Notices by Daniel Schuman (danielschuman@mastodon.social)

Trump just terminated the Open Government Federal Advisory Committee, on which I served as chair.

You can read my statement on this news here: https://americalabs.org/2025/02/25/statement-on-termination-of-open-government-federal-advisory-committee/

Today I wrote about the New Year's Eve Ethics Massacre, where it appears the House Ethics Committee has effectively legalized members of the House converting campaign funds for personal use. They also wiped away allegations regarding other unethical behavior.

https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/the-new-years-eve-ethics-massacre

If you care about a women’s ability to obtain an abortion, you should care about anti-choice prosecutors buying their location data from data brokers. That bread crumb trail leads to jail, or worse.

The fix is to require a warrant. Here’s how to close a loophole that endangers women everywhere.

https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/

Today is 404, which should be some kind of internet holiday.

In anticipation of MLK day, it's good to start with a rereading of Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

The section on "white moderates" is particularly instructive.

https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf

@waldoj No one wants the politics of Arbitration of the Jedi

@waldoj Can you imagine the debate in the Galactic Supreme Court?

"And on page 143 of the agreement, in romanette iii, you can clearly see...."