Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
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A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-ranchers-public-lands-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Government #Trump #Environment #Grazing #PublicLands #Tax

Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.

They finally got their wish.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-formaldehyde-risk-assessment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Environment #PublicHealth #Health #Cancer #Government #Regulation

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.
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As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation funding.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-trump-transportation-secretary-congress-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Transportation #Government #Congress #Trump #USPolitics #Law

If you work at a federal prison and know about wrongdoing, we want to hear from you.

We’re especially interested in tips about the priorities of the Bureau of Prisons’ leadership, contracting and budget decisions, concerns about wrongdoing or abuses of power, and any info you can share to paint a fuller picture of what’s going on inside the bureau.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/bop-bureau-prisons

#Prison #Government #CriminalJustice

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.
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As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation funding.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-trump-transportation-secretary-congress-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Transportation #Government #Congress #Trump #USPolitics #Law

@Tutanota #bullshit #government

In the five years since Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to guard against destructive flooding, at least 90 local governments turned down tens of millions of dollars in grants and loans.

That money went unused for years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kerr-county-state-grants-flood-warning-system?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Government #Floods #USPolitics #Emergency #Disaster

Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
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The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-strategy-group-senate-probe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #KristiNoem #DHS #USPolitics #Law #Government #Senate

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
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A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-ranchers-public-lands-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Government #Trump #Environment #Grazing #PublicLands #Tax

India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/

#HackerNews #India #Cyber #Safety #Smartphone #App #Government #Regulation #Cybersecurity

A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers.

But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-social-security-disability-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Disability #SocialSecurity #Trump #USPolitics #Government

In case you missed it:

No firm has closer ties to Noem’s political operation. It played a key role in her 2022 South Dakota gubernatorial campaign. Corey Lewandowski, her top adviser, has worked extensively with the firm. And its CEO is married to DHS' chief spokesperson.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Government #USPolitics #Law #Advertising

If you work at a federal prison and know about wrongdoing, we want to hear from you.

We’re especially interested in tips about the priorities of the Bureau of Prisons’ leadership, contracting and budget decisions, concerns about wrongdoing or abuses of power, and any info you can share to paint a fuller picture of what’s going on inside the bureau.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/bop-bureau-prisons

#Prison #Government #CriminalJustice