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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

submitted 13 hours ago • 29 comments

Imagine if Democrats showed up to a clean energy event and brought a chainsaw to represent all the coal jobs they were slashing. Even if you buy into the idea that DOGE is making the government more efficient (I do not), are people not concerned by the lack of humanity toward their fellow Americans?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 2 days ago • 556 comments

SCOOP: The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. “I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” she said.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

This children's museum in CT wins public health with a working hand washing machine "to remove excess bacterium of the dermis". I have no notes.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

More of this energy please

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

submitted 7 days ago • 231 comments

I feel like now is as good a time as any for a sober reminder that a government based on loyalty rather than expertise is what led to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 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 9 days ago • 166 comments

His claim that they're bringing "caring and competence" is so insulting. The most caring and competent people that our country produces go into public service. You don't know their names or faces because they aren't in it for themselves but I am certain you will miss them when they are gone.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

All great questions from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social I'm also curious about their accounting. Cutting contracts and laying off workers results in lost tax revenue, unemployment expenditures, and downstream effects of businesses, that further reduce tax revenue. Have they considered that?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Staffers at the U.S. cybersecurity agency working on countering foreign disinformation and on election security have been put on leave, according to sources who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal.

submitted 10 days ago • 97 comments

KY GOV. BESHEAR: “If they eliminated the Department of Education and its funding, that’s half a billion dollars in meals for kids that otherwise might go hungry.”

submitted 11 days ago • 560 comments

Joy break

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Removes much that deals with foreign disinformation. And other important topics. This is deliberate state self-destruction under the pretext of removing DEI.

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) shutdown protest: "For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight."

submitted 12 days ago • 46 comments

Senate Democrats have set up a whistleblower complaint portal for federal workers to submit any reports of what they see as unlawful activities in their respective agencies in response to Elon Musk and his group’s efforts to downsize the federal government.

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

Great point.

submitted 12 days ago • 1225 comments

Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."

submitted 15 days ago • 48 comments

Nonpartisan civil services are more efficient, more productive, more experienced, higher morale, protect taxpayers against graft, and are associated with lower sovereign-debt costs and stronger growth. Supporting them shouldn't be a partisan thing! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say. For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story. Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."

submitted 15 days ago • 133 comments

Medicare and Medicaid data systems contain ALL private health data for everyone on these programs. Accessing these data usually takes months and assurances that you're using secure systems and privacy protocols. These programs already have staff to look for fraud. I cannot overstate how bad this is.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 16 days ago • 146 comments

If DOGE hasn’t yet come across the National Nuclear Security Administration, it surely will before too long, @rossandersen.bsky.social writes. What happens after that could be alarming:

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"

submitted 18 days ago • 1328 comments

The part that makes me the most sad about this is that there are thousands of thoughtful medical professionals who were skipped over to make this nomination. They've gone through decades of training, taken lower paying gov jobs, often continuing to treat patients on weekends. This is anti-merit.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments