Stay Away From the Sweet Corn

It's how they're gonna get you.

Good Afternoon:

Because it reduces the efficiency of evaporation of sweat off your skin—which is your body’s primary mechanism for cooling itself.

Sooooo healthy.

No that’s wrong. Everything is bad for you. Including peaches.

I just told you: Everything is bad for you. Including peaches. Including sweet corn.

Especially sweet corn.

If it has the word “sweet” in it, it’s gonna kill you.

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Yesterday on #DogShirtTV, I announced the formation of my new religion, the cult of the cactus resurrected, to a horrified (though estimable)

Holly Berkley Fletcher

and a bewildered (though estimable) Mike Feinberg, who will be joining our co-host roster. Once our religious revelation was complete, we talked Kenyan politics, refugees from the Trump DOJ, and celebrities on social media:

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Yesterday On Lawfare

Compiled by the estimable Mary Ford

Are Cyber Defenders Winning?

Jason Healey and Tarang Jain use data from ongoing public policy research at Columbia University to define what it means to “win” in cyberspace and analyze existing metrics of successful cyber defense and vulnerabilities within the software ecosystem.

​​This article, based on the work of an ongoing project at Columbia University involving stakeholders in academia, government, and industry, offers a framework that categorizes—from the vast sea of metrics—the few that shed light on whether defenders are winning by shifting advantages away from attackers. To do so, we first examine what it means to “win” in cyberspace and then conduct a deeper dive into indicators across threat, vulnerability, and consequence (see Table 1).

What to Make of the Justice Department’s Denaturalization Initiative

Eric Columbus responds to concerns over a key enforcement priority identified in a July 11 memorandum—issued by head of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice Brett Shumate—which prioritized denaturalization. Columbus argues that while the actual application of the policy remains unclear, it will scare already naturalized U.S. citizens and discourage others from naturalizing to begin with.

A throughline of the Trump administration’s immigration policy is to deprive immigrants of the assurance of having some spot they can call their own. The extent to which the administration is able to extend that deprivation to citizens is yet to be seen. But it will be sure to terrify some naturalized citizens without cause and may dissuade others from naturalizing or coming to the United States in the first place. This is not a bug—it is a feature.

Podcasts

On Lawfare Daily, I sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, and Scott Anderson to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. AFGE, the latest updates in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, and more.

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Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is an arthropod providing aid in an emergency. It’s kind of moving, really:

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In honor of today’s Beast, give your neighbor in need a hand—or a carapace.