#federal — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #federal, aggregated by home.social.
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Under the draft new rule, #parents who stay home with their #children could benefit from the program, which typically provides about $9,000 per child each year, potentially reshaping which #families get #federal #childcare money.
The move could end up redirecting money away from #WorkingParents & their child care providers, causing some to raise their rates or even close, critics said, potentially worsening what many experts say is a child care crisis in the country.
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Federal government denies role in reported drone strike on former prison commander
Friday September 4, 2026 Mogadishu (HOL) — Somali federal government has denied involvement in a reported drone strike…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #Commander #denies #drone #federal #former #geopolitics #Government #in #ON #prison #reported #role #strike
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Plus de 1,2 G$ versés en indemnisation à des enfants des Premières Nations
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-autochtones/2275781/indemnisation-enfants-premieres-nations-jordan-apn-autochtones
#Autochtones #enfants #pensionnats #PremièresNations #indemnisation #discrimination #racisme #racismesystémique #Canada #gouvernement #fédéral #provinces #Yukon #src #média #justice #réparation -
Judge tosses #Drumpf admin overly broad #Legal suit Seeking Billions Of Dollars from #Harvard University for supposed #Antisemitism. The case was deemed insufficiently documented as #DOJ sought to recover billion$ in federal #research grants awarded to to the Cambridge Mass based U since October 2023 over alleged discrimination by the oldest university in the #UnitedStates. #DJT administration has separately tried to cut billions of dollars of funding for Harvard for alleged antisemitism and liberal bias. Last September, a different #federal judge ruled those moves to cut funds largely unlawful and ordered the U's research budget be restored.
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Un #juge #fédéral #américain interdit aux #agents de l' #ICE de procéder à des arrestations au sein des #tribunaux d' #immigration
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Regarding the #voterID bill #Trump is strong-arming #Congress into passing, the #Senate has tried & failed FIVE TIMES SINCE MARCH to force it through to appease him.
The package of national voting restrictions called the “SAVE America Act” would require a photo ID to vote in federal #elections & proof of #US #citizenship to register, while compelling #states to turn over their voter registration rolls to the #federal government.
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Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
[SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
#all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
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Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
[SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
#all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/05/federal-judge-had-sex-in-chambers-bringing-new-meaning-to-gavel-bang/ -
Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
[SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
#all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/05/federal-judge-had-sex-in-chambers-bringing-new-meaning-to-gavel-bang/ -
Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
[SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
#all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
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🇺🇸 New from Claroty Chief Strategy Officer Grant Geyer: An analysis of the Trump Administration’s latest AI Executive Order and its implications for critical infrastructure cybersecurity
The EO introduces a voluntary framework for sharing frontier AI models with government agencies before release and expands access to advanced AI capabilities for smaller critical infrastructure operators, including rural hospitals and utilities.
Grant explores what this means for organizations operating below the "cyber poverty line"—and why strengthening cyber resilience across all critical infrastructure sectors matters more than ever.
💡 Read the blog: https://claroty.com/blog/the-2026-ai-executive-order-protecting-critical-infrastructure-below-the-cyber-poverty-line
#AI #Cybersecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #OperationalResilience #CyberResilience #OTSecurity #Federal #NationalSecurity
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Starting last year, 2 political appointees at the #Treasury Dept— US Treasurer Brandon Beach & his snr adviser, Mike Brown — repeatedly urged staff at the agency’s Bureau of Engraving & Printing to prepare prototypes of the note, acc/to the employees, who said the move raised concerns because #federal #law currently allows only deceased people to appear on bills.
#Trump #vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar #law
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ACLU: 93% of U.S. voters believe federal agents who violate people's rights should be held accountable.
Congress needs to pass 1) the Bivens Act and 2) the Constitutional Accountability Act.
