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Researcher, reader, swimmer, traveler. Enjoy putting people, ideas and resources together. Happily married in multigenerational, multicat family.
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US and Russian officials are planning to meet in Saudi Araba to discuss the situation in Ukraine on Tuesday, according to media reports.

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Musk’s staffers now accessing heavily guarded IRS system, which has detailed financial information on every US taxpayer, business, nonprofit. They already accessed the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS), system used by IRS employees to get acct info. Musk SW engineer Gavin Kliger in the data.

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The family of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who was fatally shot by police in Illinois in July 2024, will receive $10 million as part of a settlement with officials from Sangamon County, the attorney representing the family said reut.rs/4hwgOdu

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NEWS: Judge Jackson in DC has granted an even longer extension to federal ethics watchdog Hampton DELLINGER, who Trump tried to fire but has since been reinstated. She's keeping him in until at least Feb. 26, when an injunction hearing can be held storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.

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Felon tRump kicked out the National Archives chief, proving once again he can't handle accountability. A White House official confirmed this move, fulfilling his threat to shake up the agency linked to his classified documents scandal. Anyone surprised? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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A deep dive into Project Russia (podcast) pod.co/dave-troy/pr...

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Difference between types of imaging

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Call your congress members daily at this number. It’s ok to leave voice messages. Tell your top concerns. You can call daily. Silence = death of democracy.

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From Jay Kuo - 7 Feb 2025

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I have no problem with 25-year-old DOGE apparatchik Marko Elez being fired. But Elon Musk has said things as bad as Mr. Elez, and more often and more consequentially. The DOGE fish rots from the head down. So the question is: Why is it ok that Musk himself is a "special government employee"?

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Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Treasury OPM, GSA. They encountered resistance demanding access to systems managing 6 trillion annually to programs under SSA. Musk’s aides also at OPM accessing systems, including vast database EHRI contains sensitive info.

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you know shit’s crazy when a catholic group can condemn a nazi salute but the ADL can’t

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1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding. 2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding. 3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze. 4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant. Sigh.

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The new general counsel for OPM—the office issuing all those deranged memos—is Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and a temporary restraining order for domestic violence who most recently worked for Matt Gaetz. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

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I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. •John Cage•

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Professor @alanrozenshtein.com hosted Professor @nicholasbednar.bsky.social '16 on the @lawfare.bsky.social Podcast to discuss the impact of President Trump's executive orders on the civil service. z.umn.edu/a4eg

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Next scene in the shitshow… The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance[…]Hundreds of billions of dollars in grants to state, local and tribal governments. Disaster relief aid. Education, transportation funding, small business loans.

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yle.fi/a/74-20129227 Hui!

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About 58 percent of passenger alcohol imports to Finland came from Estonia or on Baltic ferries between the countries, according to THL.

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