When all the ballots are counted, 2024 will likely see the 2nd most votes ever, coming close to the 2020 record of nearly 160 million ballots. This year will also likely see the 2nd-highest turnout rate in the last 100 years (again, second only to the record 2020 turnout). /3

Pro-Harris TikTok felt safe in an algorithmic bubble — until election day trib.al/jJK8Uy7

Look at this graph and explain to me why you think I should read this as a measure of consumer confidence rather than partisanship.

Harris lost all seven swing states, but in five of them - Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin - she's ending up with more raw votes than Biden got in 2020. If you still think all those swing state mail votes in 2020 were fake, idk what to tell you.

Sen. Rand Paul, soon to be chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told me today that his plan for CISA is to either work to eliminate it, or severely curtail its powers. Read more here: politico.com/news/2024/11/1…

A postmortem, of sorts. thenation.com/article/politi…

people posting their "blue sky" usernames 💛

When I asked Johnson if he would want to know if the top law enforcement officer in the country had sex with a minor or not he rolled his eyes and didn’t answer the question.

Already on Bluesky but have been pretty dormant. Looking to change that. If you like me here, follow me there: derekbjohnson.bsky.social

when you were apparently taking seriously the idea that Donald Trump was a some sort of opponent of security surveillance about anyone but himself life can come at you fairly fast

The path from "no question" to "I consider" to "likely" is a work of art.

The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2024 bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

Wow. The NYT used to be ~1% of all us newspaper employees. Now it's 7% and rising. The industry used to employ 150k, now down to ~30k. Only the biggest can even stay stable, much less grow. (Even the NYT has only added ~2k jobs since 2018.)

wow real PR coup for Toyota.

A Wisconsin child care center closed for 5 days when the Trump admin froze funding for Head Start. Parents scrambled. One family drove their kids to KY to stay with extended family so that the parents could go to work. Two kids left and never came back. wuwm.com/education/2025…

Daniel whatever happened to good old American names like von Braun

I talked to Republican lawmakers about deaths since USAID’s withdrawal from the world. Most brushed off the reports, and some insisted that people couldn’t be dying as a result. “I don’t believe that. No.” Read more: notus.org/foreign-policy…

Arizona election officials say a hack targeting a statewide online portal for political candidates resulted in the defacement and replacement of multiple candidate photos with the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. via derekbjohnson.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=E4r3wu… |