The @WhiteHouse posted something to /Disclosures: a link to financial disclosures
whitehouse.gov/disclosures/fi…
No ethics waivers yet. (Best not to grant them at all, IMO.)
Like @ObamaWhiteHouse & @whitehouse46, public must request access to disclosures.
Still no /opengov
#SunshineWeek ImageImage
If @WHCOS @WHCommsDir are listening, I'd suggest editing wh.gov menu down to /Disclosures, where Americans would assume @WhiteHouse visitor logs will be, & welcome any answers they @POTUS +@VP have to the coalition's questions on #opengov governing.digital/letters/letter… Image
This would be a good day for @OMBPress to tweet a link to its FOIA page: whitehouse.gov/omb/freedom-of…
Ditto @WHOSTP whitehouse.gov/ostp/legal/WHO…
The Executive Office of the President is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, but @WhiteHouse can & should celebrate it.
#SunshineWeek
@OMBPress @WHOSTP @WhiteHouse This #SunshineWeek, I learned @WHOSTP has begun disclosing visitor logs – physical, not virtual – because I was reading its FOIA page.

Staff are still posting data of the logs in tables in PDFs in 2021 (not .CSVs) as @whitehouse46 did.
whitehouse.gov/ostp/legal/ Image
@OMBPress @WHOSTP @WhiteHouse @whitehouse46 TIL
1) @OMBPress hasn't updated its FOIA Library since 2019; @RussVought45's calendars never updated
whitehouse.gov/omb/freedom-of…
2) @OMBPress45 disclosed logs as tables in PDFs & said it was A-OK
3) OMB staff admitted they ignored #OpenGov groups whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
#sunshineweek ImageImageImage

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It should so so.
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It is wrong to lie about voter fraud, attempt a self coup, & then incite an insurrection to seek to stop the count of electoral votes with seditious mob violence:
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Henderson it's not just posting info online, but helping people to understand & engage, helping govt to be more responsive.
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This POV seems off.

Over the past decade, editors spent time moderating social media as part of their work.
That was labor, & many were told to do it.
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