from the lazy-Americans-stereotype-exists-for-a-reason dept

There’s not a single conservative left in the GOP. The ideals that were formerly considered “conservative” — small government, fiscal responsibility, etc. — have been replaced by white Christian nationalism, water-carrying for would-be autocrats, and immense amounts of deficit spending for the sole purpose of making America whiter.

That’s not the same as making it “greater,” no matter how Trump and his cohorts choose to spin it. Instead of asking themselves whether or not they’re actually making America worse, they just get on the bullhorn and blare racist invective on main.

Here’s Kristi Noem, engaging in the sort of thing most GOP politicians have managed to limit to PAC fundraisers behind closed doors:

Here’s her December 2025 X post in full:

I just met with the President.

I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.

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Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom—not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS.

WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.

Lovely, eh? But she’s only doing what the Supreme Leader wants her to do. After all, the guy running the nation is no better. Actually, he’s worse, since he’s supposed to hold himself to a higher standard than his own political appointees.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he did not want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the United States.

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“They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country,” Trump told reporters near the end of a lengthy Cabinet meeting. He added: “Their country is no good for a reason. Your country stinks and we don’t want them in our country.”

Counterpoint: this administration stinks and we don’t want them in our country. Every smear leveled against migrants by the Trump administration is a lie, starting with the “worst of the worst” posturing, continuing all the way down to the suggestion migrants add nothing to this country while dangling from the government teat the entire time.

It’s insanely ignorant to claim immigrants are more likely to be criminals than US citizens. That has never been true. Neither have the claims made by Trump and Noem. If there’s anyone capable of reducing the deficit, it’s migrants rather than the most powerful political party in the nation.

Cato Institute continues to expose the government’s lies about migrants by doing nothing more than simply looking at the data. While Trump continues to pretend immigrants are robbing the country blind and that levying tariffs will make average Americans richer, Cato is delivering the facts. And the facts say that the best thing this country could do for both the economy and national deficit is bring in as many migrants as possible.

• Every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they received in benefits.
• Immigrants generated nearly $10.6 trillion more in federal, state, and local taxes than they induced in total government spending.
• Accounting for savings on interest payments on the national debt, immigrants saved $14.5 trillion in debt over this 30-year period.

Immigrants have always paid more than their “fair share” in taxes. Tax cheats like Donald Trump are the kind of people who always insist otherwise while preaching to the ignorant faithful. Of the $14.5 trillion in debt reduction created by our nation’s migrant population, more than a third of it ($6.3 trillion) was generated by non-citizens — people who are here illegally or have yet to become naturalized citizens and/or permanent residents.

The upshot of the data is this: without immigrants, this nation would be so far underwater that it would threaten the future of the nation itself:

Without the contributions of immigrants, public debt at all levels would already be above 200 percent of US GDP—nearly twice the 2023 level and a threshold some analysts believe would trigger a debt crisis.

Both Kristi Noem and Donald Trump should be made to eat every word of this next paragraph, as painfully and protractedly as possible:

Immigrants accounted for more US income and generated more revenue for the government because they were, on average, over 12 percentage points more likely to be employed than the US-born population. This means that even if immigrants earn lower hourly wages, they can still account for more total income per capita than the US-born population by working cumulatively more hours. This higher employment rate was driven by the fact that immigrants were, on average, 20 percentage points more likely to be of working age. Immigrants usually arrive in the US as young adults and often leave before retirement.

Calling immigrants “leeches” and “entitlement junkies” is nothing but naked bigotry. It has fuck all to do with the actual facts — facts this government has access to but chooses to ignore in favor of blowing its handful of racist dog whistles repeatedly.

And yet again, let’s take the latest look at the fact that is perhaps the most uncomfortable for a regime that repeatedly infers that being a migrant means being a criminal worthy of speedy ejection:

It’s BOGO time at the migrant facts warehouse: by committing fewer crimes migrants are less of drain on public resources than US citizens, who are spending more time behind bars than their “illegal” counterparts. And lest we forget, racists think the reason migrants commit less crime than American citizens is because we have Black American citizens. Cato has already dismantled this counterargument, even after factoring in the blatant racism this collection of “but for the Black people” asshats think will allow them to double-down on their bigotry:

A persistent criticism of Cato’s paper in this series is that the native-born incarceration rate is only higher because black native-born Americans have a high incarceration rate (see Table 1 from our paper). It’s certainly true that black native-born Americans have the highest incarceration rates of any ethnic or racial group in any immigrant category. However, the high black American incarceration rate does not overturn our results. It merely narrows them. Immigrants have lower incarceration rates even without considering black native-born rates….

