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Tim Bondy

#USgovernment #history #GoodStewards

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 · Historic 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

heathercoxrichardson.substack.comMarch 21, 2025These days, I keep coming back to the quotation recorded by journalist Ron Suskind in a New York Times Magazine article in 2004.
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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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“‘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.’”

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#USA#USGov#USGovernment
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A PROPRIETARY chatbot—

proprietary— private, someone owns it—

Musk rolled it out quietly — WITHIN THE US GOVERNMENT— as he cuts federal workers.

And “The DOGE team hopes to eventually use it to analyze contract and procurement data.”

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#USGov #USGovernment #USA #musk #trump #DOGE

wired.com/story/gsai-chatbot-1

WIRED · DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal WorkersBy Makena Kelly
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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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Nonilex

The #USgovernment is one of the world’s biggest #publishers, & its #research on everything from carbon emissions to infant mortality is conducted on a scale that few private institutions can match. Kellam said that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during #Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late Jan, when the #CDC began removing #information…. (It’s since been restored by means of a #TRO.)

#DigitalBookBurning#TrumpPurge#InfoSec
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