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Government

A bell that cannot be unrung

Among the many lawsuits against the Trump/Musk actions is one filed by the AFL/CIO and other labor organizations and unions against the Department of Labor for DOGE access to what should be confidential and private data. In response, the government attempted to blow off the concerns by stating that DOGE folk are now employed by […]

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Government Political

Georgia Republican attack on trans kids

Now that Georgia Republicans no longer have abortion as their ‘moral cause’ they’re attacking trans people. The same people who they’ve ignored for decades but—all of a sudden!—have become the seeming greatest need and threat to Georgians! Not the price of eggs any more, is it? According to the Georgia Recorder, the GOP-controlled Senate just […]

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Government Legal, Laws, and Regs

Trump’s and Musk’s Betrayal

It was a tip to Washington Post that gives us an indication of what’s really happening with DOGE. Musk’s claims of changing code and stopping payments was nothing more than a distraction, a way of keeping our focus on what one hand is doing while the other operates freely. Trump’s blathering out developing Gaza, or […]

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Government Legal, Laws, and Regs

Oh geez, lawyers, please next time talk to the techs

Adding on to my previous post, about the lawsuit against Treasury for allowing DOGE free reign in sensitive systems, we’re now hearing that DOGE people are illegally accessing sensitive data at the Department of Education, and feeding it wholesale—without scrubbing it of identifying information—into a Microsoft Azure cloud-based AI tool of some kind. In other […]

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Government Legal, Laws, and Regs Whatever

Lawyers, next time, talk to the techs

I’m following several lawsuits related to recent Trump/DOGE antics. Among them is a lawsuit by the Alliance for Retired Americans related to DOGE access to Treasury fiscal systems. First of all, none of the DOGE techies who have been mentioned at Wired have the expertise to even understand the Treasury systems, much less modify them […]