Julie Novkov

I'd like to talk about the Government Accountability Office, a little known but important federal government agency. Headed by the US Comptroller General, it was established in the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 as a congressional watchdog to investigate public spending.

Funny how reverence for the Founding stops as soon as it becomes inconvenient. And again, I would like to speak to the managers who told me that posse comitatus was never going to be in play.

This was one of those quiet policy changes that made a huge difference on a basic humanitarian level. I am devastated by this reversal of course.

The complete lack of concern in the face of the knowledge that this would happen and was happening is really breathtaking.

This is so very good. Exactly the kind of work that we should be doing now. Thanks for sharing!

The Fellowship of the Ring Cameras

Reminder that part of what will make such an initiative successful is strong, engaged institutional partners.

No, I absolutely do not have time to dust off my copy of Debord and read that into the fact that Jim Crow lynchings ran the gamut from fully state-facilitated to state-permitted. I'll give you this little nugget though. The US had an international reputation.

Particularly important to get checked if you were vaccinated between 1963 and 1967/68. (I had mine checked a few years ago and was OK, but the vaccine used between those years did not provide permanent immunity for everyone.)

This video is so cute!

"Oh, your car got mags that be dippy dippy dope But the whole damn nation got the same Honey only flock to the bee that's the Pope Not the President with government lame." Prince, 1993

This is really dystopic.

The very visible and vocal discussions about sexual assault at Cornell are reviving ugly memories and testing how far recovery has progressed for many people out there, particularly those of you in higher ed. For everyone who's been unwillingly dragged back to a dark place, please take care.