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submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

submitted 3 days ago • 260 comments

So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

submitted 4 days ago • 772 comments

White House, via GSA, announces plans to sell off most of the central buildings which constitute the HQs of the American republic, including FBI HQs, HQs of DOJ, HHS, Dept of Labor and many others. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/looti...

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

“A person familiar with the matter… said analysts were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency. “The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed””

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

We are literally paying for everyone in Israel to have free health care while children in Detroit froze to death in a car 2 weeks ago

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

JFC. Like, literally, USAID was the counter to the Belt and Road Initiative, and removing it has opened up all sorts of opportunities for China to harm the US.

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

"... @wired.com gained 62,500 new subscribers in the US during the first two weeks of February alone... " THIS is how you succeed in this media environment -- with hard-hitting, fearless, differentiated reporting on the biggest stories in the world. apnews.com/article/elon...

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

“The email, Offit said, offered no explanation for the scrapped meeting.”

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Left: Brittany Petterson votes in the House with her newborn son a month after giving birth because Republicans barred remote voting for new mothers Right: Byron Donalds votes in the House secretly by proxy from the set of Bill Maher in Los Angeles, breaking House ethics rules

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

submitted 13 days ago • 864 comments

Haaaaaaaaaa From The Onion

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 16 days ago • 2915 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 18 days ago • 1018 comments

This idea that "move fast and break things" will somehow make the government better is going to kill people. But letting COVID run wild killed people, too, and this bunch was OK with it because freedom. It's going to get much worse.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Casar: "You know what Elon Musk doesn't seem to be looking into? His own contracts."

submitted 25 days ago • 277 comments

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 31 days ago • 164 comments

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

submitted 34 days ago • 454 comments

USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)

submitted 34 days ago • 86 comments

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

submitted 35 days ago • 1175 comments

Is a SINGLE fucking member of the national media gonna point out to Trump that the USMCA—which he claimed in 2020 was such a great trade deal—is largely still in place and thus the trade problems/deficits with Canada and Mexico he now complains about stem from policies he created?

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

For those wondering: Yes, I'm uploading the entire 15 GB public-facing CDC.gov website that I downloaded a few days ago...but it's gonna take awhile to upload...

submitted 37 days ago • 121 comments

NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

submitted 36 days ago • 231 comments

With a 10 year statute of limitations, including for Apartheid Clyde's juvenile delinquent minions

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

Reading today's feed has me reliving the watching of C-SPAN on January 6, 2021. Same vibes.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

In April 2024, an airline captain reported nearly crashing into a helicopter while approaching Reagan National. The plane’s anti-collision technology alerted its pilots that there was a helicopter 300 feet below the airplane and climbing slowly (NYT's Emily Steel) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

submitted 37 days ago • 2512 comments

NEW: Elon Musk's team has hijacked massive datasets of government worker DOBs, home addresses, social security numbers, length of service, and performance evals - revoking the access of OPM career officials. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 37 days ago • 930 comments

NEW: We've identified the first known apparent instance of a foreign government-connected entity being invested in the Trump's public company.

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Has anyone put forward an argument for why Dem senators are voting for Trump cabinet nominees. Is there a coherent response to “who the fuck is this for”?

submitted 37 days ago • 35 comments

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

submitted 40 days ago • 157 comments

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

submitted 41 days ago • 155 comments

Must-read story on how a private equity group cornered the fire truck market, doubling prices, causing massive delays and leaving departments across the county — including Los Angeles — without the resources needed to combat fires.

submitted 42 days ago • 116 comments

feel like there’s a term for when you “clean out” a group of people from the place they live

submitted 42 days ago • 84 comments

Folks: Trump's big reveal that he's going to ask for the same process he did last presidency to maybe consider releasing Kennedy and MLK assassination records? Notice he is silent about Epstein.

submitted 45 days ago • 20 comments

"The TRUTH About The Musk Salute: 'America Unhinged' Launches" Watch new Zeteo show hosts Francesca & Wajahat in their inaugural episode of 'America Unhinged' (with a walk-on part from yours truly) breaking down the Musk salute, Trump pardons, media failures, & more. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8pm ET.

submitted 46 days ago • 52 comments

Absolutely stunning. This is MAGA: a celebration of violence.

submitted 47 days ago • 41 comments

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.” - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in his Nobel acceptance speech, 1964 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace... #MLKDay

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

submitted 48 days ago • 472 comments