Eisenhower was right in 1961. And that message is right today. A handful of huge defense contractors and their many lobbyists wield enormous power over the Pentagon’s budget and our foreign and military policies.

It’s time to take a hard look at the Department of Defense.

They should connect their accounts to the .gov domain, this would verify the account

Green is good, it indicates that it is connected to a RCS server and verified.

To enable RCS on your iPhone, go to Settings, then Apps, select Messages, and toggle on RCS Messaging under Text Messaging. Make sure your carrier supports RCS and that your iPhone is updated to iOS 18 or later.

The expectation is to use some form of encrypted communication such as RCS. They are pointing to the fact that the China-backed hack into the different telecom networks is the reason for this

1/2 A growing number of conservatives have been joining Bluesky, the microblogging website being touted as an alternative to Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter), where several say they have either faced censorship from the platform or widespread abuse.

2/2 One prominent conservative social media user said their Bluesky account was shut down after they posted "there are only two genders," whilst another was slapped with a content warning after labelling Rachel Levine, a transgender woman in the Biden administration, as "man of the year."

The problem will be when Trump takes over, this stuff will be blocked.

As an organization we just ask our support teams to implement verification. I still don't understand why people believe that an organization is incapable of filling out three lines in DNS.
I do understand that a normal person not being able to do this.

I have watched TYT for years, and I am unable to watch many of the shows lately due to this change

Trumps pick for is Brendan Carr:

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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We must remember that most of the voting blocks' retention of history is about 5 minutes long. In seventy million peoples' minds, this never happened.

It is not that having voter ID is good or bad. The issue is how you are able to get that ID.
Simple, free, open access to ID without artificial bars to the ID. Those "countries" in some ways provide IDs without restrictions that the US has been putting on voters to get IDs

Not exactly Swanson's business, but:

www.jsonline.com/story/money/...

I will just repost @democracydocket.com own page that will give you enough education as to the issues.

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how...

Isreal is an apartheid state.