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The U.S. government keeps lying in court filings about what is going on with USAID and it's pretty horrific, per this filing from earlier today https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69619544/47/1/american-federation-of-government-employees-v-trump/

Here's the Sheriff's FB to let him know how you feel: www.facebook.com/share/19xFUe...

unfortunately it looks like the only way to save human civilization is for the government to destroy all my companys competitors and also give my company a bunch of money

This is a direct reference to the Proud Boys who use the gold wreath FAFO logo. I fully believe Elon is going to utilize vigilante violence to enforce things. You should take this seriously.

House Republicans are preparing a budget package that calls for $2 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That’s TRILLION. With a T.

Breaking — All Department of Justice office leaders just received an email saying they should be “prepared to follow the instructions” in the OPM/Musk bullet email, according to a copy shared with me. Full text:

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Thread of recent Nazi salutes Musk: "My heart goes out to you!" [salutes x2] Eduardo Verástegui: "That is why I am going to join the Elon Musk and President Trump's movement. My heart goes out to all of you! Fight! Fight! Fight!" [salutes] Steve Bannon: "Fight! Fight! Fight! [salutes]

I told OPM what I did last week

(Now former) Teacher in Pennsylvania: "our hearts go out to you" and Nazi salute. www.facebook.com/share/p/15Jf...

Yes, everyone, please let Elon know what you did. Email [email protected]

Ok, so IRS got the 5 bullet points, justify your job, email. Our Union NTEU is saying to not respond at this point until National NTEU has a chance to assess the implications of responding. 1/2

1. Why, if you control OPM and have all the job details, do you need me to tell you what I do? 2. When did feeding your AI system become part of my job? 3. This is just another Fork email to intimate. You can't send Fork emails anymore, so this is the next latest crazy.

This will make our troops less safe. Again, he's building a significant amount of backlash and stepping on a lot of toes. The Pentagon never created a job if there wasn't a need for it. And why anyone would celebrate people losing their jobs whether corporate or government is beyond me.

The party of absolute trash.

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

Under her command, the US Navy met its recruiting goals last year. The Army did not. She made being in the Navy more tolerable, based on experience of more than 20 years of her career at sea. People wanted to join Navy, to the point they had to deny people because the training slots were filled.

the federal government represented in court that this man is not in charge of anything official

Please see this thread of the various recent Nazi salutes by Trump's people.

The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

NEW: One of Sean Combs’s lawyers filed a motion to withdraw as counsel overnight, raising attorney-client privilege and asserting in an affidavit that “under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs, consistent with the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice.”

[You'll have seen this in lots of my writing.]

"In every state, every congressional district, and more than 95 percent of counties in the United States, public charities receive government grants. Without these grants, most nonprofits would be unable to cover their expenses." Should not be a partisan issue. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe