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Vance’s documentation obtained through Iranian hackers and shared on X results in account suspension

Posted on by darion

Vance’s documentation: On Thursday suspended reporting by Ken Klippenstein, a freelance journalist who previously wrote for Interceptionin connection with his release of Donald Trump campaign verification records regarding J.D. Vance.

A powerful document, supposedly obtained via Iranian cyberattack/hacking of confidential campaign files. Last month, Microsoft reported that “Iran-backed hackers attacked a senior political campaign official via spear-phishing emails” (for Axles); as the documents began circulating in major publications, it came to light that a high-ranking political campaign official had ties to Team Trump.

The documentation posted on Klippenstein’s Substack and shared with X appears to have included Vance’s home address and phone number. Sharing the documentation may violate X’s policy on hacked materials that was revised October 2020 (following protests over Twitter’s suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop story, originally reported by ” New York Post Office), but still prohibits the sharing of hacker-disclosed materials that reveal personal information.

“Ken Klippenstein has been temporarily suspended for violating our policies regarding the publication of unredacted private personal information, specifically Senator Vance’s physical addresses and most of his Social Security numbers,” he said X’s spokesman. However, documentation links were also banned, unlike X’s revised policy, which states that links should be marked as hacked material but should not be blocked outright. (“The usual URL blocking was wrong, so we updated our policies and enforcement to fix it.” he wrote then-CEO Jack Dorsey in October 2020) Some people who shared links to or screenshots of Vance’s dossier – even parts that did not contain any sensitive information – were blocked from their accounts. Example:

And this was a good tweet too:

He’s actually right: In other news, Vance critics I dug up a clip of him talking about how car seats can affect birth rates, both online and in our country outstanding fact checkers I decided mockery. Look, there’s a lot to criticize Vance for – his economic populism, his callousness, his comfort in spreading viral lies and rumors (eating Haitian animals!) even when he knows it’s not true – but that’s not all.

Vance most likely meant a 2020 study (covered at that time by ReasonChristian Britschgi), which examined car seat requirements and their impact on fertility, theorizing that most cars cannot accommodate three car seats in the back row, so having an additional third child often means purchasing a larger car that can accommodate the financial hurdle of having three children of similar ages. “We found that if a woman has two children under car seat age, her chances of having a baby this year are reduced by 0.73 percentage points,” the article said. studies authorial. “This represents a big drop because the probability of having a child for a woman aged 18-35 with two children is already 9.36 percent in our sample.”

Correlational research has all sorts of problems, and this is certainly one of them replication crisis in social studies, but Vance is not making this up in any way and is wrong to point out the many strange laws and orders placed on parents supposedly for the benefit of their children.

It’s getting better! In fact, Vance cited it during a March 2023 congressional hearing where senators were considering possible new mandates for the Federal Aviation Administration – promoted by the Association of Flight Attendants union! – that would abolish the long-standing practice of allowing babies to sit on their laps and instead force parents to buy an extra seat for their children and use an approved child restraint (also called a car seat) on planes.

“Listen, if I take my kids from Cincinnati to their grandparents in San Diego, it’s going to take five hours.” he said Vance at the hearing. “I mean, try keeping a toddler in a car seat for five hours. “It’s torture for everyone, including the child and certainly the passengers around the child.”

That’s probably the least weird thing I’ve ever heard from a politician. This is totally relatable and true. And he goes on.

“The second thing, of course, is that air traffic accidents, fortunately, thank God, are much rarer and less common than car accidents. So my concern is that in the name of improved safety, not ‘We don’t doubt that there has been a marginal improvement in safety, we are actually proposing a change that would make things much worse for parents with very little marginal improvement in safety,'” Vance concluded.

Very few people want to die on this hill, but I’ll let you in on a secret: airplane seat belts won’t help you if you actually get into a serious plane crash. Basically, they only protect against impacts and contusions in the event of strong turbulence or braking. The FAA regulations for carrying children on airplanes are as follows rarely based on solid scientific foundationswhich I wrote about earlier. As someone who has taken my almost 2-year-old on 40 flights so far, I can attest that Vance actually weighs the trade-offs in a way that only a parent, not a regulator, can: How much do you actually gain in safety and how much do you lose? on comfort and ease?

To put it simply, this isn’t a dunk-worthy moment for Vance. This is him at his best: understanding the things that actually make life worse for families with young children, and wisely explaining why we shouldn’t use the power of the state to make things even worse. (If only he consistently believed it.)

Scenes from New York: Mayor Eric Adams faces five federal charges of bribery, fraud and obtaining illegal foreign campaign contributions; he maintains that he will not step down and wants New Yorkers to hear his defense and reasoning (which remains unclear at this point).

The indictment alleges that Adams “solicited improper and valuable benefits” from 2014, when he was Brooklyn Borough President, through the present day. The luxury travel on discounted Turkish Airlines tickets and free hotel rooms that Adams tried to pretend he paid for cost the (frankly) paltry sum of $100,000. But what did the Turks actually want from him? Mainly to get the New York Fire Department to allow the new consulate to open despite the security issues, so Adams decided to help grease the wheels.

No lies detected:

If I were Mayor Adams, I’d try to get some more a luxury if you risk legal trouble. Inconvenient transfers in Istanbul for, for example, a seat upgrade – with some probability prison time– seems like a stupid calculation.

No matter where he ends up, I know I will miss him his speeches, his riding on the sidewalk, its obvious untruths (Really), his story about Curtis Mayfield’s paralysis, his 9/11 gaffe, his bucket for drowning ratsAND his dating advice.

QUICK HITS

  • “Here at Silver Bulletin we have it repeatedly he emphasized idea which is the Electoral College much more likely to hurt Democrats than to help them – as was the case in 2000 and 2016,” I’m writing Nate Silver (more from him here). “This is a conclusion resulting directly from ours model. According to our forecast for Thursday, Kamala Harris is a 3-1 favorite in the popular vote, but the Electoral College is still basically a toss-up. … However, yesterday in the New York Times, Nate Cohn proposed different view. Cohn does not foresee a split in the Electoral College favoring Democrats, but believes Harris’s penalty will likely be less this year. The Nats agree on this, although we differ on the extent of the difference.
  • This is fascinating articlein which a New York Times the reporter interviews J.D. Vance’s mom, Beverly Aikins, mainly because the reporter can’t quite fathom that millions of people like Aikins – who are neither political nor ideological, who don’t really follow any of this – exist into the world.
  • “The ongoing military escalation between the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah has not only put Lebanon under fire, including Christiansbut the situation may also reduce the presence of the Eastern Catholic patriarchs from Lebanon on Synod on synodality“ reports the National Catholic Register.
  • Hurricane Helene is attacking Florida right now, forcing many to evacuate and others to shelter in place. “It is growing unusually strongly for a Gulf of Mexico storm, and is now rapidly intensifying,” he added. reports Axles.
  • Discourse on degrowth: