Mossy Character writes: Warder recalls Kuveria killings

When I woke up I grabbed my first born son who is now 35 years old and working with Digicel. And I told my wife to put him on her breast or we might be heard if he started crying. So when we went out while they were kicking the front door, we went through the kitchen door and through the bush towards the cocoa garden to the nearest village. My wife told me to leave her there because she was a local woman saying "whatever happens and they catch us together, they will kill you on the spot, so just let me go and you fend for yourself." And so separated in the bush.

There was so much money sloshing around in Bougainville during 2024 that the stores ran short of goods and people could be found partying until dawn.

Heebie's take: You'll be surprised to learn I don't know very much about Bougainville, a small island located north of the Solomon Islands and to the east of Papua New Guinea. There are about 250K people there, and the most common language is Tok Pisin. The capital is the city of Buka, on Buka Island. The economy is based on agriculture and aquaculture. Thank you for reading my book report; it was a welcome distraction from the constitutional crisis over here. This is a list of all my sources.

Late Friday afternoon I got a "call me about an urgent matter" message from someone on my project, and of course it couldn't be good and of course it was about Elon and his Muskovites. They were trying to lock the govvies out of a critical tool, and the govvies were hoping that my org could offer some Hail Mary help. It didn't come to pass, and somehow the federal team talked their way into a reprieve, but it would have been a crazy and crippling thing to do to several high-profile projects.

The absolute illegality of what's happening is stunning when you've been steeping in government work for a while. I have to undergo a background check just to join some Slack channels, and these people who aren't elected, vetted, cleared, or even maybe Americans are literally walking into buildings and taking over entire systems. Yes, it's an administrative coup, and every part of it is bad.