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #complete #immunity #federal #agents #above the #law #BivensAct #Congress #Constitution #equal #branches of #government #impeach #remove #charge #arrest #jury #jail #OurPutin #AnotherOrban #ICE #DHS #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #BeGood #ACLU #HumanRights
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1) "Big Beautiful B|ll" tries to screw "woke" degrees [3 yrs fail & Uni has to cancel that #degree path]
"MA in Social Justice & #HumanRights" "BA in Women's & #Gender Studies" "PhD in #African American Studies" were their targets
2) Religious #schools figure out their degrees will lose funding too
3) Chr|stian #Colleges cry foul, beg for rule to be removed
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #federal #education #loan #cap #nurse #shortage #nursing #private #lenders = #higher #rates
https://www.foxnews.com/media/student-loan-rule-would-penalize-graduates-enter-ministry-christian-college-leaders-say -
Iran War Raises Uncertainty Over Fed Rate Path, Pimco and Analysts Say
The war in Iran may lead the Federal Reserve to further delay interest-rate cuts and instead raise rates,…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Bonds #breakingnews #ChiefExecutiveOfficer #DanIvascyn #Economics #Europe #federal-reserve #Inflation #Iran #JennyJohnson #Markets #UnitedKingdom #War
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Mortgage rates largely unchanged despite Iran war headlines
Mortgage rates largely unchanged despite Iran war headlines Skip to content © 2006-2026 HW Media, LLC. All rights…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #federal-reserve #HWmember #Iran #JeromePowell #mortgagerates #MortgageRatesCenter
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CW: uspol
Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board.
President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums natio...
#american-library-association #dc-bureau #federal-funding-libraries #institute-of-museum-and-library-services
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“Justice” #ClarenceThomas explained that the #oil company had cleared the bar required to move the case into federal court because the lawsuit dealt with oil production in #Louisiana dating back to WWII, when #Chevron refined crude oil into aviation #gasoline for the #US #military.
He wrote that Chevron had shown that its #wartime production of crude oil related to its wartime aviation-gasoline refining for the military, a #federal priority.
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The #Trump admin has opened investigations into #admissions policies at 3 major #MedicalSchools, expanding the #federal govt’s pressure campaign beyond campus #culture & taking aim at the heart of #ScientificAuthority in the #US.
The #DOJ on Wednesday informed #Stanford, #OhioState & #UCSD, about the investigations & demanded that the schools turn over extensive lists of #data by April 24 or risk interruptions to essential federal #funding….
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Great. Let’s impede #medical #education./s
#Trump Admin Begins Investigations Into Three #MedicalSchools
The #DOJ’s demands for #admissions-related data from #Stanford, #OhioState & the University of California, San Diego [#UCSD], represent a flex of #federal #power.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #privacy #InfoSec #dictatorship #authoritarianism #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #science #medicine #PublicHealth
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Real ID: Federal Mandate, National Card, or Something Worse?
The Real ID is now the law of the land, but it is not the law most Americans think it is, and the story of how it arrived at your local DMV is a twenty-year saga of congressional sleight-of-hand, serial postponement, and a quiet transformation of the American driver’s license into something it was never designed to be. The question everyone should be asking is not whether they need one. The question is what the Real ID actually represents in the architecture of American civic life, and whether the reassurances offered by the Department of Homeland Security hold up under any meaningful scrutiny.
What Is Real ID, Exactly?
Congress passed the Real ID Act in 2005 as a direct response to the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the federal government establish minimum standards for state-issued identification documents. The Act was attached as a rider to a military spending and tsunami relief appropriations bill, which meant it passed without standalone debate, without dedicated committee hearings on the identification provisions, and without meaningful input from the states that would be required to implement it. The law established that state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards would no longer be accepted for “official purposes” by federal agencies unless those cards met a new set of security and verification standards. Those official purposes include boarding commercial domestic flights, entering federal buildings such as courthouses and military installations, and accessing nuclear power plants.
The critical distinction that most people miss is this: Real ID is not a federal identification card. It is a federal standard imposed upon state-issued identification. Your Real ID is still issued by your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. It still looks like a driver’s license. It still has your state’s name on it. But it must now conform to requirements dictated by the Department of Homeland Security, and your personal data is now accessible through an interstate verification system called the State-to-State (S2S) Verification Service, administered by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. As of 2026, 45 jurisdictions participate in S2S. That is not a state database. That is a network.
Is Real ID the Same as a Passport?
No, and the gap between them is enormous. A United States passport is a sovereign identity document issued by the federal government through the Department of State. It certifies your citizenship. It is recognized internationally. It permits you to cross borders, enter foreign nations, and return to the United States. A passport is your proof of national identity in the eyes of every government on Earth that maintains diplomatic relations with the United States.
