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Wait, this is the brutal free speech from American citizens that triggered Vance and caused him to use his child to whine and cry about it? What a snowflake crybaby.

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

Republicans say they love Veterans, but we know the truth.

Elon Musk’s staffers have been granted access to a sensitive child support database by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The data access was approved by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite resistance from career employees within the department. Sorry, we tried…

They are sadists in the White House.

Breaking WaPo: HHS has granted DOGE access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data — overriding the objections of career employees. The database contains substantial amounts of personal income data linked to nearly all U.S. workers. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NOAA to cut staff by 20%

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

These walk-backs are not happening in blue districts.

If they can seize it, this is a massive opportunity for Europe to take a huge lead over the US in science and technology.

Reminder: Republicans, Democrats and Independents have a common enemy in the oligarchs. Some of us don't know it yet. However, it will take all of us to stop Dark Enlightenment from becoming our dystopian reality. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...

TRUMP TARIFF CHESS Feb 1: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 3: pauses tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 27: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 4: imposes tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 5: delays 🇨🇦🇲🇽 car tariffs Mar 6: pauses tariffs on USMCA-compliant 🇨🇦🇲🇽 goods Mar 7: threatens tariffs on 🇨🇦 dairy (250%) and lumber

NEW: this new lawsuit piggybacks on the good work done by Hampton Dellinger before he left his job, and the folks at the MSPB. LFG!!! www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

The Trump White House has taken its attempt to seize direct control over the entire executive branch to a new level and laid out a startling legal rationale for the move in a previously unreported email obtained by TPM. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

One by one all the firewalls that preserved the rest of the economy when FTX and other crypto firms collapsed in 2022 are coming down.

As the thread makes clear, this is not a legitimate function of the U.S. Marshals Service. This is folks with law enforcement authority acting as thug enforcers.

Republican Rep. Mike Lawler who represents a swing district in NY gets booed ruthlessly after trying to use the 'waste, fraud, and abuse' line in response to voters' concerns about Medicaid cuts (via lohud)

Federal workers’ salaries represent less than 5% of federal spending and 1% of GDP www.marketplace.org/2025/03/06/f...

"From now on, he said, the secretaries would be in charge; the Musk team would only advise." From now on. FROM NOW ON? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, FROM NOW ON??? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

This is performative nonsense of “hardcore” tech nincompoops. They could put people in nearby hotels or Airbnbs for a lot less. It’s all cosplaying intense workaholism for the cheap seats and all for PR. Sleeping bags at work is simply dumb www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Read this. Trump is claiming inherent power to name an acting head of a Senate confirmed board, where the Vacancies Act doesn’t apply (and there’s no agency succession provision). Forget removal. This is Appointments Clause madness. Means he could name folks to MSPB and NLRB without the Senate.

This is NOT what I had in mind when I voted for the man who pretended to work at McDonald's for a day and then drove around in a dump truck. I thought he would continue doing those things, thereby providing valuable services in my community

what dumbasses

AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.

This is abt latest turn in the U.S. African Development Fdn story where Trump's purported appointee showed up this afternoon w US marshals and forced his way in. Story below. I'm curious what people know about the authority under which the marshals were even there. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...