SCOOP: a group of "hackers on steroids" gained access to a large dataset belonging to Epik, the web host of the Texas GOP website, Texas Right to Life website, and anti-abortion snitch website.
I do not have access to the data cache but a source was able to verify the veracity of this press release.
Looking forward to checking out the public release!
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UPDATE: the cache has been released to epikfail.win
CLARIFICATION: the Prolifewhistleblower site that Epik has provided services for is OWNED by Texas Right to Life, but the Texas Right to Life website itself uses a different provider. I regret the error in the original tweet. The rest of the reporting still stands.
We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, @GlomarResponder as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
Since GlomarResponder was first created in 2012, the account has posted hateful, xenophobic, and pro-fascist content. “America is a White nation, founded by Whites. … Our country should favor us,” GlomarResponder wrote last month.
In August 2024, GlomarResponder posted: "‘Migrants’ are all criminals.”
“Nobody is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders,” the account posted in March 2024. “Yet. Give it a few more weeks at this level of invasion, and that will be the moderate position.”
SCOOP: The email address Andrew Kloster, the OPM’s new general counsel and self described "raging misogynist," used to sign up for his X/Twitter account appears in a leak for an escort service website. The IP address for the escort service website account is in Washington D.C.
As @marisakabas2 reported recently, Andrew Kloster has a history of misogynistic posts online. Today, I can report that Kloster's primary email address cited in this document is associated with an account on an escort service website.
The issue at hand here isn't one of morality, but rather a question of whether a high ranking government official could potentially be compromised due to possible interactions that are still technically illegal and could be used as blackmail against him. No shame to the workers.
NEW: Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push controversial “Dallas HERO” city charter amendments. 1/
Over the last four years, a number of astroturf groups have been active in Dallas, including a pro-police group called Keep Dallas Safe and a dubious racial justice group called Dallas Justice Now that critics have deemed "fake." Who created and funded them has been a secret.
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These astroturf groups have lent their support to the controversial Dallas HERO Initiative city charter amendments, which critics say could cripple Dallas city governance. The amendments are supported by Monty Bennett and are opposed by every city council member in Dallas.
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NEW: I've received evidence of an arrest for illegal geese harvesting in Springfield, Ohio. But it wasn't a Haitian immigrant who was arrested. It was a white man named Brian Comer, who shot two geese with a shotgun on a golf course.
It turns out that Trump and Vance were not wrong that people are illegally hunting wildlife in Springfield, Ohio — they just accused the wrong person.
Here's the full case report regarding the illegal geese hunting incident in Springfield, Ohio, in which the defendant admits to killing the geese without the necessary permit.
SCOOP: The email address of a Senior Advisor to Donald Trump, Jason Miller, appears in the Ashley Madison data leak. The username of the associated account is JJames. Miller's middle name is James. Miller was married at the time, per court documents. More details below.
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I was able to verify that the email belongs to Miller via court docs. The Ashley Madison profile associated with the email was created in 2009 with GPS coordinates in southeast Washington D.C. Miller lived in Washington D.C. at the time, per court docs.
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Background reports link Miller to an address in southeast Washington D.C. at the time the Ashley Madison account associated with his email was created. The GPS coordinates in the data leak are approximate and not precise, but do they appear to be associated with IP address.