In conversations with nearly a dozen lawmakers and lobbyists who spoke on condition of anonymity, Axios has learned that some Georgia Republicans have quietly changed their minds about Medicaid expansion, and that discussions about a path forward have been happening behind the scenes.

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

In fairness, I think this was true before DeSantis. But it’s far worse now. Trump is a would-be authoritarian because he’s a malignant narcissist and career criminal who requires absolute power to avoid accountability. DeSantis is *conventionally* fascist.

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/desantis-anti-riot-law-united-nations-rcna45623
DeSantis has officially turned Florida into a global embarrassment
A United Nations committee released a report voicing concerns about racist discrimination facilitated by Florida's anti-protest law, House Bill 1.

12:12 PM · Sep 1, 2022

“Who’s going to want to work with us if there’s a fear that this will happen again?” he asked. “We may have to risk American lives trying to extract people from dangerous situations, we may be pulling people from ongoing investigations or things that we're working on prematurely, and never seeing them through,” said Mr Clarke, who is now a senior research fellow with the Soufan Centre. He added that there could be “some places” intelligence officials will now have to “abandon and jettison the sources” as a result of Mr Trump’s actions. [snip]

With signals intelligence, or SIGINT, knowledge of the very fact that certain information is known by the United States could lead a foreign actor to change their communication habits in a way that would lead to them “going dark”, or having their communications inaccessible by US authorities. It could also lead the foreign actor to feed disinformation to the US by continuing to use the communications method that is known to be under surveillance by American intelligence agencies. [snip]

(example involving a decades-long operation to tap Russian communications cables, compromised by disgruntled ex-NSA employee Ronald Pelton)

“If you ratchet it back 30,000 feet, it could also reveal to people that we don't want to know that they've been targeted, that they're targeted, and you could end up with very bad actors in the world who did not know that NSA was up in their email suddenly, being aware of that and changing the way they're doing business, changing their pattern of communication, their pattern of life,” he said.

He explained that a foreign spy who got wind of Mr Trump’s document cache — which the government has suggested contained information including raw signals intelligence — could have gleaned “exploits and backdoors into intelligence into communications platforms that are kind of the Holy of Holies in the COMMINT (communications intelligence) world”. [more]