A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Mr. Blue Sky YouTube video by Electric Light Orchestra - Topic

Yay! We didn't all die in our sleep!

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Forking Off A podcast by former feds who got the fork out of government service.

After you've read the article at @justiceconnection.bsky.social, explore the project on our website at data.forkingoff.com and let us know what stood out the most to you!

A chart showing the vast distribution of departing DOJ attorneys by separation type. Nearly 2,000 of the 3,402 resigned before reaching retirement eligibility.

"Of the departing attorneys, 2,069 resigned prior to retirement eligibility, meaning many did not have an alternate source of income. These were civil servants faced with such abject disillusionment they had no alternative but to walk away from their passion."

Chart demonstrating the total departure of DOJ attorneys during 2025. The largest number of departures came from DOJ headquarters, the US Attorneys' Offices, and the Executive Office for Immigration Review, respectively.

DOJ had 12,955 attorneys as of December 31, 2024. Approximately 3,402 attorneys left their roles between January 2025 and January 2026...

Let that sink in.

DOJ lost over a quarter of its legal machinery in a year dominated by an administration that prides itself on a “law and order” mantra.

A horizontal bar chart showing the distribution of 15,937 total losses across the entire Justice Department including leaders in orange and non-leaders in blue. The Bureau of Prisons had roughly 1,000 more losses than the next closest component.

"The Bureau of Prisons lost 4,512 employees in 2025, including 1,228 leaders with over 20 years of service on average."

A stacked horizontal bar chart showing the distribution of departing criminal investigators (1811) across the top 15 federal agencies between January 2025 and January 2026.

"The FBI lost 1,139 special agents overall, with an average tenure of 21.8 years during 2025. That included 407 leaders, 65 of whom were serving in the Senior Executive Service. The weight of that loss has yet to fully come down, but it will eventually fall."

A bar chart showing the distribution of intelligence departures from the FBI between January 2025 and January 2026.

"In 2025, 232 intelligence analysts left the FBI with an average of 19.6 years of federal service. Sixty-six intelligence leaders, including 11 Senior Executives, departed."

"Thankfully, my time as an FBI intelligence analyst prepared me well for projects like this. I wanted to build something approachable that would enable anyone to dig for the stories they cared about..."

For example...

If you're worrying about this through the lens of genocide, you're not worried enough. This sounds like a nuclear threat endangering all of humanity.

The @thebulletin.org set the #DoomsdayClock to 85 seconds to midnight in January, the closest we've ever been to global catastrophe. This is worse.

Truth Social post by the sitting president of the United States of America threatening to murder an entire civilization in less than 24 hours.

25th Amendment. Now!!!

Trump: "They didn't know there was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information. Whoever it was, we think we'll be able to find out, because we're gonna go to the media company that released it and we're gonna say, 'National security. Give it up or go to jail.'"

Listen to his words. He's threatening to imprison a journalist to get to their source.

Perhaps the unparalleled access is for the administration and not the American public?

I can see where the confusion lies. English is a tricky language.

The White House App Is Riddled With Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Cybersecurity experts’ reviews of the app have turned up concerns about the undisclosed data it collects.

“The U.S. government’s infrastructure is being attacked from all sides right now, and having an amateur WordPress developer running the White House’s public presence puts everybody who visits it at risk.”—Philip Fields, former FBI intelligence analyst.

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#170: The Opinion No One Wrote About The Fourth Estate falls down on the job. Plus: BigLaw Tries to Delete News Story.

“The current state of journalism in this country is perfectly reflected by the fact that no one in the fourth estate has noticed this opinion.”

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I think I can speak pretty authoritatively on behalf of all FBI and DOJ employees (past and present) who actually care about justice when I say this:

Fuck that guy.

SPOILER: It wasn't that hard. If I can do it with a Google search, America's adversaries did it long ago.

No Kings: Jokers Wild! The guy vibe coding White House adware accused of pinging Trump donors' location every four minutes has a whole persona dedicated to wild conspiracies.

Hi! "Former FBI intelligence analyst" here.

When you finish reading ^that^, check out my original blog post about how I found the guy vibe coding White House adware.

hax4libre.com/jokers-wild/

While armchair developers and infosec experts have questioned some of the app’s technical design choices, a former FBI intelligence analyst uncovered an unusual fact: The small business owner behind the White House app has a side hobby as a conspiracy theorist.

The first DRP came around and it was basically an eye roll. No big deal. This is like another credit card offer in the mail. Rip it up and throw it away. Thanks. Have a good one. Hard pass.

But after that, the risks just continued to grow.

No Kings: Jokers Wild! The guy vibe coding White House adware and pinging Trump donors' location every four minutes has a whole persona dedicated to wild conspiracies.

Have you ever wondered how governments get hacked? Maybe it starts with granting White House tech contracts to paranormal conspiracy theorists?

Tl;dr - Don't download the new White House mobile app, or the browser plugin that you may not have heard of yet.

hax4libre.com/jokers-wild/

Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy From April 24 onward, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.

Same. My read of their blog post says, yes. They intend to use those suggestions, and this opt-out should negate that.

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Screenshots featuring a GitHub update warning showing how to opt-out of contributing Copilot interaction data to AI model training.

If you use GitHub and Copilot and don't want your interactions to be used for training data, make sure to opt-out before April 24th. GitHub Account Settings > Copilot> Features > Privacy > Disable 'Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training'.

A partially filled in global map displaying countries where federal employees were stationed when they left federal service between January 2025 and January 2026. Antarctica is one of them.

"We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs..."—The Shins, but now also us... We've got maps!

Check out our new data exploration project, which is looking at OPM separation data between January 2025 and January 2026. Which country surprised you most? I know my answer.

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Over 1,800 intelligence professionals left their federal jobs between January 2025 and January 2026. A third of those were through deferred resignation.

Learn more about what the federal government lost in 2025 through our new data visualization project at data.forkingoff.com.

Did you know over 20k IRS employees left government service through deferred resignation in 2025? The states hardest hit? Texas, Utah, and Georgia.

Learn more about what the federal government lost in 2025 through our new data visualization project at data.forkingoff.com

He didn't have to... Because he knew if push came to shove he'd get a pardon.

This is the bad place!!!

Sisyphean Failure at Old Dominion In 2017, Jalloh's defense "presented reliable evidence to demonstrate that the chances of him re-offending in the future are very low."

Yesterday, Mohammed Bailor Jalloh completed the attack he began planning in 2016. In doing so, his case joined a growing list of preventable counterterrorism failures. Learn more about how many of them intersected here: hax4libre.com/sisyphean-fa...