Saturday Morning Covfefe: 5 Things with Olivia (The Showgirl Edition)
I’m still recovering from staying up till midnight for Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl drop, but here’s the real playlist they don’t want you to hear: the glitz of tough talk on stage, the rot behind the curtain, and the same cronies cashing out.
1. FBI Dumps Hate Trackers, Extremists Cheer
In just one week, FBI Director Kash Patel cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), two organizations that for decades have done the painstaking work of tracking white supremacists, antisemitic groups, and far-right militias. The SPLC mapped hate groups across the country. The ADL trained police to recognize extremist symbols and warned when movements were spreading. Their data has saved lives.
This isn’t theoretical. Hate crimes are surging. Political violence is no longer a “what if”; it’s here. White nationalist groups are openly recruiting. Antisemitism hit record highs last year. Walking away from the very groups with the most profound expertise in monitoring these networks doesn’t make the threat disappear. It just blinds us to it.
2. Hackers Say Thank You, Washington
The government shutdown isn’t just about missed paychecks and shuttered offices; it also compromises America’s cyber defenses during active attacks. At the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the agency responsible for protecting critical infrastructure, 65% of the workforce is currently furloughed. Insiders say investigations into two major hacks this week, a mass extortion campaign tied to an Oracle database breach and a leak of Red Hat coding data, are running on fumes. “Instead of three people working on something, it’s down to just one,” one staffer said.
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