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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 …
Wired – no paywall: “The Government Accountability Office’s audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).”Records show that the GAO—an independent auditing, research, and investigative agency for Congress—appears …
Politico: “The memo appears to rely on a misinterpretation of a recent Supreme Court ruling. President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies and their assigned DOGE teams to repeal any existing regulations that are inconsistent with his priorities without providing advance notice or going through the traditional public input process.The move accelerates the White House’s …
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 …
Follow up to: Does the Government Decide What Your Law Firm Will Do? – via Bloomberg – “Large law firms plan to refuse to give the Trump administration information on their clients’ diversity initiatives as part of federal discrimination investigations. The 20 firms facing questions from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will reject the agency’s …
Washington Post no paywall – The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do. “On March 27, President Donald Trump issued the executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which accused the Smithsonian of “replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by …
“The purpose of “The 3.5% Project” is to provide an ongoing context for Harvard professor Gene Sharp’s 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action––a blueprint for nonviolent resistance. Each of the 198 methods can be used at any time, in any order, by anyone. (Read the blog for the most recent post.) If you’re part of the …
Hummingbird migration map (last updated April 8, 2025) courtesy of Hummingbird Central. By Jim Wilson, Birder and Adkins Arboretum Volunteer. “I track the migration of ruby-throated hummingbirds, and observed that one early-bird crossed the Gulf of Mexico and arrived on the Alabama coast on February 23, with many more arriving three weeks later. The Hummingbird …
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 …
Indivisible: “House Republicans are once again pushing H.R. 22 (what we’re referring to as the “Silencing Americans Act”), a dangerous bill that would create unnecessary obstacles for millions of eligible Americans trying to register to vote. The House passed it last session, but it never made it to the Senate—now they’re bringing it back in …
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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 …
