neilegordon.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

The administration has always had the means to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home, and we’re glad they’ve FINALLY done so, even if it took far too long. As for the criminal charges he's facing, Abrego Garcia must get the due process he’s previously been denied.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"You Deserve (to fix) a Break Today": The government allows McDonald’s to fix its ice cream machines. But the U.S. military often doesn't have the right to repair its equipment www.justsecurity.org/114104/us-mi...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s threat to suspend habeas corpus is part of the Trump administration’s assault on the courts. Congress must do something about it, says @krhawkins.bsky.social www.pogo.org/analysis/ste...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

According to @pogo.org's Austin Fialkow, “right-to-repair” reform is key to U.S. military readiness, bringing competition back to weapons maintenance and repair, and "ensuring taxpayers get more bang for their buck." www.pogo.org/analysis/mak...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

New from @ziembavision.bsky.social: Newly obtained photos reveal “dire” conditions inside the Andersen Air Force Base barracks. According to a U.S. Navy officer, “Anybody that’s been to Guam can tell you…if you’re living on base, you’re going to be in crappy quarters." www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Using the reconciliation process instead of the annual National Defense Authorization Act to set defense policy and budgets is unnecessary and destructive to congressional norms, writes @greg-williams-pogo.bsky.social‬ www.pogo.org/analysis/rec...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Visit the POGO store today! Take advantage of our Memorial Day sale. Save 20% on coffee mugs. AirPods Pro cases are $5 off. Your purchase powers POGO’s fight for a more effective, ethical and accountable government that safeguards constitutional principles! shop.pogo.org

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

President Trump is pressing agencies to repeal regulations and bypass rulemaking requirements by using the “good cause” exception. But the courts have shown it’s not that easy www.pogo.org/analysis/the...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

🚨CONFLICT WATCH🚨: President Trump's pick to oversee the Golden Dome missile shield project, Gen. Michael Guetlein, was once a Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellow at SpaceX—one of the companies expected to take part in the project www.spaceforce.mil/Biographies/...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Tell Congress: Secure the right to repair🚨 Congress must ensure service members can repair their own equipment so taxpayers no longer have to foot the bill for overpriced replacement parts and maintenance delays act.pogo.org/a/tell-congr...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

🚨TAKE ACTION🚨Headlines about lawmakers making suspiciously timed stock trades and reaping windfall profits need to be a thing of the past! Tell Congress to pass a stock trading ban act.pogo.org/a/tell-congr...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Power Grab at the Library of Congress: President Trump’s appointment of Justice Department officials to replace the Library of Congress’s leadership is his latest attempt to undermine the power and independence of Congress www.pogo.org/analysis/a-p...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Enforced Disappearance: The Trump administration is increasingly arresting, imprisoning, and transferring migrants incommunicado and without official acknowledgment. Read this harrowing story by @krhawkins.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Despite political rhetoric accusing migrants of flooding the U.S. with drugs, @ziembavision.bsky.social and Julienne McClure found just 1 in 53,965 migrants were caught at the border with hard drugs. By contrast, the odds of dying from a bee sting are 1 in 41,076 www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

OPM's "Motley Crew": A roster @schwellenbach.bsky.social obtained shows the top ranks of OPM currently include Elon Musk and DOGE employees, a Project 2025 contributor, and accused fraudsters. It also shows some OPM senior staff also have White House jobs www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

“Enforced disappearance is a tool of dictatorships.” This new @lawfaremedia.org piece by my colleague, @krhawkins.bsky.social, is a must-read. It warns what’s at stake when the gov’t moves people beyond the reach of the law. 🔗 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-... #DueProcess #RuleOfLaw

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

What's Wrong With Doge, Part 3: When it comes to accessing data, cutting personnel and federal funds, closing agencies, and making its records public, DOGE flouts the rule of law www.pogo.org/analysis/wha... (Part 1: www.pogo.org/analysis/wha...; Part 2: www.pogo.org/analysis/wha...)