Excluding black native-born Americans and black immigrants reduces the native-born incarceration rate by 27 percent, from 1,221 to 891 per 100,000 in 2023 (see Table 1 for reference). Excluding black immigrants barely reduces the legal immigrant incarceration rate to 312 per 100,000, but increases the illegal immigrant incarceration rate to 626 per 100,000. Excluding blacks increases the illegal immigrant incarceration rates because their rate is below that of the rest of the population. The legal and illegal immigrant incarceration rate gap with natives also narrows to 65 percent and 30 percent lower, respectively. Excluding only black native-born Americans and keeping black immigrants in the sample, which doesn’t make sense but critics have brought it up, produces almost identical results.

This government can continue to stoke the flames of hatred. But it will never have the facts to back its hateful rhetoric. Of course, that hardly matters to this government and its top officials. But it should matter to everyone else who’s not part of the Executive Branch circle jerk. Migrants are better equipped to make this country great than the people who think merely existing here as the offspring of white people makes them the superior breed.

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Wynn Resorts has confirmed that a hacker stole employee data from its systems after the company was listed on the ShinyHunters extortion gang’s data leak site.

In a statement shared today, the company said it activated its incident response procedures and launched an investigation, with assistance from external cybersecurity experts, after discovering the breach.

“We have learned that an unauthorized third party acquired certain employee data,” reads a statement shared with BleepingComputer.

“Upon discovery, we immediately activated our incident response protocols and launched a thorough investigation with the help of external cybersecurity experts.”

While Wynn has not stated whether it paid a ransom to prevent the data leak, the company said the attackers confirmed the stolen data had been deleted. In past extortion cases, threat actors have typically only claimed data was deleted after reaching an agreement with a victim.

“The unauthorized third party has stated that the stolen data has been deleted. We are monitoring and to date have not seen any evidence that the data has been published or otherwise misused,” the statement continued.

The company added that the incident did not impact guest operations or its physical properties, which remain fully operational, and that it is offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services to employees.

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This statement comes after Wynn Resorts appeared on the ShinyHunters data leak site on Thursday.

In the threat actors’ post, the group claimed it had stolen “PII (SSNs, etc) and employee data” and warned the company to make contact before February 23, 2026, or the data would be published.

“Over 800k records containing PII(SSNs, etc) and employee data have been compromised,” reads the now-deleted post on ShinyHunters data leak site.

“This is a final warning to reach out by 23 Feb 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that’ll come your way. Make the right decision, don’t be the next headling.”

Shortly after, the Wynn entry was removed from the site, a move that often occurs when negotiations are underway or claims are disputed.

Wynn Resorts did not answer questions about whether a ransom was paid or how many people were affected. Similarly, ShinyHunters told BleepingComputer that they had no comment on whether they received a payment.

However, the threat actors did previously claim to have stolen the data from the company’s Oracle PeopleSoft environment.

ShinyHunters is a data extortion group known for breaching organizations and threatening to publish stolen data unless a ransom is paid.

The group has previously claimed responsibility for multiple high-profile data theft incidents and has operated across various underground forums and extortion portals over the years.

Last year, ShinyHunters conducted a widespread campaign to steal Salesforce data, targeting numerous companies through social engineering and stolen third-party OAuth tokens.

In recent weeks, ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for a wave of other security breaches, including Panera Bread, Betterment, SoundCloud, Canada Goose, PornHub, and online dating giant Match Group.

Some of the victims were compromised through voice phishing (vishing) attacks targeting single sign-on (SSO) accounts at Google, Microsoft, and Okta, where the threat actors posed as IT support staff to trick employees into entering credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes on phishing sites.

As BleepingComputer first reported, the ShinyHunters group more recently adopted device code vishing to obtain Microsoft Entra authentication tokens.

After stealing their targets’ credentials and auth codes, the threat actors hijack the victims’ SSO accounts to steal data from connected SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, SAP, Slack, Adobe, Atlassian, Zendesk, Dropbox, and many others.

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A financially motivated threat group dubbed “Diesel Vortex” is stealing credentials from freight and logistics operators in the U.S. and Europe in phishing attacks using 52 domains.

In a campaign that has been running since September 2025, the threat actor has stolen 1,649 unique credentials from platforms and service providers critical in the freight industry.

Some of the Diesel Vortex victims include DAT Truckstop, TIMOCOM, Teleroute, Penske Logistics, Girteka, and Electronic Funds Source (EFS).

Researchers at the typosquatting monitoring platform Have I Been Squatted uncovered the campaign after finding an exposed repository containing an SQL database from a phishing project that the threat actor called Global Profit and marketed it to other cybercriminals under the name MC Profit Always.

The repository also included a file with Telegram webhook logs that revealed communications between the phishing service operators. Based on the language used, the researchers believe that Diesel Vortex is an Armenian-speaking actor connected to Russian infrastructure.

Have I Been Squatted’s analysis efforts were joined by tokenization infrastructure provider Ctrl-Alt-Intel, which connected the dots between operators, infrastructure, and connections to various companies using open-source intelligence.

