My insurance company screwed something up, and after many online messages, letters, and phone calls, it’s still not 100% certain that it’s resolved, and even if it is it’s going to take another month to be properly fixed.
Boston has robust plans in place to ensure that Poll Pad failures will not compromise an election, but I still have some concerns.
Using electronic poll-books at 275 precincts on election day is a much heavier lift than using them at ten early-voting locations. I hope they’ve covered all their bases!
I am slated to appear tomorrow afternoon at a virtual panel hosted by the Center for American Progress entitled “Uniformed Disservice: How Trump’s Agenda Harms Veterans and Service Members“. Below is the outline of my prepared remarks. I encourage you to join me and the other panelists for an informative and challenging discussion.
Telling people “Your email addresses on the two sites need to match!” without telling them what to do if they don’t is a user-hostile act.
Wired just released a new article1 by Vittoria Elliott about DOGE’s incursion into VA, in particular the disruption that muskrat Sahil Lavingia is causing within the Office of the CTO’s VA.gov team by blustering around like a bull in a china shop. It’s a good insight into how the muskrats are working at government agencies.… Read More »
As I noted previously, I was invited to testify at a “shadow hearing” held by the Democrats on the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, about the firings happening at VA.
I have been invited to testify (virtually) at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs about firings at VA. The hearing will begin at 3:00pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 2. The hearing was organized by the Democratic committee members; although all members of the committee are invited to attend, the Republican members are not expected to show up. The hearing will be live-streamed on Twitter (https://x.com/SVACDems) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SVACDems/). And yes, I absolutely did let the committee know just what I thought of the fact that they were only streaming on corporate social media platforms controlled by people who support fascism.
I imagine most of my readers are not going to make much of this, but since I’m trying to capture everything here for posterity, note that I was mentioned briefly in an article in the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun last Saturday.
Experienced ex-govies Julian Sanchez and Noah Kunin, started the WatchCats podcast a couple of months ago to report on DOGE and its doings throughout the federal government. I am the featured guest on the March 25 episode. Listen for the inside story of what went down at USDS between the election and when 44 USDSers… Read More »