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Correct, and her testimony yesterday likely triggered his actions, in part because he's been convicted of fraud and he knows they can follow the trail through her actions to him.
The best people.
Trump did purchase the Senate Confirmation Insurance Policy by selecting one of the Senate's own, even if he's a violent, corrupt, ignorant sociopath.
Having been convicted for fraud, his sensitivity to people committing fraud (that he recognizes) is likely very high. He (correctly) is afraid Noem's fraud could engulf his regime.
Additionally, federal agencies had become overly dependent on the advice and guidance of both technology consultants and vendors. There was a dearth of people experienced in and qualified for making decisions about what data and technology was needed to support programs.
It's an important issue.
Former CIO for a federal agency. This is an accurate statement, but there's more to it than the malfeasance of this regime. Government IT suffered from decades-long inattention to changing risks and needs and a lack of resources to manage, update and secure existing technology.
*You know that Ursula Le Guin myth about "Omelas"? Well this world is the opposite of that. There's this secret, ritual chamber holding eighty moguls in luxurious contentment, while the entire planet and everyone in it is in obvious suffering and decay
The blinking is the tell. She acknowledges the lie; she's lying about the regret.
The botox and filler hide everything else.
When the Ellison family businesses claim "too big to fail", start seizing their assets and removing family members and friends from the boards of Oracle, Paramount, and Netflix.
Hard to be a hegemon if you can't make others dependent on something you provide while simultaneously threatening them if they don't purchase from you.
Genius. True. Watch. Follow.
The voter suppression is intentional and in plain sight.
The Supreme Court will create a new reading of law to justify it.
The sentence is true if you strike "politics" as well.
I'll leave Florida out of this chat. 😂
Oh, for the days of "family values" Republicans ... wait, they were just as mendacious and hypocritical back then, too.
Intentional, provocative, and destabilizing.
In the "things I neither expected or wanted to learn" category of life are receiving incredibly literate and moving dispatches from an expatriate friend living in the UAE trying to escape from the theatre of operations at the beginning of World War III.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
With you on this.
Good PR has saved many mediocre wealthy white men.
“It’s corrupt, is the word,” said Charles Tiefer, a leading authority on federal contract law. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer,” he aded: www.propublica.org/article/kris...
This will disproportionately impact Black women, gay Black men, and trans men and women.
There's a word for this: genocide.
She is one of the most resourceful and resilient people I know. She'll get out with grace and a set of stories. And unfortunately, more things to trigger PTSD.
I'd argue that Israeli and US belief in hegemonic impunity and the suppression of the real cost of decapitation as a tactic have led to its increased use, with the real consequences being deferred.
There's a weird world of accepted behaviors in the intelligence and special operations communities that I don't pretend to understand or want to know more about.
Decapitation is two steps away from using chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. It's not done because of the consequences.
I have an American friend living in the UAE who's booked two flights out, and is exploring overland options to get to airports not in the restricted airspace.
No instructions or support from any US Embassy or from the State Department.
Shameful.
Decapitation, like many simplistic approaches, has its consequences.
This is a good overview.
Also: Hegseth just prohibited service members (and presumably civilians) from continuing professional education at Harvard. So this kind of research threatens their Dominionist agenda.
I feel this. Do. Not. Like.
Didn't she testify that she reviewed and approved contracts over $10 million?
did a little back of the envelope math for how much all this shit is costing. on the order of $1-2 billion per day just in direct spending, maybe 10 times that much in indirect effects
PS: the US service academies used to teach our officer corps about the folly and risk of religious wars, and of the need to separate military service from religious belief and practice. That appears to have been superseded by Christian Dominionist theology.
The Founders are not pleased.
