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I’m profoundly sad saying this as a journalist, but I think we’ve reached the point where no amount of reporting is going to make the impact on voters that these off-the-cuff videos confronting Congress people will have.

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Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with DOGE when Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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When even Boris Johnson’s screws are tighter.

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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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Rep. Jason Crow: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most. “JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what's lawful and constitutional. “Replacing these military lawyers with Trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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Administrative law judges who protect regukations abdcare federalky protected themselves by statutes are about to be sidelined or fired. www.thewellnews.com/judiciary/ju...

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After yesterday’s airing of grievances, this was inevitable. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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One Reddit post by a just fired #IRS employee.

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I cannot stress enough how dangerous it is that the New York Times has adopted the lies of Trump and Musk. The idea that unprecedented authoritarian corruption is about “improving tech” and “fighting fraud” is a low point in the paper’s history.

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This has been my point for weeks about what Musk is after. Consolidated data from the biggest mine of information in the world. He’s so thirsty for data he’d get his hands on the nuclear codes if he could. Could he? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

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🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS. Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com

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This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

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BREAKING: Federal judge denies request from 14 Democratic state attorneys general to temporarily block DOGE/Musk from accessing data and layoff staff at several federal agencies. Litigation will move forward. Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u... Background:

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www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Some of us said this during the first administration as well.

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The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a major 1935 ruling upholding the independence of agencies like the FCC, FTC, NLRB, etc. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc... Because less independence is what we need...

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Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

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RFK Jr. said he would fall in line with the Trump administration’s goals, which includes fighting for the “unborn."

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Listening to WH Econ advisor Kevin Hassett on MSNBC talk about new tariffs coming makes it clear, once again, that this admin has no idea how tariffs work, dismissing all leading economists. “Depends on how you do the math.” 😒

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www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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BREAKING - Elon Musk slated to win $400 MILLION govt contract to make "armored Tesla" -- after $38 MILLION SpaceX contract yesterday Musk's plan: -- Shut down parts of the govt investigating him -- Claim that he's stopping government spending -- Give himself all the money

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In her first news conference as Attorney General, Pam Bondi answers a question by saying, “We’re gonna back up Elon Musk any way we can”

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#breaking: The federal worker buyout is back on, per Fed court in MA. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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I've received a tip that access to NASA supercomputing services used for fundamental physics research has been disrupted. I was told in-process computation jobs were interrupted from January 22-29 and access hasn't been restored. If you're in this situation, message stevanzetti.12 on Signal.

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The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country.

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Paul Martin, the inspector general for the USAID, has been fired after resisting the administration. Just a day ago, his office released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes put hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars at risk of misuse and waste. This is the way.

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Results from prior rounds of steel tariffs (in this case, GWBush's): "upstream steel tariffs have highly persistent negative impacts on the competitiveness of U.S. downstream industry exports." economics.princeton.edu/wp-content/u...

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🚨🚨🚨White House bars AP from press event because it will not bend its editorial standards to his will. www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million, apparently aimed at hobbling the department’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences.

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Listening to this word salad address by Musk in the Oval Office schooling the country on democracy and bureaucracy is the most dangerous set of lies, being broadcast seemingly without irony. Will the MSM fact-check ? Will they stop airing this uninterrupted?

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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g...

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Deep cuts and keystroke surveillance at #GSA. #DOGE www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

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Bravo @jasonleopold.bsky.social ! Doing what he does best on behalf of the public. 🙌

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Disinformation

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