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Per @adamschiff.com: “Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. “The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.”

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If you’re a federal worker and have a special snarky reply to Elon’s five bullets email you’d like me to include in a compilation of anonymous replies, feel free to send them to me on signal at muellershewrote.23 and I’ll keep you anonymous.

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Justice Department supervisors are directing employees to hold off on replying to the federal government-wide directive to describe recent job achievements — an Elon Musk order that DOJ staff worry will trigger ethics violations.

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I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

submitted 2 hours ago • 89 comments

"Presidents only get so much political capital. Trump has decided to invest his finite capital into supporting Putin's authoritarian regime in Moscow..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 504 comments

ATTENTION, SHOPPERS! We have a Silver Alert! If you’re missing an elderly gentleman, he is in the managers office. He is confused but he is safe.

submitted 5 hours ago • 194 comments

My read on what happened at The Daily Beast. It falsely included in its initial report a claim that the allegation is "unfounded"—though in fact the corroboration of it is significant. It then published the report, deliberately before the White House could respond. After the White House responded...

submitted 5 hours ago • 21 comments

New accusations emerged that Matt Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference chairman, had groped a man at a bar in Virginia during a gathering of conservatives.

submitted 2 days ago • 298 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 7 hours ago • 210 comments

runforsomething.net

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Front page of CNN One constituent asked, “How can we be represented by you if you don’t have a voice in Congress?” "Two Republican Wisconsin congressmen received tough questions...from their constituents during town halls this week, adding to recent pushback from voters against...Trump’s actions"

submitted 6 hours ago • 18 comments

What the fuck does this even mean? They are just terrorizing millions of hard working Americans for sport. Trump and Musk are the most anti-worker public leaders America may have ever produced.

submitted 6 hours ago • 71 comments

Musk is so full of shit. There are between 100 & 140 million votes spread on multiple n networks in each state. There are billions of activities daily tracking Tesla vehicles. So if we can't trust the voting machines, we certainly can't trust his cars. Only Trump would believe a lie like that

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 9 hours ago • 117 comments

No, I have full confidence that Trump's Whore Kash Patel isn't an idiot, why do you ask?

submitted 7 hours ago • 54 comments

This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

submitted 7 hours ago • 558 comments

If you really wanted to make government efficient, you wouldn't have underfunded and understaffed it for decades. You'd go to the civil servants doing the work, give them a decent budget and staff and empower them to fix it. They know better than anyone what needs to be done.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

One reason Trump is doing this is bc Trump has failed to come close to meeting his deportation promises. If that were to become a bigger narrative--if the mob learned that he was diverting NatSec resources yet is falling behind Sleepy Joe Biden's deportation numbers--Trump'd be in trouble.

submitted 7 hours ago • 32 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 14 hours ago • 232 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 470 comments

This did not go well for the investment firm CEO. Not one little bit.

submitted 10 hours ago • 28 comments

Our voices matter: The White House restored funding for the 9/11 first responder survivors’ health program after an uproar from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ensued following the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts last week. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 427 comments

There’s no evidence that Dan Caine will not be an effective chairman of the joint chiefs relative to his peers, but it is certainly saying something to the services that we are replacing a highly qualified black man with a white man who literally lacks the command qualifications for the job.

submitted 11 hours ago • 38 comments

“The goal of Trump--like all autocrats and dictators--is to make you feel that “resistance is futile,” but history shows that people standing up to that leader has inspired others to do the same.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social talks with @deanobeidallah.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 16 hours ago • 238 comments

💯💯💯💯💯

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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Migrants deported from the US were locked in a hotel and held at a remote camp in Panama, lawyers say: cnn.it/3X7LGbZ

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“As of now, Trump administration officials say they are planning on using the bases as a holding facility before the immigrants can be deported.”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Good news for sure, but the takeaway -- one we need to repeat over and over -- is he tried to screw 9/11 heroes and got caught.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

This is how it’s done.

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The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

submitted 1 day ago • 503 comments

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & @wnober.bsky.social) When gov't engineers retire, projects take longer & costs (& cost overruns) go up. It’s harder to manage projects well w/ reduced staffing. Important to remember as DOGE cuts: reduced staffing can actually hurt efficiency. Paper: tinyurl.com/yvy2jt93

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Anyone else see that Cybertruck stuck in the snow while the Honda Fit drives right past it? Pretty much sums up America vs rest of the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 446 comments

He’s doing a golf cart parade at his own club. What a pathetic jackass.

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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NEW: It was supposed to be a triumphant return to Capitol Hill for Jan. 6ers vowing to sue the Justice Department. It ended with Enrique Tarrio's arrest for suspected simple assault. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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