@moniqueogara.bsky.social
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One of the USAID lawsuit declarations I added to my page today is this one, from a person who did cybersecurity at USAID. It provides best technical description I know of what the DOGE boys did after they arrived. They lost access on Feb 4, a month ago.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
March 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One of the USAID lawsuit declarations I added to my page today is this one, from a person who did cybersecurity at USAID. It provides best technical description I know of what the DOGE boys did after they arrived. They lost access on Feb 4, a month ago.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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The Democratic Party sued President Donald Trump over an executive order that would give him unprecedented power over key regulatory agencies designed to operate without direct White House control.
Democrats Sue Trump Over Attempt to Control Independent Election Agency
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Democratic Party sued President Donald Trump over an executive order that would give him unprecedented power over key regulatory agencies designed to operate without direct White House control.
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Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.
March 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.
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This is an opinion piece that evidently meets Jeff Bezos' new test for supporting "personal liberties and free markets."
Support pro-democracy independent media.
Support pro-democracy independent media.
March 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is an opinion piece that evidently meets Jeff Bezos' new test for supporting "personal liberties and free markets."
Support pro-democracy independent media.
Support pro-democracy independent media.
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"'Acting Director Vought wants to have a more streamlined and efficient bureau, not to blow it up,' responded a DOJ attorney. Musk, however, wrote 'RIP CFPB' in a post on X on Feb. 7, the same day workers received termination notices." Hearing 3/10 will be interesting. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...
Judge wants to hear from top Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official about the agency's dismantling
A federal judge wants to hear directly from one of the top officials at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to learn if the Trump administration is gutting the agency.
abcnews.go.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"'Acting Director Vought wants to have a more streamlined and efficient bureau, not to blow it up,' responded a DOJ attorney. Musk, however, wrote 'RIP CFPB' in a post on X on Feb. 7, the same day workers received termination notices." Hearing 3/10 will be interesting. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
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“This is treason adjacent. I’m sure Pete Hegseth is very busy firing black people and women, so he’s not focused on the actual target here, which is Vladimir Putin.”
@therickwilson.bsky.social on the U.S. halting offensive cyber operations against Russia.
@therickwilson.bsky.social on the U.S. halting offensive cyber operations against Russia.
March 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“This is treason adjacent. I’m sure Pete Hegseth is very busy firing black people and women, so he’s not focused on the actual target here, which is Vladimir Putin.”
@therickwilson.bsky.social on the U.S. halting offensive cyber operations against Russia.
@therickwilson.bsky.social on the U.S. halting offensive cyber operations against Russia.
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Great news for money launderers!
March 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Great news for money launderers!
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11/ within both the administration and the GSA.” So that essentially seems to mean, guys, Elon and Trump both wanted this to happen.
March 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
11/ within both the administration and the GSA.” So that essentially seems to mean, guys, Elon and Trump both wanted this to happen.
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10/ Looking at the email from Thomas Shedd, Elon-bro installed as head of TTS says 18F is being eliminated as part of the directive to cut all “non-essential consulting functions” within government. Also notes, interestingly to me, “with explicit direction from the top levels of leadership …
March 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
10/ Looking at the email from Thomas Shedd, Elon-bro installed as head of TTS says 18F is being eliminated as part of the directive to cut all “non-essential consulting functions” within government. Also notes, interestingly to me, “with explicit direction from the top levels of leadership …
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Confirming what others have discussed or reported, 18F, the elite tech consultancy within TTS/GSA, was formally disbanded overnight. There’s a formal RIF, the legal system in which the government downsizes/layoff people. I’m told it’s 60 days on leave for all involved.
March 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Confirming what others have discussed or reported, 18F, the elite tech consultancy within TTS/GSA, was formally disbanded overnight. There’s a formal RIF, the legal system in which the government downsizes/layoff people. I’m told it’s 60 days on leave for all involved.
