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There are many indications that inside actors played a part in the attack on the Capitol.

Not just rhetoric, but actions that put lives of Members of Congress and Senators at increased risk.

Thread collecting these reports.

1/ Val Demings - "there was some inside


2/ Ayanna Pressley's Chief of Staff - Staff noticed all of the panic buttons in Pressley's office were torn out BEFORE the attack while they were barricading the room.
Kaspersky speaks on US government ban and a closed Russian internet | ZDNet

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Trump signs into law U.S. government ban on Kaspersky Lab software | Reuters

May 2019-

Kaspersky Lab Joins Forces with SolarWinds to Help MSPs Deliver Automated Cybersecurity Protection to Customers

Sept. -2019

U.S. Finalizes Rule Banning Kaspersky Products From Government Contracts
Get ready for a load of spin about how the government's "Jet Zero" strategy allows them to do this and remain compatible with their climate goals. Jet Zero is a Trojan horse to expand aviation while promising change and it'll be too late to stop it when very little happens.


We've seen exactly the same from MPs of a certain colour regarding the expansion of Southampton Airport runway. Our own MP even claimed it was necessary to support British Airways families. AFAIK there are no BA families here: Literally throwing constituents under the (air)bus.

It's worth reading this debate in Hansard to see what is going on.

Want to see a textbook example of churnalism?

Here is a press release from the local business lobbying organisation of which the airport is a member: https://t.co/UGUssnUyj7

Here is the same thing reheated in the local press with a reporter's name on it:

Here we go...
Now what about scattered variables? Some of them look very old and thus kind of put our basic ideas of continuity and large-group classifications in question.
Let’s take a look at a couple of them and shiver at their


(1) The 2SG subject marker on the verb.

GREEN: -d
YELLOW -t (possibly a development from -d)
ReRED: -ḍ / -ṭ

There is no regular phonetic correspondence of -d to -ḍ.


(2) In most varieties *β became (or remained?) /b/ in pre-consonantal position (GREEN). In a number of varieties, this didn’t happen (RED).


(3) The Imperative M:PL suffix is -at in western Morocco AND in Awjila (Libya) (RED). It is -ət / -ăt elsewhere (GREEN). The yellow part has different suffixes.


(4) The pharyngealized (“emphatic”) non-geminated alveolar is [dˁ] (or [ðˁ]) in most of Amazigh (GREEN), but in a scattered number of varieties, it is [tˁ] (RED).