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Cancelling @joyannreid.bsky.social means the door she held open for the next generation of Black voices will slam shut. Without her, the next her, won't get platformed by white media. That, of course, is why white media pushed her out. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Knight Institute asks Judge Cannon to make public Jack Smith's report on the Trump classified documents case, saying it is a judicial record so there is a 1st Amendment right of access. (American Oversight & the NYT are separately pursuing FOIA lawsuits for it.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

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MSNBC: “We’re going to cover the racist purge at the Pentagon right after we finish our own racist purge”

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

When Karen finally gets to speak to the manager and he says "you're fired."

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Too much of America is "The Man Who Lived by the River" from an episode of the West Wing. A man lived by the river, was warned it was going to flood and offered ways out. He refused because "I pray". He drowned. When he got to heaven he asked why. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING WAPO: Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 345 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 10 days ago • 479 comments

Why doesn’t Emil Bove, himself, just sign the motion to dismiss for Eric Adams’ case? …

submitted 12 days ago • 317 comments

Trump is laying off hundreds @bonnevillepower.bsky.social who literally keep the lights on. We're talking about electricians & engineers, to dispatchers, to lineworkers, to cybersecurity experts. Ratepayers support BPA—NOT federal funding. This is putting our energy grid at serious risk!

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

1/So, the guy who is supposedly fighting waste & corruption in government just got a $400 mil contract with that same government he’s supposedly overseeing for his trucks that get, let’s just say less than stellar reviews www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 480 comments

These lines in Sassoon's letter to the U.S. Attorney General could provide a solid basis for NY Governor Kathy Hochul to remove Mayor Adams from office.

submitted 13 days ago • 229 comments

Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...

submitted 14 days ago • 83 comments

UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring." Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.

submitted 14 days ago • 133 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 14 days ago • 901 comments

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 554 comments

SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 15 days ago • 178 comments

Courts ordered the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 16 days ago • 168 comments

Billboards from Canadian dairy company Lactalis. America's rep is going to keep taking a beating.

submitted 16 days ago • 54 comments

What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

submitted 16 days ago • 908 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

submitted 16 days ago • 1068 comments

Removes much that deals with foreign disinformation. And other important topics. This is deliberate state self-destruction under the pretext of removing DEI.

submitted 16 days ago • 82 comments

By making the status report filings a condition of this TRO, Judge Kelley (a Biden appointee) is making sure that the Trump Administration can't play fast and loose with compliance.

submitted 16 days ago • 94 comments

For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/

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If you or a loved one has cancer or Alzheimer's, or are in clinical trials for these or other diseases, you should know the Musk-Trump shutdown of medical research funding is a major threat to our ability to find cures. We are shouting this out with one voice: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

Republicans' budget blueprint shows they are serious about eliminating the Department of Ed, cutting Medicaid and Medicare, and increasing wait times for veterans by slashing the VA. They are blindly following Elon Musk's lead rather than the American people's needs.

submitted 18 days ago • 46 comments

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 19 days ago • 270 comments

As DOGE-affiliated employees gain access to executive agency databases, they are likely violating the Privacy Act of 1974 by accessing sensitive personal data without any vetting or congressional authorization, writes @daniellecitron.bsky.social.

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

📣 Since the response to my archive index of the CDC & FDA websites has been so positive, I'm tackling a much larger site: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The CMS site is 10x larger than either the CDC or FDA sites, so this may take awhile... acasignups.net/25/02/07/lin...

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

NEW: President Trump is attempting to fire FEC Commissioner Weintraub. That contradicts both the law and the spirit of the bipartisan FEC. If he succeeds, that would unilaterally hobble an independent agency and invite more illegal influence in American elections.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 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.

submitted 20 days ago • 1140 comments

U.S. Attorney’s office in DC says it’s “initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees.”

submitted 23 days ago • 279 comments

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 24 days ago • 963 comments

Allowing unelected twenty year olds to download every Americans' personal info and Social Security data to unsecured servers is the equivalent of running the US government out of a Mar-a-lago bathroom.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Kamala Harris told everybody.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

The ads write themselves. “Donald Trump has given Elon Musk control of your Social Security check,” over footage of Elon’s salute, a flaming Tesla, and Starship wreckage crashing to Earth.

submitted 25 days ago • 44 comments

A leaked House Republican plan slashes $2.5 TRILLION of mandatory spending, potentially targeting Medicare & Medicaid—seniors, low-income families, kids, and pregnant women. Millions could lose care, all to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. 🚨I need your help to spread the word 🚨

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

This is a national emergency:

submitted 25 days ago • 2189 comments

The ordinary questions you might ask: Is Elon Musk a government employee? Are his lieutenants? Does he personally hold a security clearance and do his “lieutenants”? Have they all undergone a background check? Are they subject to foreign influence? Have they ever done a sieg heil on stage?

submitted 25 days ago • 231 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 25 days ago • 6200 comments

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

submitted 25 days ago • 209 comments

The US Census site is down. Wonder why.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr. told me yesterday that he had never made unwanted sexual advances towards ANYONE. This new information about settlements and NDAs raises a lot of questions we need to know before any Senator casts a vote on his nomination.

submitted 26 days ago • 66 comments

I've been worried for a while that Big Tech would become more powerful than any nation. But even I didn't anticipate that America's head of state would just hand a tech bro the keys.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

In case you were wondering why Chinese tariffs are 15% less than for Canada and Mexico, follow the money. Elon Musk currently has a 4,500,000 sq. ft. car manufacturing plant in China. Tesla does not currently have car plants in Canada or Mexico. One is planned for Mexico. In time for a tariff lift.

submitted 26 days ago • 232 comments