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Jan 27 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
Noah Peters is the true author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo providing guidance on the Schedule F executive order. Peters also authored the memo exploiting loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments. Noah Peters is the author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo (archive) providing guidance on the “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce” executive order, which is being described as the “Schedule F” order because it effectively reinstates that policy under a new name (“Schedule Policy/Career”). Peters also authored the January 20 memo (archive) from Ezell, which exploits loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments.1 Both of these memos are clear steps towards achieving a primary goal of Project 2025: to expand ...
pdfinfo OPM\ Memorandum\ re\ Schedule\ Policy\ Career\ Guidance\ 01-27-2025.pdf Subject: Correspondence on official letterhead Author: Peters, Noah Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 CreationDate: Mon Jan 27 07:48:43 2025 EST ModDate: Mon Jan 27 07:48:43 2025 EST
pdfinfo Memo\ Lifting\ Caps\ on\ TTCs\ 1-20-2025.pdf Subject: Correspondence on official letterhead Author: Peters, Noah Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 CreationDate: Mon Jan 20 16:09:32 2025 EST ModDate: Mon Jan 20 17:12:25 2025 EST
Headshot of Noah Peters
As far as I can tell, Peters’ role has in the administration has not been officially announced. However, as far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending him for a position in Trump’s second administration. As far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending Peters for a position in Trump’s second administration.2 Peters had previously been appointed by Trump in 2019 as the Solicitor at the Federal Labor Relations Authority,3 where he “aided and defended Trump appointees’ anti-union FLRA policies that went against decades of the agency’s own precedents” according to Court Accountability Action and State Democracy Defenders Action.4 Peters returned to private practice in 2022, but recently quietly updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect a new title of “Senior Advisor” t...
James Sherk authored the joint OMB/OPM memo on return to office implementation plans and the joint memo authorizing the federal civilian hiring freeze. James Sherk authored the joint Office of Management and Budget and OPM memo (archive) on return to office implementation plans. The guidance in the memo echoes a November 20, 2024 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlining their “Doge Plan”, where they wrote: “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome”.5 The memo has earned criticism from the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, which expressed that the directive would “underm...
pdfinfo Joint\ OMB\ OPM\ Memorandum\ re\ Return\ to\ Office\ Implementation\ Plans\ 1-27-2025.pdf Author: James Sherk Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 CreationDate: Mon Jan 27 07:31:19 2025 EST ModDate: Mon Jan 27 07:31:19 2025 EST
pdfinfo OMB-OPM\ Hiring\ Freeze\ 01\ 20\ 2025\ 1201pm.pdf Author: James Sherk Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 CreationDate: Tue Jan 21 12:01:38 2025 EST ModDate: Tue Jan 21 12:01:38 2025 EST
Headshot of James Sherk
James Sherk was announced as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy on January 18.7 A White House official during Trump’s first term, Sherk was a key figure in Trump’s endeavors to purge civil servants and replace them with loyalists through an effort known as “Schedule F”. After Biden was elected, he repealed Schedule F, and Sherk slunk off to the America First Policy Institute to continue efforts to advance Trump’s policies. Prior to these positions, he was a staff member at the Heritage Foundation.
Trump has denied or downplayed links to Project 2025. These documents show that implementation is well underway, with designated personnel quietly drafting policies that are being publicly attributed to heads of federal agencies.

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Update: The OPM has now scrubbed the PDF metadata. However, the archived copies linked from my website contain the original metadata if you wish to verify.
From r/fednews:
(unverified, obviously) r/fednews u/Throwaway918284.5h OPM employee here, we are not the bad guys HR I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm posting this because people need to know what's going on at OPM. I've been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I've never witnessed anything even remotely close to what's happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of Amer...
Under his name, they've sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up t...

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Newsletter: Crypto’s efforts to buy the 2024 elections paid off, and we’re in for a bumpy ride.

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citationneeded.news/issue-70/
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Jul 12, 2024
It’s finally time to release my newest project:

This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States. followthecrypto.org
A screenshot of the front page of FollowTheCrypto.org, showing total amounts raised by crypto-currency focused PACs ($203 million) and amounts spent ($38 million). There are also graphs showing expenditures by political party, and expenditures by PAC. There is a list of the top elections influenced by crypto industry money, of the most highly-funded super PACs overall, and of recent expenditures by crypto-focused committees.
I have been working on this for the past two months, after growing more concerned about the influence this industry is trying to exert. Did you know crypto companies have spent more this cycle than the oil or pharmaceutical industries, despite being a fraction of the size? A bar chart showing the amount of election spending by sector. Data: Crypto $203,000,000,All health $193,706,986,Communications $178,671,462,Lawyers & lobbyists $172,810,610,All energy $152,567,769,Labor $120,230,704,Transportation $98,461,871,Construction $85,162,003,Agribusiness $84,400,550,Defense $25,445,961
There is more to come, including a bot that will post real-time updates about contributions or expenditures, which you can follow in advance at @follow__crypto. You can also learn more in my announcement post over at Citation Needed: citationneeded.news/follow-the-cry…
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