A Real ID does none of those things. It cannot be used for international travel. It cannot be used for border crossings into Canada or Mexico. It cannot be used for international sea cruise travel. It functions exclusively within the domestic sphere, and within that sphere, it serves only the narrow purposes defined by the Act: domestic air travel, federal facility access, and nuclear power plant entry. If you hold a valid United States passport or passport card, you already satisfy every requirement that Real ID addresses. The passport is, in every functional and legal sense, superior to the Real ID. The State Department’s own website confirms that both the passport book and passport card are Real ID compliant, meaning they satisfy the identification standard without requiring you to obtain a Real ID driver’s license at all.
This creates an interesting class dynamic. Americans who already hold passports, a document that requires its own application process and fee, have no operational need for a Real ID. Americans who do not hold passports and rely exclusively on their state driver’s license for identification are the ones most affected by the mandate. The burden of compliance, in other words, falls disproportionately on those who travel less, who have fewer resources, and who are least likely to have assembled the documentary chain (birth certificate, Social Security card, proof of residency) that the Real ID application demands.
Is Real ID Mandatory?
Here is where the federal government’s language becomes instructively slippery. Real ID is not mandatory in the sense that no law compels you to obtain one. You will not be arrested or fined for not having a Real ID. You can still obtain a standard, non-compliant driver’s license in every state, and that license remains valid for driving, voting, age verification, and all state-level purposes. Multiple state DMVs, including New York, California, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Ohio, explicitly state on their websites that obtaining a Real ID is voluntary.
But voluntary is doing extraordinary work in that sentence. As of May 7, 2025, the enforcement deadline that was delayed six times over twenty years, state-issued identification that is not Real ID compliant is no longer accepted at TSA airport security checkpoints. If you show up at an airport with a standard driver’s license and no passport, you are not getting on that plane through normal channels. You are, as of February 1, 2026, directed to a new system called TSA ConfirmID, where you will pay a $45 fee for a 10-day travel window, submit to biometric or biographic identity verification, and face processing delays of up to 30 minutes. That fee was originally proposed at $18 in late 2025 and was raised to $45 within weeks, with TSA officials citing higher-than-anticipated costs for the verification infrastructure.
So Real ID is voluntary the way that paying for electricity is voluntary. You are technically free not to do it, but the consequences of refusal are designed to make refusal progressively more expensive and inconvenient. The TSA’s own early data from February 2026 reports that 95 to 99 percent of travelers are now presenting Real IDs or other acceptable identification at checkpoints. The compliance rate surged after the ConfirmID fee was announced, which tells you everything about the nature of this particular “choice.”
Why Does This Matter?
The privacy and civil liberties concerns surrounding Real ID have been consistent for two decades, and they have come from across the political spectrum. The ACLU has argued since the Act’s passage that Real ID effectively creates a national identity card system by standardizing state identification under federal control and requiring machine-readable technology on every compliant card. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has warned that the interstate database network creates an irresistible target for identity thieves and facilitates government tracking of individuals. Jim Harper, a senior fellow of digital privacy and constitutional law at the American Enterprise Institute, has stated flatly that Real ID is a national ID system and that, historically, national ID systems have been tools of authoritarian control.
Twenty-one states initially passed legislation or resolutions opposing, or outright refusing to implement, the Real ID Act. Montana was among the last holdouts. The opposition was bipartisan: libertarians objected to federal overreach, privacy advocates objected to the data-sharing requirements, immigration-focused groups objected to the documentary burden, and state budget officials objected to the unfunded mandate. The federal government provided no funding for implementation. States absorbed billions in costs, and those costs were passed to residents through higher DMV fees, longer processing times, and the bureaucratic overhead of verifying birth certificates, Social Security numbers, and residential histories for every applicant.
The requirement that all Real ID cards include an unencrypted machine-readable zone is particularly troubling. That zone contains personal information that can be read by anyone with a barcode scanner. Every time the card is swiped or scanned, it leaves a digital record. The DHS insists that Real ID does not create a federal database of driver’s license information and that each state maintains its own records. That is technically true. It is also technically true that the S2S Verification Service allows states to electronically query each other’s databases, that 45 jurisdictions now participate in that network, and that the practical difference between a centralized federal database and a federated network of interlinked state databases accessible to federal agencies is a distinction without a meaningful difference to the person whose data is in the system.
