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Kennedy Center ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.

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When we politicise everything we make society stupider | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/2a2877b4-a953-468f-afe3-fc6f03d31dcf

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1303 comments

Done

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Now OPM is trying to overrule the DOJ directive to ignore Elon's email The power struggle is real

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Curious

submitted 13 hours ago • 29 comments

This is how you do it.

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The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

submitted 6 hours ago • 139 comments

"The Prime Minister agreed," the White House lied.

submitted 7 hours ago • 21 comments

I think we need to shutdown @nytimes.com until we figure out what is going on.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

These arguments* make no sense, but they don’t have to. Their only utility is to define an other who can be blamed for anything they deem bad in the world. Flat tire on the way to work? Transgenders. Lost your favorite mug? Transgenders. Internet too slow? Transgenders.

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⚡️'We're going to get our money back' — Trump on US-Ukraine resources deal. "I want them to give us something for all of the money that we put up," Trump said on Feb. 22. "We're asking for rare earth and oil — anything we can get."

submitted 7 hours ago • 176 comments

Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week.

submitted 8 hours ago • 164 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 181 comments

I hope a copy went to Judge Ho in NY, who is overseeing the Mayor Adams case. Answer: "Held hearing on a corrupt motion to dismiss a solid criminal prosecution for political reasons."

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It is very, very important that Admin Scholars are very, very clear right now these e-mails are wildly unlawful. Russ Vought and Elon Musk trying to terrify and harass government employees, and they need to know that these e-mails are the very definition of arbitrary and capricious action.

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Federal workers have been given about 48 hours to explain what they accomplished last week. Elon Musk says not responding will be taken as a resignation. apnews.com/article/elon...

submitted 8 hours ago • 173 comments

Elon Musk demands federal workers explain their jobs or be sacked https://www.ft.com/content/58e651dd-c08c-417b-82be-57fff43438b5

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What happens if the courts can't stop the Trump Administration? “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., tells David Remnick. “We've got to shut down this country.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 73 comments

"Forcing the administration to defend its actions, on the record and in public, is important. ... Even a loss can advance awareness about oppressive steps being taken by the administration."

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

The DOGE gang that can't shoot straight: If this is true, it means that not only have the DOGEbros sent an email with a demand of questionable legality to all executive branch workers, but they have sent it to judicial branch employees who are constitutionally beyond their reach.

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Featured: “This policy signals a return to some of the cruel and shameful policies that we’ve seen in our history, like the forced expulsion and resettlement of Native Americans in the Trail of Tears, or the internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. It’s the same order of shamefulness.”

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Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, challenged President Trump during a White House meeting on Friday. The fight has thrust Mills onto the national stage, making her a folk hero to her party and a political target. Here's what to know.

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Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

submitted 9 hours ago • 283 comments

Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to describe what they did last week — as Elon Musk warned on social media that, if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation.

submitted 10 hours ago • 243 comments

so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

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The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles, will fire a “modest” number of employees, an agency spokesman said Friday.

submitted 11 hours ago • 97 comments

This is real. And I have never seen the competence, morals, standards and communication strategy of any government collapse so fast.

submitted 11 hours ago • 238 comments

I’ll tell you what Elon, Feds will send their little update to you when you can pass a clean drug test. 🐴 🐴 🐴

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The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

submitted 14 hours ago • 399 comments