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New in PN: @oliverdarcy.bsky.social on a cowed mainstream press
"Whether it’s Meta or Amazon or Bezos, it’s clear that Trump runs the show. That’s incredibly worrying. The whole job of the Fourth Estate is to hold the powerful accountable — not to bend the knee."
"Whether it’s Meta or Amazon or Bezos, it’s clear that Trump runs the show. That’s incredibly worrying. The whole job of the Fourth Estate is to hold the powerful accountable — not to bend the knee."
Oliver Darcy on a cowed mainstream press
"It’s highly alarming how news institutions and Big Tech are behaving in response to an autocratic wannabe."
www.publicnotice.co
March 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New in PN: @oliverdarcy.bsky.social on a cowed mainstream press
"Whether it’s Meta or Amazon or Bezos, it’s clear that Trump runs the show. That’s incredibly worrying. The whole job of the Fourth Estate is to hold the powerful accountable — not to bend the knee."
"Whether it’s Meta or Amazon or Bezos, it’s clear that Trump runs the show. That’s incredibly worrying. The whole job of the Fourth Estate is to hold the powerful accountable — not to bend the knee."
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It's all a fucking game to these people.
March 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It's all a fucking game to these people.
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There’s also to be frank no other path back to any sane idea normalcy. Empower another Democrat who can’t stomach confrontation and just wants to turn the page, and we’ll go on living without the rule of law, constantly menaced by authoritarians.
democrats are really going to convince themselves that “a return to normalcy” is what people want when its really “rebuild, investigate, imprison”
March 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There’s also to be frank no other path back to any sane idea normalcy. Empower another Democrat who can’t stomach confrontation and just wants to turn the page, and we’ll go on living without the rule of law, constantly menaced by authoritarians.
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NEW: I understand that at right about the time of yesterdays blow up at the White House the US ordered the withdrawal of at least one and possibly two P-8 surveillance aircraft equipped with AAS radar pods which had been operating in the airspace over and around Romania and ordered them redeployed …
March 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: I understand that at right about the time of yesterdays blow up at the White House the US ordered the withdrawal of at least one and possibly two P-8 surveillance aircraft equipped with AAS radar pods which had been operating in the airspace over and around Romania and ordered them redeployed …
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Real investigative work by a closed community that has its own uncompromising standards of rigor and ethics.
Genuinely appalling and revealing how much more thorough, thoughtful and well-researched the videogame speedrunning community has been in evaluating Elon Musk's claims than the tech press or DC political press youtu.be/z1ykCc588Zw?...
The Elon Musk Cheating Scandal
YouTube video by Karl Jobst
youtu.be
March 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Real investigative work by a closed community that has its own uncompromising standards of rigor and ethics.
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Please fold this into stories about Trump’s little performance yesterday.
EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.
On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
therecord.media
March 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Please fold this into stories about Trump’s little performance yesterday.
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So, actually, it always was Russia.
March 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So, actually, it always was Russia.
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They describe the harm Roberts did by staying the order.
It's not just Marco Rubio killing children; it is Roberts now too.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
It's not just Marco Rubio killing children; it is Roberts now too.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
![The government’s continued noncompliance with the district
court’s TRO forced one respondent to lay off 110 employees *yesterday.* Another will default
on severance obligations, triggering civil liability and potential regulatory enforcement, if it does not receive payment for past work by *today.* Meanwhile, many of those who depend
on respondents’ programming face starvation, disease, and death. See, e.g., AVAC Dkt. 13-
2, ¶ 11; GHC Dkt. 7-6, ¶ 13, GHC Dkt. 7-1, ¶ 8; GHC Dkt. 7-3, ¶ 14; GHC Dkt. 7-9, ¶ 14, GHC
Dkt. 46-2, ¶¶ 2-7.
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March 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
They describe the harm Roberts did by staying the order.
It's not just Marco Rubio killing children; it is Roberts now too.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
It's not just Marco Rubio killing children; it is Roberts now too.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...