The Twenty-Year Delay Tells Its Own Story
The original Real ID Act set an implementation target of 2008. Enforcement was delayed to 2009, then 2011, then 2013, then 2014, then 2017, then 2020, then 2021, then 2023, and finally to May 7, 2025, where it was further softened by a phased enforcement plan that extends to May 5, 2027. That is twenty years of delay. That is not a story about logistical complexity. That is a story about a law that the states did not want, that the public did not demand, and that the federal government lacked the political will to enforce until the question of enforcement became entangled with the security theater of post-pandemic air travel.
The fact that the TSA is now charging $45 to verify the identity of travelers who do not present a Real ID, rather than simply accepting other reasonable forms of state identification as it did for two decades, reveals the enforcement mechanism for what it is: a financial penalty dressed up as a user fee. The travelers who pay it are not security threats. They are people who did not get to the DMV in time, or who could not assemble the required documents, or who made a principled decision not to participate in a system they regard as an overreach. Charging them $45 per trip does not make air travel safer. It makes non-compliance expensive.
Where This Leaves Us
If you fly domestically and do not have a passport, you need a Real ID. That is the practical reality. If you have a valid United States passport or passport card, you do not need a Real ID for any federal purpose, and there is a reasonable argument that the passport remains the better document to hold: it is federally issued, internationally recognized, and does not feed your data into an interstate verification network administered by a nonprofit trade association of motor vehicle administrators.
The Real ID is not a federal ID card. It is something more subtle and, in many ways, more concerning: it is a federal standard that conscripts state identification systems into a national security apparatus, links them through shared databases, and imposes compliance through the denial of access to services that Americans have used freely for generations. It was passed without adequate debate, implemented without federal funding, delayed for twenty years because of legitimate and widespread opposition, and is now being enforced through a fee structure that penalizes the Americans least equipped to navigate the bureaucratic requirements of compliance.
That is not security. That is architecture. And the architecture, once built, rarely gets torn down. It only gets expanded.
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In late Dec, #SCOTUS issued a temporary order blocking #Trump from carrying out the #Chicago deployment because, it said, the president’s ability to federalize the #NationalGuard likely applies only in “exceptional” circumstances. The ruling has called into question any broader plans by the admin to use #federal #troops domestically to respond to #civil unrest.
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“To disinvite individual #governors to the White House sessions undermines an important opportunity for #federal - #state collaboration,” Tatum said. “At this moment in our nation’s history, it is critical that institutions continue to stand for unity, dignity & constructive engagement.”
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#Trump has frequently clashed with Moore & Polis, & his decision comes after months of conflict between the #federal government & #Democratic #governors.
Moore has condemned Trump’s threat to deploy the #NationalGuard to Baltimore & defund the Maryland’s efforts to replace the fallen Key Bridge. Trump has also repeatedly claimed that Baltimore is “crime ridden” despite the fact that the city is experiencing its lowest homicide rate in 50 years. -
“This week, I learned that I was uninvited to this year’s National Governors Association dinner — a decades-long annual tradition meant to bring #governors from both parties together to build bonds & celebrate a shared service to our citizens with the President of the United States,” Moore said in a statement Sunday. “… It’s hard not to see this decision as another example of blatant #disrespect & a snub to the spirit of bipartisan #federal - #state partnership.”
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[Spatial] Foresight Report 2030
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Association for Geographic Information
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https://www.agi.org.uk/foresight-report/ <-- shared report overview
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https://www.agi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AGI_ForesightReport_2030.pdf <-- shared full report download
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#AGI #report #foresight #prediction #future #futuredirections #industry #GIS #spatial #mapping #usecase #AI #Foresight2030Report #spatialdata #spatialanalysis #trends #influences #artificialintelligence #DataImperative #AIIntegrationChallenge #InfrastructureEvolution #CollaborationImperative #EarthSystemsRevolution #SkillsRevolution #remotesensing #opendata #opensource #education #stakeholders #tools #technology #workforce #academia #research #federal #industry #opportunities #challenges #keytrends #collaboration #interoperability #suystemsintegration #evolution #risks #challenges #climate #finance #construction #engineering #sustainability #monopolisation #geopolitics #dataintegration #augmentedreality #spatialscience #fedscience
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#HigherEd figures from #Duke, #Harvard , #UCLA & #Yale reveàled as chums amongst #EpsteinFiles in latest doc drop.
