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Al-O-Meter said:
Fully aware. That is why they belong to you now.
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Nah. We didn’t storm the Capitol. Neither did Liz or Dick Cheney. Your side did that.

You also voted for a war criminal, twice! After he sent an entire generation of kids to die or come home mentally destroyed from a 20 year war.

Forgive me if I have issue with your judgement. I think being too “conservative” for the Cheney’s says more about you than me.


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I actually find Al’s deflection about the issues with DOGE pretty illuminating.

Because of who’s doing it, Al has to believe that it’s actually not a problem, even if his own information is compromised. And inasmuch as it could be a problem for others, it’s not the fault of the people he supports- the people who hired and empowered these creepy little goons. Oh no, the blame actually belongs to those who oppose them! Because they were unable to stop them.

Absolute baby brained toddler ****.
 
arstechnica.com

National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities

Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.
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Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing the research, paying for salaries, equipment, and consumables like chemicals or enzymes. But the government also pays what are called indirect costs. These go to the universities and research institutes, covering the costs of providing and maintaining the lab space, heat and electricity, administrative and HR functions, and more.

These indirect costs are negotiated with each research institution and average close to 30 percent of the amount awarded for the research. Some institutions see indirect rates as high as half the value of the grant.

On Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that negotiated rates were ending. Every existing grant, and all those funded in the future, will see the indirect cost rate set to just 15 percent. With no warning and no time to adjust to the change in policy, this will prove catastrophic for the budget of nearly every biomedical research institution.

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Science Agencies Brace for Mass Layoffs

Reports suggest NSF, NOAA, and NIH are among the agencies in line for major cuts.
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Red said:
arstechnica.com

National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities

Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing the research, paying for salaries, equipment, and consumables like chemicals or enzymes. But the government also pays what are called indirect costs. These go to the universities and research institutes, covering the costs of providing and maintaining the lab space, heat and electricity, administrative and HR functions, and more.

These indirect costs are negotiated with each research institution and average close to 30 percent of the amount awarded for the research. Some institutions see indirect rates as high as half the value of the grant.

On Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that negotiated rates were ending. Every existing grant, and all those funded in the future, will see the indirect cost rate set to just 15 percent. With no warning and no time to adjust to the change in policy, this will prove catastrophic for the budget of nearly every biomedical research institution.

ww2.aip.org

Science Agencies Brace for Mass Layoffs

Reports suggest NSF, NOAA, and NIH are among the agencies in line for major cuts.
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They should learn to code.
 
Zombie said:
Al has to believe that it’s actually not a problem
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The audit is not a problem. It is a job that needs to be done and so far the auditors doing the auditing are finding a lot of shady stuff, which is exactly what they should be doing. I couldn't care less if one of the auditors referred to himself as Big Balls online so long as he's doing what needs to be done.

I can see that you don't like who is doing the audit, but you don't get a say. The head of the executive branch gets to decide who audits the executive branch. I approve of his choice of auditors.
 
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The only thing I’ve seen from musk about this is bitching about them being “doxxed” and calling for the racist one, who resigned after his racist posts were exposed, be reinstated.
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He's being rehired, as he should be. No scalp for you. You don't get a say.

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‘To err is human, to forgive divine’: Elon Musk to rehire employee who resigned after giving 'normalise hate against Indians' remark - The Times of India

US News: Elon Musk reinstated Marko Elez, a former DOGE employee who resigned after being linked to a racist social media account. A poll conducted on Musk's p
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Man I ****ing love living in Australia. One of our former right wing Prime Ministers Tiny Abbott had Border Force (Formerly Customs and the Immigration Department now rolled into Border Force and Home Affairs) patrolling outside Melbourne's central train station harassing brown people for documentation. Within a couple of hours thousands of people turned up in the centre of the city to protest, the state government removed protection for the operation and it never happened again. Love this city
 
Red said:
arstechnica.com

National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities

Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing the research, paying for salaries, equipment, and consumables like chemicals or enzymes. But the government also pays what are called indirect costs. These go to the universities and research institutes, covering the costs of providing and maintaining the lab space, heat and electricity, administrative and HR functions, and more.

These indirect costs are negotiated with each research institution and average close to 30 percent of the amount awarded for the research. Some institutions see indirect rates as high as half the value of the grant.

On Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that negotiated rates were ending. Every existing grant, and all those funded in the future, will see the indirect cost rate set to just 15 percent. With no warning and no time to adjust to the change in policy, this will prove catastrophic for the budget of nearly every biomedical research institution.

ww2.aip.org

Science Agencies Brace for Mass Layoffs

Reports suggest NSF, NOAA, and NIH are among the agencies in line for major cuts.
ww2.aip.org
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Eh what has research ever done for anyone? And who needs health? **** it all

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  • During a visit to Los Angeles last week, Trump vowed to increase pumping of water in California.
  • Federal data show that pumping actually had lessened for several days last week, apparently to allow for routine maintenance at a federal pumping facility.
  • Despite Trump administration claims to the contrary, the amount of water now flowing in the federal system in the Delta is about the same as it was under the Biden administration.
When President Trump visited Los Angeles last week, he pledged to “open up the pumps and valves in the north” and “get that water pouring down here.”

But records show that the day he made that announcement, the federal government’s pumping facility in Northern California was delivering less water than usual, apparently because managers had reduced pumping for several days of routine maintenance.

The records indicate that the day after Trump’s announcement, on Saturday, the federally managed pumping plant resumed regular levels of water deliveries from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the aqueducts of the Central Valley Project.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s daily pumping data for the Jones Pumping Plant shows that on Jan. 21, the amount of water pumped decreased to about 1,900 acre-feet, down from about 6,900 acre-feet the day before. Pumping continued at reduced levels of about 1,800 acre-feet each day from Jan. 22 through Jan. 24, when Trump visited Los Angeles.

The pumping returned to higher levels on Saturday, Jan. 25, delivering 5,300 acre-feet of water that day, or about 1.7 billion gallons.

On Monday night, Trump said on social media that the U.S. military had “entered” California and “TURNED ON THE WATER,” a claim that state officials promptly denied.

The California Department of Water Resources responded in a statement: “The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days.”

https://archive.ph/o/YuvgI/https://...a/story/2025-01-27/la-me-trump-water-military

Gov. Gavin Newsom responded at a news conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
“There were no military sent to the Central Valley. That was reported but wasn’t in evidence,” Newsom said.
He said the federal government was doing maintenance on the Central Valley Project from Jan. 21 to Jan. 24.

“Between the 21st and 24th, the federal government was doing maintenance on their system. It’s maintenance that is well coordinated with the State Water Project that does not end pumping,” Newsom said.

For four days, maintenance work on power transmission lines prevented operation of another pumping plant south of the Delta near San Luis Reservoir, which led managers to reduce pumping at the Jones Pumping Plant.

“On the 24th, that maintenance ended, and they started turning back on the pumps,” Newsom said. “It takes a few days to get the pumps back to 100%, and perhaps that was what they were celebrating.”

The Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the Central Valley Project, did not respond to requests for information about the maintenance that temporarily reduced water deliveries.

The unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, which Trump plans to consult for recommendations on cutting government spending, said in a social media postthat it congratulates the administration for “more than doubling the Federally pumped water flowing toward Southern California.”

According to the government data, the Trump administration has not yet increased pumping above the levels that the federal facility was drawing from the Delta under the Biden administration earlier this month. (On Tuesday, the pumping plant delivered nearly 6,900 acre-feet. On Wednesday, that decreased somewhat to about 5,100 acre-feet, and on Thursday, pumping returned to more than 6,800 acre-feet.)

Water experts have pointed out that Trump made several inaccurate statements on social media and during his L.A. visit. For example, he said he was opening up the flow of water “from the Pacific Northwest” and “parts of Canada” — from where California has no aqueducts, pipelines or other avenues for water flow.

He also said he intended to increase the flow of water to Los Angeles, even though urban areas of Southern California are supplied not by the federally managed Central Valley Project but by the State Water Project, the other main north-to-south water conduit in the region — which hasn’t been directly affected by his executive orders.

“I don’t think he’s interested in water. I think he’s interested in other things — for which this is perhaps a rhetorical vehicle,” said Jay Lund, a UC Davis emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering.

Lund said he thinks one aim of Trump’s statements might be “keeping other people off balance,” including political adversaries in California.

“He likes to occupy space, it seems,” Lund said. “He’s not doing things that would actually provide water. He’s setting up some rhetorical conditions for perhaps other things he’s interested in accomplishing.”
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Senator Ted Lieu on Trump’s “turning on the water” nonsense….


