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ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.

The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Texas#ElonMusk#Musk#Email #Journalism#FOIA#GregAbbott

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T2R
@T2R@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica any email with a government official is public record! Turn them over Abbott.
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Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌
@ArenaCops@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica LOL! Governments & governors ain't TF elected to write embarrassing emails, gov Abbott!
SMH.
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Lisa is @lrt ⚠️
@lrt_writes@mstdn.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica 🤔
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HeatherTX
@HeatherTX@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica
This makes my blood boil. I want to know how much Texas *taxpayers* paid Musk to move his companies here! Abbott acts like it’s his money, but that’s our $$$$$ he’s been paying Musk!! 🤬🤬🤬
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CU
@cumush@dice.camp replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica kalshi event contract — did abbott post hole?
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Matthew Hill
@matt@mastodon.bogonic.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica If only "being embarrassing" to those in power was a sufficient excuse to not release official records that as a matter of law belong to the public. OH WAIT, the Texas Supreme Court recently said it is...

It's a shame that it never seems to occur to our public officials that the best way to not be embarrassed isn't to sweep evidence of the embarrassing acts under the rug after the fact, but rather to not do the embarrassing things in the first place.

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Absinthe
@absinthe@mammut.sch.moe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica
Had to do it.
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tess
@tess001@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica
It needs be said anything an elected official does/says is of concern to the public. Elected officials serve only by the consent of the public & are surely accountable/answerable to the public.
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sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica Extract: “common-law privacy: information that is intimate and embarrassing and not of legitimate concern to the public, including financial decisions that do not relate to transactions between an individual and a governmental body.”
So basically, the first sentence reads like pedophilia or #EvangelicalChristian gay sex, the second, like paying for prostitutes or #corruption.
Can't wait, even #MAGA media will want in on that!
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Elle Plaster
@Elleaster@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica Not sexting, Nazi-ing.
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Matthew Loxton
@mloxton@med-mastodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica
I's *especially* interested in anything “intimate and embarrassing” being communicated on government emails
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Nine Oh Real
@mythlfrythtyg@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica wtf did they do? sexting?
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Kevin Russell
@kevinrns@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica

Oh yes, that is a sane answer, from a real governor of an actual State. Sure, sane.

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Hot Dog Water Moccasin
@GGMcBG@mstdn.plus replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica

Elon was driving his convertible to Greglegs' house one night after a blind date mistook his junkie pill box for Halloween candy, and the poop-out OD'd while cranking Neil Diamond records.

"I hope this email finds you with an adrenaline shot."

"Are you emailing me on a cellular phone? Prank caller! Prank caller!"

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jmht
@jmht@theatl.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica So now ... why are government officials using their resources to send "intimate and embarrassing" emails? 😲🤔
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Snippety Snap (she/her)
@shansterable@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica
What could possibly be more embarrassing than jumping around on stage behind Drumpf, kissing the ring, and throwing a nazi salute in public?

Muskrat is way past the embarrassment stage.

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barky
@barky1@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica i don't know why so many people are taking this at face value when it is so blatantly just an excuse to keep them hidden. they aren't embarrassing, they're incriminating.
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PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:
@PedestrianError@towns.gay replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica That's... not a legitimate reason to hide emails you sent and received as a public servant. If some mid-level bureaucrat sexts their colleague using a government issued device, it's public record even if it's not of any particular relevance to the public and can certainly be used against the official if they're accused of inappropriately steering a government contract to their lover's firm. Same for governors.
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Galbinus Caeli
@GalbinusCaeli@spacey.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica Why is the state's governors office having 'intimate' conversations with a major industrialist in that state?
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lin11c
@lin11c@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica
If it's a MAGAt GQPer and its mouth is moving, its lying.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica

In a voyeur economy? LOL

It’s business. Nothing personal.

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Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:
@kimlockhartga@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica I have questions.
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CM Thiede
@cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica sounds very professional /s
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Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@pa27@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica FFS. Yeah, all the "I'll bend over you f*ck" me stuff would be embarrassing.
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Ulrich_the_Elder, 🇨🇦,🇺🇦
@Ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica The emails will just look like a couple of nazis slapping each other on the back.
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Pete
@philpetree@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica And that's when you file a lawsuit.
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Bongolian
@Bongolian@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica Sue, hack and leak.
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RememberUsAlways
@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica
Allow me:
#Texas
"Your tax money is not a legitimate concern to elected #Republicans."
#NoKings !
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peter honeyman
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica

i was not aware of the "intimate and embarrassing" exception to FOIA

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samiamsam
@samiamsam@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica

are they sexting?

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2xfo
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica
I want to call him a "Hilary". It's not strictly accurate because SHE actually turned over her emails to meet the scrutiny of the court, but i think Republicans would understand the nickname
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samiamsam
@samiamsam@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica

i've been saying this for decades

vote out every single republican

all of them

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stony kark
@aapis@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica great job Greg, you just made them of legitimate concern to the public. Was he sexting with elon?
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