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[political-us]

Wright granted access to DOGE representative Luke Farritor — a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern — even over objections from members of the department’s general counsel and chief information offices, the people told CNN. The DOE chief information office is the department’s IT and cybersecurity office.

Members of the general counsel and chief information offices “said this is a bad idea” because Farritor hadn’t had a standard background investigation needed to access the department’s system, one of the people told CNN. “He’s not cleared to be in DOE, on our systems. None of those things have been done.”

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Matt Davies :: Shirk. http://Newsday.com/matt

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 24, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Nov 25, 2024

Since the night of the November 5, election, Trump and his allies have insisted that he won what Trump called “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.” But as the numbers have continued to come in, it’s clear that such a declaration is both an attempt to encourage donations— fundraising emails refer to Trump’s “LANDSLIDE VICTORY”—and an attempt to create the illusion of power to push his agenda. 

The reality is that Trump’s margin over Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris will likely end up around 1.5 points. According to James M. Lindsay, writing for the Council of Foreign Relations, it is the fifth smallest since 1900, which covers 32 presidential races. Exit polls showed that Trump’s favorability rating was just 48% and that more voters chose someone other than Trump. And, as Lindsay points out, Trump fell 4 million votes short of President Joe Biden in 2020. 

Political science professor Lynn Vavreck of the University of California, Los Angeles, told Peter Baker of the New York Times: “If the definition of landslide is you win both the popular vote and Electoral College vote, that’s a new definition” On the other hand, she added, “Nobody gains any kind of influence by going out and saying, ‘I barely won, and now I want to do these big things.’”

Trump’s allies are indeed setting out to do big things, and they are big things that are unpopular. 

Trump ran away from Project 2025 during the campaign because it was so unpopular. He denied he knew anything about it, calling it “ridiculous and abysmal,” and on September 16 the leader of Trump’s transition team, Howard Lutnick, said there were “Absolutely zero. No connection. Zero” ties between the team and Project 2025. Now, though, Trump has done an about-face and has said he will nominate at least five people associated with Project 2025 to his administration. 

Those nominees include Russell Vought, one of the project's key authors, who calls for dramatically increasing the powers of the president; Tom Homan, who as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) oversaw the separation of children from their parents; John Ratcliffe, whom the Senate refused in 2019 to confirm as Director of National Intelligence because he had no experience in intelligence; Brendan Carr, whom Trump wants to put at the head of the Federal Communications Commission and who is already trying to silence critics by warning he will punish broadcasters who Trump feels have been unfair to him; and Stephen Miller, the fervently anti-immigrant ideologue.

Project 2025 calls for the creation of an extraordinarily strong president who will gut the civil service and replace its nonpartisan officials with those who are loyal to the president. It calls for filling the military and the Department of Justice with those loyal to the president. And then, the project plans that with his new power, the president will impose Christian nationalism on the United States of America, ending immigration, and curtailing rights for LGBTQ+ individuals as well as women and racial and ethnic minorities.

Project 2025 was unpopular when people learned about it. 

And then there is the threat of dramatic cuts to the U.S. government, suggested by the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, headed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. They are calling for cuts of $2 trillion to the items in the national budget that provide a safety net for ordinary Americans at the same time that Trump is promising additional tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Musk, meanwhile, is posturing as if he is the actual president, threatening on Saturday, for example: “Those who break the law will be arrested and that includes mayors.”  

On Meet the Press today, current representative and senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacted to the “dictator talk,” with which Trump is threatening his political opponents, pointing out that "[t]he American people…voted on the basis of the economy—they wanted change to the economy—they weren’t voting for dictatorship. So I think he is going to misread his mandate if that’s what he thinks voters chose him for.”

That Trump and his team are trying desperately to portray a marginal victory as a landslide in order to put an extremist unpopular agenda into place suggests another dynamic at work. 

For all Trump’s claims of power, he is a 78-year-old man who is declining mentally and who neither commands a majority of voters nor has shown signs of being able to transfer his voters to a leader in waiting. 

Trump’s team deployed Vice President–elect J.D. Vance to the Senate to drum up votes for the confirmation of Florida representative Matt Gaetz to become the United States attorney general. But Vance has only been in the Senate since 2022 and is not noticeably popular. He—and therefore Trump—was unable to find the votes the wildly unqualified Gaetz needed for confirmation, forcing him to withdraw his name from consideration. 

