404 Media: Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate and now head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), told government tech workers in a meeting this week that the administration plans to widely deploy AI throughout the government. Shedd also said the administration would need help altering login.gov, a government login system, to further integrate… Continue Reading
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Federal workers: Here’s how to lock down your communications
Washington Post unlocked: “Tips and apps that can help everyone talk about sensitive topics safely. Chances are, until now, most people haven’t worried much about their private group chats or jokey social media posts being used against them. But under the Trump administration, privacy experts say there’s a new urgency to making sure people understand… Continue Reading
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
404 Media: “NASA personnel were told to “drop everything” to scrub public sites of mentions of DEI, indigenous people, environmental justice, and women in leadership, according to a directive obtained by 404 Media. The directive, sent on January 22 and obtained by 404 Media, states:“Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of… Continue Reading
Heads Up for Government Employees – How Elon Musk Says He Catches Leakers at His Companies
This Intercept article is from December 2022 but has all the hallmarks of what Musk and DOGE are now perpetrating within our federal government agencies, using OPM, GSA and Treasury’s massive databases of fiscal, financial data and PII, on all Americans. …To begin with, a wide array of document watermarking measures can identify the source… Continue Reading
Archive of deleted CDC datasets
Internet Archive: A complete archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025. Under the direction of Trump, the CDC has been removing data related to gender, vaccines, and climate change. Continue Reading
Using Tails When Your World Doesn’t Feel Safe Anymore
Privacy Guides: “There is a growing number of people who no longer feel safe in their own home or country. Whatever the reason, many people might not feel safe to browse certain topics online. With all the information getting collected for each internet search, it is difficult to access sometime vital information without leaving a… Continue Reading
Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
404 Media – “Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database. As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out,… Continue Reading
‘Not a buyout’: Attorneys and unions urge federal workers not to resign
NPR: “Federal employee unions and attorneys are urging government workers not to accept an offer from the Trump administration to resign from their jobs by Feb. 6 and be paid through the end of September. “This ‘fork’ thing is not a buyout,” said Jim Eisenmann, a partner with Alden Law Group who represents federal employees,… Continue Reading
Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy
ProPublica – “ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundation and its allies for a future… Continue Reading
Trump Freezes All Grant Funding to Libraries, Archives, and Museums
everylibrary – “While this “pause” will negatively impact millions of Americans, it will also considerably impact libraries. rump has demanded a freeze on all federal grants and for all agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” The memo also calls for each agency to perform a… Continue Reading
Trump’s death by a thousand cuts to D.C. federal workforce
Axios: “It’s only been a little over a week since President Trump took office, but already he’s unleashed a ream of actions targeting the federal workforce — a sort of government death via a thousand cuts. Why it matters: This unprecedented stream of executive orders and memorandums is unsettling Washington households as people scramble to… Continue Reading
Climate Deregulation Tracker
“The Climate Deregulation Tracker identified steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The tracker is linked to our database of climate change regulations and our two other climate regulation trackers: the Climate Reregulation Tracker covering the Biden administration and the Climate Backtracker covering the second Trump administration. Read more about… Continue Reading
