Don Moynihan

But in January, the Justice Department acknowledged in court documents that DOGE members had accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials. Borges’s attorneys were told this year that the Office of Special Counsel would stop reviewing his allegations while the GAO conducts a government-wide review of DOGE’s access to sensitive data. However, the GAO audit does not provide protections to whistleblowers, raising concerns from legal experts that it will be difficult for people with sensitive information to come forward.

No offense to GAO here, but it is an auditor, nor a criminal investigator, which is what is needed. If the administration refuses to co-operate, or launch its own investigation, we will end up without real accountability.

Exactly, Kennedy is no fool, despite the Foghorn Leghorn act

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

This is the way a lot of us would like to think we would respond to hostile questions in a Congressional hearing, but its rare to see a witness just turn the tables on a Senator like this.

Satisfying to see @davidjbier.bsky.social absolutely dogwalk Sen. Kennedy here.

Kennedy is so far gone he doesn’t even seem to realize the “Blue-ski” posts he’s reading are the consensus view of most Americans and not some Marxist smoking gun or something.

Americans Have Never Had Less Recourse for the US Government Violating Rights: A Conversation With Steve Vladeck Accountability under both state and federal law faces high hurdles, but Congress could fix that

I sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net to discuss the hurdles to states potentially prosecuting ICE agents for murder and other crimes, and the need to fix Section 1983 so federal agents are subject to civil liability for violating people's rights.

We are on Day 2 of this and I need closure
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Immigrants have reduced the US budget deficits by $14.5 trillion over the last 30 years. Tune in now to watch Cato’s Director of Immigration Studies, David J. Bier, testify at the Senate Budget Committee hearing, “Sanctuary Cities: The Cost of Undermining Law and Order.”
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

I covered this story at Law Dork over the weekend and am very glad to see that Gov. Ivey stopped this execution from taking place. www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-so...

A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War.

Trump's abrupt executive order last month boosting glyphosate production also had other effects:

1.) limited legal immunity to the makers of the weedkiller Roundup, a possible carcinogen.
2.) helping production of white phosphorus used in munitions that can violently burn people.

The Dollar is falling sharply. Recent Dollar strength was just the usual repatriation flows by US residents as risk aversion spiked. Those flows are always short-lived. Nothing about the Dollar story has changed. The Dollar will end 2026 down around 10%...
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Eagle Ed thought he could just threaten the Jesuits and walk away.

What the Challenger Layoff Tracker Really Measures Why announced layoffs often diverge from the government’s layoff data.

I started a substack! First piece looks at the Challenger layoff data compared to JOLTS.

Why did Challenger, but not JOLTS, show an increase in layoffs the last three years?

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Ed Martin, outspoken Justice Department lawyer, is formally accused of ethical violations | CNN Politics Ed Martin, an outspoken Trump administration official, is facing attorney discipline proceedings in Washington, DC, for a letter he sent to Georgetown Law about its diversity programs, the district’s...

Eagle Ed soars again www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...

"With some people, money and sex are the only truths. It’s the ultimate delinquency to believe that gratification itself is power. ...The gift of Andy and Fergie, which comes at too high a price, has been to bring the antiseptic of daylight to the culture of royal privilege."

Under Faculty Pressure, Harvard FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra Rolls Back Restrictions On Campus Signage | News | The Harvard Crimson The Faculty of Arts and Sciences quietly revised its guidance on campus use rules last week to allow publicly visible signs in private spaces, after months of pressure from faculty who said the guidel...

A win for academic freedom.

Being a professor is a tough job because we have a lot of competing pressures, but remember that we have an obligation to govern ourselves.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

The best reason to be against money for war in Iran is morality

I explain budgetary reasons against:
1) There's already funding from OBBBA, much of which is still unused
2) The military budget is huge & has flexibility to move some funds around

Congress should not provide additional funds for war

Trump family-linked financial group probed by congressional committee over Chinese stock scams Republican-led House committee on China demands information from Dominari Securities and two other firms

"Trump family-linked financial group [Dominari Securities] probed by congressional committee over Chinese stock scams"

GOP-led committee.

And Dominari is central to so much of Don Jr. and Eric's latest business, um, endeavors.

George Steer for @financialtimes.com

Analysis | The shutdown that everyone has forgotten The Washington Post’s essential guide to power and influence in D.C.

Read @matthewchoi.bsky.social + @danmerica.bsky.social on "The shutdown that everyone has forgotten": www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

the greatness of america is embodied in don, an irishman at michigan, fully embracing ohio state hate

Incredible if he just did a disappearing trick and never came back

NATO but for the countries with no army to fight for the US after we insulted all of the actual NATO allies who did

The Minneapolis rapid responders humbly request that Congress require ICE to use their ostentatiously branded vehicles for all official business

garbage in garbage out

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It’s a deeply reported manual with sixteen lessons for how each of us can defy authoritarianism.

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This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

Scenes from a personalist regime