In a bombshell article, @hunterw spoke to organizers of the January 6 pro-Trump rallies who say they participated in "dozens" of planning meetings with at least 7 members of Congress, including 1 who discussed a possible pardon rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
60 U.S. Border Patrol agents violated agency rules by sharing violent and obscene posts on Facebook. Only 2 were fired and, as @mariasacchetti & @NickMiroff report, most are back on the job working with migrants washingtonpost.com/immigration/fa…
Nearly a year after lawmakers pushed the U.S. Capitol Police to improve transparency, lawyers for the agency (which is exempt from FOIA) admitted they haven’t yet taken action. Story by @hneidigthehill.com/regulation/cou…
Despite White House pressure on state and local governments to speed up delivery of federal rental aid, @KatyODonnell_ says that less than 1/4 of the $46.5 billion Congress authorized has been disbursed politico.com/news/2021/10/2…
Today, POGO is releasing our Baker’s Dozen: 13 sets of policy recommendations for Congress and the White House. These recs range from issues we have championed since 1981, to a new and growing focus on equity and fairness in our justice system.
You can read all the details at the link here pogo.org/report/2021/02… or get the overview of each recommendation in the 🧵 below ⬇️
Promoting Accountability When Government Officials Commit Wrongdoing: there are a number of policies we must instate to hold law enforcement accountable and strengthen civil rights.
Face recognition tech is flawed and biased against people of color and women. Even if it worked as designed, it would be a nightmare. That’s why POGO joined this letter calling for a federal moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
POGO has been standing up against face recognition tech, most recently calling on CBP to halt its program using this surveillance tool: pogo.org/letter/2020/12…
Never before has the government possessed a surveillance tool this dangerous. @POTUS must honor his promise to center racial equity and put a stop to its use now.
2/ “A teaspoon of methyl parathion would kill you.”
Not far from Hawaiian beachside resorts on a windy day in July 2014, Monsanto sprayed much more than that—despite the fact that the pesticide had been banned from use since the end of 2013. bit.ly/30GANia
3/ After EPA investigators & federal prosecutors became aware of Monsanto's practice, a U.S. attorney’s office planned to charge Monsanto w/ a felony violation of the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act: bit.ly/2Hv1gaU
1/ Today, @SenateCommerce approved former AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers' nomination to lead @NOAA—without a confirmation hearing—before the full Senate vote: bit.ly/2WJ0L25