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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

March 18, 2025

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“Papers, Please”: The Road to Tyranny Is Paved With Bureaucratic Cruelty Once a symbol of dystopian nightmares, these words now echo in schools, hospitals, and homes: targeting immigrants first, and the rest of us next…

“Papers, Please”: The Road to Tyranny Is Paved With Bureaucratic Cruelty

Once a symbol of dystopian nightmares, these words now echo in schools, hospitals, and homes: targeting immigrants first, and the rest of us next…
by Thom Hartmann

Posted: Apr 23, 2025

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Judge blocks parts of Trump's overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirement A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal vote...

"Judge blocks parts of Trump’s overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirement"

Updated: Apr 24, 2025

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine Decides Not to Keep Senior Enlisted Adviser, Breaking with Past Precedent

Published: April 21, 2025

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U.S. is experiencing both higher inflation and slower growth, two problems that the central bank cannot fight simultaneously."

The Fed chief is in a wait-and-see posture on borrowing costs as he watches how tariffs feed into prices and employment — a position he reinforced Wednesday during remarks in Chicago. He warned that the trade war could lead to a scenario where the

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has repeatedly cautioned White House officials that any attempt to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would risk destabilizing financial markets, according to two people close to the White House granted anonymity to share details of private discussions.

Bessent privately urges caution as Trump attacks Powell Any attempt to remove the Fed chair — a legally questionable option Trump considered in his first term — would feed instability in markets already woozy from the recent tariff whiplash.

"Bessent privately urges caution as Trump attacks Powell

Any attempt to remove the Fed chair — a legally questionable option Trump considered in his first term — would feed instability in markets already woozy from the recent tariff

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

in a significant cybersecurity breach that likely has and continues to expose our government to foreign intelligence and our nation's adversaries," said a letter from the group Whistleblower Aid to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence leaders and the US Office of Special Counsel.

"Mr. Berulis is coming forward today because of his concern that recent activity by members of the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE') have resulted

Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home “Stay out of DOGE’s way”: IT worker details how Musk group infiltrated US agency.

"Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home

"Stay out of DOGE's way": IT worker details how Musk group infiltrated US agency."

Published: Apr 16, 2025

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This quote is NOT from Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet).

The quote is from
Kevin Alfred Strom, an American neo-Nazi Holocaust denier. "Strom pled guilty to possession of child pornography in Jan 2008". According to The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremists in the United States.

April 18, 2025 Tonight I had the extraordinary privilege of speaking at the anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church, which happened 250 years ago tonight.

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FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections The Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to hire contractors to replace fired employees who helped plan thousands of food and drug safety inspections throughout the world.

FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections

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The administration that you're working for Mehmet Oz is increasing the cost of nutritious, healthy, natural foods. That's the dumbest plan of all ... ya, people love to have chronic disease.

Trump’s New Medicaid Chief Has Boneheaded Idea to Lower Drug Costs Dr. Oz made the comments right after being sworn in.

"Trump’s New Medicaid Chief Has Boneheaded Idea to Lower Drug Costs

Dr. Oz made the comments right after being sworn in."

Published:
April 18, 2025

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“And what they’re doing is systematically gutting all efforts to protect service members, and all Americans, from fraud and scams while simultaneously letting Wall Street, Big Banks and Big Tech off the hook.”

“Don’t pay attention to what they say about the CFPB, pay attention to what they’re doing,” Emily Peterson-Cassin, the corporate power director at the Demand Progress Education Fund, said in a statement responding to the cuts on Thursday.

The agency was created to protect consumers from unfair or deceptive financial practices, and it claims to be responsible for $19.7 billion in consumer relief since its inception, as well as $5 billion in civil penalties.

The CFPB was established by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, an expansive piece of legislation that imposed consequential regulatory reform in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Researching deliberate thinking

"Deliberate Purposeful Thinking: Nurturing Clarity and Meaning in Life"
by Francois Coetzee

Posted: Aug 15, 2023

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Development and validation of the highly sensitive child interview for the assessment of environmental sensitivity in primary school children Around a third of children perceive and process their environment more deeply and are more impacted by its quality. To obtain a more comprehensive and…

"Development & validation of the highly sensitive child interview for the assessment of environmental sensitivity in primary school children"

May 2024

≈ a third of children perceive & process their environment more deeply & are more impacted by its quality.

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Learned helplessness

Unfortunately, as they grow up, society will teach them how to suppress this ability ...

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Akin to the adage of 15 minutes of fame reduced to nanoseconds.

Listen in silence until you have fully formulated a reply that can impart a sensible, intelligent, & thoughtful rebuttal or confirmation. So many can't wait to reply - ergo, it is NOT a conversation that will result in meeting of the minds. Rather, as if one has squealed at the wind.