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The US supreme court on Friday permitted DOGE, the so-called ‘department of government efficiency’, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.
At the request of the Justice Department, the justices put on hold US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information”
in data such as medical and financial records while …

Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.
Many thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Mark Montgomery of FDD for their help and insight.
Daniel made a point about Trump's cutbacks on cyber spending, a situation that most cyber folks haven't see…

Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Following their Senate confirmations, Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey — Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director — will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.

Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p120#a250604p120

The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.
In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, instead blaming “a confluence of administrative errors.”
The government had previously given the court what the judges called “express assurance” that…

Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order
A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The government blamed “administrative errors.”

Trump ordered his White House counsel and the attorney general on Wednesday to investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his staff -- in Mr. Trump’s latest attempt to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor.
In an executive order, Mr. Trump put the power and resources of the federal government to work examining whether some of Mr. Biden’s presidential actions were legally invalid because his aides had enacted those policies without his knowledge.
The e…

Trump Orders Investigation of Biden and His Aides
The executive order is the latest effort by President Trump to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor and question the legality of his actions in office.

The C.B.O. estimate is all but certain to inflame debate within the G.O.P. about the spending bill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs
👉would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade,
in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that President Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
The C.B.O…

Trump’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says
The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President Trump’s agenda.

On his 2025 inaugural date #DJT signed an executive order titled "Ending The Weaponization Of Government.”
...and every #MAGA accusation is instead a confession, as the troops from federal agencies under his aegis go after any perceived political enemy he sees.
This week alone: * DJT

Trump's DOJ Brings Baseless Charges Against Lamonica McIver
What's really behind the Justice Department's baseless charges against Rep. McIver?

Heute vor 72 Jahren: Am 25. Mai 1953 wurde im Rahmen der Upshot-Knothole-Testserie die #Atomkanone M65, auch bekannt als Atomic Annie, auf dem Nevada Testgelände erfolgreich getestet. Dieses US Artilleriegeschütz feuerte als erstes und einziges eine nukleare Granate ab.

The leadership of the Unites States has made clear that they will imprison and deport lawful residents who publicly disagree with the government.
This man lives in the US legally, is married to a US citizen who is carrying his child, and is set to be deported because in exercising his free speech rights he said something the government didn’t like.
The emergency is now.
#MahmoudKhalil

ICE arrests Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents. Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer says he was arrested at his apartment near the university by agents who claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card. Khalil, who graduated in December, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and was being held at an immigration detention center in New Jersey. His wif…

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.
As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon
to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget,
the number of deaths on Nichols’…

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
Elon Musk’s tenure running Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has, according to the academic Brooke Nichols, caused thousands of ‘preventable deaths’