Judy Minot
@judyminot.bsky.social
Writer, musician, author of Best Practice: Inspiration and Ideas for Traditional Musicians judyminot.com/bestpractice
Chilling: clear evidence of an intentional leak of sensitive personal info by DOGE to Russia, and then they lied and said they never did it.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Chilling: clear evidence of an intentional leak of sensitive personal info by DOGE to Russia, and then they lied and said they never did it.
"Universities have always thrived in free societies and been smothered in autocracies. Our free society is now under threat,” write Harvard professors Ryan Enos and Steven Levitsky
Words & Phrases We Could do Without
“Academic Freedom,” under this administration, becomes an anachronism
open.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Universities have always thrived in free societies and been smothered in autocracies. Our free society is now under threat,” write Harvard professors Ryan Enos and Steven Levitsky
“This isn’t the US. This is Homeland. You have no rights here."
And a pilot making disparaging remarks about peoples’ religion. Where we’re at now, and what the radical right have taught people is acceptable behavior.
And a pilot making disparaging remarks about peoples’ religion. Where we’re at now, and what the radical right have taught people is acceptable behavior.
A passenger says a United pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom. Now he is suing
An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation.
apnews.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“This isn’t the US. This is Homeland. You have no rights here."
And a pilot making disparaging remarks about peoples’ religion. Where we’re at now, and what the radical right have taught people is acceptable behavior.
And a pilot making disparaging remarks about peoples’ religion. Where we’re at now, and what the radical right have taught people is acceptable behavior.
Undaunted: Senator Elissa Slotkin l
Undaunted: Senator Elissa Slotkin
"America wants change. But there is a responsible way to make change, and a reckless way."
open.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Undaunted: Senator Elissa Slotkin l
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March 6, 2025:
March 6, 2025
This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration is preparing to deport the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and have temporary lega...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
March 6, 2025:
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
This is behind a paywall I’m sorry. But if you can read it, it makes an important point.
Fintan O’Toole: Trump and Musk’s war on science presents a startling opportunity for Ireland
Fintan O’Toole: Trump is complaining that we pick America’s pocket. Fair enough – we should instead pick America’s brains
www.irishtimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is behind a paywall I’m sorry. But if you can read it, it makes an important point.
A team of top experts ae sounding the alarm of why Kesh Patel and Tulsi Gabbard must not become head of the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence. These are not people we can trust with our national secrets. We may lose our country absolutely.
NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS ALERT
RINGING THE ALARM: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI
open.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A team of top experts ae sounding the alarm of why Kesh Patel and Tulsi Gabbard must not become head of the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence. These are not people we can trust with our national secrets. We may lose our country absolutely.
Now I feel hopeful. Moral: Don’t piss off the worker bees.
How to Push Back
There is a reason Trump is afraid of the federal bureaucracy, the career civil servants he wants to replace.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Now I feel hopeful. Moral: Don’t piss off the worker bees.
incompetence or deliberate, it's still not good for the people of the US. Their healthcare providers need good, solid information.
Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but not others
One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.
www.npr.org
January 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
incompetence or deliberate, it's still not good for the people of the US. Their healthcare providers need good, solid information.
Good advice especially the first few and #8.
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January 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Good advice especially the first few and #8.
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“I promise I’ll stop drinking if you let me lead the most powerful military in the world and give my job literal life or death stakes” is kind of a banger though. Not what we expected but what we deserve.
December 5, 2024 at 2:05 AM
“I promise I’ll stop drinking if you let me lead the most powerful military in the world and give my job literal life or death stakes” is kind of a banger though. Not what we expected but what we deserve.
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Trump is concerned that moms & babies crossing the border are criminals while he is blithely releasing people convicted of seditious conspiracy from prison back into our communities. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION – The White House
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Trump is concerned that moms & babies crossing the border are criminals while he is blithely releasing people convicted of seditious conspiracy from prison back into our communities. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
To Musicians, both amateur and professional:
Do you swear like a sailor when you make a mistake? Here's why it might be worth modifying that habit.
Do you swear like a sailor when you make a mistake? Here's why it might be worth modifying that habit.
Like a Sailor…
On swearing (or eye rolling, wincing, etc.) when you make a mistake.
judyminot.medium.com
January 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
To Musicians, both amateur and professional:
Do you swear like a sailor when you make a mistake? Here's why it might be worth modifying that habit.
Do you swear like a sailor when you make a mistake? Here's why it might be worth modifying that habit.
Reposted by Judy Minot
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
Quite the two man band!
joli coeur de rosier - Duo Daniel Haché et Pascal Gemme
YouTube video by Trad Québec Studio
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December 4, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Quite the two man band!