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#oversight

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gcvsa ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭

Two big problems in #IT that I don't see anyone trying to solve, and very few people even thinking about, let alone talking about:

1. a comprehensive set of #professional #standards regarding the #ethical operation, administration, moderation, and #oversight of public discussion forums.

2. a comprehensive set of professional standards regarding the ethical storage and transmission of personal #data and #information.

I don't think people even understand why these are #problems.

#ethics
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Calishat

#gov #finance #business #misconduct #oversight

'States frequently give firms subsidy packages in return for establishing operations and creating jobs in their area. In a new study, Yale SOM’s Aneesh Raghunandan finds that state officials are then less likely to penalize those companies for corporate misconduct—and their leniency seems to encourage firms to ignore regulations.'

insights.som.yale.edu/insights

A "Welcome to Washington" sign along a highway
Yale InsightsCompanies That Receive State Subsidies Are More Likely to Break Workplace Laws‌In a new study, Yale SOM’s Aneesh Raghunandan finds that state officials are then less likely to penalize companies that receive subsidies for corporate misconduct—and their leniency seems to encourage firms to ignore regulations.
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Nonilex

Among other steps, #Columbia said it would have 36 campus safety officers w/ #arrest powers, a shift w/enormous resonance at a university that has a long history of campus #activism & fraught ties w/law enforcement.Columbia also said it would adopt a formal definition of #antisemitism, review its #admissions policies &, in a turn that was especially alarming to professors who cherish #academic #freedom, impose new #oversight of the university’s #MiddleEastern, #SouthAsian & #AfricanStudies Dept.

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Nonilex

Sen #RogerWicker, #Republican of MS & the chair of the #Senate panel which has #oversight of the #Pentagon, says that he & his Democratic counterpart will request an expedited investigation by the Dept of #Defense Office of Inspector General into the #Signal group chat. Wicker & Sen #JackReed, Democrat of RI & the top Dem on the cmte, are also seeking to hold classified briefings on the matter.

It’s unclear who will oversee the investigation because #Trump fired the IG at the Pentagon.

#law
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Nonilex

Oh snap!

The judge who the govt has argued can't be trusted w/sensitive information in the #AlienEnemiesAct case has been assigned to a case about top govt officials' appearing to share sensitive information on the commercial messaging application #Signal.

US District Court Judge James #Boasberg in the DC has been assigned to oversee the case of American #Oversight against top ofcls involved in the Signal group chat about an attack on Yemen.

#law#NationalSecurity#Trump
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Hélène Collon ⏚

"Trump administration guts homeland security department's #civil rights office [and] fires almost all its employees in a move that will undermine its ability to provide #oversight as he implements hardline immigration policies.
They were told they would be put on leave and formally fired in May, according to five government officials. Mr. Trump also closed the ombudsman for #Citizenship and Immigration Services, responsible for scrutinizing the administration’s legal immigration policies.
The shuttering was particularly notable given the lack of transparency over the administration’s #immigration crackdown."
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

the Guardian · Columbia University capitulates to Trump demands to restore $400m in federal funding – as it happenedChanges include allowing security officers to arrest students and a new official for Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department. This blog is now closed.
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gentlegardener

@dan613 @CivilEats #BrookeRollins is doing exactly the #project2025 playbook for #usda. And more. She is the secretary of the u s department of #agriculture. All the actions of that agency are under #oversight of #congress.

When we fight with precision using the right tools for the job, we win. When we lie down and cry about a single person, we don’t.

#omb director wrote the playbook. minions are carrying out and carrying on, beyond t’s wildest dreams.

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Kent Pitman

@TomWellborn @0x0ddc0ffee

"Transparency", which the unelected co-president often claims of DOGE, is not a descriptive term, but a fraudulently offered fig leaf intended to subtly dissuade their all-too-trusting followers not to look deeper.

The kind of "inefficiency" they are really seeking to end is not the process inefficiency of these agencies, but the deliberative oversight by Congress that is its protection, and ours, against exactly this kind of smash and grab.

Their hurry is to steal as much as possible as quickly as possible in an irrevocable way, hoping to leave a crippled system that can no longer function to come after them.

Also, they rail against it "entitlement", but they are its poster children.

They are two irony-fisted dictator wannabes.

We must not let them succeed.

#USPolitics#politics#irony
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Nonilex

If Congressional #Republicans were looking for a gotcha moment, #Boston’s Mayor #MichelleWu (D) didn’t give them one.

Wu emerged from the marathon 6hr #House #Oversight Cmte hearing unscathed, & managed to land quite a few hits of her own under aggressive questioning.

In her first time testifying before #Congress, #MayorWu stuck to her talking points, emphasized Boston’s strong public #safety record & argued…that the city’s #immigration policies boost #PublicSafety.

bostonglobe.com/2025/03/05/met

BostonGlobe.comMayor Wu touted Boston’s safety, remained defiant during hourslong GOP-led hearing. Here’s how it unfolded. - The Boston GlobeWu emerged from the marathon hearing largely unscathed, and managed to land a few hits in the face of aggressive questioning.
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gentlegardener

Kick off Friday 7 march

Tell #congress to exercise their #oversight and budget responsibility and restore all science and staff in every agency.

Pick your favorite agency, put it on a postcard - NIH or USDA. NOAA or CDC, EPA or vA, or tell them ALL! Send to relevant committee members R D and I and your MOC s. Let researchers know you have their backs (and field teams who put science to work)

Squawk now and louder during budget negotiations
#standupforscience

A stylized graphic featuring the Statue of Liberty holding a torch, alongside bold text that reads "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025" and "SCIENCE IS FOR EVERYONE," set against a light blue background.
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Nonilex

Wouldn’t it be great, #Musk offered, if he had #access to the #computers of the #FederalGovernment?

Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, & he would make the govt fit & trim.

What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a #radical takeover of the #FederalBureaucracy. It was driven with a frenetic focus by Musk, who channeled his #libertarian impulses & resentment of #regulatory #oversight of his vast #business holdings into a singular position of #influence.

#law#Trump
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