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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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Life is a Sacred Text

Life is a Sacred Text is about truth & transformation, with ancient stories serving as mirrors & lights. Collective liberation. Everybody-celebratory.

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January 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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Elizabeth Warren

@warren.senate.gov

It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.

He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.

Congress must investigate.

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

www.nytimes.com

February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM

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Joe Sudbay

@joesudbay.bsky.social

Crazy idea but could some US senator call the Sec of the Treasury and ask him what the fuck is going on?

@corybooker.com, you voted for him. You and the 14 other Dems who also did need to get answers

@wyden.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov must also given their key roles

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Feb 2

"please don't be mad at me" — the treasury department www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has signed off on a plan to give access to the payment system to a team led by Tom Krause, the CEO of Cloud Software Group, who is now working for the Treasury Department and serves as a liaison to Musk’s DOGE group that operates out of the United States Digital Service. One person familiar with the effort said Krause’s role will be subject to safeguards that would not allow any ability to make changes to the system and that no one outside Treasury would have access.

“The secretary’s approval was contingent on it being essentially a read-only operation,” the person said.

February 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Robyn

@handcranked.bsky.social

Today, I'm officially launching #Stunday with #EastCoastKin. Here's one of the most stunning places I've been: Moraine Lake

Thanks to everyone sharing their stunning art!

#PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotoSky #nature #photography

A few mountain peaks with a glacier above Moraine Lake. The mountains appear light blue and the water looks dark blue in the shade. Beams of light are coming over the mountain. There are conifer trees along the shore on the right side and little bits of branches line the sides of the photo

February 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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Dr. Jessica L Ware

@jessicalwarelab.bsky.social

Dr. Margaret Strickland Collin’s studied termites, and was the first Black woman to earn PhD in entomology. siarchives.si.edu/blog/margare...

#BlackHistoryMonth #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory

Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist ...

siarchives.si.edu

February 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM

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Dale

@dalejohn.bsky.social

February 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Senator Ron Wyden

@wyden.senate.gov

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.