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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Chilling: clear evidence of an intentional leak of sensitive personal info by DOGE to Russia, and then they lied and said they never did it.

Words & Phrases We Could do Without “Academic Freedom,” under this administration, becomes an anachronism

"Universities have always thrived in free societies and been smothered in autocracies. Our free society is now under threat,” write Harvard professors Ryan Enos and Steven Levitsky

A passenger says a United pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom. Now he is suing An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation.

“This isn’t the US. This is Homeland. You have no rights here."
And a pilot making disparaging remarks about peoples’ religion. Where we’re at now, and what the radical right have taught people is acceptable behavior.

and organize around an issue you care about. She is right that democracy requires that the people take action, not that we wait for elected leaders to tell us what to do.

In wrapping up, Slotkin told the audience what ordinary Americans can do to fight back against the Musk-Trump autocracy threat: stay engaged, hold officials accountable (“Watch how they’re voting. Go to town halls and demand they take action,”)

Undaunted: Senator Elissa Slotkin "America wants change. But there is a responsible way to make change, and a reckless way."

Undaunted: Senator Elissa Slotkin l

March 6, 2025 This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration is preparing to deport the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and have temporary lega...

March 6, 2025:

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Fintan O’Toole: Trump and Musk’s war on science presents a startling opportunity for Ireland Fintan O’Toole: Trump is complaining that we pick America’s pocket. Fair enough – we should instead pick America’s brains

This is behind a paywall I’m sorry. But if you can read it, it makes an important point.

NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS ALERT RINGING THE ALARM: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI

A team of top experts ae sounding the alarm of why Kesh Patel and Tulsi Gabbard must not become head of the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence. These are not people we can trust with our national secrets. We may lose our country absolutely.

How to Push Back There is a reason Trump is afraid of the federal bureaucracy, the career civil servants he wants to replace.

Now I feel hopeful. Moral: Don’t piss off the worker bees.

Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but not others One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.

incompetence or deliberate, it's still not good for the people of the US. Their healthcare providers need good, solid information.

Robert Reich | Substack Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused. Click to read Robert Reich, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Good advice especially the first few and #8.

“I promise I’ll stop drinking if you let me lead the most powerful military in the world and give my job literal life or death stakes” is kind of a banger though. Not what we expected but what we deserve.

GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION – The White House BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

Trump is concerned that moms & babies crossing the border are criminals while he is blithely releasing people convicted of seditious conspiracy from prison back into our communities. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Half diminished chords are awesome. They are just...awesome.

"The American people certainly will not be front and center at Trump's inauguration. It's all about him and his billionaire cronies, including the media owners who have buckled to his will." says Richardson.

"At most inaugurations," says Heather Cox Richardson, "the incoming president makes every effort to put the American people first - from ordinary citizen to heroes - and to reach out to Americans from all backgrounds and walks of life."

Like a Sailor… On swearing (or eye rolling, wincing, etc.) when you make a mistake.

To Musicians, both amateur and professional:
Do you swear like a sailor when you make a mistake? Here's why it might be worth modifying that habit.

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

YouTube video by Trad Québec Studio joli coeur de rosier - Duo Daniel Haché et Pascal Gemme

Quite the two man band!