@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Bought Stock in Drugmaker as His Government Boosted Its Obesity Drugs (Darius Tahir/KFF Health News)
https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/trump-stock-trades-eli-lilly-glp-1-weight-loss-drugs-invest-ethics-disclosures/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p82#a260518p82
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesEverlane selling out to Shein... wow. Shows you where the ethics of the owners really was.
Was our family favorite's brand pre-COVID. Then we stopped after some scandals.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/shein-ac…
@cdarwin@c.imDespite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount.
Conflict of Interest:
Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts,
FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality
and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger.
Mixing Business and Pleasure:
After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEthics disclosures show 7 out of 10 FCC commissioners since 2016 have accepted Kennedy Center tickets worth thousands courtesy of CBS or its parent company (Corey G. Johnson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: in Q1, Trump traded $220M-$750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and others; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/trump-stock-trade-tech-oge.html
@aardrian@toot.cafeThis is everything I know about the EPUB version of “Digital Accessibility Ethics,” the DRM and its accessibility, as of _right now_:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html#Update04 (anchor link)
@mia@hcommons.socialAbstracts from 'Digital Heritage and the Global South: Ethics, Politics, Futures' in July 2025. A focus on AI and 'digital colonialism, algorithmic bias, infrastructural dependency on Big Tech, and the erasure of local agency, while foregrounding community-led and decolonial approaches to digital heritage'
@lpryszcz@genomic.social"... we have the right to decide whether and how we want to use technologies. Ideally, this should be in a way that benefits us all...
The crux of the matter is that ethical behaviour does not come for free. Ethics are neither efficient nor do they enhance your economic profit. That means that by acting according to your values you will, at some point, have to give something up. If you’re not willing to do that, you don’t have values - just opinions."
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Ethics panel investigating Chuck Edwards for sexual misconduct (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/14/congress/house-ethics-investigating-edwards-00922440
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p125#a260514p125
@cdarwin@c.imFederal Communications Commissioner Olivia Trusty
cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.
Now, the commissioner and a guest enjoyed the star-studded celebration thanks to tickets gifted to her by Paramount worth more than $12,000, according to ethics disclosure records obtained by ProPublica.
The other commissioner who approved the merger watched from a prized perch.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr and his wife sat in a privat…
@emd@cosocial.caThis was a very interesting episode. Reminded me of my bioethics course I took at uni back in the stone ages (90s).
#ethics
@trochee@dair-community.socialhttps://huggingface.co/spaces/society-ethics/annotated-encyclical
Meg Mitchell, aka Shmargaret Shmitchell, with whom I am proud to be acquainted, has provided an annotation of an AI paper by none other than the Pope
The world is a strange and mysterious pla…
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342
This.
I'm so tired of seeing the back-and-forth on open source projects where people pointing out that GenAI is unethical are "rebutted" by others ignoring the ethics and saying it&…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI would like to train a group tigers to eat politicians on command, but ethics holds me back.
I couldn't possibly risk giving those sweet tigers a tummy ache!
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Ethics wants reinforcements as misconduct probes pile up (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/15/house-ethics-sexual-misconduct-mike-johnson
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p94#a260515p94
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality (Krysta Fauria/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artifici
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineEvery day I read an AI booster breathlessly claiming that Claude or ChatGPT or whatever is "basically conscious".
And then they're *still using* it.
They believe it's conscious, it's a "real being", and they FUCKING USE IT.
That's why "ethics aside": because they would be perfectly fine with having a slave they can turn on and torture and turn off at will.
JFC I hate humanity.
@paulwermer@sfba.social(Insert your own snarky comment about integrity in politics)
SF election money is growing. City ethics watchdogs are waning.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/big-money-in-san-francisco-elections-is-growing-but-city-wat…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social(Insert your own snarky comment about integrity in politics)
SF election money is growing. City ethics watchdogs are waning.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/big-money-in-san-francisco-elections-is-growing-but-city-wat…
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social @aardrian@toot.cafeTuesday 21 July, Durham-Raleigh #Accessibility MeetUp (online or IRL in Millersville) will talk about the book, “Digital Accessibility Ethics: #Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” with @…
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialCo-Convening Conference on Ethics of Aga Khan IV
With my dear friend Shenila Khoja-Moolji, I'm co-convening a conference on the ethical worldview of Shah Karim al-Husayni, Aga Khan IV.
This conference seeks papers on the thought, guidance, and institutional legacy of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV(1936–2025). As the forty-ninth heredi
@crell@phpc.socialKPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
#ai…
@servelan@newsie.socialScoop: Rep. Chuck Edwards [R] singled out young female aides for special attention
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/04/chuck-edwards-letter-house-ethics
@cdarwin@c.imThe executive branch plays no role in making election policy or regulating election administration
—the Constitution explicitly leaves those responsibilities to the states and Congress.
The “Proposed Rule: Ballot Mail for Federal Elections” therefore conflicts with the Constitution.
Beyond that, it is bad policy that will make it harder for election administrators to do their jobs,
runs the risk of potentially disenfranchising voters
and increases the chance of …
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social"Think of a small town where people don’t lock their doors or windows because of the unwritten rule that no one steals. Under these circumstances, the first thief to commit robberies operates at a huge advantage. He can effortlessly get into anyone’s house.
This first-mover advantage disappears as soon as people catch on and start locking their doors and windows. But the thief doesn’t bear the costs of the locks or the hassle of locking all the doors and windows."
@kurtsh@mastodon.social#BenAndJerrys has a concern over corporate interference when their ethics get in the way of profit. So they're suing parent company, #Magnum #IceCream.
✅ What Big Food Did to Ice Cream - …
@aardrian@toot.cafeTomorrow:
#DigitalAccessibilityEthics
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116700754648719001
I got a lot of “but it’s business people making programmers do this”, implying that software engineers want to be ethical but can’t.
That’s the software engineers who just stole the term “engineer” from another profession that has very strict certification requirements including mandatory ethics classes.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSome people think that #LLM usage costs rising will start undoing some of the harm caused by the #AI hype. I don't think that's really going to help that much.
I'm not even talking about all the projects that were ensloppified and enshittified already. I'm not talking about all the technical debt. I'm not talking about all the forks that will have to be maintained forever. I'm not talking of all the projects that were abandoned because of burnout, or because they were only hype-oriented. And I'm not talking about all the corporations that will continue submitting slop.
I'm talking about the loss of trust. After all, we're not talking of people who realized they were wrong and are sorry. We're not talking of people realizing that it was wrong to forfeit ethics and morals in the name of "productivity". We're talking of people who are jumping ships because their previous approach turned out not to be profitable anymore. We're talking of gamblers who left the casino because they went broke. They aren't sorry that they gambled; they are sorry that they've lost. And they'd be happy to do it again at the nearest opportunity.
So, I'm sorry to say, but #FreeSoftware is never going to be the same again. A lot of people have shown their true colors, and I won't forget that.
#NoAI #NoLLM #OpenSource #FLOSS
@mia@hcommons.socialI'm looking forward to attending 'Exploring Ethics and Moral Perspectives on AI in Cultural Collections' at the Brotherton Library in Leeds next Friday https://leeds.libcal.com/event/4544345
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s second term has been characterized by unprecedented corruption,
including corporate capitulation to Trump’s style of pay-to-play politics.
Even more than during his first term, the president has rewarded corporations supporting him with access, influence and even support and promotion,
while directly targeting companies he views as adversaries through his Justice Department and on social media.
At the same time, Trump has enabled corporations to seek influe…
@Luc@dresden.networkIntensive Course on Nursing Ethics, 1-4 December 2026 Leuven (Belgium)
#nurselife
@ddrake@mathstodon.xyzI've been reading a bunch of academic philosophy papers (I'm thinking about both the relationship between education/learning and games, and ethics for software and design) and I've realized that one of the basic moves in philosophy is basically a version control bisect.
A VCS bisect -- "git bisect" and its ilk -- starts with two commits, one with a bug or behavior, another without, and works out which commit between those introduced the bug.
In philosophy, o…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialYDS ethics professor and senior associate dean Jennifer Herdt on the Christian Scholars Review podcast speaking about her research and her forthcoming book, "The Great Wheel of Being: Ethics Beyond the Human." https://
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzThanks @… for pointing me to this rather compelling certification... https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/ Ackno…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Library 5.0 and Predictive Intelligence: A Conceptual Literature Review"
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/libphilprac/8309/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS appeals court judge charged in parking lot scuffle faces ethics inquiry (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-judge-charged-parking-lot-scuffle-faces-ethics-complaint-2026-06-08/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p104#a260608p104
@aardrian@toot.cafeAvailable now. Today.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
Info:
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/
Links to other sellers:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy faces criticism for filming a reality show for The Great American Road Trip, sponsored by companies regulated by the DOT (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-11…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialUK Prisons Are Now Required To Accommodate Vegan ‘Belief-Based Diets’ #AnimalRights
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialWhat do you get when you cross a cow with an octopus?
A visit from the ethics committee and immediate withdrawal of your funding.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialemails
ebikes
ebooks
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@servelan@newsie.socialDemocratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns amid ethics investigation
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/21/800024695/congress/democratic-rep-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-resigns-amid-ethics-investigation/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialThe Politics and Ethics of Literature in French Thought
https://ift.tt/Fjzsi8W
updated: Monday, July 6, 2026 - 2:38pmfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116643357572473684
Unverifiable story, of course, but let all the ethics classes chew on this one as a hypothetical
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchangeI started an AI simulation last night - two conservatives and two progressives work together to increase the US democracy from a score of 37 out of 100 to something that works better for _all_ people not just the wealthy. They agreed on 7 proposals to bring the score up to 60%. If only it were that easy.
#USPol
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialCo-Convening Conference on Ethics of Aga Khan IV
With my dear friend Shenila Khoja-Moolji, I'm co-convening a conference on the ethical worldview of Shah Karim al-Husayni, Aga Khan IV. This conference seeks papers on the thought, guidance, and institutional legacy of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV(1936–2025). As the forty-ninth hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, Aga Khan IV shaped the religious, ethical, and institutional life of his followers.
@jensilber@mastodon.social“In my world, it matters far less who owns the newspaper than whether there is a solid line between reporting and editorializing”
https://jeffbarker8.substack.com/p/i-resigned-because-of-the-journalism
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Ethics Officials Investigated Rep. Jim Costa for Alleged Inappropriate Behavior With Interns (Oriana Gonzšlez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/jim-costa-allegations-ethics-committee-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p12#a260504p12
@cheryanne@aus.socialInTheBlack
Brings together expert analysis and thought leadership across accounting, business and finance, taxation, technology, digital transformation, innovation, ethics and governance, ESG, the economy, careers, workplace and work life...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump official says she's involved in policy changes that benefit her family's ranches, video shows (Jake Spring/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/05/09/karen-budd-falen-grazing-policies-ethics-probe/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p43#a260509p43
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSenate Democrats seek an ethics provision in a landmark crypto bill to crack down on the Trump family's crypto businesses, setting up a clash with Republicans (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/27/trump-family-senate-crypto-bill-ethi…
@pre@boing.worldPeter Singer is a Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist.
It's his professional job to be good at ethics and teach others about ethics.
He thinks the best ethics are judged by the consequences, and that good is the best for the most people.
He has a podcast. It's probably great. He is cool. I only just heard about it.
But this is his website.
The podcast is offered on Spotify and Apple.
It has an AI chat bot that isn't even prompted well to sound like Peter for no reason at all.
It has a embed for a substack.
That embed for a substack is expired because it's run by a thing called Supascribe that is presumably some software as a service scam.
Below that is a cookie permissions banner which is asking for permission to spy on you for advertisers even though there are no actual adverts on the site.
There are links at the top and bottom to Facebook and Instagram.
There is no RSS feed embedded in the page.
I repeat: Peter Singer is actually pretty cool, and he thinks about ethics sanely.
This is the web we have built. Where a professional Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist does all this.
#web #ethics #peterSinger
@mia@hcommons.socialAudrey Tang @… on 'Software Freedom as Civic Care' and so much more - 'care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance' https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-c
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.
@aardrian@toot.cafeAlso — two days.
https://bsky.app/profile/lflegal.bsky.social/post/3ml2enyfjp22t
That post points to endorsements at
@relcfp@mastodon.socialThe Politics and Ethics of Literature in French Thought
https://ift.tt/Fjzsi8W
updated: Monday, July 6, 2026 - 2:38pmfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEthics Panel Is Investigating Rep. Chuck Edwards Over Alleged Sexual Misconduct With a Former Aide (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/chuck-edwards-investigation-ethics-committee
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p107#a260501p107
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWow, every time I hear Peter Griffin on RNZ's Thurs Tech segment, I think - whoa, what koolaid has he been drinking?! He's completely credulous - boosts 'AI', 'Incubators', and 'Startups'. Big Tech=Good, no questions. None. Ethics? What're they? I haven't got time for that. He's got this platform and uses it to spout utter rubbish policy recommendations. I wish he knew what he was talking about. Find myself fuming every time he's on.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2026/05/22/why-anthropic-is-he…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Ethics Committee investigating allegations of sexual harassment against GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/politics/chuck-edwards-house-ethics-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p134#a260430p134
@aardrian@toot.cafeIt’s coming. One week. 6 May.
I contributed a chapter on accessibility overlays, but the other 33 make it worth it.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/
@crell@phpc.socialThe hardest lesson for morally-minded people to learn is that the vast majority of people are not morally-minded.
#FreeSoftware #AI #LLM #Ethics
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThe moral integrity of a Louisiana Senator on stark display. Hey, if he's making a fortune, it must be beneficial, right? That's why we need to reduce or eliminate regulations, we must allow law-makers to invest in specific companies, we need to focus on fraud in the world of the lowest income populations, rather than worry about a few fiddles by the "important" people.
After all, those hard working wealthy people need to be rewarded for efforts on behalf of the co…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThe moral integrity of a Louisiana Senator on stark display. Hey, if he's making a fortune, it must be beneficial, right? That's why we need to reduce or eliminate regulations, we must allow law-makers to invest in specific companies, we need to focus on fraud in the world of the lowest income populations, rather than worry about a few fiddles by the "important" people.
After all, those hard working wealthy people need to be rewarded for efforts on behalf of the co…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialFaith and AI Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://ift.tt/psQNHWF
CALL FOR PAPERS: Modernizing Winter Sam White 05/20/2026 - 9:31pm Announcement Type …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://
@cdarwin@c.imThe House of Representatives is on an ethics purge
—and one of the next potential castoffs is Rep. Cory Mills (R, Fla.).
Rep. Nancy Mace, (R, S.C.) introduced a resolution on Monday to expel fellow Republican Mills,
whom the House Ethics Committee is investigating for earlier allegations of financial and sexual misconduct.
Mills has denied the allegations.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social @servelan@newsie.social"The pope said the Catholic Church should prioritise questions of inequality and justice over those of sexual ethics."
Pope Leo’s ‘significant’ remarks on sex signal shift for Catholic Church | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-views-sex-catholic-church-b2965683.html
@ddrake@mathstodon.xyzI've been thinking a lot about design lately -- next spring I'm teaching a course in the ethics of software design -- and I realized that even something like an iPad cover / stand can be right-handed, in a way.
When the iPad is propped up using the cover in the photo, the home button has to be on the right. But I'm left-handed, so whenever I want to use the home button for the Touch ID, I have to reach across the tablet. It's not hard, but it's slightly awkward.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAnother House Republican is under the microscope for alleged sexual misconduct (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/chuck-edwards-ethics-sexual-harrassment-00906871
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p75#a260505p75
@cdarwin@c.imAccording to a 927-page document released on Tuesday by the US Office of Government Ethics,
in all, the US president made more than $2.2 billion last year.
He benefited from a vast global network of investments and businesses that range from real estate and golf courses to royalty deals and Trump-branded products such as cologne.
He also took tens of millions of dollars in court settlements.
In his second term, the president and his family have invested heavily in dig…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Ethics Committee Is Probing Leaks About Its Jim Costa Investigation (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/house-ethics-committee-investigating-links-jim-costa-closed-probe
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p140#a260603p140
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/53e14bcc-788c-4959-b260-7aee363594bc
@memeorandum@universeodon.comScoop: Rep. Chuck Edwards singled out young female aides for special attention (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/04/chuck-edwards-letter-house-ethics
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p96#a260504p96
@paulwermer@sfba.socialPerhaps the strongest endorsement of a political candidate I have seen:
PG&E launches $10 million PAC to take out gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer | The San Francisco Standard
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/23/pg-e-10-million-pac-a…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialBetraying people who risked their lives(and their families) to support the US military in #Afghanistan is beyond appalling.
Never mind morality or ethics, from a pure self-interest POV it is #Stupid beyond belief. Why would anyone help you out in the future?
Trump officials consider send…
@servelan@newsie.socialKen Paxton admitted under oath to ethics violation as Senate race heats up: WSJ - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-2676789707/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialDe/Naturated – Etica-mente CFP 2026
https://ift.tt/7Y3wn5m
updated: Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:24pmfull name / name of organization: Ethics Labcontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Ethics Committee Investigated Rep. Alma Adams for Alleged 'Inappropriate Relationship' With a Staffer (Kadia Goba/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/alma-adams-ethics-committee-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p14#a260423p14
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google dropped out of a $100M Pentagon challenge to create tech for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms, following an internal ethics review (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump secured a massive loan from Charles Schwab Bank last year,
leaving his debt profile murkier than it has been in ages.
The principal on the new loan amounts to more than $50 million and its interest rate is 3.9%,
according to a newly released ethics filing, which does not specify the exact size of the liability, when it is due or against which assets it is pledged.
That lack of detail makes it an anomaly on the president’s balance sheet.
Trump owes m…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comExclusive: US EEOC Chair violated ethics rules halting LGBTQ cases, complaint alleges (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-eeoc-chair-violated-ethics-rules-halting-lgbtq-cases-complaint-alleges-2026-04-23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p118#a260423p118
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRep. Cory Mills says he won't resign from Congress amid ethics probe into misconduct allegations (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cory-mills-wont-resign-congress-ethics-probe-misconduct-allegations-rcna341305
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p5#a260422p5
@paulwermer@sfba.socialBetraying people who risked their lives(and their families) to support the US military in #Afghanistan is beyond appalling.
Never mind morality or ethics, from a pure self-interest POV it is #Stupid beyond belief. Why would anyone help you out in the future?
Trump officials consider send…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns amid Ethics probe (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-rep-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-resigns-ethics-probe-rcna341199
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p90#a260421p90
@cdarwin@c.imThere is a zone of lawlessness around the Oval Office,
erected by the Supreme Court when it granted current and former presidents effective immunity from prosecution if their crimes involved “official acts.”
Loot the taxpayers, misuse government power for graft, and you’re off the hook.
Last week, the president filed a report with the Office of Government Ethics detailing the stock trades he made this year.
It is a novelistic tale of profiteering, recognizable as in…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns from Congress just minutes before House Ethics Committee was to sanction Florida Dem (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/rep-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-resigns-from-congress-just-minutes-before-house-ethics-committee-was-to-sanction-florida-dem/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p95#a260421p95
@servelan@newsie.socialLawyers referred to the local bar for possible ethics violations...
U.S. judge voids Trump's settlement with IRS | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-voids-trumps-settlement-with-irs-2026-07-13/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comA year after Trump fired a top ethics watchdog, there's still no leader (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/19/democrats-ask-white-house-explain-ethics-office-plan-after-trump-firing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p23#a260519p23
@cdarwin@c.imCornyn and his allies have poured millions into brutal, personal ads trying to defeat Paxton
— and they’ve had a lot of material to work with.
Paxton has faced an impeachment attempt by the state legislature,
ethics complaints from his staff
and a federal securities fraud investigation.
He’s currently going through a divorce that his wife filed for on “biblical grounds.”
Republicans are increasingly concerned that a Paxton nomination would put the seat i…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comScoop: Gallego met with Ethics after GOP lawmaker accused him of misconduct (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/gallego-ethics-sexual-misconduct-eric-swalwell
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p70#a260421p70
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats prepare to abandon Cherfilus-McCormick en masse (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-democrats-ethics-expel
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p5#a260421p5
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLawmakers weigh sanctions for Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cherfilusmccormick-ethics-hearing-house-376eaaa9ff51a7bf66a9a5528822d2ef
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p38#a260421p38
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'It would be 100 percent illegal': Top Democrats blast Duffy over road trip (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/19/congress/duffy-road-trip-ethics-dems-00928470
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p6#a260520p6
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Ethics says it doesn't have information to share on lawmaker sexual misconduct settlements (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/02/congress/new-house-ethics-statement-00985864
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p50#a260702p50
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's Pick for Ethics Czar Is a Political Operative (Eric Katz/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-ethics-czar-nominee-michael-chamberlain
http://www.memeorandum.com/260629/p97#a260629p97