#DOJ released a new batch of 3 million pages from #JeffreyEpstein case, revealing correspondence with prominent figures at top tier schools even after his 2008 conviction with name-drops including figures from #Kinsey Institute having lunch with Epstein and a former Israeli PM.
Latest doc dump includes over a half dozen top #academics in trove, prompting some #Edu institutional embarrassment.
Amongst those shown to have years of sporadic contacts are a prominent #Connecticut school's computer science professor David Gelernter, who was infamously injured after being targeted by #Unabomber Ted Kacynski, but later in life crafted correspondence casually chatting with the convicted sex offender regarding female students on campus he had working for him.
A controversial Duke "behavioral economics" professor named David Ariely who wrote an advice column in #WSJ for a decade is mentioned 636x, although he had previously confirmed only two meetings with Epstein, despite documents that now show at least seven personal interactions.
Others newly named include some top Harvard donors and academics along with those previously mentioned such as former #SocialSciences dean Stephen M. Kosslyn, "Evolution Center" director Martin Nowak and #LarrySummers.
#Florida police first began investigating #Epstein in March 2005 after a 14-year-old girl reported being molested at his home not far from Mar-A-Lago. Eventuallly arrested after a probe in 2006, he pleaded guilty to lesser prostitution charges through a non-prosecution agreement arranged by future #Drumpf admin official Alex Acosta in June 2008. By mid 2019, under add'l media scrutiny, #Epstein himself was found dead in a detention cell in #Federal custody while awaiting trial on new sex #trafficking charges.
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Provisional Land Use Data From Water Year 2024 Is Now Available On [CA]DWR Atlas, CNRA Open Data, And SGMA Data Viewer For Public Use
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https://gis.water.ca.gov/app/CADWRLandUseViewer/?page=home <-- shared web-based CDWR datasets / map
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“The collected data is used by various federal, state, and local agencies, academic researchers and private consultants , and can help estimate the amount of water available for agriculture. Using this information, farmers can adapt and make decisions to better manage scarce water supplies more effectively.”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #California #download #opendata #water #hydrology #datause #datasharing #download #landuse #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #wateryear #DWRAtlas #statewide #CNRA #SGMA #publicdata #publicgood #usecase #crops #croplands #cropmapping #counties #countysurvey #CADWR #DWR #groundwater #irrigation #wateruse #watermanagement #federal #state #local #webmapping #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #watersupply
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https://substack.com/@karmageddon54/note/c-185795435
#tRump #Grift #Corruption #DonJr #USPol #Politics #Law #Crime #Justice #Fraud #Taxpayers #Tax #Federal #USA #America #Republicans #GOP #Activism #Resist #Protest #EatTheRich #ToxicCapitalism #Capitalism #ShellCompanies #Congress #Pentagon #Labor #Impeach
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https://substack.com/@thiswillhold/note/c-183884798
“When you line up the numbers, recreation generates more economic value than ALL extractive industries combined— grazing, oil, gas, timber, mining, all of it.”
#USA #Economy #Recreation #USPol #Politics #America #Parks #PublicLands #Facts #tRump #Congress #Protect #Grazing #Oil #Gas #Timber #Mining #Federal #Land #WeThePeople #Citizens #Industry #Law #Activism #Resist #Protest #Preservation #ToxicCapitalism #Extractive #CorporateGreed #Exploitation #Value #Renewable
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/vought-sounds-layoff-siren-the-rifs-have-begun-00602262'
#Vought sounds #layoff siren: ‘The #RIF have begun’ - this is nothing short of draconian. At least nine agencies appear to be affected. Today American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) largest #union representing more than 800,000 #federal & D.C. government employees condemned Trump administration’s #OMB #RusselVought decision to illegally #fire thousands of #federal #employees during the #governmentshutdown. https://www.afge.org/publication/afge-president-everett-kelley-condemns-trump-administration-illegal-mass-firings/
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New USGS Map Offers An Interactive Look At The Rocks Beneath Our Feet
The Cooperative National Geologic Map is an interactive tool that builds on both cutting-edge technology and decades of mapping by geoscientists.
