North Korea infiltrates Fortune 500 companies...

... in a most unexpected way.  They have agents/spies creating fake profiles and submitting applications for jobs.  And at least a few times (that we know of), a person has slipped through and gotten hired. 

Heck, even one of the leading IT security firms got duped - but recognized their mistake before the person ever got access to any information.

But one HR person came up with a very, very simple way to determine if the person is working for North Korea: 

"He now screens candidates with an unusual test that few North Koreans will pass—he asks them to criticise Kim Jong Un during the interview. A move that has caused applicants to panic or disappear."

Genius!

https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2025-04-08-kim-jong-uns-it-spies-infiltrate-fortune-500-firms

Cuba's immigration crisis

This is an interesting take on how the policy toward Cuban immigrants is changing - and gets into some detail about how Cubans became such staunch republicans (think Kennedy/Bay of Pigs), and how the republicans are now turning their backs on them.

 

https://www.governing.com/policy/floridas-cubans-once-a-protected-class-face-new-immigration-threats

Olympic champion banned for failing a gender test

This happened over 60 years ago. A polish sprinter was deemed to be a man and stripped of her medals. 

And yet she went on to have children. 

The thing is that the "test" included a humiliating ritual. The kind of thing that's being bandied around now. 

Whats old is new again!

https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/08/12/the-olympic-champion-wrongly-banned-for-failing-a-gender-test-60-years-ago/

Talk about out of touch

In Florida, we have Senator Rick Scott who has been associated with a sort of continental Congress that wants to rewrite the constitution to be some weird GOP vision of the world. He also put in his bid to be the senate majority leader. And he totally holds trumps bag. 

He's not in it for Floridians. He's in it for himself. 

And until recently we had lil Marco, when he placed his head firmly into T-rumps bulbous arse. He was (and is) a special kind of tool since he embodies what T-rump is chasing down in his vision of Murica. But he is totally into the GOP because of Cuba and the bay of pigs. So there's no way out for him. 

Anyway, he gets promoted and that leaves his seat empty. Under Florida law, the governor got to appoint someone who was like minded, to serve out the remainder of rubios term. 

He selected his own AG, Ashley Moody. Shocking. I know. 

Even though I know that they simply DO NOT CARE about the people they "represent"  I feel the need to correspond with them. 

Of course, I wound up on senator moodys mailing list.

It's absurdly self serving, talks a lot about trumps agenda, how bad the Dems are, the fentanyl crisis, and on and on.

And she even has a section in the recent newsletter about transgender athletes!

Glad she's focused on important stuff.

Because everything else is just noise AmIRight?

She makes a good point…

Abigail Disney says any billionaire who can't manage to share their wealth is 'kind of a sociopath'

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/disney-heiress-says-billionaire-t-173348468.html

Another downside to these ill-conceived tariffs

Oh look, China is cutting off some supplies that the US doesn't have access to. Things critical to national defense. 

But does anyone care?

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/

The Big Secret About Medicaid: It’s a Middle-Class Benefit

Here's a tale about Medicaid. And just how harmful it's removal would be. 

NYTimes: The Big Secret About Medicaid: It's a Middle-Class Benefit

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/your-money/medicaid-trump-long-term-care.html