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#USGovt

Hack of Signal App Clone Telemessage Hits US Responders, Diplomats; Data Stolen Across US Government

#CyberSecurity #DataBreach #USGovt #TeleMessage #SignalApp #NationalSecurity #CISA #Hacking #Privacy #InfoSec #GovTech #Signalgate #Signal

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/05/21/hack-of-signal-app-clone-telemessage-hits-us-responders-diplomats-data-stolen-across-us-government-xcxwbn/

Thousands of veterans face foreclosure after Trump's VA ends key mortgage program

from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [USA]
May 1, 2025 5:00 AM ET
By Chris Arnold and Quil Lawrence

"The U.S. #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs, as of Thursday, has ended a new #mortgage-rescue program that so far has helped about 20,000 veterans avoid #foreclosure and keep their homes.

The move leaves millions of military #veterans with far worse options than most other American homeowners if they run into trouble paying their home loans. And it comes at a time when nearly 90,000 #VA loans are seriously past due, with 33,000 of those already in the foreclosure process, according to the data and analytics firm ICE."

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382448/va-veterans-affairs-mortgages-foreclosure-vasp

#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press
#Veterans #VeteransAdministration
#USGovt

I waited until the last minute to file that stupid BOIR form - I didn't want to give the govt any more personal information than absolutely necessary. The deadline was March 21, and I filed on the 20th. But ON MARCH 21, they decided to remove all reporting requirements for US based companies. (And US persons who have ownership in foreign companies.)

Anyway, if you didn't file, you are now officially off the hook. https://fincen.gov/boi

#USgovt #Bureaucracy #FML

OpenAI Pushes for U.S. Ban on China’s DeepSeek AI Models Over Security Concerns

#AI #OpenAI #DeepSeek #AIRegulation #US #USGovernment #DataPrivacy #NationalSecurity #ChinaAI #USChinaRelations #AISecurity #Cybersecurity #AIModels #TechPolicy #USGovt #AIConcerns

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/03/15/openai-pushes-for-u-s-ban-on-chinas-deepseek-ai-models-over-security-concerns-xcxwbn/

What an incredible piece of reporting from WIRED!

Also: anyone who has allowed this to happen to the US govt should be hounded out of office forever.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/

#DigitalCoup #MuskBros #usgovt

Law Librarians of Congress announce “Improved Public Access to CRS Reports on Congress.gov”

Enhancements include
* Search CRS products and other Congress.gov collections from the homepage search bar
* Web-friendly CRS products
* New Congress.gov search form for CRS products
* Durable, predictable URLs
CRS reports have a new base URL
Appropriations status tables have a new base URL

#LibraryOfCongress #CongressionalResearchService #Research #USgovernment #USgovt #CRS

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2025/03/improved-public-access-to-crs-reports-on-congress-gov/

As someone who lived/worked in the middle east with an autocratic govt. im here to tell u America has literally turned in to Middle East countries they hate so much
Which country will step in to overthrow the US govt to free the people. Or was going after countries in MENA not about freedom at all?
#autocratic #fascism #USgovt #Education

Summary of content
Executive order from the Department of Defense Education Activity Headquarters

Review of books in school related to gender and or discriminatory equity ideology topics through grades K -12

Summary of content
Defence Intelligence Agency
DIA will pause activities and special observances on these days
Martin Luther King, Black History Month, Women's History month, Holocaust Day, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Pride, Juneteenth, Women's Equality Day,National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, National American Indian Heritage Month

A #foreign -born #billionaire is running the #USGovt without check – the #Republicans in the #US #Senate are totally ok with this. Will the judiciary defend our democracy, and will that be enough or are we going to have to get up off our couches again? #uspol #uspolitics #ElonMusk #MAGA #GOP #BillionairesShouldNotExist

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/elon-musk-us-government-power

Remember when #ElonMusk was all "#Twitter doesn't need these #woke rules about #hatespeech" only to learn the hard way they were load-bearing walls needed for profitability?

Well, now he's de facto president he's repeating himself with the whole #USgovt. The sad thing is this will cause real suffering, not just him getting bumped down the richlist for a few months.
#USPol

#MAGA #ForkINTheRoad directive to #Federal #employees states simply reply with word #RESIGN in header and you can #optout of your career #USGovt position with pay for more than 6 months?

https://www.opm.gov/fork/

#TVNews blithering & graphics packages have parroted language of #President & #OPM at face value but offered little detailed #analysis or #legalterms fine print...

The #DJT admin so-called #BuyOut that offers 7 months pay to #GOV workers that take it, actually has strings attached. In fact the terms are a "deferred resignation" that requires employees to do other tasks if so assigned!

Perhaps loading boxcars of detainees?

https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/despite-media-reports-trump-has-not

Under the terms of the agreement, which is posted to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website, employees agree to resign effective September 30, 2025. Until that date, they remain employees of the federal government but are "exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements." This, of course, is only a valuable concession if an employee is still working. The agreement is called a "deferred resignation,” not a "buyout.”

