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Welcome to the first bracket of US Government Agencies! This is being run by the mod of @centers-for-disease-control. Also, I am aware a couple of these technically are not government agencies, but this is just a silly tumblr bracket.
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#mx gov speaks: me just talking, feel free to filter this tag if you just want the polls
#actual polls: just the polls minus round 1a because I didn’t implement this until after I posted those polls
#tumblr polls: talking about polls and the polls
#government agencies: talking about the agencies
#brackets: people’s personal brackets and the polls
Below we have the set up for round one:
Round One A: ENDED ON FEBRUARY 22nd AT 9:30 AM EST
Nasa vs ICE winner: NASA
USPS vs MSHS winner: USPS
DEA vs NARA winner: NARA
DHS vs FDA winner: FDA
USGS vs DOC winner: USGS
Air Force vs USDA winner: USDA
NPS vs Navy winner: NPS
AMTRAK vs DOJ winner: Amtrak
DOL vs DOT winner: DOT
VA vs Coast Guard winner: VA
OSHA vs DOI winner: OSHA
FBI vs CIA winner: FBI
Army vs ED winner: ED
NIH vs IRS winner: NIH
DOE vs BIA winner: DOE
DOS vs CDC winner: CDC
Round One B: ENDS ON FEBRUARY 24th AT 7:00 PM EST
USARMIID vs GPO winner: GPO
DODEA vs EPA winner: EPA
EEOC vs Smithsonian winner: Smithsonian
GSA vs FAA winner: FAA
The Fed vs NOAA winner: NOAA
USCPSC vs HUD winner: USCPSC
DARPA vs FTC winner: FTC
SSA vs FEC winner: SSA
Marines vs CSB winner: CSB
ODWC vs LACounty winner: ODWC
NSF vs Mitre winner: NSF
BLS vs NLRB winner: NLRB
CFPB vs PHS winner: PHS
Census vs Secret Service winner: Census
WPA vs NIST winner: NIST
NPR vs Draft winner: NPR
Round 2 is schedule to be posted at 8 AM EST on February 25th and end at 8AM EST on February 26th
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https://bit.ly/3nTKrPx - 🔒 The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is currently investigating a significant data breach. It's believed that personal data from around 237,000 current and former federal employees may have been compromised. This breach is limited to specific administrative systems within the USDOT, particularly those processing transit benefits for employees. Immediate action was taken with a suspension of access to the relevant systems to allow a comprehensive investigation. #DataBreach #USDOT #CyberSecurity 💻 The breached system, known for managing TRANServe transit benefits, reimburses government employees for certain commuting expenses. Despite the breach, USDOT reassures the public that the incident hasn't impacted any transportation safety systems. It remains unclear whether the exposed personal information has been misused for criminal activities. #CyberAttack #TRANServe #Government 📧 USDOT promptly notified Congress about the breach, explaining that its initial investigation has isolated the breach to certain systems used for administrative functions. The total impact involves 114,000 current and 123,000 former employees, with each potentially having a maximum benefit allowance of $280 per month for mass transit commuting costs. #DataPrivacy #Congress #EmployeeData 🔎 While the identity of the responsible party remains unknown, USDOT has committed to thoroughly investigate the incident. Access to the transit benefit system has been frozen until it's fully secured and restored. As cyber threats to federal agencies persist, this incident serves as a stark reminder of the importance of robust cyber defense systems. #CyberThreat #Investigation #DataProtection 📰 Federal agencies have repeatedly been the target of hackers. Notably, breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2014 and 2015 impacted over 22 million people, compromising sensitive data of 4.2 million current and federal employees, including fingerprint data of 5.6 million individuals. In 2021, suspected Russian hackers breached nine federal agencies, using SolarWinds and Microsoft software to infiltrate unclassified Justice Department networks.
#DataBreach#USDOT#CyberSecurity#CyberAttack#TRANServe#Government#DataPrivacy#Congress#EmployeeData#CyberThreat#Investigation#DataProtection#OPM#SolarWinds#CyberCrime
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USDOT selects The Ray as Capacity Builder for 15 communities in launch of national Thriving Communities Program
The Ray partners with USDOT to support transportation projects in 15 communities through the Thriving Communities Program with $5.1M in technical assistance. #USDOT #TheRay #ThrivingCommunitiesProgram #transportation #infrastructure
ATLANTA, Ga. – May 10, 2023 – The Ray announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has awarded $5.1 million to The Ray and partners Arcadis, InfraStrategies, and Beverly Scott Associates to support 15 communities as a Networked Communities capacity builder within the USDOT’s Thriving Communities Program. The 15 communities matched with The Ray are located near ports, airports,…
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#capacity building#communities.#infrastructure#technical assistance#The Ray#Thriving Communities Program#transportation#USDOT
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US DOT, truck lettering, die cut vinyl #usdot #truckvinyl #vinyllettering (at Woburn, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQxKmkrlxC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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DOT Proposes New Guidance For Medical Examiners To Address CBD Use By Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers
DOT Proposes New Guidance For Medical Examiners To Address CBD Use By Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers
The U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a proposed draft Medical Examiner’s Handbook (MEH), including updates to the Medical Advisory Criteria, in the Federal Register on August 16, 2022. The FMCSA’s regulations provide the basic driver physical qualification standards for commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers, in 49 CFR…
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#business#Cannabis#CBD#Department of transportation#DOT#drug law#Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration#FMCSA#Labor Law#legal#MEH#thc#USDOT
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It's good that the RAISE program in the US is not focused on widening roads, but I do wish transit was getting a bigger percentage.
A complete street is not really complete if you have to drive there.
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RANGERS INVESTIGATING SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES
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RANGERS INVESTIGATING SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES
The Texas Rangers are investigating the Sheriff’s Department and certain deputies, Chris Eubanks, Rebecca Eubanks, Pam Whitlock, Sean Nixon, Jessica Probynak (Low hanging fruit), David Kilcrease, Johnathan Crowley, …………………………and have been for over FIVE months.
In recent weeks, a new problem has reared its ugly head, the State of Texas proffering THESE…
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#ChipandJo#MAGNOLIASILOS#MAGNOLIATABLE#MCSO#ParnellMcNamara#TDCJ#TXDOT#TXDPS#TXOAG#USDOT#@SILOBRATION
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#MC Number Registration#MC Number#usdot number#IRP Plates#IRP renewal#IFTA Fuel Tax Returns#ucr permit
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Figure 4. Typical dimensions of a bicyclist.
#figure 4. typical dimensions of a bicyclist#my own post wow#much could be said about assumptions here#but mostly i want everyone to know that per a 2004 USDOT publication#every bicyclist is 2.5 meters tall#which obviously includes a very tall invisible hat#(this hat of course cannot be illustrated as it is invisible.)
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Buttigieg: Transportation program 'will help improve the health and lives of people in underserved communities'
According to a June 16 news release, The Federal Transit Administration of the U.S. Department of Transit announced an investment of about $8.4 million to enhance public transportation for underrepresented communities. DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in the news release "Transportation is a lifeline for Americans, connecting them to doctors, dentists, hospitals and other health care providers all over the country," . For more info, visit USDOT Newswire.
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There were 48 implementation grants for increasing road safety this year under the federal SS4A program. The citys with grant recipient projects include:
Louisville
Nashville
Lexington
Knoxville
Chicago
Detroit
Madison
Minneapolis
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Miami
Pheonix
El Paso
San Jose
San Francisco
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Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal
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Jetblue is trying to buy Spirit Airlines. It’s a terrible idea. Consolidation in the US aviation industry has resulted in higher fares, less reliable planes, spiraling junk-fees, and brutal conditions for flight- and ground-crews. The four remaining US major airlines, who gobbled their rivals, are three times more profitable than their European counterparts:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/04/22/a-lack-of-competition-explains-the-flaws-in-american-aviation
If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/they-put-it-in-writing/#that-was-then
That’s great news if you’re an airline shareholder. It’s terrible news if you’re hunting for your lost bags, or if you’re a flight attendant or pilot being squeezed, or if you’re being hit for billions in covid bailouts — or if you’re one of one million Americans who were stranded during Christmas week by the failure of Southwest Airlines’ IT systems, which use duct-tape and wishful thinking to hold together the IT systems of all the airlines SWA bought:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/16/for-petes-sake/#unfair-and-deceptive
The collapse of competition in the US airline industry is the result of a deliberate policy, the “consumer welfare” theory of antitrust, which says that monopolies are “efficient” and good for the public. It’s a theory that took root under Reagan, and was reaffirmed and expanded by every president, R or D, since.
