Chair, Arlington Commission on Aging https://teapawt.org/t.co/9M49fPZxO7…
Arlington, VA
Joined May 2008
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What if All the President’s Men Were, in Fact, Railroaded? (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/10/13/opini…
The FEC’s Filing System Is Down a Week Before the Election: The agency won’t say why; The outage comes as candidates face 48-hour deadlines to report large late contributions (WP) washingtonpost.com/politics/…
The US Gov't Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies On Americans: The Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program (W) wired.com/story/the-us-gover…
McMahon Spends $43,000 For New Office Furniture As She Looks To Close Her Department: The education secretary says her old furniture “cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated” into new office space (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
Ways & Means Democrats Ask Treasury About Delayed IRS Data: Ten House tax writers led by Rep. Mike Thompson want to know why detailed tax-filing data has been held back for months (P) politico.com/live-updates/20…
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Supposed To Protect Consumers But Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move: Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues & bring accountability; The CFP stopped publishing the narratives (P) propublica.org/article/cfpb-…
USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights Abuse: Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities (tNR)
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Embarrassing Breach At F.B.I. Fuels Fears Of Harm To Its Employees: In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/09/28/us/po…
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents: Leaked records include the locations of ICE & CBP facilities, workers’ cell numbers & group members tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software & xAI’s Grok chatbot (W) wired.com/story/massive-leak…
Hackers Identify Thousands Of DHS Employees In Massive Data Breach: The names of more than 41,000 personnel at ICE, CBP & other Homeland Security agencies, including some undercover investigators, were leaked online (WP) washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
Trump Official Lauds Administration For ‘Protecting White American Men From Discrimination’: FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson is teaming up with JD Vance to crack down on supposed fraud — & to protect the privileged (RS) rollingstone.com/politics/po…
A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID, HR Had No Record Of Him Working There: Despite the agency's HR department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID; It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so (W) wired.com/story/a-28-year-ol…
They Came To Washington To Dismantle Government, Now, They’re Profiting From It: DOGE alumni have leveraged their government experience, raising at least half a billion dollars for firms spanning cyberwarfare, AI & data centers (WP) washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Why Did DOGE Exist? Now we know: Turns out, Elon Musk’s pimply minions didn’t actually want to cut government spending; They wanted to get a piece of it for themselves (tNR) newrepublic.com/article/2165…
Trump Administration Faces Record Vacancies In Senate-Confirmed Posts: As the GOP faces a possible Senate loss in the midterms, current & former officials fear the window for confirmations may be closing (WP) washingtonpost.com/politics/…
The Most Important Divide In America Isn’t Republican vs. Democratic: Making unions stronger & corporations & billionaires weaker is an essential step to strengthening American democracy, says author Hamilton Nolan (tNR) newrepublic.com/article/2169…
Corruptionland: The corruption allegations are rampant in Trump’s Washington; We documented $377 billion across 100 episodes (C) corruptionland.org/
The French Riots Prove an Old Truism That Americans Must Heed: Want to Help a Fascist? Start a Riot; The French protests are a warning about the political right's ability to spin violence to its advantage (S) slate.com/news-and-politics/…
Trump’s D.C. Hotel Is Gone, Republicans Still Pay Millions To His Businesses: Republican campaigns & political groups have spent nearly $3 million at Trump businesses since he returned to office, with spending shifting to Palm Beach, Florida (WP) washingtonpost.com/politics/…
