altering devices of all kinds.

Yes, that necessarily includes voting machines.

The CIA and NSA have teams to execute all of these operations and missions at the direction of a President, even those ops that are deemed impossible… like machines locked in rooms that are inside secure facilities, unhooked from the internet or whatever device that could tether them to the outside world.

Those tough intel operations require extensive planning, exquisite trade craft, supporting operations (HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT), and a degree of luck.

For many years, everything that I’m saying was understood by both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Historic footage from Congressional hearings show both Ds and Rs saying that they were alarmed about voting systems with so-called “unhackable machines.” They knew then — correctly — that such a suggestion or claim was ridiculous. They were briefed by NSA and CIA teams on how they “hack the unhackable” every month without leaving a trace.

This is why Taiwan and others are resolute on conducting elections the old fashioned way: same day voting only, in person, IDs, paper ballots, a counting process that is open to the public to watch and monitor, and results announced that same night.

If Taiwan can do it with ~24M people, any US state can do it. Refusal to do so is an intentional choice to open your electoral systems to vulnerabilities.

That's what we’re now seeing across the United States, and primarily in Democrat-dominated locales. Including Los Angeles. Those politicians choose broken systems.

California’s ~30 day process to tally votes is obviously and intentionally vulnerable that a reasonable person understands that it allows for manipulation and assured electoral outcome by a dominant power (Democrats, in this case).

And like any good intel op, you do it such that there are no fingerprints left behind — whether that be with machines, mail-in ballots, harvested ballots, etc. If you own the ops environment, anything is possible.

Still, mistakes happen in any op. In the event of disclosure, you do what we often see Democrats and the media do: deny, smear, and make counter-accusations to preserve intentionally broken systems.

Folks, this is not about Spencer Pratt. This is about the future of what’s left of our Republic.

Evil, seditious forces have broken our electoral systems and gained great power using them. Mayor Bass is but one, using the machine that her Democrat Party has built to sustain her and Leftist power. It’s the modern, Golden State version of old Chicago, NJ, or Huey Long corruption.

They will deny it, obviously. Because admission means loss of power, money, and likely prison time. There’s no incentive for them to clean up what’s broken.

Bottom line: Mr. Pratt’s earnest desire to run a righteous race to fix his city faces long odds. He didn’t just run against Karen Bass. He ran against a corrupt machine.

But if nothing else, he has shown his fellow Angelinos and the nation that, once again, we have an existential problem in our electoral system with intentional vulnerabilities and electoral fraud that naturally flows from the brokenness.

Now it’s up to the rest of us to fix it.

There are solutions, none easy or polite. But we must do so — and by whatever means necessary — or the Republic falls to Communists and Cuba-trained agitators like Karen Bass.

Those are the stakes. Time is short.

[F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli]

California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls

California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:

-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)

Full list: https://t.co/BvfviJsYG8

This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.

We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.

On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.

For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.

@AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.

What are they afraid of?

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@ByronDonalds Cool but you practice insider trading.

[Shawnie Mc @ReneLaughlin]

@13WHAM Omg that’s not why he walked off watch it again