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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 […]

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Constitution Immigration

Subject to the jurisdiction…Trump just stated no one can enforce migration law against migrant mothers

Among the appalling, thoughtless, reckless, and inane executive orders trump issued on Day One, the one considered the most *bonkers is the one to end birthright citizenship. Yes, is it is true that for over a 130 years, courts have deemed that birthright citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment, which states: All people born […]

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Immigration Political

Doing the Math on Trump’s Deportation plans

In the category of “better late than never”, the media takes a harder look at Trump’s deportation plans

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Government Legal, Laws, and Regs The Democratic Difference

It is none of our damn business

My Dad, who was a Republican, would have liked Tim Walz. He would have liked Walz’s plain speaking. He would have admired his bluntness, especially when Walz says that a woman’s right to choose is none of our damn business. He would have liked it because that’s exactly what my Dad used to say. When […]