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Taxpayers who need help from the IRS this year are more or less screwed. From WaPo: "The acting IRS commissioner, Doug O’Donnell, announced his plan to retire effective Feb. 28, just a few days after nearly 7,000 IRS employees were laid off, mainly in the tax enforcement and collections […]

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#AI in #Finance and #Banking, 02/28/25 https://www.llrx.com/2025/02/ai-in-finance-and-banking-february-28-2025/Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, govt documents, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions: Jobs Being Cut in Banking Industry – Bankers take note: AI could be your […]

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#Climate and #DEI Deleted From Government Websites, Federal Workers #Fired, #Colleges Erase Programs and Research – “Colleges have been a conservative target for years. Under #Trump, it’s total #warfare on all aspects of higher #education — from student life to #hiring to athletics.” Update via […]

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@psuPete Recommends - Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, 03/01/25 https://www.llrx.com/2025/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-1-2025/ Five posts from this week: #Trump has purged government websites; The Wayback Machine trying to preserve the record […]

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This tweet from Elon Musk is, of course, false. The first known victim of DOGE died around February 2 after the refugee hospital that was giving her oxygen shut down. But the tweet will be useful as there's abundant proof he's lying (or ill-informed) about Ebola & restarting payments.

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Via #LLRX - What Is #OpenAI Powerful New Deep #Research Tool Capable Of? I Use It to Analyze the Legality of #Trump Pause of Federal #Grants https://www.llrx.com/2025/02/deep-research-ai-legality-trump-pause-federal-grants/ In 10 min it produced following memo which consumes 9,000 words, 17 […]

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#Climate and #DEI Deleted From Government Websites, Federal Workers #Fired, #Colleges Erase Programs and Research – “Colleges have been a conservative target for years. Under #Trump, it’s total #warfare on all aspects of higher #education — from student life to #hiring to athletics.” Update via […]

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@psuPete Recommends - Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, 03/01/25 https://www.llrx.com/2025/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-1-2025/ Five posts from this week: #Trump has purged government websites; The Wayback Machine trying to preserve the record […]

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#AI in #Finance and #Banking, 02/28/25 https://www.llrx.com/2025/02/ai-in-finance-and-banking-february-28-2025/Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, govt documents, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions: Jobs Being Cut in Banking Industry – Bankers take note: AI could be your […]

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Why am I still wearing a mask in 2025? For exactly the same reasons I wore it in 2021. Because nothing has changed. Except maybe the way people look at me. But funny looks don’t transmit viruses. Inhaled aerosolized particles do. From: @ducky https://mstdn.ca/@ducky/114094800072331423

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Sure, because promoting a taxpayer-backed cryptocurrency reserve is a great idea. The Grifter in Chief is at it again, tackling our most pressing societal issues. And then you have Musk calling the Social Security Administration a giant Ponzi scheme. THIS is the definition of a Ponzi scheme.

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#JohnGotti would have OK’d the #Trump #Vance #mob hit on #Zelensky President Trump, who once famously bragged that he’d be “one of the greatest” #mafiosi, put everything he learned in growing up around the #NewYorkCity mob in the 1980s to use during his already infamous #OvalOffice attempted […]

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As you watch the Trump regime wreck everything in sight, you should be regularly asking yourself this question: If the stated goal was to end democracy, ruin the economy, shred human rights, and aid our adversaries -- would the regime be doing anything differently?

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The #DOGE #Takeover Is Worse Than You Think. It’s worse than you think because the people running the govt seem to have no higher #mission than to watch it burn. DOGE’s cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon […]

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> 80% of #potash used by US #farmers comes from mines in #Saskatchewan. #Canada is king of potash. It possesses the largest potash reserves in the world by a fat margin and the largest production by volume. The U.S. cannot source most of its potash from elsewhere. Just two other countries have […]

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The #DOGE #Takeover Is Worse Than You Think. It’s worse than you think because the people running the govt seem to have no higher #mission than to watch it burn. DOGE’s cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon […]

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I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing on one man. Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed. It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an […]

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“DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records Officials with #Musk’s group say they want to search for fraud. Privacy law bars the IRS from disclosing tax information to other parts of the government.” […]

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US intel shows #Russia and #China are attempting to recruit disgruntled #federal #employees, sources say https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-china-attempt-recruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html

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This says it all - the total control of our government clearly defines our peril.

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When #America has your back - #Biden never would have become such a supplicant and co conspirator in the death of #democracy here and around the world. We have little time to consider this before the next debacle begins. So we need to work together and take […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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State Dept's life-saving program part of the Trump to cut more than 10,000 #foreign #aid contracts. The new cutbacks, which have devastated the aid sector, include parts of #USAID largest contract, $9.5B global #health supply chain initiative. #Chemonics, the company implementing the initiative […]

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"I serve not steal."This concisely illustrates the contrast between dedicated hard-working public servants vs DOGE and Trumpers' motivations and actions. This phrase needs to be the soundbite for the media and visible on protest signs and email signatures. "I SERVE NOT STEAL" is a message the […]

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Commendations, cash awards, positive reviews. Then they were fired for poor #performance. The lies that hid the facts about the federal workforce https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/27/federal-employees-firing-letters-claim-poor-work/80269905007/ #musk #doge #trump #maga […]

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How #ElonMusk Executed His #Takeover #coup of the Federal Bureaucracy #government The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the #billionaire who channeled his resentment of #regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies. This is all about him destroying the […]

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An email to all SSA employees on Thurs threatens "involuntary" reassignments and offers a claimed "Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments" program to encourage departures #VERA. The acting commissioner of the #SocialSecurity Administration (SSA) requested in meeting on Tuesday that managers […]

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Major NY law firms, significant players in litigation against Trump admin during 1st term r nowhere to be found in flood of 2nd term litigation. They have privately made clear not interested in taking risk that Trump will target them, scare off their corporate clients.. Law firms are similarly […]

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#Musk states w/out any facts that #Verizon’s efforts 2 provide critically needed upgrade to #FAA #airtraffic control system is failing. And he said that it is important that #Starlink unit of his #SpaceX satellite & rocket company, take over. Verizon has massive $2.4B contract to provide […]

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US #Ukraine minerals deal: the full text The terms of the #bilateral agreement between #Kyiv and Washington #BILATERAL AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR A RECONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT FUND. 3finance #economics #trump #zelensky #ukraine #putin #russia […]

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The #SocialSecurity Administration “eliminated” the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity (OCREO) on Tuesday, Law Dork has learned. “The OCREO office has been eliminated,” the auto-response message read of a person who, as of Monday at least, had been a director in the office. “Please […]

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The New York Times actually has a continuous subject header on the Trump Administration titled, Manipulations of the Truth - the url is https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/trump-alternative-reality.html Why not state what it is, Lies.Truth or Lies. Lies are in fact a manipulation of […]

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Something @leahgreenberg.bsky.social told @gregsargent.bsky.social the other day deserves more attention: The reason the contentious town halls last week were largely in very GOP districts is bc swing MoCs won't hold them. newrepublic.com/article/1918...

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#DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest #Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week - The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved […]

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The problem here folks is that no one is enforcing court orders! U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan in Washington, at the urging of advocacy groups representing nonprofits and small businesses, extended an earlier order she issued that had temporarily blocked the funding freeze while she […]

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> 20 #civilservice #employees #resigned Feb 25 from #billionaire #Trump adviser #Musk #DOGE saying they were refusing 2 use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve #American people and uphold our oath to the #Constitution across #presidential […]

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‘It’s a Psyop’: Inside #ElonMusk’s Empty Ultimatum - #Trump #billionaire #enforcer told #federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind. #bully #bullying #harassment #corruption #politics #doge #democracy #constitution #firing #threats […]

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Cartoonist and illustrator Ann Telnaes is the most reliable pundit in America - speaking truth to lies. #trump #maga #russia #corruption #politics #government #constitution #democracy #lies #federal #employees #firing ##illegal #courts

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How to #Organize Our Way Out of the #Trump #Musk #Putsch A plan to harness #grassroots energy—and to hold #Democratic leaders #accountable https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-to-organize-our-way-out-of-the-trump-musk-putsch/ #politics #government #congress #democracy

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Smoking, sad, correct editorial from the Financial Times, which urges Europeans to accept that under Trump the U.S is a predator not an ally. Text at https://archive.ph/2025.02.21-194022/https://www.ft.com/content/1511aa42-a9ad-4952-99c8-98bea07d0414

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This is True - #ElonMusk ordered #email sent all 2.3 million #government workers over the weekend directing them to respond with five bullet points detailing what they accomplished last week, chaos and confusion reigned. Agencies issued conflicting guidance, as did different divisions within […]

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This was published on WaPo Feb 21 - Is there any more accurate news on this - Trump expected to take control of #USPS, fire #postal board, officials say Experts say the move would likely violate the law. Trump said Friday that #Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick would be “looking at” the mail […]

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Around a dozen current & former federal workers are behind a new website created outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about #DOGE dismantling of government agencies. “We the Builders” aims to be a secure outlet for #government workers to share how their workplaces are being […]

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Around a dozen current & former federal workers are behind a new website created outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about #DOGE dismantling of government agencies. “We the Builders” aims to be a secure outlet for #government workers to share how their workplaces are being […]

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#DonaldTrump was recruited by #KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov", claims a former #Soviet intelligence officer. bombshell allegation made by Alnur Mussayev, former Kazakh intelligence chief, in FB post, reports the Mirror. The 71-year-old, who previously headed Kazakhstan’s National […]

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Marc Elias open letter to Elon Musk. Please share far and wide. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/ #ElonMusk #Elon #FuckElon #Democracy #democracyMatters

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Reducing the Scope of the Federal Bureaucracy. #Peace does not matter https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy (a) governmental entities shall be eliminated to maximum extent consistent w applicable law, such entities shall […]

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#Eviscerating the entire infrastructure, expertise, capabilities of yet another agency and personnel who serve Americans in need during cataclysmic weather events throughout the country. This will not end until he has destroyed our democracy in its entirety - #Trump to cut #FEMA staff by 84% […]

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Reducing the Scope of the Federal Bureaucracy. #Peace does not matter https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy (a) governmental entities shall be eliminated to maximum extent consistent w applicable law, such entities shall […]

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