Until now. For the first time in two generations, the Biden administration has taken up the neglected, noble art of trustbusting, blocking mergers and promising to break up the mergers we’ve already seen, through enforcers like Jonathan Kanter at the DoJ Antitrust Division and Lina Khan at the FTC:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby
Which is bad news for the proposed Jetblue/Spirit merger. Last week, the DoJ filed suit to block the merger, joined by the AGs from NY, MA and DC.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.254267/gov.uscourts.mad.254267.1.0.pdf
Notably, Pete Buttigieg — who has been historically shy of using his prodigious powers as the boss of a large agency — will also block the merger:
https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/usdot-statement-justice-departments-lawsuit-block-proposed-jetblue-spirit-merger
Spirit’s shares are in the toilet. Writing in his BIG newsletter, Matt Stoller explains why shareholders are bolting for the doors: the case against the Jetblue/Spirit merger is incredibly strong. A slam-dunk, even:
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/an-end-to-airline-consolidation
Spirit, after all, is America’s most famous budget airline. That means that it attracts fliers by undercutting the Big Four. That puts downward pressure on the Big Four, who are faced with the choice of taking lower profits to retain fliers’ business, or losing all the profit when those fliers take Spirit. Remove Spirit from play and that downward pressure on fares disappears. You don’t need newfangled “neo-Brandeisian” antitrust to see why this is bad — even under “consumer welfare” antitrust, anything that will obviously make prices go up is prohibited (indeed, this is the only thing consumer welfare antitrust cares about).
How do we know that a Jetblue/Spirit merger is a price-increasing, illegal antitrust violation? Spirit says so.
[Image ID: A slide prepared for Spirit Airlines’ board, titled ‘Shareholders should think about the conversation with regulators,’ and laying out the case that a Jetblue/Spirit merger is illegal.]
This is truly delicious! You see, last year, there was a bidding war for Spirit and Jetblue was the outside bidder. Spirit’s board wanted to convince their shareholders to reject Jetblue’s bid, so they commissioned some aviation economists to do a study on the matter, which Spirit then circulated to its investors.
That report is unequivocal: it estimates that a Jetblue/Spirit merger will be a disaster. Spirit’s participation in a route lowers fares by 17%. When Spirit stops competing on a route, fares go up by 30%. Spirit CEO Ted Christie called the proposed merger “unlawful” and “unethical”:
https://simpleflying.com/spirit-ceo-shareholder-rejection-jetblue-cynical-disruptive-offer/
Spirit is a major competitor to Jetblue. As Stoller notes, they compete on hundreds of routes, and are adding more all the time. Jetblue clearly understands that removing Spirit as a competitor would let it raise fares. As one Jetblue manager — quoted by the DoJ — explained: “I don’t think we should be selling the [Spirit] fare if [Spirit] is not serving the market.” Jetblue’s internal memos on the merger include an executive stating that the merger will allow the airline to realize “efficiencies” by reducing service and increasing fares. This isn’t the kind of “efficiency” we want.
Stoller notes that even with this damning evidence, there are still some spoilers. Florida governor Ron DeSantis has cut a deal to back the merger, even though Florida stands to suffer the most of any state from this merger due to the number of Spirit flights taking off from its airports. And, Stoller notes, the judge presiding over the case is an 82 year old Reagan appointee — a ideology-addled dotard named William Young.
But, Stoller notes, with Buttigieg and the DOT on the case, it’s hard to see how this merger can go through — the DOT has very broad powers to block mergers that reduce routes and don’t have to meet the same evidentiary standards as the DoJ would in court.
Stoller thinks Buttigieg has had a “moment of truth” — that outside pressure from activists and critics convinced the secretary that his future political fortunes would be better served, on balance, by boldly using his powers (and pleasing the public), rather than sitting on his hands (and pleasing future industry donors):
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/pete-buttigiegs-moment-of-truth
If that’s so, it’s welcome news. While I would prefer that our political leaders acted boldly in the public interest out of a sense of duty, I will happily settle for bold action motivated by fear of the voters’ wrath.
[Image ID: A crashed WWI biplane, redecorated in Spirit airlines livery. The scene is decorated with text-snippets cut out of a Spirit Airlines internal investor presentation slide advising that merging with Jetblue is ill-advised and possibly illegal.]
#pluralistic#matt stoller#spirit airlines#jetblue#aviation#monopoly#mergers#petard#antitrust#southwest#swords
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Hey this is @usdot-unofficial and like we have this trolley, right and it's headed down a track where one of our workers has tripped, now I could pull a lever, sending it down a track with 5 of our workers on it to save the guy...
what's your medical advice here?
Call EMS. There is likely going to be some serious injuries
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