JRaccoon

The website (Telegram in this case, but can be any website) adds a specifically crafted text to the clipboard and then tricks the user into pasting that text into the Windows Run dialog, which can be used to execute any command(s), basically like a command prompt.

The text the attacker places in the clipboard is actually a command to download and execute an executable file from the internet, giving the attacker remote access to the system or whatever the payload happens to be.

It’s a pretty clever trick. Perhaps MS should consider adding a warning before allowing pasting into the Run dialog or cmd for the first time. They already have this in the Edge browser console.

with the motion largely serving to get Democrats on the record as voting against a bill being framed as anti-infanticide

Democrats have routinely criticized “born-alive” bills as being redundant because killing an infant who was born alive following an attempted abortion is already illegal.

tl;dr: The bill would actually change nothing and it’s all political games.