#WatchDogs

American Oversight

weareoversight

The Pentagon’s deputy inspector general Glenn Fine resigned today. Last month, Pres Trump removed Fine as chairman of the committee overseeing $2 trillion in emergency Covid-19 funds. IGs are under

Ken | Geeky

variablygeeky

FREE GAMES ALERT: Tomb Raider(2013), Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris, Drawful 2, Deiland (Stardew meets My Time at Portia?) are some games free on @Steam this weekend.I am going to

💧😷Queen Victoria

Vic_Rollison

If you are a journalist standing next to a Murdoch hack who clear as day has agenda to attack a Labor Premier and you can’t objectively identify this for yourself

Denis Holton

DenisHolton

Warning: big fuck off rantI didn’t vote SF but I remember in the last election how condescendingly the Irish media reported on it. Saying it was a youth vote and

aayeff

aayeff1

Bhakths are back in action after a lull. They've noticed that Modi's image is taking a terrible beating. All across SM. So they are trying hard to silence Modi/Govt critics.

Piers Robinson

PiersRobinson1

The OPCW IIT issues its first report regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks in Syria. It does so without having resolved any of the serious scientific and procedural anomalies identified in

Josh Wolfe

wolfejosh

1/ Cycle of RELEVANCE to IRRELEVANCEfrom celebrated → coveted (by investors) → *something changes* → criticized (by citizens + watchdogs) → condemned → barely discussed...We forget 10yrs agoBig Oil was

Citizens for Ethics

CREWcrew

THIS WEEK IN CORRUPTION: We saw the Ohio Majority Leader arrested for his role in a $60 million dollar bribery scheme where a $1 billion public bailout was extended in

Piers Robinson

PiersRobinson1

Rather than addressing substantive issues raised by many regarding their investigation of the alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma, Syria, the @opcw has responded by leaking a letter from its

Brot KnoblauchHaus

BredGarlicHouse

1/ Far too many self taught experts are calling for #Crypto to save us from the current worldwide economic downturn. However, I consider this as nothing more than a pipe

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In the early days of the pandemic, the term "contact tracing" vaulted into the public consciousness: that's the shoe-leather- and labor-intensive process whereby skilled heath experts establish a personal rapport

Dominic Crannis 🦆

CrannisDominic

Why “our NHS” is *not* a god. A thread: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10378129/nhs-maternity-scandal-deaths-news/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/20/autism-scandal-children-young-11-locked-isolation-years-end/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci

Anne Applebaum

anneapplebaum

Nothing said at the debate matters more than this: If Trump politicizes the civil service, American government is finished. Someone's unqualified second cousin will be making important decisions about water

Kyle Cheney

kyledcheney

NEWS: President Trump has upended the federal panel overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus law -- removing the Pentagon inspector general who was supposed to oversee it and naming a new

Omi

omionabike

The budget was never the problem. Finding savings is not the problem. The issue right now is liquidity- how to source the cash right now so it can be given

Kate Jennings

KeasdenKate

1/5: Thread: Just catching up on the absolutely damning & absolutely accurate assessment of the state of the UK's finest sites for nature -#SSSIs - and the regulators that are