Julie Sharpe

#2. All of your cartoons are fabulous!

Not an artist but am an observer of nature. Here’s a sign of spring in NW Indiana

Riveting reading! Deeply disturbing details about the DOGE illegal actions in the Treasury.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

Thank you for doing the dashboard. I use it and I appreciate your work!

Another person furloughed as a consequence of the reckless behavior of Musk and Trump. Summers’ H5N1 dashboard was an invaluable tool. #stopMusk

I don't normally share things like this, but I found this description of venture capital extremism (Musk, Thiel, Andreessen, and by proxy Vance) very disturbing and thought others should read this to better contextualize the aims of DOGE:

www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...

Keep it up Nathan! We need your independent voice. Your intel is getting shared and making a difference.

Afternoon of Day Six of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Changing the Treasury Payments Source Code & the Treasury’s “DOGE” gag order If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...

NEW PIECE: This is moving so quickly that I'm posting a second piece in the same day for the first time. The news is I have a source that confirms to me that, & I quote, "Thomas Krause and Marko Elez are having discussions about PAM source code changes"

www.crisesnotes.com/changing-the...

Thank you for shining light on this critical issue despite great personal risk.

Riveting reporting by Tankus. Terrifying implications.

YouTube video by t bro Three Branches of Government School House Rock

“three rings just like a circus” so prophetic from 1970s Schoolhouse Rock youtu.be/-EISWIY9bG8?...

Decision tree for NSF program officers. The terms in question could be used in so many contexts. Diverse —- diverse ecosystems, diversity in bird populations. The ignorance on display is stunning.

Use of “indigenous communities“ now part of words and phrases that can cause a NSF grant to be pulled. Unacceptable crisis for science and research.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

I’m a blue dot in Indiana. Happy to meet other blue dots!

Hey Kristi!