The agreement states that, after accepting the deferred resignation offer, "my employing agency will likely make adjustments in response to my resignation including moving, eliminating, consolidating, reassigning my position and tasks, reducing my official duties, and/or placing me on paid administrative leave until my resignation date." Administrative leave allows an employee to collect their salary while not working. But, as the agreement makes clear, that is not guaranteed. There will "likely” be changes to an employee’s official duties, according to the agreement. But they are still an employee of the federal government and are obligated to continue to fulfill whatever responsibilities are assigned to them.

TV News incorrectly labeling Fed Gov offer a "BUYOUT"

At a few points in my living history, the #USgovt tried to get #Redbone labeled as a terrorist group - because of their #music. #Censorship of #musicians - especially #BIPOC - who created resistance & activist songs were heavily censored in 70s - now.

#Europeans appreciated #Redbone a lot more than most Americans. The #USgovt #banned this #song from radio & TV airplays.
They sang about the #Indigenous #genocide by #USA ✊️❤️

https://youtu.be/W9qcs8DAVW8?si=YuUBmU9U3NWNygdU

#WoundedKnee #ActivistMusic #NativeRockBands #TurtleIsland

I ain't f*cking happy about #whitewashing BS. I'm a #WarSurvivor & loathe #USgovt. I loathe all who never learned much from their own freaking violent, foreign interfering, #ProxyWars bringing, war profiteering, guns at ready to shoot innocent citizens & y'all try to tell the world you have a freaking #DEMOCRACY?

We ain't all #brainwashed #Yankees. We're fucking #PISSEDOFF AT USA & ALL THEIR FUCKING ENABLERS RIGHT NOW! We ain't buying the US BS. F*cking #accomplices to #GENOCIDE

from #NewYorkTimes [gift article link below]
- Defense secretary pushes back on protesters’ claims of genocide in Gaza. -

#Gaza #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #StopGazaGenocide #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive #SolidarityWithPalestine #USGovt #EndUSAidToIsrael #LloydAustin #PalestinianLivesMatter #EndTheOccupation #Israel #StopArmingIsrael
#news @palestine
@israel

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/world/middleeast/austin-genocide-gaza-israel.html?smid=url-share

#SCOTUS unanimously rules against #USgovt in #NoFlyList case where man sued over being placed on it for refusing to become an #informant, and after #plaintiff was tortured and later reinstated, US wanted his #lawsuit dropped, saying the case was #moot any information used against him was #classified. #SCOTUS has ruled that his case has merit, man can seek redress, US cannot evade legal scrutiny despite US alleged #topsecret evidentiary concerns.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4541638-supreme-court-no-fly-list-case/

#StateOfTheUnion still shaky with #Midnight #deadline in #DC to prevent #USgovt #shutdown looming and hard-line #MAGATS (#MakeAmericaGreatAgain #TrumpStyle) are holding up the key #Senate bill to move on. Opponents to passing the bill that already passed the GOP controlled house include #JDVance the dark money funded #redstate reprobate in the pocket of #BillionaireBadBoys like #PeterThiel and #RandPaul , the firebrand #Libertarian #KY Senator who only gets 5% of his campaign cash from people that live in his home state.

https://wapo.st/439n0lf #GiftLink #WaPo #PaywallFree

It is about 4:30am here. I saw an email saying I got a new message from the SSA last night. So try to get my message only to be greeted with a prompt saying coma back during our operating hours.

:headache:

I guess they did not get the memo about how the Internet works, right? Do they still think it is a series of tubes?

#SSA #USGovt #idiots #InternetHarder #SeriesOfTubes

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#cdcsays trust our bullshit covid recommendations or we’ll block your ass from all future bullshit covid recommendations.

#bonniehenrysays don’t even ask about #covid, just praise my public health leadership in surrendering entire communities to #LongCOVID and embracing constant societal sickness as the norm to prop up our shiny new private #TelusHealth industry currently profiting off said unmitigated pandemic.

#otherspiderssay don’t mind the magnificent deceitful web we’ve been employed to weave, it’s just our nature to fool you into being devoured.

#NeverTrustSpiders #BlockTheCDC
#FireBonnieHenry
#CovidIsNotOver
despite our spineless #bcpoli #cdnpoli #usgovt surrenderng to it.

Feds Decline To Pursue Second Trial Against #Crypto Bro Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Over Additional Charges Brought In #Bahamas For #Fraud, Unlicensed Money Transfer, #Conspiracy To Violate Foreign #Corrupt Practices Act, Illegal #CampaignContributions etc.

#USGovt #Prosecution Rests And Decides Public Best Served By Immediate #Sentencing, And To Begin A #Restitution Process After Previous #Guilty Convictions Reached By US Jury In November 2023.

https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2024/01/02/not-surprised-feds-confirm-they-wont-pursue-second-trial-against-sam-bankman-fried/