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'Unlawful attack' on #Fed integrity says Congressional Black Caucus

The Congressional #Black Caucus, a group of dozens of lawmakers in the US #House & #Senate, called Trump's push to fire #LisaCook #unlawful in a post on X on Tuesday:

“In the 111-year history of the #FederalReserve, no president has ever attempted to remove a governor of the #CentralBank until now.“

#law #economy #Trump #AbuseOfPower

Chris Geoghooligan 5h ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5h ago

Creating biometric profiles of people “is incredibly invasive,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Oklahoma Watch. If it's being done in prisons, “there has to be a very clear policy and a real guarantee this information is not going anywhere.”
https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/08/26/as-oklahoma-prisons-embrace-ai-critics-warn-of-risks/

As Oklahoma Prisons Embrace AI, Critics Warn of Risks

Oklahoma prison officials envision drones, call monitoring and AI technologies as the future, but advocates worry the tools create risks that extend beyond incarceration.

Oklahoma Watch

Chris Geoghooligan 5h ago

Malcolm Nance 9h ago

Here’s a piece of #political prophecy for your #delectation

🎥 TikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdX35UPH/

Chris Geoghooligan 5h ago

Our new CEO just sent out an email about a corporate reorg 😒. Part of it specified the restructuring of my group from 3 business units into 2. Doesn’t sound like the content will change, but my boss was not named as one of the 2 remaining BU Directors, sooo…

I don’t wish him any ill will but I do think he’s a coward who has held me back for years, so I’m not upset if he’s out.

Of course we don’t have a meeting about this until 9/15 so we’ll see what happens.

Chris Geoghooligan 6h ago

Warner Crocker 9h ago

I think we all suspected this

“Members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of a crucial Social Security database in June to a vulnerable cloud server”

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says -…
#politics
https://archive.ph/D3vJ0

Chris Geoghooligan 6h ago

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1d ago

"Creating a single interface for government data about us is dangerous if it works, and also dangerous if it doesn't," EFF's Cindy Cohn writes in the Mercury News and East Bay Times. Fighting tech-enabled tyranny and protecting privacy and security is a team sport. Are you ready to join the fight?
https://supporters.eff.org/donate/fed-up-give-today

Chris Geoghooligan 6h ago

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 17h ago

The four day working week is increasingly common in the Netherlands, with the country having the highest rates of part-time working in the OECD (over 50% of women & nearly 20% of men work part-time).

This doesn't seem to have notably wrecked the Dutch economy, and as Sarah O'Connor (FT) notes, its surely not incidental that by allowing more time for parenting, Dutch children are the happiest in the (rich) world.

Time to increase the UK's acceptance of four day working?

#workers #politics

Chris Geoghooligan 8h ago

DC Hokies Soccer 9h ago

Happy birthday to our occasional captain Nick, who I don’t think uses social media but I’m sure is mean muggin’ us nonetheless!

Chris Geoghooligan 9h ago

DC Hokies Soccer 10h ago

One of the benefits of playing an adult rec sport is the opportunity to meet and interact with new people, but it can be difficult to stay in touch and/or leverage those connections in a professional context. To that end, we have created a DC Hokies Soccer Alumni group on LinkedIn with the intent of offering networking opportunities specific to players past and present. We have invited many of you (so check your invites and/or spam), but please message us if we missed you and you’d like to be a member!

#dchokies #dchokiessoccer #linkedin #alumni #network #networking #hokie #hokies #hokies🦃 #hokienation #hokiesports #hokies⚽️ #hokies🦃⚽️ #hokiefamily #hokiespirit #hokiealumni #hokiealum