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https://eos.org/articles/new-usgs-map-offers-an-interactive-look-at-the-rocks-beneath-our-feet <-- shared EOS-source technical article
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https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/nationalgeology/#lat=37.0000&lng=-97.5000&zoom=5&theme=esurf&symbology=synthesis <-- shared @USGS resource
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[recognising that I posted something similar earlier ~smile~]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #data #fedopendata #fedscience #geologicmap #geology #webmap #geologicdata #energy #minerals #mining #waterresources #hydrology #risk #hazard #landuse #infrastructure #planning #realestate #insurance #rock #sediment #mapunits #compilation #criticalminerals #economicgeology #nation #mobile #fieldwork #interactivewebtool #publicgood #online #state #federal #map #usecase #energy #resources #CooperativeNationalGeologicMap #USGS #mainland #CONUS
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#Trump orders #federal #takeover of #Washington #D.C. #police, deploys #National #Guard
The mayor calls the actions “ #unsettling and #unprecedented” but says #D.C. has little choice but to cooperate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/11/trump-national-guard-dc-crime-crackdown/
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Slate Coche cae un precio de 'menos de $ 20,000' a posteriori de que la dependencia de Trump termine el crédito fiscal federal EV #administración #Auto #cae #crédito #después #EVS #exclusivos #federal #Fiscal #menos #pizarra #pizarra_automática #precio #Slate #termine #Trump #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta...
https://butterword.com/slate-coche-cae-un-precio-de-menos-de-20000-a-posteriori-de-que-la-dependencia-de-trump-termine-el-credito-fiscal-federal-ev/?feed_id=29807&_unique_id=68673836d92c2 -
📣 New Podcast! "Workers' Rights Protected, Oregon's National Guard Safeguarded, and Charitable Giving on the Rise" on @Spreaker #administration #afscme #bargaining #charitable #collective #coverage #democracy #federal #giving #guard #health #insurance #maternal #national #oregon #public #rights
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El mediador federal se pone en pie con meta en demanda sobre la capacitación de modelos de IA en libros con derechos de autor #autor #capacitación #con #demanda #derechos #federal #juez #libros #Meta #Modelos #pie #pone #sobre #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta tu opinión 👇
https://butterword.com/el-mediador-federal-se-pone-en-pie-con-meta-en-demanda-sobre-la-capacitacion-de-modelos-de-ia-en-libros-con-derechos-de-autor/?feed_id=28379&_unique_id=685ca888e9844 -
#minnesota #minn #mn #minnesotans #minneapolis #mpls #saintpau #stpaul #saintpaul #twincities #megasota #timwalz #walz #govwalz #governorwalz #federal #grants #trump #us #congress #funding #usa #budget #cuts #uspol #politics #uspolitics #politics #states #north #midwest #greatlakes #health #northstarstate #dems #democrats #liberal #liberals #governing #government #guvwalz #us #usa #border #province
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The Nazis were smart enough to keep their camps out of public view. These turds are proud of theirs.
#free #speech #jail #time #fascist #USA #PresidentMusk #Constitutional #Crisis #defy #federal #judge #oopsie #rubio #arrest #charge #incarcerate #OurPutin #impeach #remove #dictator #Nazi #TeslaTakedown #Swasticar #White #House #car #dealership #concentration #camps #photo #op #dog #killer #KristiNoem #fascism #ChristoFascism -
#BorderPatrol boards a bus full of kids going to a swim meet, demanding their documents and proof of citizenship.
#NewMexico #Citizenship #Harrassment
“The chilling effects of actions such as these are detrimental to the well-being of our student population, their families, and our larger community...Under no circumstance should students be harassed, intimidated, or frightened by #federal agents either while in school or while participating in school activities.”
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Bill to increase #LithiumMining regulations killed in [#SouthDakota] state House
By Amelia Schafer Feb 14, 2025
"A new bill to increase regulations on lithium mining in South Dakota failed to make it out of the state House on Thursday.
"House Bill 1258, proposed by Rep. Nichole Uhre-Balk, D-Rapid City, would have placed lithium mining under the same regulations as gold and silver rather than its current sand and gravel standards.
