Laurie🇺🇸🦅~ 1,219,487 dead Americans bec of Drumpf

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Animal lover who’s currently tent🏕️ camping around the 🇺🇸 w/my fur babies🐾 engaging in good trouble. RIP, Shawn.🙏🏻 I 💚& miss u a lot, bro!☘️🫶 #BuddyAndFeFe #CrossCountryAdventure

Four tech bros were given the rank of Lt Colonel simply based on their gender, skin color, connections and influence, which raises serious questions about the double standards around merit and hiring in this kakistocracy. Two weeks is all it takes to become a Lt Colonel in the U.S. military nowadays

Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings

The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting tale...

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For decades, “suitability” reviews were mainly used as background checks for job applicants. A 2011 ruling made clear that OPM could not use them against people already working in government. That protection is now gone.

This hasn’t gotten much attention, but it should. While everyone was focused on Schedule F, the administration created something even broader. On July 30, a new OPM rule took effect that creates a second way to fire federal employees outside the normal civil service process.

In a crucial move for the defense, a D.C. Superior Court judge warned the Drumpf regime to maintain the status quo and "not do anything further" to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during a July 2026 hearing in the vandalism case against former Olympian David Hearn. (1/2)

Here’s Why A Judge Warned Trump To Quit Working On The Reflecting Pool

David Hearn, the ex-Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, will face trial Sept. 28, a judge said Monday.

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Of course ICE denied having Flock camera access until they got caught. We need to demand a hard stop on ALL automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) before our civil liberties are completely stripped away. The issue isn't the technology itself—it's how people in power can, and do, abuse it. (1/2)

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows

Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

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