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The New York Times – [no paywall] “Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations…The use of Geo Group’s technology has made the company one of the Trump administration’s big business winners so …
“The European Commission is giving some of its US-bound staff burner phones and basic laptops to avoid cybersecurity risks, the Financial Times reported. Brussels typically reserves such measures for trips to Ukraine and China over fears of Russian or Chinese government espionage. Worries about American spying are the latest sign of worsening transatlantic ties in …
Follow up to Climate and DEI Deleted From Government Websites, Federal Workers Fired, Colleges Erase Programs, Law Firms Blackballed, Holocaust Denied – The New York Times Opinion by M. Gessen [unlocked]: “Almost three months into the Trump administration’s war on universities, and a year and a half into the Republican Party’s organized campaign against the …
Wired [no paywall] “The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned. The Social Security Administration will no longer be communicating with the media and the public through press releases and “dear colleague” letters, as it shifts its public …
ProPublica – Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans. “The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold immigrants before deportation. Update, April 11, 2025: After this …
Wired: “Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel [rump supporter], is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED. For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with …
The New York Times no paywall: “President Trump has taken a whipsaw approach to tariffs, widening and shifting course in determining which countries and goods will be subject to them. But across Mr. Trump’s political career, his case for tariffs has remained consistent, relying on a number of false and misleading claims to describe a …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together. These intimate details about the personal lives of people who live in the United States are held in disconnected data systems across the …
Lifehacker: “Whether you’re filling a prescription, rebooking a flight, or asking a question about your taxes, it seems like the first line of defense between you and any sort of real human helper is a never-ending string of automated prompts. But not all questions can be answered by a computer—especially when it comes to your …
Via Reddit Data is Beautiful: “I sourced the data from Quiver Quantitative’s Congress Live Net Worth Tracker (www.quiverquant.com/congress-live-net-worth). The website provides live net worth estimates for members of the U.S. Congress based on their publicly disclosed financial information. Net worth information for some members was not available, and thus those individuals were not included in the …
The New Republic: “…Surveying this Boschian hellscape, many good people will despair. Yes, Trump is much more dangerous than he was during his first term (which was harrowing enough). He’s more giddily reckless about impounding funds, shutting down agencies, disobeying court orders, and using the government to punish political enemies. But if you allow yourself …
The Crucial Years – Hands off…the future. So many ways to wreck an economy, and Trump is trying them all…”Mark Gongloff and Elaine He at Bloomberg produced a remarkable timeline [no paywall] the other day showing in enormous detail how the Trump administration had, in a matter of weeks, undone twenty years worth of efforts …
