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I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

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When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

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FED. WORKERS: I am collecting data on agency instructions w.r.t the OPM email. I am seeking the following: (1) Your agency and bureau, (2) who sent the instruction, (3) whether you were told to reply, (4) a screenshot of the instruction for verification (anonymize) (if possible). Signal: Nbednar.46.

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Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

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As expected... This is what you say when you expect to be deploying the military domestically or trying to engage in illegal activities abroad. Can't have annoying lawyers telling commanders that orders they've received or actions they're undertaking are illegal

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This is a shamefully racist movement that should be resisted by every person of good will. @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s forthcoming book is incredible and it’s honestly the archive’s loss (and the nation’s). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

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This is 100% like something you'd see in our annual Information Assurance training -- see as in you fail if you say you would reply to this email.

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“classified information, links, or attachments” is a poorly constructed and dizzyingly incomplete list.

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As you might imagine, this got weird quickly. But, too late—it has been loosed into the world. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Important for understanding implications of the Defense Department purge. Who will be their replacements? Recall this report from December: "Prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon" were asked "whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen."

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I’m seeing some ppl citing 10 USC 1161 (limitations on commissioned officer dismissals) hoping it means these top officers can’t be removed. I’m afraid I have some bad news. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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In 2021, the president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announced that the country would adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. This was justified to promote ﬁnancial inclusion, increasing remittance flows, and enhancing development. How did this turn out? 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The Social Cost of Carbon: Its not what it sounds like. It saves you money. Its essential to policy that slows climate change. Trump is getting rid of it. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Larry Diamond, @larrydiamond.bsky.social , a longstanding leader in the political science study of democracy, at @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ame...

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In about 7 weeks, my third book, "You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, & Bloodshed in Greece," will be released by @melvillehouse.bsky.social The book contains nearly a decade of following the refugee situation in Greece, violence, and the far right. If you can, pre-order it:

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USAID’s waiver for 'life-saving' aid got headlines. But funds still aren’t reaching the people who need them. "Even programs with waivers are still frozen, according to people in more than 40 USAID-funded groups, bc the payments system used to disburse funds to orgs has not operated for weeks." 1/2

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elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct.

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From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

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In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Funding for DOGE has reached $40 million. Elon Musk's corrupt and illegal maneuvers are costing Americans huge sums as he exaggerates "savings" and cuts funding to crucial services. From @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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A fun Black History Month footnote to this is that the motif of the anthropomorphic legislative bill—known to most of us from Schoolhouse Rock—has roots in the Black press of the 1930s, as in these two editorial cartoons by Bill Chase & Romare Bearden, both highlighting anti-lynching legislation

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BREAKING: Donald Trump issued an executive order tonight aimed at ending several decades-old and highly successful government programs. Among the programs Trump says he's ending: The Federal Executive Boards and the Presidential Management Fellows Program. What do they do, you ask? Key things!

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I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

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This is a level of access they should NOT have. That should be blindingly obvious, and it’s beyond infuriating that somehow it isn’t. It’s further infuriating that even those in leadership who do clearly see the danger aren’t intervening. Congress, stop ceding all your power to unelected vandals!

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CNN — "Some defense officials responsible for drafting lists of civilian Pentagon employees to be terminated as soon as this week are raising concerns with their superiors that the summary firings could break the law and potentially harm US military readiness, a senior defense official told CNN."

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UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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The transnational networks that bind far right parties, think tanks, funders, and movements are a crucial element of this historical moment.

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The Trump administration has paused a program providing 4,000 children in California with immigration lawyers. Some are just months old.

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National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning in Zoom call. This included workers who had completed a 1-yr requisite probation and shouldn't have been included in termination but were suddenly told recently that the 1-yr should have been 2-yrs, revoking their permanent status.

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If it hasn't sunk in: The United States is aligned with Russia in a war of aggression against Ukraine and the broader democratic world.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

New, from me: I talked with producers from Last Week Tonight about politicization of government, so was looking forward to seeing this episode. Its a good one, worth sharing. (Plus, what does the research say about politicization and government performance). donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-resea...

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This will basically prevent the lawyers there from doing their jobs (one wonders if that’s the goal)

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The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

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Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula However, the prosecutor-general perpetuates the narrative that the armed forces had been a 'victim' of the plot, despite the obvious institutional involvement apnews.com/article/bols... #CivMilSky

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The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by migrants from Latin America and Ukraine allowed into the U.S. under Biden-era programs, citing fraud and security concerns, according to a memo obtained by CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-pau...

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Firing this many Department of Defense workers at once, who will now desperately need new sources of income, is a huge gift to enterprising foreign intelligence agencies looking for info on the US military and defense sector

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NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info: www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

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“Bolsonaro stands accused of crimes including being involved in an attempted coup d’état and an armed criminal association and the violent abolition of the rule of law.”

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I somehow missed that this had gone up. When Art Spiegelman calls Israel "a failed experiment" you're really in a bad place

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I wonder how Marco Rubio squares his opposition to the Maduro regime with this

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NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.

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Lest we forget why they might want to hurt the IRS. Source: www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/reports/2024...

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