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Rescinds the EO to stop a court case. The freeze is still happening, just without making it super public.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5113527-omb-federal-funding-freeze-rescind/
A Trump administration official explained that Wednesday’s move was taken to end the confusion over Monday’s directive and end the federal injunction against it. The official said it would not halt the intended freezing of funding that conflicts with Trump’s executive orders.
And that’s also only on domestic funding, foreign assistance is still frozen.
They’ve learned from the GOP that you can be very financially successful saying you’re the only group that can do anything to help…with just a little bit more money.
Then every time you try and do something, it fails because you didn’t have enough money, and blame everyone else.
Tuta is fine, but very basic.
The stuff with Proton… It depends on what you need. Just an alternative to degoogle your life, it’ll work for now, but they may slide into a more pro Broligarchy stance in years to come. For some people, they’re still a little too invasive for what they want.
Email is inherently insecure, so its best to lock down a few and just fluidly transition around as you need.
Because it’s the Executive Branch and the President is the Chief Executive. Every agency in the US Federal government, other than a couple under Congress, are directly under the President.
…who else would it be?
Budgets and the laws that govern what those agencies can do, that’s Congress.
Validating who is right in an argument about what the laws mean, that’s the Judicial Branch.
tl;dr Facial recognition, phone tracking data, DNA, and all the other tools CBP has had on hand for 5 years.
Basically all the things I tried to warn people about between Nov and January.