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assassinationtipsforladies: “ memor-somnis: “ weavemama: “ fuggles: “ weavemama: “she should have been rewarded. ” Y'all got sources? ” yeah so more information about this woman who leaked important information pertaining russia’s involvement in the...

assassinationtipsforladies:

memor-somnis:

weavemama:

fuggles:

weavemama:

she should have been rewarded.

Y'all got sources?

yeah so more information about this woman who leaked important information pertaining russia’s involvement in the election: 

Her name is “Reality Leigh Winner” and she was a NSA Contractor. She passed a top secret NSA document to a news source (an article from The Intercept) that contains information about a Russian cyber-attack with one voting machine DAYS before the 2016 presidential election. This is considered the most detailed piece of proof regarding Russia’s interference with the elections to date. 

Here’s how the NSA document described how the Russians did the hacking: 

“As described by the classified NSA report, the Russian plan was simple: pose as an e-voting vendor and trick local government employees into opening Microsoft Word documents invisibly tainted with potent malware that could give hackers full control over the infected computers.

But in order to dupe the local officials, the hackers needed access to an election software vendor’s internal systems to put together a convincing disguise. So on August 24, 2016, the Russian hackers sent spoofed emails purporting to be from Google to employees of an unnamed U.S. election software company, according to the NSA report. Although the document does not directly identify the company in question, it contains references to a product made by VR Systems, a Florida-based vendor of electronic voting services and equipment whose products are used in eight states.

The spear-phishing email contained a link directing the employees to a malicious, faux-Google website that would request their login credentials and then hand them over to the hackers. The NSA identified seven “potential victims” at the company. While malicious emails targeting three of the potential victims were rejected by an email server, at least one of the employee accounts was likely compromised, the agency concluded. The NSA notes in its report that it is “unknown whether the aforementioned spear-phishing deployment successfully compromised all the intended victims, and what potential data from the victim could have been exfiltrated.”

So instead of having Trump and his entire party removed, they gon throw home girl in jail and try to act like none of this happened.

And what’s with that headline: “Crazy new Millenial trend alert: Using the press to keep governments accountable to their citizens. Apparently it’s the new ‘Planking’ “

Like…….is there anything this generation can do that they won’t trivialize? 

black-to-the-bones:

Victim’s mother told the newspaper her daughter was shocked at least three times, including in the abdomen.

This situation could have been solved without the brutality towards a pregnant woman. Moreover, he didn’t just tase her, which could have already been deadly to the baby, he TASED HER IN HER BELLY . I can’t believe something like this actually happened. How soulless should you be to tase a pregnant woman in her belly? An innocent unborn baby incide her has already found out how police brutality feels.

September 15

clio-muse-of-history:

This one is technically not yet history, because at the time of posting, the little craft has about half an hour left to go.  That said, let’s proceed.

In 2017, NASA’s Cassini space probe ended its twenty-year mission at Saturn.  After a nearly-seven-year-long journey there, it orbited the ringed planet for 13 years and just over two months, gathering copious amounts of information about the planet, said rings, and many of its moons.  It landed an ESA probe called Huygens on Titan, the first-ever soft landing in the outer Solar System.  It discovered lakes, seas, and rivers of methane on Titan, geysers of water erupting from Enceladus (and passed within 50 miles of that moon’s surface), and found gigantic, raging hurricanes at both of Saturn’s poles.  

And the images it returned are beautiful enough to make you weep.

On this day in 2017, with the fuel for Cassini’s directional thrusters running low, the probe was de-orbited into the Saturnian atmosphere to prevent any possibility of any contamination of possible biotic environments on Titan or Enceladus.  The remaining thruster fuel was used to keep the radio dish pointed towards Earth so the probe could transmit information about the upper atmosphere of Saturn while it was burning up due to atmospheric friction.

This is us at our best.  We spent no small amount of money on a nuclear-powered robot, launched into space, sent it a billion miles away, and worked with it for two decades just to learn about another planet.  And when the repeatedly-extended missions were through, we made the little craft sacrifice itself like a samurai, performing its duty as long as it could while it became a shooting star in the Saturnian sky.

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Rhea occulting Saturn

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Water geysers on Enceladus

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Strange Iapetus

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Look at this gorgeousness

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A gigantic motherfucking storm in Saturn’s northern hemisphere

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Tethys

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This image is from the surface of a moon of a planet at least 746 million miles away.  Sweet lord

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Mimas

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Vertical structures in the rings.  Holy shit

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Titan and Dione occulting Saturn, rings visible

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Little Daphnis making gravitational ripples in the rings

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That’s here.  That’s home.  That’s all of us that ever lived.

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Saturn, backlit

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A polar vortex on the gas giant

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Icy Enceladus

(All images from NASA/JPL)