BGDoncaster<p>Update: Judge temporarily parts of Trump EO on Perkins Coie </p><p>Judge compared the president to the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland,” noting that the rash queen’s outbursts — “Off with their heads!” — are entertaining to read about but “cannot be the reality we are living” under our Constitution. </p><p>Judge indicates Trump’s order likely violates the First Amendment for retaliating against protected speech and that it also likely runs afoul of due process protections and the Perkins Coie’s clients’ Sixth Amendment right to counsel. </p><p>“issuing an executive order targeting the firm based on the president’s dislike of the political positions of the firm’s clients or the firm’s litigation positions is retaliatory and runs head-on into the role of First Amendment protection.” </p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5191623-trump-executive-order-perkins-coie/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/regulation/court-b</span><span class="invisible">attles/5191623-trump-executive-order-perkins-coie/</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PerkinsCoie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerkinsCoie</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawsuit</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/defamation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defamation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoJ</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USAGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAGov</span></a></p>
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BGDoncaster<p>Law firm Perkins Coie who are the subject of an Executive Order have filed a lawsuit against Trump administration. The Trump administration is picking a fight with some of the best and brightest lawyers in America. </p><p>POTUS and team Get ready for a MAJOR smack down!! One example of positions in the complaint. </p><p>"Because the Order singles out Perkins Coie, it denies the firm the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.... the Order constitutes retaliatory viewpoint discrimination and, therefore, violates the First Amendment rights of free expression and association, and the right to petition the government for redress. Because the Order compels disclosure of confidential information revealing the firm’s relationships with its clients, it violates the First Amendment."</p><p>DL the entire complaint here: <a href="https://abovethelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/03/Perkins-Coie-v-DOJ-20250311.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abovethelaw.com/wp-content/upl</span><span class="invisible">oads/sites/4/2025/03/Perkins-Coie-v-DOJ-20250311.pdf</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PerkinsCoie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerkinsCoie</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawsuit</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/defamation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defamation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoJ</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USAGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAGov</span></a></p>
BGDoncaster<p>Some people understand what it means to take an oath! </p><p>Approx. 1/3 of the remaining technology staff at the United States Digital Service (engineers, data scientists and product managers) resigned en masse today. </p><p>“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter ... “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.” </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/doge-elon-m</span><span class="invisible">usk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fail</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/idiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiots</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USAgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAgov</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/engineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineers</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datascience</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USDS</span></a></p>
BGDoncaster<p>Let's put some experts in there - part 2! </p><p>Musk claimed Social Security Administration (SSA) is paying benefits to 150-year-olds. </p><p>The reality, SSA systems are implemented in COBOL. When a birth date is missing or incomplete the system defaults to a reference point of May 20, 1875, indicating those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150. <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge</span><span class="invisible">-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fail</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/idiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiots</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> #<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/usagov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usagov</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobol</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSA</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/socialsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialsecurity</span></a></p>
BGDoncaster<p>Let's put some "experts" in there! <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-doge-website-super-140132005.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-doge-</span><span class="invisible">website-super-140132005.html</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fail</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hacker</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hack</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/404media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>404media</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> #<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/usagov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usagov</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a></p>
BGDoncaster<p>USA administration recipe for success = gutting CISA and CRSB - NOT! </p><p><a href="https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/trump-fires-cyber-safety-board-salt-typhoon-hackers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">darkreading.com/threat-intelli</span><span class="invisible">gence/trump-fires-cyber-safety-board-salt-typhoon-hackers</span></a> </p><p>Salt Typhoon continues to breach telecoms and internet service providers with five new breaches identified. Also, more than a dozen universities from Utah to Vietnam breached in December and January. Targeting internet facing web interfaces of Cisco's IOS. </p><p>“They've only gotten more bold,” “I strongly suspect it's much larger than what we’ve seen.”<br><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-salt-typhoon-spies-are-still-hacking-telecoms-now-by-exploiting-cisco-routers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/chinas-salt-ty</span><span class="invisible">phoon-spies-are-still-hacking-telecoms-now-by-exploiting-cisco-routers/</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SaltTyphoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaltTyphoon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CISA</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CRSB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CRSB</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Breach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Breach</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fail</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/idiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiots</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USAgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAgov</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Telecom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecom</span></a></p>
MeMyself everywhere<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C1F2TgyIeiY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/p/C1F2TgyIeiY/?i</span><span class="invisible">gsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==</span></a> While <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>americans</span></a> can’t afford to eat <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/usagov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usagov</span></a> gives <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Billions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billions</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> your government (and ours too) are shafting us all hard, up the arse <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wakeupffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wakeupffs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/freepalastine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freepalastine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/stopthegenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stopthegenocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fromtherivertothesea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fromtherivertothesea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/freepalastine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freepalastine</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dontforget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dontforget</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycott</span></a> many many companies out there <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boycottdove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycottdove</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boycottsprite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycottsprite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boycottpringles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycottpringles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boycottvanish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycottvanish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boycottkfc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycottkfc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boycottstarbucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycottstarbucks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boycottmacdonald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycottmacdonald</span></a></p>
Animaeme<p>Members of Congress on Mastodon: ↓ <br />h/t & ty Tony Webster <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.tonywebster.com/@tony" class="u-url mention">@<span>tony</span></a></span> </p><p>Google Doc 🔗 <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1egupogzhZgPgcM1NcIxBC4iW2xgvs1qJPAG568YaCuY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d</span><span class="invisible">/1egupogzhZgPgcM1NcIxBC4iW2xgvs1qJPAG568YaCuY/edit?usp=sharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/USCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USCongress</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/USAgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USAgov</span></a></p>
Mike Gifford, CPWA #DrupalCon<p>Just published an article on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GovLoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovLoop</span></a> on some work we are doing to promote <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VeteransAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VeteransAffairs</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USAGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAGov</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/supporting-authors-to-produce-more-accessible-content-for-va-gov/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">govloop.com/community/blog/sup</span><span class="invisible">porting-authors-to-produce-more-accessible-content-for-va-gov/</span></a>.</p>
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