The next day, Gaetz began to advertise on Cameo, an app that allows patrons to commission a personalized video for fans, asking a minimum of $550.00 for a recording. Gaetz went from United States representative to Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general to making videos for Cameo in a little over a week. 

It is a truism in studying politics that it’s far more important to follow power than it is to follow people. Right now, there is a lot of power sloshing around in Washington, D.C. 

Trump is trying to convince the country that he has scooped up all that power. But in fact, he has won reelection by less than 50% of the vote, and his vice president is not popular. The policies Trump is embracing are so unpopular that he himself ran away from them when he was campaigning. And now he has proposed filling his administration with a number of highly unqualified figures who, knowing the only reason they have been elevated is that they are loyal to Trump, will go along with his worst instincts. With that baggage, it is not clear he will be able to cement enough power to bring his plans to life.

If power remains loose, it could get scooped up by cabinet officials, as it was during a similarly chaotic period in the 1920s. In that era, voters elected to the presidency former newspaperman and Republican backbencher Warren G. Harding of Ohio, who promised to return the country to “normalcy” after eight years of the presidency of Democrat Woodrow Wilson and the nation’s engagement in World War I. That election really was a landslide, with Harding and his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, winning more than 60% of the popular vote in 1920.

But Harding was badly out of his depth in the presidency and spent his time with cronies playing bridge and drinking upstairs at the White House—despite Prohibition—while corrupt members of his administration grabbed all they could. 

With such a void in the executive branch, power could have flowed to Congress. But after twenty years of opposing first Theodore Roosevelt, and then William Howard Taft, and then Woodrow Wilson, Congress had become adept at opposing presidents but had split into factions that made it unable to transition to using power, rather than opposing its use.

And so power in that era flowed to members of Harding’s Cabinet, primarily to Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who put into place a fervently pro-business government that continued after Harding’s untimely death into the presidency of Calvin Coolidge, who made little effort to recover the power Harding had abandoned. After Hoover became president and their system fell to ruin in the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took their lost power and used it to create a new type of government. 

In this moment, Trump’s people are working hard to convince Americans that they have gathered up all the power in Washington, D.C., but that power is actually still sloshing around. Trump is trying to force through the Senate a number of unqualified and dangerous nominees for high-level positions, threatening Republican senators that if they don’t bow to him, Elon Musk will fund primary challengers, or suggesting he will push them into recess so he can appoint his nominees without their constitutionally-mandated advice and consent. 

But Trump and his people do not, in fact, have a mandate. Trump is old and weak, and power is up for grabs. It is possible that MAGA Republicans will, in the end, force Republican senators into their camp, permitting Trump and his cronies to do whatever they wish. 

It is also possible that Republican senators will themselves take back for Congress the power that has lately concentrated in presidents, check the most dangerous and unpopular of Trump’s plans, and begin the process of restoring the balance of the three branches of government.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[mrsmortarsmenagerie]

Enola Gay went hard ( i know it was the plane jusT LISTEN ) and the Hiroshima bombs themselves were called Little Boy and Fat Man like. How snarky, how fun.

If I had a nuclear war head I would name it the Sweet Transvestite

[globalefilism]

new collage / phone background I made.. f2u

[coldisthenightt]

had to give a list of my social media accounts to the school i just started working at..... feeling extremely observed rn......

[djkerr]

I need you to do a background check on a partner.

Who?

Me.

TGW 04x19 The Wheels of Justice

[alianoralacanta]

If the workplace you are going for has systematic history checking - and a huge number of jobs, certainly in the UK, do nowadays - this will only work if you have at least one client with whom one had some sort of working interaction (even if that was simply a speculative query about possible services), or were signed for a benefit of some sort and told them about the commission work. Otherwise the necessary footprint to pass the history check won't exist. (Any employer in England and Wales with direct access to HMRC PAYE - typically this means medium/large employers - or those with large turnovers - or who pays HMRC to check can get this information). It's generally best if the form of creativity used stands up to the level of inspection the employer selected is likely to use.