In a lengthy technical report, the typosquatting protection provider states that it uncovered nearly 3,500 stolen credential pairs, with 1,649 of them being unique.

The researchers say that they also found a link to a mind map created by a member of the group, which describes a “highly organised operation” complete with a call-centre, mail support, programmer rols, and staff responsible for finding drivers, carriers, and logistics contacts.

Furthermore, the map provided details about acquisition channels that included the DAT One marketplace, email campaigns, rate confirmation fraud, and revenue for various operational tiers.

“The [Diesel Vortex] group built dedicated phishing infrastructure for platforms used daily by freight brokers, trucking companies, and supply chain operators. Load boards, fleet management portals, fuel card systems, and freight exchanges were all in scope,” Have I Been Squatted researchers say.

“These platforms sit at the intersection of high transaction volumes and the targeted workforce isn’t typically the primary focus of enterprise security programs, and the operators clearly knew it.”

The attacks involve sending phishing emails to targets via a phishing kit’s mailer, using Zoho SMTP and Zeptomail, and combining Cyrilic homoglyph tricks in the sender and subject fields to evade security filters.

Voice phishing and infiltration into Telegram channels frequented by trucking and logistics personnel were also used in the attacks.

When a victim clicks a phishing link, they land on a minimal HTML page on a ‘.com’ domain with a full-screen iframe that loads the phishing content, followed by a 9-stage cloaking process on the system domain (.top/.icu).

The phishing pages are pixel-level clones of the targeted logistics platforms. Depending on the target, they may capture credentials, permit data, MC/DOT numbers, RMIS login details, PINs, two-factor authentication codes, security tokens, payment amounts, payee names, and check numbers.

The phishing process is under the operator’s direct control, who decides when to approve steps and activate the next phases via Telegram bots.

Possible actions include requesting a password for Google, Microsoft Office 365, and Yahoo, 2FA methods, redirecting the victim, or even blocking them mid-session.

The researchers state that the Diesel Vortex operation, including panel and phishing domains and GitLab repositories, was disrupted following a coordinated action involving GitLab, Cloudflare, Google Threat Intelligence, CrowdStrike, and Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center.

For its part, Ctrl-Alt-Intel conducted an OSINT investigation starting from operators’ Telegram chats in Armenian about stealing cargo or funds, and an email address.

Along with a domain name found in the phishing panel’s source code, the researchers revealed connections to individuals and companies in Russia involved in wholesale trade, transportation, and warehousing.

The researchers noted that “the same email identified used to register phishing infrastructure appears in [Russian] corporate filings for logistics companies operating in the same vertical targeted by Diesel Vortex.”

Based on the uncovered evidence, the researchers determined that Diesel Vortex stole credentials and also coordinated activities related to freight impersonation, mailbox compromise, and double-brokering or cargo diversion.

Double brokering refers to the use of stolen carrier identities to book loads and then reassigning or diverting freight cargo, which allows sending the goods to fraudulent pickup points so they can be stolen.

The full indicators of compromise (IoCs), including network, Telegram, infrastructure, email, and cryptocurrency addresses, are available at the bottom of the Have I Been Squatted report.

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Yes, you can buy a perfectly excellent gaming monitor for much less, but $2,000 is a surprisingly low price tag for this 52-inch ultrawide monitor with a 1000R curve, which LG is billing as “the world’s largest 5K2K gaming monitor.” In addition to its huge size, the G9 can run at a 240Hz refresh rate and offers a 1 millisecond gray-to-gray response rate. Visuals are supported by VESA DisplayHDR 600 and up to 95% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage.

LG has long done solid work on gaming monitors, and the G9 seems like a good choice for anyone who wants to be seriously immersed in their gameplay. Whether that’s for a high-fidelity experience like Microsoft Flight Simulator or for having the maximum coziness in Stardew Valley is up to you.

Apple is expected to launch redesigned MacBook Pro laptops later this year, and these are expected to bring a massive overhaul in terms of looks and innards. The biggest change is going to be a touch-sensitive panel, one with OLED tech underneath instead of mini-LED panels that you get on the current crop of Pro laptops by Apple. But it seems the pill-shaped cutout from the iPhones — officially known as the Dynamic Island — will also appear on these laptops, as per Bloomberg.

What’s the big shift?

“The company’s initial touch Macs, due this fall, will have the Dynamic Island at the center top of the display, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public,” reports Bloomberg. Ever since Apple put a notch on the MacBook — both Air and Pro models — fans have complained about the lost screen real estate and how it has remained untouched in terms of functionalities.

The open-source community, on the other hand, has developed plenty of apps that make the best use of the notch, turning it into a file container, clipboard manager, camera preview engine, mini-calendar, and more. But the aesthetic trade-off is still very much there. On the upcoming MacBook Pro overhaul, Apple is apparently solving two problems in one go viz., get rid of the notch, and put a Dynamic Island in its place that can serve as a hub of activities, similar to what we get on the iPhone.