"Hard rock mining (gold and silver) is subject to stricter #WaterPollution control regulations than sand and gravel mining.
"Organizations like #MidwestLithium are currently exploring mining operations in the hills. Most lithium in the hills is found around the #HarneyPeak Granite formation, according to the organization's webpage."The South Dakota lithium project is comprised of roughly 23,500 acres of both #federal and private Land.
The House Agriculture and Natural Resources committee first split 6-6 on a do-pass motion Thursday before voting 8-4 to send the bill to the 41st day, killing it."''I think the general consensus is that the issue needs to be addressed, and so we'll continue to look harder at that, make sure we get all of our any concerns addressed and try to bring that bill back next year,' Uhre-Balk told the crowd at Saturday's crackerbarrel event hosted by Elevate Rapid City.
"Organizations like the local Indigenous led nonprofit #NDNCollective and the #BlackHillsCleanWaterAssociation spoke out in support of the bill Wednesday, stating that increased lithium mining threatens clean water for Black Hills residents especially since its treated like sand or gravel mining.
"Critics of the bill, such as Mike Lees, program administrator for the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Minerals Mining Program, said current regulations are sufficient. At the crackerbarrel, Rep. Tim Goodwin, R-Rapid City, said the bill, 'was going to choke off mining. It was bureaucratic.'
"Uhre-Balk said the bill wouldn't stop mining.
"House Agriculture committee members cited a need to better understand the issue when voting to send it to the 41st day.
"The #SouthDakotaMineralIndustriesOrganization was not immediately available for comment."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Gqvb8
#ProtectTheBlackHills #ProtectTheSacred #DefendTheSacred #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #DrillBabyDrill #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #LeaveItInTheGround #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoLithiumMining #DefendMotherEarth -
Un #juge #fédéral #américain a empêché le #Trésor de #partager les #données de son #système de #paiement avec des #parties #externes, infligeant ainsi un #premier #revers #juridique à la campagne d’ #Heilon #Musk visant à réduire les dépenses gouvernementales.
Certains #juges #américains méritent notre #respect
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https://lanouvelletribune.info/2025/02/elon-musk-subit-un-gros-revers-ce-quil-faut-savoir/
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😡 Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US #government human resources agency have locked #career #civil #servants out of computer systems holding the #personal #data of millions of #federal #employees. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/
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#Federal #GrandJury indicts voter ousted #OaklandMayor #ShengThao day after #FBI raid on home of fellow #BayArea #Democrat politician #BryanAzevedo , a #SheetMetal union member on #SanLeandro #CityCouncil who says "I didn’t do nothing wrong. "
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-sheng-thao-indicted-20038739.php #LeastBay #CAPolitics #Corruption
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#Lawsuit claims #Culver's #fastfood #chain #retaliated against #trans #manager and #workers who #reported #transphobia
#Federal #lawyers say the #BrikEnterprisesInc, the #operators of a #Culver’s #restaurant #fired the #victims of a #transphobic #work #environment.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Workplace #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
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#LGBTQ+ #VotersGuide: 2024 #General #Election.
While the #presidentialrace between #KamalaHarris and #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump has garnered the most attention, other #federal and #statewide positions are also being #contested, including those with great #influence over #policies and #rulings affecting #LGBTQIA #people.
https://epgn.com/2024/10/23/lgbtq-voters-guide-2024-general-election-pa/
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#SCOTUS #justices #federal #judges on #lowercourts dont have 2 #publicly #disclose when they dine, stay @ someone's personal residence even 1 owned by business entity under revised #ethics #rule. Amended policy by US Judicial Conference's Comte on Financial Disclosure which sets rules followed by 9 justices. Critics said move #diluted ethics requirements. Cmte has been reviewing #allegations that #Thomas improperly failed 2 report gifts +luxury travel from #HarlanCrow https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-justices-other-judges-can-stay-corporate-owned-homes-without-2024-09-24/
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#DarrylGeorge, A #Black #student who was #punished for his #hairstyle wants to return to the #Texas #school he left.
#TrumpAppointee #Judge #JeffreyBrown #dismissed most #claims in a #federal #lawsuit alleging #racial and #gender #discrimination by #schooldistrict #officials.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Courts #Corruption #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #EmptyThePews
