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“As the Trump administration returns to office for a second term with renewed deregulatory ambitions, the executive branch and its agencies are implementing significant policy changes. The Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets Regulatory Tracker (“Reg Tracker”) has relaunched to track major regulatory and executive actions taken by the administration, with a particular focus on …
Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social – Though the Justice Dept has deleted information about its Jan 6 prosecutions from its website, a federal judge has issued an order listing and chronicling all of the cases and prison terms. The information is Here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.231933/gov.uscourts.dcd.231933.176.0_1.pdf
“Chronicling America has a new look! This month, we’ll be exploring the new Chronicling America interface and providing tips on how to best use the new site. In this series of posts, we’ll show you how to use multiple keyword search options and facet your search results to narrow your search. We’ll also look at …
Privacy Guides: “There is a growing number of people who no longer feel safe in their own home or country. Whatever the reason, many people might not feel safe to browse certain topics online. With all the information getting collected for each internet search, it is difficult to access sometime vital information without leaving a …
Federal Disbursement Services (FDS): The Federal Disbursement Services provides payment services for more than 250+ federal agencies. Your federal income tax refunds; Social Security benefits; Supplemental Security income; Railroad Retirement Board benefits; veteran’s pay, pension, and education benefits all come from the Federal Disbursement Services. Payments to federal workers, vendors, and grantees also come from …
Roll Call: “President Donald Trump’s firing of inspectors general and independent agency board members in the last week sets up another major legal clash over Congress’ power to put limits on the removal of federal officials, experts said. Since Friday, Trump removed more than a dozen inspectors general and Democratic members of the Equal Employment …
The New Republic: “Last week, just days after his inauguration, Donald Trump eliminated the membership of a key committee that handles aviation security. And on Wednesday night, a passenger plane collided with a military helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area. On Tuesday, January 22, the Aviation Security Advisory Committee’s members received a memo from the …
404 Media – “A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train …
BleepingComputer – Want to prevent people from harvesting your personal information? Keep reading to learn how to remove your data from people search sites. “Protecting your digital footprint is crucial if you want to prevent phishing, scams, and other unwanted side effects caused by online data harvesting. Every day, people around the globe suffer from …
404 Media – “Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database. As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out, …
NPR: “Federal employee unions and attorneys are urging government workers not to accept an offer from the Trump administration to resign from their jobs by Feb. 6 and be paid through the end of September. “This ‘fork’ thing is not a buyout,” said Jim Eisenmann, a partner with Alden Law Group who represents federal employees, …
