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Helping Change Agents and Change Leaders who want to make a better world, especially through institutional innovation
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47 Watch (47-watch.com) has been updated with:
— 1 press release
— 1 memorandum
— 1 "fact" sheet for said memo
the "fact" sheet is a doozy and the analysis debunks it pretty thoroughly, tho I get the feeling they are winning the propaganda war.
Musk ally demands admin access to system that lets government text the public.
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, including phone numbers," 404 Media has learned.
Strongly recommend Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) -- 5-years-anniversary post at Pluralistic, where he talks about some of the ways he manages his astonishingly productive time -- and the essential value of making your own "feed" decisions.
REVEALED by Correspondent @stevanzetti: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/
#SocialMedia #extremism #immigration #border #politics #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #Trump #news
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
Read the #resignation letter by #DeniseCheung, a veteran DC federal prosecutor [pic]

She refused a #Trump admin demand to freeze environmental grant assets.

The head of the #criminal division in the US attorney’s office in DC resigned Tues morning after declining to comply with a Trump admin demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden admin environmental grant initiative & launch a criminal investigation without evidence of wrongdoing.
Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
By Eliot A. Cohen
There is a rule in #politics never to ascribe to #malignity what one can explain through #incompetence & #stupidity. This approach has become difficult to sustain in the case of the #Trump admin. But there is another possibility: Both explanations operate simultaneously.
#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/
Love this: Hostile government takeover (as featured on John Oliver's show last night).
I hope whoever agrees to sign the dismissal knows that they are writing the opening line of their obituary.
To be clear, I don't mean it's a career-limiting move; I mean their literal obituary will open with this ignominious detail.
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404 Media
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