Shannon Vavra
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National Security & Cybersecurity | Priors: @CNASdc Fellow, National Security Reporter @thedailybeast, @CyberScoopNews, @Axios | shanvav01 on Signal
Washington, DC
Joined December 2012
News: I obtained audio of SecDef’s 911 Jan 1 call. It has some info on his medical condition at the time and reveals info on just how secretive his team was trying to be: His aide outright requests the ambulance try to fly under the radar. @thedailybeast
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Audio of the 911 call obtained by The Daily Beast reveals a request for emergency dispatchers to be “subtle” ahead of the defense secretary’s secret hospitalization.
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BREAKING Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally included in a Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, where top-secret war plans related to Yemen were shared. Full Story: https://t.co/K737gsH35i
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“DOGE just posted secret NOFORN info on their website about [intelligence community] headcount, so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed,” Per @jbendery
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“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.
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Webcam at the Kennedy Center caught an explosion mid-air across the Potomac.
BREAKING: There is a significant response from fire, EMS, and police for an aircraft reported down in the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport. Initial reports of a possible midair collision. Victims have been found by one of the rescue boats. @ARLnowDOTcom
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FAA STATEMENT: “A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m. local time. PSA was operating Flight 5342 as American Airlines. It departed from
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I’m always surprised that this Jimmy Carter anecdote gets overlooked.
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Lots going on lately, but if this breaks through the noise that would be great—Former Daily Beast journalist Allison Quinn’s 8-year-old son Aedrik is in a fight for his life. If you can help, GoFundMe is here. Any sharing here or elsewhere appreciated.
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April 29 update: I started this GoFundMe five months ago afte… tracy connor needs your support for Aedrik, 8, needs a little more help in his fight against ALD
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Former Daily Beast journalist Allison Quinn’s 8-year-old son Aedrik is in a fight for his life. If you can spare something to help these great humans, the GoFundMe is here.
gofundme.com
April 29 update: I started this GoFundMe five months ago afte… tracy connor needs your support for Aedrik, 8, needs a little more help in his fight against ALD
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Scathing statement from Bernie Sanders on the election results “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them…”
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Email from Jen O’Malley Dillon sent out just now to all hands on Harris campaign: “get some sleep, and get ready to close out strong tomorrow.”
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This being a joke or not, as someone who has attended dozens of Trump's rallies — including the assassination attempt in Butler, PA — and has been personally threatened repeatedly, I sincerely hope no one attempts to act on this.
Trump in PA says he wouldn’t mind if somebody were to “shoot through the fake news” if they were trying “to get to me” "But all we have really over here is the fake news, right. And to get me somebody would have to shoot through the fake news and I don’t mind that so much"
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🚨 new foreign interference update from ODNI/FBI/CISA on election eve. not "most secure election in American history." instead: - Russia MANUFACTURED false Arizona fraud video (in addition to PA, GA) - violent incitement targeting election officials - more fakes to come
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A statement from Post Guild leadership on the Washington Post's decision to not endorse a presidential candidate
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No one is eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. David Muir fact checks Trump. Trump doubles down on the lie.
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An hour into this presidential debate, Kamala Harris has gotten thoroughly under his skin. You can tell on Donald Trump's face. "Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people… and clearly he’s having a very difficult time processing that." "World leaders… are laughing at you."
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You absolutely CANNOT make it up that Trump said immigrants are eating pets you just cannot. The former president of the United States. "They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats.” (There are no credible reports of this happening per local police)
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Trump claims immigrants are harming and eating animals in Springfield, Ohio. FACT CHECK: Authorities -- including the Springfield city manager -- say that is not true and that there is no evidence Haitian immigrants in the city are harming animals.
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Trump: "In Springield, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there."
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Vice President Harris calls out Trump's lies on abortion after birth: "That is not happening. It is insulting to the women of America."
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Russia still using sleeper agents. Would love love love to read a novel about this family’s entire journey and origin story—and makes me want to rewatch The Americans
The children of Anna and Artem Dultsev, the Russian deep cover spies returned home as part of the prisoner exchange, didn’t know they were Russian until their plane took off for Moscow for the swap, the Kremlin says. They don’t speak Russian, so Putin greeted them in Spanish.
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