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Scoop: We've obtained internal cables showing how the U.S. government is pushing countries facing tariffs to clear way for Musk's Starlink State Dept says it's good to encourage Starlink adoption Others point to blurring of Musk's private/government roles ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 58 comments

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

submitted 22 days ago • 210 comments

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 35 days ago • 282 comments

jesus fucking christ, man, it gets really tired noting this kind of thing, but "[veterans] aren't fit to have a job or aren't willing to come to work" is the kind of headline that should absolutely destroy a fucking administration and would, if that administration were led by a democrat

submitted 85 days ago • 171 comments

Barclays: Trump/Musk's "DOGE has the potential to leave a significant mark on payroll employment...In June, there will likely begin to be additional layoffs under DOGE's Workforce Optimization Initiative, which we estimate could eventually eliminate as many as 317k jobs."

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Reports of IRS mass layoffs coming today. Roughly 10% of those expected to be affected are veterans, per former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig. More are current members of reserves or family members of active-duty military personnel. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

submitted 97 days ago • 70 comments

SCOOP: USDS Engineering Director Resigns Anne Marshall, who was only promoted to the role in December, resigned from USDS/DOGE on Wednesday following dozens of terminations at the organization. "This is not the mission I came to serve." More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 98 days ago • 30 comments

Multiple sources tell me that the USDA's Food & Nutrition Services division cancelled research contracts today. One contract was related to school meals. The contract was to study program participation, meal counting, financial management, and program integrity (so...detecting fraud)

submitted 98 days ago • 20 comments

SCOOP: The Trump administration has fired federal officials who screen people, animals and plants at our borders for dangerous pathogens www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/h...

submitted 98 days ago • 39 comments

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

submitted 98 days ago • 195 comments

Received this message via Signal from a former FAA worker who lost their job. Person works for Enroute Navigation Charts for Pilots and Air Traffic Control.

submitted 98 days ago • 17 comments

Quick reaction from a federal law enforcement official: “Men like Emil Bove would rather destroy the federal criminal justice system than just get therapy, it’s appalling.”

submitted 98 days ago • 32 comments

NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 98 days ago • 83 comments

Scoop: Two of John Fetterman's longest-serving staffers are quitting Comms director Charlie Hills + legislative director Tré Easton head for the exits as the senator carves his own lane w/ Trump. Their departures follow a string of exits in the past year www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 98 days ago • 33 comments

I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.

submitted 98 days ago • 673 comments

Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP state lawmaker says www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 98 days ago • 33 comments

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 99 days ago • 731 comments

"'In a republic, all can be held accountable,' Mr. Gonet Branco wrote in a 17-page introduction attached to the indictment. 'The president of the republic does not escape this rule.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 99 days ago • 8 comments

FDA Food chief on his decision to leave FDA: “The secretary’s comments impugning the integrity of the food staff, asserting they are corrupt based on falsities, is a disservice to everyone." Jim Jones had just hired food-chemical safety staff, who were laid off. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 99 days ago • 23 comments

But of course Trump didn't know anything about this Project 2025 thing during the campaign...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 99 days ago • 58 comments

A Florida man has been charged with shooting two Israeli tourists — whom he allegedly believed were Palestinian

submitted 99 days ago • 55 comments

i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

submitted 99 days ago • 40 comments

Latest: At least 58 new cases of measles have been reported across northwest Texas in recent weeks a "highly contagious" outbreak, state health officials say.

submitted 99 days ago • 26 comments

Tori Bedford at GBH News reports it's because the Musk administration fired five key workers today.

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

A top federal prosecutor is said to have quit after refusing the Trump administration's request to freeze grant money for clean energy.

submitted 99 days ago • 34 comments

"I wonder what this relatively small account that Elon Musk follows is?" "Oh I see, it just posts porn and Nazism only."

submitted 99 days ago • 56 comments

Analysis by Aaron Blake: The White House says Musk isn’t actually a DOGE employee, even though President Donald Trump announced him as its head and virtually everyone is treating him as such.

submitted 99 days ago • 95 comments

Supreme Court of Wisconsin (SCOWI!) holds, 4-3, that a GOP voter lacked standing to challenge so-called "in person absentee voting," where the absentee voter turns in his ballot in person at the municipal clerk's office. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

CNN confirms that her resignation was asked for because she refused to sign off on opening an investigation that lacked sufficient evidence. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 99 days ago • 16 comments

NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info: www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 99 days ago • 39 comments

https://wapo.st/4gKs5FY

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

The Trump administration is looking to overturn a Biden-era rule limiting major banks’ ability to penalize customers with overdraft fees, a reversal that has major banking associations salivating at the mouth.

submitted 99 days ago • 35 comments

We all take on Napoleon’s features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools … Since feelings are for freaks and fools.

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 99 days ago • 440 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 99 days ago • 616 comments

Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 99 days ago • 67 comments

You’re own your own with food safety is not a good place to be.

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

All the headlines right now are "important government official who manages a key system keeping you safe resigns" or "Trump makes friends with the country that wants to kill Americans the most"

submitted 99 days ago • 26 comments

By rights, this would be another enormous DOJ scandal www.yahoo.com/news/senior-...

submitted 99 days ago • 29 comments

Professor Mike Ramsey, a conservative originalist who has forgotten more about birthright citizenship than maybe a handful of people will ever know, absolutely devastates Wurman and Barnett’s misreading of primary sources. originalismblog.typepad.com/the-original...

submitted 99 days ago • 17 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 99 days ago • 283 comments

CISA employees are bracing for more cuts this week after losing ~130 people last week. CISA's "going to lose a lot of people," said one person familiar with the matter. "I expect whole divisions [to] be cut. ... Internally there is a lot of fear."

submitted 99 days ago • 10 comments

NEWS: The CIA under President Trump has been covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels, part of Trump’s dramatic reorientation of national security assets to the US southern border. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 100 days ago • 21 comments