#USpolitics #Musk #Doge #Transparency

"Musk’s Team Is Less Transparent — We Found Its Big Errors Anyway" [ ± 1min]
by nytimes

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/efzQQBrSQqY

Quote by nyt:
"Mar 15
2025
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has made its newest claims harder to check — for “security purposes,” according to a White House official — after a series of news reports called out DOGE’s error-filled data. But we found the errors anyway. Our investigative reporter explains.
Video by David A. Fahrenthold, Laura Bult, Gabriel Blanco and James Surdam/The New York Times"

#USbeware #FascistsAreHere
#TimeToResist #FightOligarchy

https://www.europesays.com/2021092/ Greece must face punishment over abuses against migrants, Frontex official says – POLITICO #asylum #borders #conflict #crisis #greece #HumanRights #Libya #maritime #migration #missions #Refugees #rights #Transparency #Ελλάδα #νεα

A quotation from Thomas Fuller

Boast not of thy good Deeds, lest thy evil Deeds also be brought upon the Board.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 1855 (1727)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…

Want to see more #transparency from the #OpenSourceInitiative, especially with regard to their recent #election? Sign the #petition asking them to release the full, unaltered election results:

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

https://www.europesays.com/uk/38969/ BeZero and Xpansiv Power Up Transparency in Carbon Credit Markets #Business #CarbonCredits #CarbonMarkets #CarbonRating #cleantech #ClimateAction #ClimateSolutions #EmissionReduction #EnvironmentalImpact #esg #GreenEconomy #GreenInvesting #LowCarbonFuture #Markets #NetZero #Sustainability #Transparency #UK #UnitedKingdom

#SCOTUS this week:

The debate over #Religious #freedom & #ParentalRights is back at the #SupremeCourt.

Justices will consider whether #PublicSchools can stop parents removing students from lessons using #LGBTQ+ themed #books. The issue has divided a #Maryland community.

Justices will weigh the future of #free #PreventiveCare today.

And #police officers who joined the rally before the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection asked justices for anonymity.

Rainbow District School Board still doesn't provide answers to reasonable questions about its cyberattack, claiming exemptions under relevant Ontatio municipal freedom of information law:

https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/foi-reveals-ransom-demand-was-made-in-rainbow-board-cyber-incident-10547713

"Attorneys suing the United States government over its use of vanishing Signal messages to coordinate military strikes last month in Yemen allege that new court filings by the government reveal a “calculated strategy” by Trump administration officials to evade transparency laws through the illegal destruction of government records.

US defense and intelligence agencies on Monday submitted supplemental declarations in court outlining their individual efforts to preserve the messages at the center of the “SignalGate” scandal. American Oversight, a watchdog organization whose attorneys are suing the government, claim the declarations reveal “troubling inconsistencies” in efforts by US officials to archive the material, with the Central Intelligence Agency in particular alleging that it had archived no messages of any substance.

“Using encrypted, disappearing messages on Signal for official government business violates the Federal Records Act and represents a calculated strategy to undermine transparency and accountability,” claims the group’s interim executive director, Chioma Chukwu."

https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-happened-to-those-signalgate-messages/

#RFK #Gov #crime #transparency

"Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday... The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration posted roughly 229 files containing the pages to its public website. Many files related to the senator’s assassination had been previously released, but others had not been digitized and sat for decades in storage facilities maintained by the federal government."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/national-archives-releases-10000-pages-of-records-related-to-1968-assassination-of-robert-f-kennedy

Time to start tracking a new hashtag #LawlessnessInAmerica

More on #DOGE’s #Fraud & #Destruction
"Musk has reduced the claims abt what DOGE is saving fr $1-2tril to $150bil. NYT reports he’s still getting the numbers wrong thru things like accounting errors & cancelling contracts tt don’t exist. What a fraud fr start to finish.. #Justice Dept is fighting vigorously to shield DOGE fr hv'g to divulge tt info, despite #Trump & #Musk’s repeated assurances abt #transparency"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/more-on-doges-fraud-and-destruction.html

We've only been at https://apply.coop for 3 months or so. Sure we could have YOLOed some CRUD app into the wild based on some framework, but we wanted to take a different approach to our tech stack. We've made lots of progress and are happy with our choices.

Still priding ourselves of no JS and a single binary with all static assets embedded.

https://codeberg.org/limeleaf/apply.coop/activity/quarterly

Nice CalMatters summary of the open meeting and #transparency battles in Sacramento this year. Too many pro-secrecy bills from Democratic reps. These should be opposed. https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-transparency/

Big news for your wallet and the planet! Companies might soon have to tell you when their products will... stop working. Would that change how you shop? #Transparency #Sustainability https://www.wired.com/story/companies-might-soon-have-to-tell-you-when-their-products-will-die/

News from the States: Colorado could allow longer time to fulfill open records requests. “Colorado could soon allow governments to take longer to fulfill requests subject to the Colorado Open Records Act under a bill in the state Legislature, but it includes a carve out for journalists. Senate Bill 25-77 passed a House committee Monday and now heads to the full House chamber for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/news-from-the-states-colorado-could-allow-longer-time-to-fulfill-open-records-requests/

Based on some of my posts made in #Taipei last month.

Trees are people to me. https://aarohini.medium.com/tree-data-in-taipei-9012a8cf53b9

#RepublicOfGeorgia: First year of #Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how #autocracies are replicating #Russian model − and speeding up the time frame

Published: March 28, 2025 6:25am EDT

"#Autocracy is on the move worldwide and becoming more resilient.

"One of the driving forces behind this phenomenon is something scholars call '#AuthoritarianLearning,' a process by which autocratic leaders study each other and adapt tactics based on what appears to work, and how to proceed when they encounter #resistance.

"Take Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has steered the Caucasus nation from a path toward democracy back to autocracy – and it has done so by learning from Russia. In particular, it adopted a '#ForeignAgent' law in May 2024 – legislation that came straight from #VladimirPutin’s playbook.

"Sold to the public as increasing #transparency, the legislation has been utilized to persecute Georgia’s #opposition and arrest #dissidents with impunity.

"As researchers examining the structure and effects of autocratic regimes, we view Georgia’s first year of its foreign agent law as an example of how politicians are not only learning the tactics of Russian authoritarianism but improving on them in a shorter time frame."

Read more:
https://theconversation.com/first-year-of-georgias-foreign-agent-law-shows-how-autocracies-are-replicating-russian-model-and-speeding-up-the-time-frame-250878

#RightToProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GeorgianLaws #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #HumanRights #RepublicOfGeorgia #GeorgianDream #ProtestSponsors #ExpandedPolicePowers #PoliceState #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Autocracy

#Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, will visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a #physical Friday, the first of his new admin.

Don’t expect much. In December 2015, Dr. Harold Bornstein, #Trump's personal physician, wrote a letter saying that he would be the "healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." Bornstein told CNN in 2018 that the doctor's note he penned had been dictated to him by Trump.

#USpol #transparency #unfit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/trump-physical.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4A64F9B5-650E-475E-86C3-2527691A6DCD

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DOAJ and EZB: Working together for more visibility of information on publishing.

A new collaboration will see DOAJ and EZB contribute to greater transparency in scholarly publishing, empowering authors with the information they need to make informed publishing decisions

#DOAJ #metadata #APCs #transparency #ScholComm #OpenAccess

All details at https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/10/doaj-and-ezb-working-together-for-more-visibility-of-information-on-publishing/