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"We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you." Yes!

submitted 18 hours ago • 22 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 13 hours ago • 187 comments

Another scoop from @peard33.bsky.social: DOGE installed Tom Krause at the Treasury Department. He's keeping his job as the CEO of a software company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts, including with the Treasury Department www.wired.com/story/krause...

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

“I believe that his abrupt firing puts the security of veterans services at risk” a source with knowledge of VA systems said. “Eliminating the person responsible for the security of veteran info on VA.gov erodes the quality of the service for the veteran. It’s reckless” www.wired.com/story/doge-u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

submitted 23 hours ago • 235 comments

never imagined giving a bankrupt casino owner access to the nation's treasury could go so awry

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

Finally some good news! www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Judge Dale Ho invites Paul Clement, superstar conservative lawyer, to present arguments on the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the Eric Adams case. Clement will advise Ho about whether he can refuse to dismiss the charges. This is very funny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

NEW: We spoke with federal workers grappling with symptoms of paranoia around technology due to DOGE's incursion, including some fearful of their own home networks, and take a hard look at the range of tools the government currently uses to monitor its workforce: www.wired.com/story/survei...

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

please, no one should have to listen to that much avicii

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

My latest piece in WIRED with @dell.bsky.social and @peard33.bsky.social DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government www.wired.com/story/survei...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

someone has added a banner to the FCC Complaints page so that anyone going to file a complaint first gets asked if they want to join in a complaint re: “investigating news distortion at 60 Minutes” consumercomplaints.fcc.gov

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

forgot i did this like five months after they laid us all off

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

submitted 1 day ago • 827 comments

which is it bro

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

prosecutors treating “plain view” charges as “conduct related to” 🙃

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

A bug in two closely-related stalkerware apps, Cocospy and Spyic, is exposing the personal data of millions of people who have the software unwittingly installed on their phones: techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Tough situation. Maybe at some point we can amend the Constitution to provide a specific power Congress can use against an executive who’s unlawfully usurping its authority.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

The DOGE website claims it was last updated on February 17. But in the past 24 hours, they apparently quietly removed two USAID contracts worth $655M a piece. The site still claims $55B in savings. Contracts: www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_I... www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_I...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Today on the Uncanny Valley News Update: @couts.bsky.social on what DOGE might want from your data, and why the Watergate-era Privacy Act might be able to prevent them from accessing it: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

the fact five days passed before he even sent this basically demonstrates this is 1A covered speech; clearly no anticipation of an imminent act. second, you can't just halve a metaphor that way. if he thinks he meant real "weapons" he must also believe there's a real "bar fight" occurring someplace.

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Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

On top of everything else it's just hard to get over how dumb all this is www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

There's a lot going on right now, but this story from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social is horrifying. Basically, in contravention of its own policies, Google's ad technology allows clients to identify and target people identified as, say, struggling with opioid addiction or gambling debt.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: NIST staffers expect ~500 people—incl. 3 lab directors who were promoted in the last year—to lose their jobs as soon as tomorrow, as part of the DOGE purge, sources tell @wired.com. @willknight.bsky.social, @peard33.bsky.social, and @leahfeiger.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/the-na...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Bless you to the folks at @wired.com for this fantastic piece. I spent all day contemplating how to write a thread explaining all of this but now I don’t have to. I remember thinking Musk’s shitler youth might struggle because our computer systems are older than their parents 🙃 I hate being right.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

thank god we banned tiktok

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Read the whole thread (and article). This is important and alarming and indicative of why the lack of data protection legislation in the US is such a problem. The big tech promises of self regulation and accountability rarely come to pass.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment