this entire article was an exercise in right wing mental masturbation - apparently manchin is a centrist, or so we are told.
every single example given is an isolated point in time with zero historical context or recognition of the zeitgeist (particularly the 2016 election). its as though Joseph Goebbels hooked up with a statistician and started beating you over the head with their lovechild. so tired of the gaslighting ratchet.
admittedly, I could not finish the article so I may have missed some elucidating factoid later on... but right now we all have bigger fish to fry that dont involve another rightward drag of the overton window.
oh, you'll know. talk to friends and family who may have been through this before. make a plan (or five) for something that works. there are paths depending on your goals - individual, multi-family, communal, etc. only you (and other potential participants) know what you might want to achieve.
the most important thing its talking to people who have been through it before. start doing that so you have some inkling of what to look for and what might work if you have resources. a great deal of it is luck but some of it is forethought.
reminder: none of this is competent financial advice and you should probably ignore it.
didnt have a problem with the random selection when your pocket judge Aileen Cannon slow walked the national secrets mishandling case of yours, now did ya donnie boy?
steel the resolve at every shopping trip cuz it takes a village and all that. right now we need a fucking slapdown and a corner timeout - hopefully Canada and others can deliver it to us. pulling for the elbows up crew.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
exactly. I use and love signal. its a fantastic privacy tool - seriously! but the amount of pure stupid on display by this administration is just too much to take.
signal group chats can have admins and users. admins are able to control access to the group.
signal is a social communication network. yes, when everything works well and people dont screw up, its wonderfully private and secure - one of the best and easiest to use secure social communication tools around.
the real issue is... these idiots used it (probably from their personal phones!) like it was NSA approved tech. lead idiot hegseth being all "opsec is clean" while an unknown participant has been added to the group chat is just... I have no words. these people are playing dressup.
signal on an uncompromised device and with decent digital hygiene will keep a whole bunch of people and TLAs out of your business. however, I do not expect the US Govt planing military fucking strikes via signal just so the "principals" can conveniently sip drinks by the pool instead of being in an NSA approved communication facility.
anyone who has never experienced the joy of destroying hardware with a misplaced address access is, at best, translucent. magic blue smoke or bust.