Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Pregnant woman from Ghana detained with child at Dulles Airport, ACLU says


Just a reminder that “We The People” are funding CBP to hassle pregnant women and their children using our tax dollars. WTAF?😳 

From the article: 
They arrived in the United States on May 19 after securing a visa and an appointment for her son at Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, where she hoped her son would get care for a physical abnormality affecting his hands, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

The pair had arrived seeking medical treatment and have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.

“Everyone in CBP custody, including this individual, has access to appropriate care, including medical evaluation by a doctor, medication, and food,” the department said. “The individual is currently in CBP custody at Washington Dulles International Airport and will remain in custody pending her immigration hearing.”

The ACLU alleges that Gyasi told CBP officers she preferred to be deported because she fears remaining in detention could result in her losing her unborn child. After agreeing to leave voluntarily, CBP officers allowed her to request additional food and let her shower for the first time since she was detained, the lawyers claim.


*So you get food and a shower by agreeing to give up your rights.  That’s so incredibly UnAmerican. * added by me. 

“CBP has put Ms. Gyasi in an impossible position: either risk her own and the life of her unborn child to improve her young son’s life, or return home to ensure safe conditions for her pregnancy but unsafe conditions for her son,” Heilman said in the organization’s news release.


Tens of thousands of immigrants have abandoned asylum claims and agreed to voluntarily depart the U.S. rather than face long stints in immigration detention, The Washington Post has reported.


On Monday, Gyasi backtracked and said she did not wish to self-deport, according to Heilman. That day, Gyasi experienced vaginal bleeding and was again taken to a hospital, where doctors said her condition was caused by high stress, the court filing states.


A judge on Wednesday ordered federal officials to show a legal basis for Gyasi’s detention by 9 a.m. Thursday.

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Monday, May 18, 2026

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github – Krebs on Security

Holy crap. This is so bad. 

The GitHub repository that Valadon flagged was named “Private-CISA,” and it harbored a vast number of internal CISA/DHS credentials and files, including cloud keys, tokens, plaintext passwords, logs and other sensitive CISA assets.

Valadon said the exposed CISA credentials represent a textbook example of poor security hygiene, noting that the commit logs in the offending GitHub account show that the CISA administrator disabled the default setting in GitHub that blocks users from publishing SSH keys or other secrets in public code repositories.

“Passwords stored in plain text in a csv, backups in git, explicit commands to disable GitHub secrets detection feature,” Valadon wrote in an email. “I honestly believed that it was all fake before analyzing the content deeper. This is indeed the worst leak that I’ve witnessed in my career. It is obviously an individual’s mistake, but I believe that it might reveal internal practices.”

One of the exposed files, titled “importantAWStokens,” included the administrative credentials to three Amazon AWS GovCloud servers. Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — “AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv” — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems. According to Caturegli, those system included one called “LZ-DSO,” which appears short for “Landing Zone DevSecOps,” the agency’s secure code development environment.

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

The Nikola One Fraud & the Trump Bribe

A tweet by JeremyBTC  

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. 

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.

Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

Friday, May 1, 2026

Why would someone take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)?

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is taken to rapidly screen for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia, evaluating memory, attention, executive functions, and language. It is often used when a patient or family reports memory concerns, to track progression of neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, or to assess cognitive decline following a stroke or injury. [12345]
Key Reasons for Taking the MoCA:
  • Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): It is more sensitive than other tests (like the MMSE) for catching subtle early signs of dementia or MCI, where individuals may have memory or thinking problems but still function independently.
  • Screening for Neurodegenerative Diseases: It helps identify dementia related to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, Lewy Body Dementia, and Frontotemporal dementia.
  • Assessing Executive Functioning: The MoCA covers skills that other tests miss, such as planning, multitasking, and conceptual thinking.
  • Neurological Conditions and Injuries: Used for evaluating cognition in cases of stroke, brain tumors, brain metastasis, and traumatic brain injury.
  • Monitoring Cognitive Decline: It allows doctors to track changes in a patient's cognitive abilities over time. [123456]
What the Test Involves:
  • Duration: Usually takes about 10 minutes.
  • Structure: A 30-point test assessing visuospatial abilities, orientation, memory, and language.
  • Scoring: A score of 26 or higher is generally considered normal, while lower scores may indicate impairment. [123]
Example MoCA Test