i keep seeing that "just say you have an NDA to explain employment gaps" post and while i'm glad someone put it down it still makes me grit my teeth knowing people out there are still following that goofy advice somewhere.

as someone who has both successfully used this strategy in interviews and conducted interviews themselves as a retail manager, if you are a Creative Sort wanting to fluff up a gap you will have far more success just saying you did freelance commission work. most employers won't be nosy enough to ask for examples if they aren't hiring you for creative reasons but you can provide some personal work as examples of "commissions" and literally no one is going to verify if a customer actually existed for them. the fact that freelance work implies some level of self-direction and organizational skills is a bonus, and from my own experience it also simply makes a good impression to share some of your creative projects because it demonstrates there's a lightbulb on, so to speak. in the end the interview is about determining if you will make a good member of a team, not how amazing and interesting you are.

never dig yourself a deeper hole than you have to. if you have to tell a lie, have at least three truths to back it up, you know?

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[amlaustria]

A Guide to Choosing AML Provider for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

AML verification plays a significant role for financial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to combat money laundering, ensure regulatory compliance and prevent financial crimes. For Austrian businesses, whether it is a top fintech company or a small payment processing company, background verification is essential to know whether they are associated with financial crimes such as tax evasion, terrorist financing, financial scams, illicit funding and other criminal activities. That’s why the Financial Market Authority (FMA) regulations implement strict KYC and AML regulations for SMEs to combat money laundering and synthetic identity fraud.

[productiveandfree]

How does a DBS check work?

Background checks are a relatively common employment requirement nowadays. A lot of industries require them as part of the recruitment process, whether as a regulatory necessity or an optional extra to keep their workplace as safe as possible. 

Despite their commonality, relatively few people are fully aware of how these background checks actually work. Given that they involve delving into your personal background, it can be nice to know what’s going on - with that in mind, here’s how DBS checks work.

The Disclosure and Barring Service

Background checks in the UK are normally processed by the Disclosure and Barring Service (or DBS) - a non-departmental government body responsible for these kinds of things. As a result, background checks carried out by that body are often referred to as DBS checks. 

That being said, businesses will typically use a third-party service such as Personnel Checks to liaise with the DBS to carry out these checks. In certain contexts, this is an actual necessity, while in others it just makes the process a lot more convenient and efficient. 

Kinds of DBS checks

How a DBS check actually works depends on the kind of DBS check that’s being carried out. There are three different kinds available.

Basic DBS check

The most common option - available for all positions - is the basic check. It will contain information on unspent criminal convictions and warnings, and can be carried out regardless of the position in question.

Standard DBS check

Standard checks are one step up, showing information on both spent and unspent criminal convictions, reprimands and warnings. It’s a controlled check, meaning that it can only be requested for certain positions, in certain niches.

Enhanced DBS check

The enhanced check is the most in-depth check available. In addition to spent and unspent criminal convictions, warnings and reprimands, it also contains any other information that the police consider relevant to the position being applied for. The enhanced check can also be carried out with a barred list check.

After the check has been requested

Once one of the above checks has been requested, there will be a short wait while the check is carried out. A basic check might not take longer than a day or two, but an enhanced check can take weeks, depending on how many different locations the applicant has lived in.

If the checks flag something that’s relevant to the position being applied for, then it’s possible that they won’t be able to offer the applicant the job. If it comes back clean, however, or with an issue that doesn’t directly impact the role in question, then the applicant should find themself in the clear.

Whether you’re an individual or a business, it’s important that you have at least a rudimentary understanding of how DBS checks work. If you’re a business operating in a regulated industry, such as healthcare or education, this becomes even more important. Failure to take the appropriate steps to protect those under your care can result in legal action, something that can easily be avoided by consulting those with expertise in these matters. 

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favorite movies: Duck! The Carbine H19h M4ss4cr3 (1999), Natural Born Killers (1994), Biodome (1996), Pineapple Express (2008), Black Circle Boys (1997), I Saw The TV Glow (2024), Donnie Darko (2001), Bring Her Back (2025), The Batman (2022)

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What is a reference check?

[1-autisticfnaffan]

I tried to do those AI Background checks that scan the internet for pictures and videos with your face in it and it just showed me a bunch of women with vaguely similar haircuts and big noses? Is that all I am to AI? A big polish nose?!?!

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