Showing posts with label texts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label texts. Show all posts

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Governor’s race shaken up by ‘violent’ texts sent by ally of Democratic candidate

Earle-Sears has released new campaign advertisements condemning Democratic former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, her opponenent in the governor's race, for continuing to support Jay Jones, whose private texts three years ago speculated about a senior state Republican getting "two bullets to the head" and "breeding little fascists". 

Jones, a former state lawmaker, has apologized, and Spanberger distanced herself from his remarks, insisting in a statement: "I will always condemn violent language in our politics."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/virginia-governor-election-spanberger


 

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Utah prosecutors’ evidence indicates suspected motives of Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter

"Some hate can't be negotiated out," Robinson said to his partner of Kirk, who was killed during an event at Utah Valley University (UVU) within moments of asserting that "too many" people who are trans had committed mass shootings in the US. In reality, according to the nonpartisan Gun Violence Archive, only about 0.1% of such shootings over the previous decade had allegedly been carried out by people who are trans...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/charlie-kirk-suspect-texts-evidence


Saturday, September 2, 2023

The story behind UNC's Daily Tar Heel front page after the campus shooting : NPR

President Joe Biden on Wednesday reposted an image of it on a cell phone on X, formerly Twitter, writing "No student, no parent, and no American should have to send texts like these to their loved ones as they hide from a shooter. I'll continue to do all I can to reduce gun violence and call on Congress to do the same."…

Friday, April 7, 2023

Probe widens into Homeland Security watchdog's role in missing Secret Service Jan. 6 texts - The Washington Post

Cuffari waited months to disclose to Congress that his office had discovered the deletions and did not press Homeland Security officials to explain why they did not preserve the records. The Secret Service later provided the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack with thousands of records after reviewing its communications databases from the time of the attack, but nearly all of the records had been shared previously with Cuffari's office and Congress. 

Cuffari also blocked his own investigators from examining the Secret Service agents' phones. His actions prompted several congressional inquiries led by Democrats, who controlled the House last year.

Friday, March 24, 2023

FCC taking a stand against spam texting | TechRadar

Under new regulations for telecom firms, the Federal Communications Commission is taking action against spammy text messages in response to an increase in consumer complaints in recent years related to unsolicited robotexts. 

According to the new regulations, phone companies must block text messages coming from shady sources, including numbers that seem to be "invalid, unallocated, or underused." FCC claims that carriers will also be required to block text messages from phone numbers that declare they never text or that have been designated by the government as non-texting numbers…

Sunday, October 9, 2022

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

House Democrats say Trump-appointed inspector general is stonewalling inquiry into Secret Service texts

Earlier this month, Maloney and Thompson alleged that there was evidence of a cover-up within the inspector general's probe of the missing text messages, and called for Cuffari "to "step aside."…


Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Lawyer 'Strongly Suspects' White House Ordered January 6 Texts To Be Deleted - YouTube

The Jan. 6 texts of Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and Pentagon officials being deleted is slammed by former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter. “Not only do we have the destruction of government documents, but obstruction of justice, in not one but three government agencies. I strongly suspect that the orders for the destruction of this evidence came from the White House and perhaps from the president,” Painter tells Joy Reid. MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman also joins The ReidOut to discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMwfgVOKOhc

Friday, July 29, 2022

'Wrong number' text message scams are surging

The scams — in which con artists send out huge batches of eye-grabbing but innocuous texts — have become the introduction du jour for scammers looking for people to bilk for money.









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