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NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

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

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DOGE’s fraud-finding mission is the real fraud. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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Universities really need to pay attention to this. It's not just about the indirects and frozen funds. If these layoffs continue, which by all signs are continuing and going well beyond probationary employees, these agencies will not be functional, including NIH, CDC, and NSF

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WOW. Something's happening here 👇

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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This is a brilliant article which I am glad someone has finally written. It's clear that the value is in the data and the potential to coerce is part of that value. Normally you can rely on governments to honour their side of the bargain. But when a third party gets in, all bets are off.

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Jenifer Bunty is one of at least 17 North Carolina U.S. Forest Service employees reportedly terminated under President Donald Trump administration’s wide-ranging cuts to the federal workforce, reports Blue Ridge Public Radio. www.wunc.org/2025-02-21/f...

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DOGE’s unprecedented attacks on federal workers are hurting working families across the country. Federal workers are members of our communities who work hard to keep our country running, but now, they fear for their jobs and their livelihoods. These are some of their stories.

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My friend and mentor Orville Schell puts very clearly what many people with experience in 20th century China are thinking: The parallels with the nihilism and chaos-for-its-own-sake of the Cultural Revolution years. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

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the excellent music writer @carynrose.bsky.social recently launched a newsletter/website about Bruce Springsteen and she is approximately the best possible person to do this. If the topic interests you I can confidently say this is the best place to get your fix www.radio-nowhere.com

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After a lifetime on the frontiers of the fight against HIV, researchers can finally see the end of the epidemic in sight. But thanks to the Trump administration’s executive orders, it’s unclear when—or possibly even ever—this breakthrough medicine will see the light of day.

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The Extremists Pamphlet from the @aflcio.org about right wing extremism, its socially backwards agenda, close relationship to corporate interests, and how collective civic action can help oppose it. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

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This letter to the editor from 1961 voices the same diagnosis of the nation's ills and the same solution--to completely obliterate the New Deal state--that animates the MAGA/Project 2025 blitz we're experiencing now. That 1961 newspaper was put out by a fascist who helped found the Posse Comitatus.

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Take the time. Read it. Global carnage.

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That would be, of course, illegal.

submitted 19 hours ago • 53 comments

How it started. How it’s going

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NCSL, which represents state legislators & other public officials both R and D, has sent a letter to leaders of the US House and Senate expressing concern about changes/cuts to Medicaid; it is a federal-state partnership. 79 million Americans in the program. www.ncsl.org/resources/de...

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Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 63 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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@propublica.org with great reporting again on DOGE. DOGE is Schroedinger's organization according to the Trumpers: it both is and is not an agency, is and is not run by Elon, is and is not receiving federal funding. Propublica identified $40M in federal funding redirected to DOGE from agencies.

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Though the FDA is believed to have lost about 700 of its 18,000 employees following President Trump's mass firings, some cuts hit small teams so deeply that staff members believe the safety of some medical devices could be compromised. Here's what to know.

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someone has added a banner to the FCC Complaints page so that anyone going to file a complaint first gets asked if they want to join in a complaint re: “investigating news distortion at 60 Minutes” consumercomplaints.fcc.gov

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Layoffs and contract cancellations sweeping the Social Security Administration. I've been told that following data programs have been canceled: *National Beneficiary Survey (NBS): Provides SSA, Congress w/ info about factors that can help SSI/SSDI recipients find employment

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In a new message to FBI staff, Kash Patel said he will "always have your backs." But Patel's first moments sent the opposite message: All support personnel who worked in the FBI director's office were told to pack their desks and leave before Patel arrived. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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The eliminated federal teacher grants includes a $11.8 million, 3-year grant for Wake County. Wake credits grant, which includes performance & retention bonuses, w/ 40% reduction in teacher vacancies in high-needs schools. Wake may appeal. #wcpss #nced www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

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“Trump & his party’s politics are one of disposability. To secure the flourishing of a select few (namely, right-wing corporate interests & white supremacists), others must be eliminated — deported, detained, criminalized, or even killed.” My newest op-ed: www.teenvogue.com/story/donald...

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"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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NEW: The Energy Department tried to spin its DOGE-directed firing of nuclear-safety officials as affecting just non-critical staff. But this wasn’t close to true. In fact, one of the officials locked out of his work accounts was the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the agency.

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New talking point over the 1300 CDC firings: positions were all "duplicitous with AI," claims GA GOP Congressman and ER doc. (Assume he means duplicative?)

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When it comes to the Trump/DOGE attack on the Depart of Education, ignore the rhetoric and follow the money says @jackschneider.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Believe them. (What’s “the job”? Ending our democracy, and 🇺🇸 as we know it?)

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This is the guy who is manufacturing torture porn for the White House featuring the pain and anguish of immigrants being forcefully deported. Billy McLaughlin. Formerly heading digital for the NRA.

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"The New York Times has been caught, once again, passing off Republican operatives as “regular” Republican voters in an article intended to show how effectively Trump is maintaining his support." presswatchers.org/2020/10/how-... by @froomkin.bsky.social

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PANTHEON MACRO: “.. Uncertainty over the severity of federal spending cuts and tariffs has led to a sudden stop in decision-making, likely weighing materially on GDP growth in Q1.” 🇺🇸

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Second Speaker on Israel-Gaza Conflict is Canceled by Wake Forest University, a Move PEN America Calls “Arbitrary and Misguided” pen.org/press-releas...

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Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists. My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬

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Leader of France’s far-right party abruptly cancels his scheduled CPAC speech after Steve Bannon’s Nazi salute. www.barrons.com/articles/fra...

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As part of its new 'transformative' access model for libraries, "...Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries." clarivate.com/news/clariva...

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A federal judge has ruled that the Trump admin has not fully complied with his court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali: "To the extent Defendants have continued the blanket suspension, they are ordered to immediately cease it."

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The Trump admin’s decision to end telehealth services for Medicare will only make it harder for seniors, people with disabilities, and rural communities to access the care they need. This horrible decision will cost lives and make Americans less healthy. www.medicare.gov/coverage/tel...

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🔥 NEW YORK: “The red line has been crossed. They’re not playing by the rules. We have to the gloves off.” Big ovation at an @RepPaulTonko town hall as a teacher encourages him to push back even harder, even get arrested to stop the Trump/Musk rampage. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGVuDVe...

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“What a lie,” Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen wrote on X Thursday, in reply to Musk parroting the talking point yet again on Fox News. “And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”

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