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New: per two sources, the email telling fed employees to report their weekly work to Elon also went to judiciary employees

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

A federal judge has extended the order keeping Elon Musk's DOGE out of Treasury Department payment systems, ruling that the Trump admin's process for granting access to the sensitive data was so flawed and haphazard that it was likely illegal.

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

Has anyone else noticed their insulin went back up?

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 15 hours ago • 145 comments

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

submitted 16 hours ago • 28 comments

“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 391 comments

“U.S. negotiators have warned that Ukraine would lose access to Starlink terminals, owned by billionaire Elon Musk's company SpaceX, if Kyiv did not sign the deal” kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 20 hours ago • 36 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 1174 comments

Very basic question: DOGE is made up a few dozen people most of whom aren't drawing salaries. What could $40 million be going toward? Could it be data storage outside government servers? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-co...

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

Breaking News: Stocks tumbled as investors reacted to concerns about the economy and tariffs, erasing almost all gains since President Trump’s inauguration.

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. Just one way that the richest man in the world is dictating societal priorities. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

a kid who was a 2016 kalamazoo "top high school grad" has control of the U.S. Treasury

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musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 731 comments

Hunter Schafer reveals that her new passport now lists her as ‘Male’ following Trump’s executive order.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

submitted 1 day ago • 1711 comments

I think they want to doubt Fort Knox so they can propose block chain, and I think they want high unemployment so we are all fighting for table scraps.

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Elon is out of his fuckin gourd man www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

$39M+ has been earmarked to DOGE in Trump admin’s first month. For perspective, in recent years Congress had allocated around $50M a year for the IT modernization initiative that DOGE supplanted. Unclear what time frame DOGE's $39M is meant to cover www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

The richest man in the world being handed all of the trappings of public office, with zero accountability

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

State media watch

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

My dad wanted a hanging heated bird bath

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They fired people working on missile defense.

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He Served Four Tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. DOGE Just Fired Him www.newsweek.com/he-served-fo...

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 2 days ago • 556 comments

I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

"The level of access DOGE possesses means that the organization may already be able to siphon data that Musk or his agents could hold on to forever, long after his time as a government liaison, or even after a potential falling-out with the president."

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Great negotiator gets things rolling www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

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BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will NOT allow the Trump admin to end birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants.

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

Trump: "Show up to work in person like the rest of us ... they're not working. They're playing tennis, they're playing golf. (Trump has been at his house and golfing all week.)

submitted 3 days ago • 207 comments

www.24sight.news/p/schlapp-gr...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Murphy: "Let me say that again. The man that my Republican colleagues are about to vote to lead the FBI believes there is irrefutable proof that the agency he is about to lead secretly organized the violent assault on the Capitol. That is bananas. My Republican colleagues know that."

submitted 3 days ago • 132 comments

This is a concentration camp. If that term makes you uncomfortable, it should. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Man this is a fucking riot. From site to author to subject matter.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Hey everybody doing a special episode at 2p ET today with Congressman Joaquin Castro. See you then!

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Justice Connection, an organization that supports DOJ employees facing "unprecedented attacks," made public an open letter praising prosecutors who resigned or whose jobs were threatened over the Eric Adams case. It was signed by more than 850 ex-federal prosecutors. Among the signers: Jack Smith.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by Republicans. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 3 days ago • 179 comments

It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!

submitted 3 days ago • 179 comments