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We’re mapping the DOGE team. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments

firsts “since WWII” sure are piling up

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

NEW: Last year, @johnnyryan.bsky.social made a website for a fake company using a photo of Russian soldiers to purposely elicit suspicion. A US data broker offered him access to thousands of lists of American devices anyway. Many lists targeted US leaders and defense contractors. Our latest:

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Trump’s fascists really don’t want you to see or share this video from Rep. @aoc.bsky.social’s Know Your Rights webinar.

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

Hostages.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

I just did this. It took 5 minutes. If you want protection against DOGE fucking with your data, do this now.

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

oh he’s given himself another government contract I see

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

"Three current and former Hill staffers confirmed to the Prospect that there are multiple sitting members struggling with symptoms of dementia and taking medication to combat its effects." prospect.org/health/2025-...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

So yeah, even after a bunch of accidents that highlighted FAA staffing shortages they still went ahead and fired FAA staff. They don't know what they are doing.

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

you should read david’s thread for a thorough dismantling of this article. i will only add that it is very disappointing, although not altogether surprising, to see some progressives treat trump’s war on DEI as a legitimate policy difference and not as an explicit effort to resegregate the workforce

submitted 12 days ago • 137 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 13 days ago • 438 comments

🚨NEW from @dropsitenews.com | Tesla is set to win the largest State Dept. contract of 2025 — $400 million for “Armored Tesla,” according to procurement documents we reviewed. By @ryangrim.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

submitted 14 days ago • 72 comments

Heads up folks. We can watch live on C-Span. www.c-span.org/event/house-... Thank you Rep. @jasmineforus.bsky.social.

submitted 15 days ago • 75 comments

Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition “atrophied and unprepared” 🔗 www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

submitted 17 days ago • 41 comments

not sure how you can see this and not immediately call for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to step down from any leadership positions. he is absolutely useless

submitted 17 days ago • 154 comments

what we’re seeing is that the courts are willing to rule against the government on certain things but there’s no one to actually enforce it.

submitted 18 days ago • 79 comments

Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and one of the authors of Project 2025, just ordered the agency's staff to effectively cease all operations in an org wide email. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 150 comments

Musk tweets “CFPB RIP.” He’s previously tweeted “delete” CFPB in the past. Asked some folks at the agency if anything had changed since our report this morning that DOGE was there. Nada.

submitted 20 days ago • 27 comments

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 20 days ago • 644 comments

We @propublica.org are tracking who is working with Elon Musk and what they are doing. We have 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported. Help us investigate and send us tips 🔎: www.propublica.org/tips/federal... projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 21 days ago • 44 comments

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

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submitted 22 days ago • 77 comments

still the worst build i’ve ever seen jfc

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Switzerland has opened a criminal investigation into Israeli soldiers and officials on their soil accused of complicity in Gaza war crimes, following a complaint from the Hind Rajab Foundation. 🔴 LIVE updates:

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Chilling read… DOGE staffers enter NOAA headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats “They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 21 comments

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

submitted 23 days ago • 940 comments

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

submitted 23 days ago • 248 comments

It's been real y'all

submitted 23 days ago • 341 comments

Among the ideas internally kicked around the Trump and Musk teams was the thought of planting younger informers or “spies” in different parts of the federal government to gain the trust of offices and teams suspected of anti-MAGA sentiments. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 23 days ago • 89 comments

A 25y.o. has read/write to the COBOL & associated mainframe that controls payments for 20% of the US economy-- call your reps about this!! www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

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submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

The tech bro response "COBOL is easy" or "AI can do COBOL" is insane & its that exact complete ignorance that is precisely the danger I am terrified of. Not because I am a programmer, but because I have many, many informants about this. This is not about using COBOL from scratch

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency. (Photos shared with me)

submitted 24 days ago • 383 comments

HAPPENING NOW: members of Get Free are blocking traffic in front of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the main agency where the Trump Administration and its billionaire backers like Elon Musk have been spearheading efforts to implement MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda.

submitted 24 days ago • 103 comments

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal

submitted 24 days ago • 245 comments

People in and around USAID, State Department, and other agencies — I'm hearing about a lotta stuff. I'd like to hear more about it from you. Please feel welcome to reach out via Signal premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected. And friends, please boost this so others can find it too.

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

This is why Congressional Democrats should be breaking down the doors of whatever facility manages payments and seizing control of the federal treasury because people are going to die as a result of the budget they passed and the money they allocated not being distributed according to the law.

submitted 24 days ago • 41 comments

Yale Budget Lab estimates that tariffs will cost average US household $1,000-$1,200 in lost purchasing power budgetlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

submitted 24 days ago • 30 comments

No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, unelected, drugged-up fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

We have to end single-use plastic production. Recycled or not, it ALL ends up as microplastic in the end. It’s in our blood, in the air we breathe and in the food we eat.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

“Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” deputies have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal information of millions of federal workers.” newrepublic.com/post/191019/...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

the democratic party will never learn

submitted 26 days ago • 288 comments

I'm very sad that "I have a paper on this" continues Funding delays of > 30 days lead to, after 5 years: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force (constrained among those born in the US) - 20% decrease in wages - Burden is born by postdocs, grad students, and staff

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments