Judge in Alien Enemies Act case to oversee case about Signal chat

The judge who the government has argued can't be trusted with sensitive information in the Alien Enemies Act case
-- has been assigned to a case about top government officials appearing to share sensitive information on the commercial messaging application Signal. 

U.S. District Court Judge James #Boasberg in the District of Columbia has been assigned to oversee the case of American Oversight against top officials involved in a Signal group chat about an attack in Yemen.
The lawsuits seeks to make sure the officials are not using the app to get around federal record-keeping requirements.  
“Messages in the Signal chat about official government actions, including, but not limited to, national security deliberations, are #federal #records and must be preserved in accordance with federal statutes, and agency directives, rules, and regulations,” the plaintiffs argue. 
Tulsi #Gabbard is one of the defendants in the case, and used the suit as argument for why she couldn't answer some questions about the group chat in today's House hearing.
"As a result of that pending litigation, I'm limited in my ability to comment further" on the case, she testified.
#Boasberg is overseeing a separate civil case in which alleged Venezuelan gang members have sued to stop from being deported under Trump's invocation of the rarely used Alien Enemies Act.

The administration has refused to answer some of the judge's questions about the initial March 15 deportations in the case and suggested in a filing it did not believe the court could be trusted with such sensitive information
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-ratcliffe-gabbard-election-ukraine-live-updates-rcna197446#rcrd75527

Took the day off to catch up on some reading and listen to records.

#books #bookstodon #lp #vinyl #records @pluralistic #picksandshovels #florelaurentienne

June 1965. Alan Simpson sets a new British record for the mile - 3 mins 56.6 sec, breaking the record established by Derek Ibbotson in 1957. The current record, established in 2024, is 3 mins 45.34 secs.

This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.

On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network.

But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
https://www.propublica.org/article/valere-public-schools-superintendent-salary-texas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Education #School #Tax #Records #Students

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/06/valere-public-schools-superintendent-salary-texas

This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
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On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
https://www.propublica.org/article/valere-public-schools-superintendent-salary-texas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

I’m a very happy Yello fan, today. Yello’s 2009 album Touch got a 15th anniversary reissue recently and it’s on gold and silver vinyl. This was the last Yello LP I needed. Second hand copies of the first pressing were listed at £400 last time I checked, so I thought I’d never get it. Crazy.

The production, mix and mastering are absolutely flawless. Most of Yello’s output has sounded ridiculously good that their releases are my baseline for quality mixing and mastering.

As Idaho Pushes to Reform Its Coroner System, Counties Seek to Make It Less Transparent
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A bill moving forward with bipartisan support is described as a first step to addressing problems highlighted in a state report and by ProPublica. Meanwhile, counties seek to end access to coroners’ records that were key to ProPublica’s findings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-coroners-system-reform-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

"Ultimately, we want artists to support themselves and know that there are other options out there: it’s not just streaming or nothing."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/25/vinyl-carver-lathe-cutters-home-cutting-records-craze

1. #Preserve your #records 2. #Pack your #bags.

If anyone has any torrent space and capacity spare, you might be interested in this:

https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/

There's also this:

https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-tracker/

#nowplaying North Atlantic Oscillation - Fog Electric #vinyl #records

#trump #musk #donaldtrump #elonmusk #president #presidency #republican #usa #doge #records #america #unitedstates
So Musk has been ordered to destroy copies of any records. Taking into consideration he’s in league with a convicted felon, am I the only one feeling some may accidentally be lost or mysteriously vanish?
I feel a vote coming on…

Judge blocks Musk team access to Treasury Department records https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo

adored this scholarly collection about record stores, getting deep into local histories using individual shops as the pivots between music scenes & broader economic/political/cultural contexts. chapters on london, north carolina, brisbane, portugal, new zealand, lagos, dublin, paris, hamburg, & more. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/life-death-and-afterlife-of-the-record-store-9781501384509/ @vinylrecords @bookstodon #records #music #books

HMV, Oxford Street, London, 1961.

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#FBI’s #Warrantless #Search #Ruled #Unconstitutional in a #Blow to #Government #Spying.

The #FBI trawled #NSA #records without a #warrant to #investigate a #man suspected of trying to join a #terror #group, #prosecutors #admit.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Technology

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/27/fbi-government-spying-surveillance-702-fisa/