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

The deputy secretary of state telling the Afrikaner refugees that his family fled to America to escape Hitler—who enjoyed strong support among Afrikaners—is the crowning absurdity on top of this disgusting stunt www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

POGO’s Don Bell had a great conversation with @morgansung.bsky.social on surveillance in the digital age and how it is, in his words, “about as anathema to the constitution as you can get.” Check it out ⬇️

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's First 100 Days: The problem isn’t just that the guardrails of our democracy are being destroyed, says @pogo.org executive director @daniellebrian.bsky.social. Some have always been missing. www.pogo.org/analysis/tru...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

"What's Wrong With DOGE?" Part 2: Conflicts of Interest Elon Musk and DOGE are reaping big rewards with lucrative government contracts, access to troves of sensitive data, and weakened oversight www.pogo.org/analysis/wha...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Big news from @pogo.org investigator @schwellenbach.bsky.social In February, DHS quietly removed from the web investigative findings of abuse at immigration detention centers. (BOO!) POGO tracked down and reposted many of these missing records. (YAY!) www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

(Thread) Almost 2 years ago, I wrote a @pogo.org investigation about discrepancies in how the Bureau of Indian Affairs tracks deaths in custody. It raised flags about due diligence in its procurement process for the review of these deaths. Well, it looks like today we finally have some answers...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

The position of @pogo.org on congressional stock trading is spot-on: "If you're trading on inside info, you're not a public servant—you're a day trader with a security clearance." Ban congressional stock trading. Now. www.pogo.org/testimonies/...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

🚨New @pogo.org investigation by @ziembavision.bsky.social: An Ethiopian migrant died in January from untreated HIV at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona, which has long been singled out for inadequate medical care and detainee deaths www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Guards allegedly assaulted a shackled immigrant on a 2022 deportation flight. ICE and the company employing the guards were required to report the incident but didn't. How many other similar incidents have been covered up? www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

"Difficult to pin down": In the months since DOGE's creation, its reach and power have steadily expanded while its mission, structure, leadership, personnel and funding have remained hazy www.pogo.org/analysis/wha...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

🚨WE'RE HIRING: @pogo.org is looking for a temporary (3 months) editor to help us expose waste, corruption, abuse of power, and other instances where the government fails to serve the public pogo.breezy.hr/p/5481016a20...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Great analysis by @sarahturb.bsky.social: President Trump has slashed the staff of 3 key oversight and accountability offices at DHS. That just leaves the Inspector General, who has a track record of misleading Congress and ignoring misconduct and abuses www.pogo.org/analysis/who...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Take a few minutes to read these 2 important pieces by @pogo.org: 1) Congress is abdicating its duty to serve as a check on the executive www.pogo.org/analysis/whe...; 2) Trump is consolidating power by undermining the courts. Lawless deportations are the latest salvo www.pogo.org/analysis/a-b...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

We have filed a preliminary injunction in our lawsuit over DOGE's record preservation policies. We are asking Judge Boasberg to issue a preliminary injunction demanding that DOGE preserve records according to the Federal Records Act while the case is pending.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

If anyone is wondering why the El Salvador renditions are hitting me especially hard, a thread of publications I have worked on about post 9/11 torture, which started when I was still in law school and learned about the rendition of Maher Arar from JFK airport to a Syrian prison

submitted 78 days ago • 9 comments

President Trump's defiance of a federal court's order to halt the removal of people under the Alien Enemies Act ought to be a 5-alarm fire. A president who does not follow the law makes us all less free. The courts and Congress must meet this moment: www.pogo.org/analysis/a-b...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

New at the POGO Store: Coffee mugs for starting your day and sustaining our work. Shop now: shop.pogo.org

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Another big scoop from @pogo.org investigator @schwellenbach.bsky.social: CSI Aviation, the company getting billions of dollars running deportation flights, was involved in one of the most infamously botched immigrant removal flights www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

A big congrats to POGO's @ziembavision.bsky.social for receiving an honorable mention in the SABEW Best in Business Awards. Check out the excellent investigation on how soldiers have paid the price for the Pentagon's decision to privatize military housing www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Several senior OPM officials have deeper financial ties to Elon Musk than previously known. One holds as much as $5 million in stock in a Musk company. Another owns up to $250K in Tesla stock www.pogo.org/investigatio... by @schwellenbach.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments