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Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News & Boston Herald.) NYC and North Fork. Francophile fan of Sondheim and Venice. Aspiring watercolorist. (Paintings now at @washbuckler.bsky.social) Hoping sarcasm works out better over here.
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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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lol

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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the NYP article is even better hahahaha they're seething over it

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Europe's politicians are openly discussing how they could tackle the threat of nuclear attack without American help, in a dramatic sign of the deep crisis engulfing the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump.

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NEW: Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader granted clemency by President Trump, was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol and charged with allegedly assaulting a female protester. Trump previously cut short Tarrio's sentence for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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So an open threat against a sovereign state. Where are all my “state’s rights” people?

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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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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

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I'm sure the corrupt trump Justice Department will release him with an apology and probably fire these cops but for one moment we can enjoy this.

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Ensuring all our spies are monolingual white guys is a terrific idea. If you want to destroy our global intelligence gathering abilities. Who would want to do that? Oh, right.

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Will be curious to see what happens to US auto prices this year, considering: *25% tariffs on Canada/Mexico ("paused" until March 4); *25% tariffs on global steel/aluminum (effective March 12); *25% tariffs on all foreign cars (maybe effective April 2)

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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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I have never been so suddenly rabidly supportive of a previously unknown to me politician in my life.

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BREAKING: Judge Nichols has rejected further relief for USAID workers and has dissolved his restraining order on the Trump administration's effort to dismantle the agency. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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This makes the media's inability to just call it a Nazi salute seem even more ridiculous.

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We’re definitely seeing a spike in Washington DC jobless claims:

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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BTW, right wing state lawmakers across the country have been filing bills requiring their states to invest in crypto bsky.app/profile/web3...

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Seeing scary headlines about a new coronavirus discovered in BATS but they are all from shitty clickbait outlets. (Not bars. Is there a virus I can blame for moronic typos?)

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Seeing photos of Bannon sieg heiling, my second thought is he's doing an embarrassing lookame imitation of Musk, whom he hates.

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Saw a poll last night that 27% of Canadians view the US as an *enemy* country. Then a Canadian friend sent this after last night’s hockey game.

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Go to town hall meetings. When they get a reception like this, it absolutely scares the hell out of them.

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Murdoch’s New York Post today. #ukraine🇺🇦

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This severance edit is why they wanted to ban tiktok 🤣🤣🤣

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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