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🗣️SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK: But actual fraud? DOGE has found nothing.

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This traitor should still be in jail

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This is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Government employees do not "work for the president." It doesn't matter what he "wants them to accomplish because he won the election." They work for their agency, and ultimately, for the American people. The GOP is truly in its "working towards the Fuhrer" phase.

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Reductions in Force are the next wave of Musk-downsizing. By law, employees are supposed to be given at least 30 days notice and agencies develop be formal plans justifying the need for the layoffs. Otherwise, RIFs are illegal. From @nicholasbednar.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-pr...

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Yikes, Russ Vought, running CFPB, dropped a big enforcement case against a sleazy lender, claiming he was stopping "weaponized" consumer protection. Turns out, even X users knew the outfit is sleazy, and corrected him. Musk took it down, but not before this screenshot.

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Katherine Clark: "We just see cowardice. We just see them bowing to Trump, bowing to the fear Elon Musk will fund a primary opponent for them. Is there any red line that they won't cross? Is there anything that they won't give from their constituents to the billionaire class bc Trump told them so."

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Breaking news: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine war. Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.

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An entire analysis piece rooted in the (unacknowledged) logic of domestic abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

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Musk thinks and acts as if he is in charge of the entire federal government

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I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!

submitted 2 days ago • 1041 comments

Two of the biggest cranks in the country are running the FBI now.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: the story of one student illustrates the many ways that Trump's vision of America is one that systematically excludes people with disabilities. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Listen to the clip just to hear the deeply unqualified Pete Hegseth sneeringly dismiss a woman who’s a Georgetown law professor, rudely calling her by her first name and saying he’s never heard of her.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

If you are clear-eyed, looking at America, and worried about democracy, the lesson is that half-measures and incrementalism are not going to cut it.

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This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

submitted 2 days ago • 570 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 4 days ago • 362 comments

The DOGE numbers don't add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 4 days ago • 1089 comments

New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, and full explanations of their chains of command.

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Musk absolutely wants to make it to illegal to criticize his shit-box products in the U.S., too - this woman in China was forced to pay TESLA after faulty brakes almost killed her family. Stop the rabid dog. apnews.com/article/tesl...

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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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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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“Over the past decade, U.S. institutions worked to form a comprehensive shield against foreign interference in American politics. Over the past few weeks, the second Trump administration has turned itself to the task of undoing this project.” New from me&Quinta www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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In the last few days of Janet Yellen’s Treasury, my amazing team at the Office of Economic Policy published a retrospective on the U.S. recovery that unified much of our earlier work. But the Trump Treasury purged it. Here’s a Wayback Machine link: web.archive.org/web/20250117...

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A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

submitted 7 days ago • 1093 comments

Doge dot gov is now posting arguments with Aaron Rupar that also underscore they aren’t doing anything besides looking at public data and posting a lot

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

A few days late to this but CFPB now has a tip line (on X, of course) for people to complain if agency employees are still doing their jobs. HuffPost confirmed it was legit.

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One thing I've learned to do when I have questions about social security number holders who are age 100 or older is to look up the SSA Inspector General audit report, "Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on the Numident." t.co/AdWTV8eIPV

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This is quite a thing to find 18 paragraphs down in a story. wapo.st/4hW2xGI

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On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

submitted 8 days ago • 217 comments

A lot of extremely credulous people denied this was happening for years. Journalists sticking up for fox when Obama criticized them. So many useful idiots for the fascist takeover

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Fun fact: Americans spend far more on prescription drugs than the total payroll of the federal civilian workforce.

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I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

submitted 8 days ago • 171 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 845 comments

Just to be clear, because I don’t think the Post story highlights it enough: This was Trump’s day-one pick to lead the Social Security Admin until his nominee got confirmed who RESIGNED a career job rather than do what Musk’s DOGE team wants. This is Treasury (DOGE) and DOJ (Adams) all over again.

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 9 days ago • 479 comments

Truth Social lost OVER $400 MILLION last year in $3.6 million in revenue www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

submitted 9 days ago • 495 comments

I will never top this

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

submitted 9 days ago • 136 comments

Republicans for much of 2024: "How DARE you call our candidate Mr Trump a fascist?" President Trump in 2025:

submitted 10 days ago • 301 comments

lmao

submitted 10 days ago • 1494 comments

can’t teach the history of the navy to future naval officers, apparently

submitted 10 days ago • 137 comments

But her emails

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

submitted 11 days ago • 1268 comments