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“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old? Are you for real right now?” That teen is "Big Balls" Corisitine, the recording is from 2022, and the voice is from a CEO worried about him as a security risk. Now Musk has him snooping in your personal data www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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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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DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

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Not to single @chriswarcraft.bsky.social out here but this is symptomatic of a very common BlueSky phenomenon that if only somehow the @nytimes.com always had the exact right headlines & every sentence was perfect, we wouldn’t have Trump.

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📣 Impact: About four hours after this article was published online, Dr. Yee said he received a call from the F.D.A. to restore his job. He plans to return Monday morning. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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Iowa pollster Ann Selzer filed an absolutely blistering response to Trump’s lawsuit against her and Des Moines Register, calling it a flagrant attempt to circumvent the First Amendment. www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

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Technically, this would be a friend of the court, who the court would appoint to argue a position not being presented by the parties. An example: when the Reagan Administration declined to defend the judgment below, the Supreme Court appointed the great William T Coleman Jr to do so. (He won 8-1).

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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🚨 Scoop: Treasury Dept agrees to block DOGE access to personal taxpayer data at IRS 🚨 IRS was preparing to try to reject this request, but was able to negotiate with the Trump admin to narrow access. Now DOGE will get the same access as academic researchers and some IT professionals, per sources.

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I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again.

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REMINDER: Cutting IRS spending is not a “cost-cutting” move. Cutting the IRS lowers revenue. It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk. Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent. www.nber.org/papers/w31376

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ProPublica: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared ProLife Movement? www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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Let me just put a plug out there that elite impunity has been a severe problem in our society — but I concede that I underestimated it www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ch...

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One of the leading scholars of democracy is struggling to process what is happening just like everyone else: "Is democracy dying in the United States?"

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It’s weird the Trump Administration’s vetting processes somehow keep missing all these abject racists and neo-Nazis: www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Brand new euphemisms being created right before our eyes

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DJTjr, you say? Hunting rare species? Here's a little story we did from last time around: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

i am so mad at everyone who decided it was cheugy to recognize the obvious rotten deal between putin and trump that’s defined the last 12 years and is now finally bearing its rotten, rancid, shameful and fundamentally unamerican spoils.

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An important reminder, since people are wrongly freaking out: Small private planes crash all the time. The Philly crash, the Alaska crash, this one — all count as such. There are 1,000 small plane crashes a year. This is normal. Them making headlines is what is scaring you.

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"We will protect DOGE." This morning, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin — a "stop the steal" organizer and Jan. 6 defendant advocate — sent an email titled "Operation Whirlwind" in which he said he's personally launched an investigation into Sen. Chuck Schumer. The text:

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New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

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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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Food safety chief at the FDA quits saying Trump's mass layoffs make his job "fruitless" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I look forward to JD Vance's statement denouncing this European attack on free speech.

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Openly threatening a member of Congress with prosecution

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

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LAW DORK: On Monday night, the Justice Department doubled down and refused to answer U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s question from a hearing on Monday morning about how many people were fired from the federal government this past Friday.

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Truly horrific. “They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” a White House official said to the WaPo.

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

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Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

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This is deeply concerning. I’m unaware of any instance of political appointees at Treasury or IRS having access to this database. I didn’t and the political appointees on my team did not. 1/3 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Understanding the Taxonomy of DOGE talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/under...

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Gavin Kliger, the Musk bro busting into the IRS… wait, is that the same Gavin Kliger who retweets Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate? Why yes, that is the same Gavin Kliger www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

Live from Pyongyang, it's Saturday Night!

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After cutting USAID to starving children in Sudan, an anonymous WH official mocks reports of…starving children in children. "They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn't going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE about the starving kid” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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ICYMI 👇

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Roses are red Violets are blue

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NEW: Scoop about the architect of the destruction of USAID. Pete Marocco was a USAID official in the first Trump Admin. On a trip to the Balkans, he secretly met with the Serb separatist leader. That was a no-no. Caused a big diplomatic incident. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

If only there had been some kind of warning - on.ft.com/40Zncmv

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We’d know to call this a bribe if it happened anywhere else: “Musk had one of his businesses pay Trump $10 million personally this week, apparently as part of their power-sharing agreement.”

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I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 8 days ago • 712 comments

New report from @equitablegrowth.bsky.social today on tax avoidance among large, complex partnerships! equitablegrowth.org/research-pap... (as featured in @politico.com's Morning Tax!) While not the biggest (or most troubling) news of the day, I say this deserves a thread!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

One of the most extraordinary standoffs in DOJ history

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DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

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