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www.ibtimes.com

Trump Signs Order to Kill Federal Agency Investigating Tesla

Trump's executive order dismantled a federal agency tasked with investigating Tesla for workplace racial discrimination, ending audits and enforcement nationwide.
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A federal probe into alleged workplace discrimination at Tesla, including "N-word, swastikas, threats, and nooses, on desks," has been abruptly axed by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 21.

The order dismantled the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the agency responsible for enforcing equal employment laws among federal contractors.

With the agency nearly defunct, employees are left with grunt work; informing businesses that discrimination audits have halted and outstanding fines won't be collected, according to the San Francisco Standard.

Tesla was hit with a lawsuit in September 2023 from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which accused the company of fostering a workplace where Black employees faced ongoing harassment and retaliation.

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…..given the febrile political atmosphere in the country, the chaotic developments in Washington and a systemic breakdown in trust, many will remain concerned about who has access to their data and what they can see.

If the wrong person got access to personal financial information held by the U.S. Treasury, it would constitute the biggest data breach in history. Anyone who had all this could make a fortune selling it to criminals on the dark web. It would only take one person to copy files to a thumb drive or the cloud — identity theft galore.

If you’re worried about that data ending up in the wrong hands — from the turmoil in Washington, or anywhere else — there is a surprisingly simple thing you can do to protect yourself: a credit freeze. I wrote about it here not long ago.
 
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Dear Trump apologists: reply to me to your heart’s content, and while you’re at it, pound salt….Don't be so terrified of Truth. Well, that will never happen….I’m sure your relentless flood of BS will continue to flow unimpeded…

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The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
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Elon musk’s unceasing attempts to access the data and information systems of the federal government range so widely, and are so unprecedented and unpredictable, that government computing experts believe the effort has spun out of control. This week, we spoke with four federal-government IT professionals—all experienced contractors and civil servants who have built, modified, or maintained the kind of technological infrastructure that Musk’s inexperienced employees at his newly created Department of Government Efficiency are attempting to access. In our conversations, each expert was unequivocal: They are terrified and struggling to articulate the scale of the crisis.

Even if the president of the United States, the head of the executive branch, supports (and, importantly, understands) these efforts by DOGE, these experts told us, they would still consider Musk’s campaign to be a reckless and dangerous breach of the complex systems that keep America running. Federal IT systems facilitate operations as varied as sending payments from the Treasury Department and making sure that airplanes stay in the air, the sources told us.

Based on what has been reported, DOGE representatives have obtained or requested access to certain systems at the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Personnel Management, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with eyes toward others, including the Federal Aviation Administration. “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known,” one contractor who has worked on classified information-security systems at numerous government agencies told us this week. “You can’t un-ring this bell. Once these DOGE guys have access to these data systems, they can ostensibly do with it what they want.

What exactly they want is unclear. And much remains unknown about what, exactly, is happening here. The contractor emphasized that nobody yet knows which information DOGE has access to, or what it plans to do with it. Spokespeople for the White House, and Musk himself, did not respond to emailed requests for comment. Some reports have revealed the scope of DOGE’s incursions at individual agencies; still, it has been difficult to see the broader context of DOGE’s ambition.

The four experts laid out the implications of giving untrained individuals access to the technological infrastructure that controls the country. Their message is unambiguous: These are not systems you tamper with lightly. Musk and his crew could act deliberately to extract sensitive data, alter fundamental aspects of how these systems operate, or provide further access to unvetted actors. Or they may act with carelessness or incompetence, breaking the systems altogether. Given the scope of what these systems do, key government services might stop working properly, citizens could be harmed, and the damage might be difficult or impossible to undo. As one administrator for a federal agency with deep knowledge about the government’s IT operations told us, “I don’t think the public quite understands the level of danger.”

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Secrecy is becoming a defining trait of Elon Musk's DOGE

DOGE officials have been active at USAID, Veterans Affairs, Treasury and elsewhere, but little is publicly known about their work.
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Senator Ted Lieu on Trump’s “turning on the water” nonsense….


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Somewhat serious thought here. California is the enemy within. trump knew that releasing this water would only hurt the state of california by screwing them over later on when that water is needed. Then this coming summer when california lacks the water for the farmland trump will again blame Gavin Newscum for the lack of water for the farmers.
trump is simply waging war against the enemy within. It tracks.
 
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