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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.

submitted 14 hours ago • 882 comments

NEW: DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases. Few of the records are redacted or anonymized. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 45 comments

LISTEN.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇 @housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.

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“We’re all having to decide what we’re going to do in a moment where we’re sort of the last person standing between a kid who should be learning in their classroom and an immigration official who’s there to take that right away from them.” Read more ⤵️

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Fox News, which has spent the past few years stoking fears about vaccines, is sounding the alarm that "vaccine confidence is at an all-time low" now that there is a measles outbreak in America and RFK Jr. is in charge of HHS. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains? Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

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Jon whips out his trusty calculator to identify where America’s waste, fraud, and abuse really is

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I've discussed this a few times in the past. But this is like the reductio ad absurdum of a trajectory we've seen across society and government but which has been most visible in reaction to Citizens United. it basically goes like this. Under citizens united super rich people have an insane ...

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If you haven't read this scathing email from an EPA fed to Lee Zeldin yet, do yourself a solid and check it out: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 3 days ago • 157 comments

DID YOU KNOW: We had fewer federal workers in 2024 than we had in 1970?

submitted 3 days ago • 247 comments

Here’s a site to pass along. You can put in your zip code and it will tell you how Republicans planned cut to social security would affect your area. democrats-budget.house.gov/house-republ...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Wow.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

HEADS UP! We need to give this story more attention. This is the next phase - investigations of those who criticize Trump, Musk or SCOTUS. It’s already started. It is a campaign of intimidation designed to silence criticism. wapo.st/3X8d75G

submitted 7 days ago • 69 comments

Here are the GOP members of the Senate Finance Committee--consider going to their LOCAL office this week and exhorting them to figure out why DOGE is in your financial records.

submitted 8 days ago • 198 comments

MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

submitted 8 days ago • 774 comments

This affidavit is horrifying & there are likely many more stories like it

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Here we go: The Acting Solicitor General has asked #SCOTUS to immediately freeze (and vacate) the district court order that had temporarily reinstated Hampton Dellinger atop DOJ’s Office of Special Counsel: utexas.box.com/s/h0m91y7nes... I’ll have much more on this in tomorrow’s “One First.”

submitted 10 days ago • 96 comments

Musk’s website, DOGE, leaked classified government information to the entire world. NOFURN [Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals] information on their website about the [intelligence community] headcount has prompted a scramble as people check whether their information has been accessed.

submitted 10 days ago • 227 comments

Seems a good time to note that Rubio’s senate confirmation vote was 99-0. This is who now passes as reasonable.

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Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

submitted 10 days ago • 326 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 11 days ago • 382 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments

Trump and Vance are courting Europe’s far right to spread their political gospel

submitted 12 days ago • 104 comments

House Republicans plot impeachment against judges blocking Trump, DOGE thehill.com/homenews/hou...

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

Trump is now considering paving over Jackie Kennedy’s White House Rose Garden with cement to make it look more like Mar-a-Lago. A White House official said it is “necessary” because it will “restore” the “glory” of the White House.

submitted 12 days ago • 1141 comments

In announcing the Fort Bragg name change today, the U.S. Army's official X account tagged Elon Musk directly. This is not good.

submitted 12 days ago • 132 comments

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...

submitted 14 days ago • 379 comments

In case this won't be reported, Senate Dems are holding the floor for 30 hours to try to stall the RFK Vote! Here's the press release from Wyden's office.

submitted 14 days ago • 277 comments

Donald Trump illegally fired 19 inspectors general. The law requires notice to Congress and a case-by-case justification. It is not optional. Congress must convene a bipartisan hearing to examine these unlawful acts and how they can be remedied. Immediately.

submitted 14 days ago • 212 comments

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

submitted 14 days ago • 765 comments

Susan Collins has told reporters she will vote for Psycho Bob to lead the HHS. It proves one thing. Susan Collins is incapable of learning a single lesson.

submitted 16 days ago • 1301 comments

A statement from the Kennedy Center

submitted 18 days ago • 1200 comments

Reminder: this is completely lawless

submitted 19 days ago • 1639 comments

They're trying to silence the media because they don't want you to know what they're doing.

submitted 19 days ago • 49 comments

Where are the interviews with people despairing about what Trump is doing?

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

New: @propublica.org is tracking who's in Musk's DOGE crew. 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.

submitted 20 days ago • 34 comments

Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Missouri voters enshrined reproductive rights in the state constitution 3 months ago. Yet abortion remains unavailable. The state’s main provider is fighting legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure in the state. /// By Jeremy Kohler // www.propublica.org/article/miss...

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

Gaza is this week’s bright shiny object. Pay attention to Trump’s effort to aggregate as much govt power as possible in the WH & convert the civil service into loyalists, while GOP members of Congress watches let it happening without exercising their constitutional power to check it.

submitted 21 days ago • 211 comments

What the fuck

submitted 21 days ago • 56 comments

I’m hearing that banks are not pushing back against the Musk Treasury breach because the markets remain stable. Might be a good time to call your bank and ask if your money is safe or if it should be withdrawn for safe keeping.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This whole effort was brazenly illegal. From the big picture down to innumerable individual acts. But even if course was shifted now, which is basically unimaginable, Musk likely has already essentially destroyed the organization. Under the best circs will take years or decades to rebuild.

submitted 22 days ago • 70 comments

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.