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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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A worker at Tesla's plant in Austin was electrocuted and died last summer. Now OSHA has cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules. But the department isn't disclosing the nature of Tesla's safety failures or whether any penalties were imposed. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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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

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Take a look at how Democratic voters viewed the party during the first month of Trump’s first term vs. now, in his second term February 2017 — Democrats approve of congressional Democrats 59-31 February 2025 — Democrats disapprove of congressional Democrats 40-49 A 37 point swing.

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i do not know how some people in this country live with themselves

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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“So Elon Musk killed this program for disabled kids (illegally) because it included the word ‘transition.’ It helps them to transition from high school to work.” H/T @palafo.bsky.social, who posted the above on another platform.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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Then you perceive the body of our kingdom How foul it is, what rank diseases grow, And with what danger, near the heart of it.

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Presidents Trump and Musk laid off dozens tonight at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas. “There will be students on campus whose classes have no instructors when school resumes...accreditation could also be at risk, as it cannot support all its students.” lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

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President Trump declares that the US will no longer provide military protection unless Canada becomes the “51st state”

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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

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Russell Vought is the architect of Project 2025, the force cutting NIH funding. But it's thanks to NIH-funded research that Vought’s daughter had access to some treatments. “We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's then-wife wrote in 2021.

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developing story here seems to be that DOGE goons cleaned out CFPB data before Russell Vought illegally ordered it shut down so that Elon Musk could use it as part of his plan to make Vichy Twitter the dominant payment platform www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Another example of what cutting science funding is doing to our leading university research programs in the U.S.: dismantling things like the Soybean Innovation Lab at UIUC, which have made US crop yields dramatically higher.

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i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

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Just awful: One of the inspector generals that Trump fired was examining Elon Musk's failures to meet reporting protocol designed to safeguard national security as a major recipient of Pentagon contracts. It's time to follow up on that. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1913...

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This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration. “Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

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“I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire.” buff.ly/3WNnziI

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 15 days ago • 738 comments

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

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BREAKING: The Treasury Department has installed DOGE ally Tom Krause as fiscal assistant secretary, placing the Musk ally in a powerful position over the nation's +$5 trillion payment network Musk continues to demand unilateral cessation of payments www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 17 days ago • 1278 comments

Hungary birth rate update

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He does not, our sources say, have "read only" access, but high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code.

submitted 19 days ago • 518 comments