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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

submitted 4 days ago • 1739 comments

Interesting data in light of current events. More about welfare queen Elon Musk: www.profgalloway.com/elon-musk-we...

submitted 5 days ago • 216 comments

NEW: A White House official's sworn statement that Elon Musk isn't technically in charge of DOGE has added to the confusion at the US DOGE Service, where workers say they have no idea who the DOGE Administrator, ie their boss, actually is. This is from @makenakelly.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 5 days ago • 454 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2288 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 6 days ago • 1251 comments

In 2022 44 people died in the Eastern Kentucky floods. @jdvance1.bsky.social didn't show his face there. Now, 12 people are confirmed dead so far and he hasn’t uttered a word about it. Vance only uses Appalachian Kentucky when it benefits him. And #HesNotFromHere

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

submitted 6 days ago • 229 comments

Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend. And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 6 days ago • 318 comments

Thus far DOGE operatives have have full read access to govt payments system at Treasury (yr tax refunds, bank info, etc); full access to all CMS data (anything tied to your Medicare or Medicaid); and now they are seeking full access to everyone's tax returns. Feeling safer?

submitted 6 days ago • 217 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 6 days ago • 483 comments

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 7 days ago • 289 comments

Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 9 days ago • 2697 comments

1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

In announcing the Fort Bragg name change today, the U.S. Army's official X account tagged Elon Musk directly. This is not good.

submitted 9 days ago • 132 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 9 days ago • 1087 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 10 days ago • 326 comments

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 10 days ago • 247 comments

Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed. Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly. Yet another reason he must be rejected.

submitted 12 days ago • 1356 comments

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

submitted 12 days ago • 121 comments

Just confirmed minutes ago: Elizabeth Warren will be joining us tomorrow at the CFPB. Details below. Please come if you can, and please do register because it helps with planning for crowd size. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.

submitted 16 days ago • 175 comments

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 445 comments

The Reform movement comes out strongly opposed to Trump's proposal to forcibly relocate Palestinians and develop the Gaza Strip. Thank you for this clear statement, which is a matter of human rights and basic decency. urj.org/press-room/r...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

submitted 18 days ago • 95 comments

Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...

submitted 18 days ago • 95 comments

A very real thing that can definitely be done at a glance by skimming a spreadsheet in a computer system you're unfamiliar with

submitted 18 days ago • 459 comments

“The president cannot legally shut down agencies established by congressional statute. Private citizens cannot legally access classified systems without authorization. Civil servants cannot legally be punished for following the law.”

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

If this were happening in any other country, we’d be calling it a coup.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

USAID help with humanitarian aid but it also helps us beat back terrorism and cronyism. Billionaires like President Musk are recklessly harming our allies and causing chaos for American workers and their families. This is not what voters cast a ballot for. apnews.com/video/democr...

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Amazing to see members of Congress celebrate Trump shutting down an agency authorized and funded through a duly enacted law. Remember, Joni Ernst thought it was "overreach" for President Biden to forgive student loan debt without specific Congressional action. www.radioiowa.com/2025/02/03/i...

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Research into multiple sclerosis is too woke.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses

submitted 20 days ago • 198 comments

And ... that's actually the right framing? This isn't about making government "more efficient" or more productive; it is "anti-government" at its core. Musk called federal workers "the opposition," which says it all. He's a threat to our government, which is to say, he's a threat to all of us.

submitted 20 days ago • 98 comments

🚨BREAKING: Higher Ed groups, workers, and Baltimore, repped by @democracyforward.bsky.social file federal lawsuit to block Trump’s D.E.I. Executive Orders as violating U.S. Constitution. Sign up to Democracy Docket for free to stay informed. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 20 days ago • 107 comments

1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

submitted 20 days ago • 315 comments

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

submitted 20 days ago • 523 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 21 days ago • 4028 comments

look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls

submitted 21 days ago • 80 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 21 days ago • 730 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 22 days ago • 6200 comments

The awful news that Elon Musk clashed with a top Treasury official in an effort to access govt payment systems raises a crucial question: Did Trump authorize this, or not? I talked to former officials who explain why this is a key question, and why it's so alarming: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

submitted 23 days ago • 196 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 23 days ago • 1827 comments

Given what we've seen to date this seems pretty clearly an attempt to give Musk's personal employees direct access/control over all payments made to individuals (soc sec, medicare, grants) by the USG, including their personal info. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 48 comments

NEW @motherjones.com Trump blaming DEI for the plane crash isn't the 1st time he’s peddled conspiracy theories about a national crisis He's also done it after terror attacks, natural disasters & more. I took a disturbing trip down memory lane so you don't have to www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

Medicaid is the nation's largest public health insurance program by enrollment, a conduit for hundreds of billions in federal spending every year You'd think somebody auditioning for HHS Secretary would be able to discuss the subject with ease Evidently not www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

1. Anyone who has read reports in the Associated Press, the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, or Axios would be under the impression that the Trump administration has offered 2 million federal workers a "buyout" offer. IT IS NOT TRUE

submitted 24 days ago • 84 comments