Feb 13, 2025 2 min read

You Should Read - Feb 13

It's been a while since I sent an update. A year, nearly. Gonna try to get back in the weekly habit.

Five Things

1) No, The People Didn’t Vote For This (Techdirt)

The entire premise of Project 2025 fundamentally misunderstands (or deliberately misrepresents) the constitutional framework of administrative agencies. These aren’t just bureaucratic inconveniences to be eliminated at will — they’re congressionally authorized entities carrying out specific statutory mandates.

2) DOGE as a National Cyberattack (Schneier on Security)

...the most alarming aspect isn’t just the access being granted. It’s the systematic dismantling of security measures that would detect and prevent misuse—including standard incident response protocols, auditing, and change-tracking mechanisms—by removing the career officials in charge of those security measures and replacing them with inexperienced operators.

3) The Stars and Stripes Forever - A Call to Sincere Citizenship (Sincere Citizenship)

The Republican Party is fully dominated by men who do not believe in the ideals of the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence—let alone in the words of Lincoln. They, like the slaveholders they venerate, reject the ideals of liberty and justice from which this country was born. Instead, they revel in the imagined past, worshipping idols of passion and purity plundered from the graves of German nationalists. What they call liberty is merely license—license to abuse and dominate their fellow man, backed by the jackboot of the state.

4) Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies (404 Media)

“We’re seeing an increase in threats, both regulation and litigation across the world,” Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander told community members during the same January 30 meeting. “We’re all just trying to understand what is happening not only in the United States [but across the world], so the best we can do is monitor, check-in on staff, and try to understand what’s needed …

5) 2012 George Lucas Interview (CBS This Morning)

I do not believe the rich should be able to buy the government.

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