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#usgovernment

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A. Rivera

Of interest for some. This is basically the "credit card limit" the Man has that he keeps cheating on by raising the limit every year (you hear this in the news, OMG if no one raises the limit, government shuts down).

In contrast, you and me, for most part, can't go over credit limit (or if we do, bad things happen).

> Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit, March 2025 cbo.gov/publication/60887

Congressional Budget OfficeFederal Debt and the Statutory Limit, March 2025CBO estimates that if the debt limit remains unchanged, the government’s ability to borrow using established "extraordinary measures" will probably be exhausted in August or September 2025.
#BadEconomy#USGovernment#GovDocs
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A. Rivera

#SaveYouAClick: YES, or at least strong maybe. Maybe when those old farts who keep voting #GOP stop getting their checks they'll get a fucking clue and vote to get those rich assholes to pay their fair share of taxes. If they don't starve to death first.

> Could Elon Musk Actually Destroy Social Security as We Know It? inequality.org/article/could-e

Inequality.orgCould Elon Musk Actually Destroy Social Security as We Know It? - Inequality.orgThe Musk DOGE boy gang is already moving in that direction.
#BadEconomy#PartyOfStupid#USGovernment
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OUR COMMON GROUND

The Trump administration quietly removed a ban on segregated facilities in government contracts.

The U.S. government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated facilities, including restaurants, restrooms, and drinking fountains.

#JimCrow#whitesupremacy#MAGA
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ℒӱḏɩę :blahaj:

7 new torrents have been added to the antifa torrent server:

Department of Energy Youtube (UsDeptOfEnergyYoutube.torrent) 246GB
USPTO PatentsView Github (PatentsViewGithub.torrent) 5GB
Department of Education Web Archive Collection Zipped (Department of Education.wacz.torrent) 271GB
Podcasts that are part of the USIP Podcast Network (usip-podcast-network.torrent) 62GB
United States Institute of Peace YouTube Rip (usip-youtube.torrent) 273GB
Institute of Museum and Library Services website (www.imls.gov.7z.torrent) 2GB
Mirror of sites.ed.gov from 2025-05-20 (sites.ed.gov.7z.torrent) 2.4GB

Start downloading & seeding now!!

lydie.cc

www.lydie.ccWelcome to Lydie.cc
#datahoarder#datapreservation#preservation
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Tim Bondy

I never thought I would say this, but the US Government and probably quite a few state governments cannot be relied upon to be good stewards of the history of the United States.

I cannot be alone in this thought.

nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/histor

NBC News · Historical figures cut from military websites while others are restored following ‘DEI’ banBy Curtis Bunn
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Joseph Lim :mastodon:

👍Bayer hit with $2bn Roundup verdict⚖️
"Bayer has paid ~$10bil to settle disputed claims tt Roundup, based on #glyphosate, causes #cancer.. #Bayer acquired Roundup as part of its $63bil takeover of #Monsanto.. Glyphosate is still avail in #Thailand. Authorities in 2019 initially planned to ban glyphosate but reversed their decision.. #Reuters #investigation subsequently revealed tt the reversal of the glyphosate ban was influenced by pressure fr the #USgovernment & Bayer"👎
bangkokpost.com/business/gener

Bangkok Post · Bayer hit with $2bn Roundup verdictBy Reuters
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Guill.Jones, Honorary Canadian

"Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post observed today that “the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ [is making] the federal government almost comically inefficient.” She wrote that Internal Revenue Service employees line up at shared computers on Mondays to submit their “five things I did last week” emails to DOGE while taxpayer service calls go unanswered." --Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From An American
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
#SocialSecurity #USGovernment #Musk

Letters from an American · March 21, 2025By Heather Cox Richardson
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ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊

Also— another thought— no company was awarded a contract to make those changes to the government’s tech.

In the past, management in government would FIRST identify a need. THEN companies would compete for contracts and be awarded them before even beginning work. THEN their ideas would have to be run through committees for approval, considering factors like security and compliance with law.

The checks and balances of ‘bureaucracy’ exist for a reason.

#USA#USGov#USGovernment
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Memos (likely put out by non-DOGE dept. heads after DOGE rolled out the chatbot) also include warnings: ‘Do not type or paste federal nonpublic information… personally identifiable information...unclassified information.’

😳

#USA#USGov#USGovernment
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“‘How can I use the AI-powered chat?’ reads an internal memo about the product. ‘The options are endless, and it will continue to improve as new information is added. You can: draft emails, create talking points, summarize text, write code.’”

😳

#USA#USGov#USGovernment
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So many questions. For example:

1) Who approved the chatbot? (Typically, tech changes would take a while to approve to ensure their security and compliance with law.)

2) Does Trump know?

#USA#USGov#USGovernment
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Nonilex

A Statement from #ConstitutionalLaw Scholars on the government's funding cutoff at #ColumbiaUniversity

— Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole, & 15 other scholars

The #USgovernment may not threaten #funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing #First #Amendment protected #speech.

#law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent
nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/

The New York Review of BooksA Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David ColeWe write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
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A. Rivera

> Chaos and Confusion as the Statistics Arm of the Education Department is Reduced to a Skeletal Staff of 3 stephenslighthouse.com/2025/03

Can't really know if the #PendejoInChief's education "efforts" succeed or not if you can't measure or assess them. On a side note, I often use and refer students to NCES data when doing education related research. That is now in jeopardy.

Stephen's Lighthouse - Stephen Abram's Posts About Library Land · Chaos and Confusion as the Statistics Arm of the Education Department is Reduced to a Skeletal Staff of 3 - Stephen's LighthouseChaos and Confusion as the Statistics Arm of the Education Department is Reduced to a Skeletal Staff of 3 https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65317/chaos-and-confusion-as-the-statistics-arm-of-the-education-department-is-reduced-to-a-skeletal-staff-of-3
#education#statistics#ReferenceDesk
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