HFSC identified three separate issues…

Laughing at how seriously it was impressed upon me never to use any comms other than my gov issued phone — on which I couldn’t even download basic apps — as a low level nobody in the White House with zero exposure to seriously classified info.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Anyone wanna guess which recent President prioritized hiring, training & retaining talent, rather than arbitrarily firing, degrading, and insulting federal workers before taking two seconds to learn what they actually do?

Good luck convincing people now is a great time to take a federal job!

Important opinion piece on how the SAVE act —supposedly addressing the absolute non-problem of noncitizen voting— is actually a vehicle to disenfranchise married women.

www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...

Spot on.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

Feeling encouraged by my profession having at least some professionals left.

Important to understand that what Bove asked the SDNY to do was unethical, not just a difference of opinion or priorities or even interpretation of the facts of the case.

It’s horrifying but good it’s not without resistance. They still haven’t filed yet.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

Truly dystopian: someone updated the date stamp to 1/24/25 on decades old ICE press releases to game search engines & make it look like mass deportations are sweeping the nation.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Freezing these congressionally allocated funds is unconstitutional, amoral, and makes us less safe.

Great read on how states stopped locking up kids and crime declined…

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m...

“More than a century of legal precedent has recognized the Constitution’s 14th Amendment as granting U.S. citizenship to every person born here.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

And a happy MLK day to you, too, ESB.