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Jacquie Ovalle is not of this world.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

submitted 7 days ago • 249 comments

I know we’re likely to blow past it, and soon, but, for now, this is rock bottom. Trail of Tears shit.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

NEWS: The Trump administration has funneled Elon Musk's company $86 million out of NASA coffers since the inauguration - all while NASA now slashes 5 percent of its entire workforce.

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

submitted 11 days ago • 250 comments

The Republican budget plan: -Cut SNAP by $230 billion -Cut Medicaid by $880 billion -Give $1.1 trillion to the top 1%

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 15 days ago • 66 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 16 days ago • 211 comments

NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

submitted 17 days ago • 61 comments

"more than $39 million has been earmarked to DOGE in the Trump administration’s first month. For perspective, in recent years Congress had allocated around $50 million a year for the IT modernization initiative that DOGE supplanted"

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Several SpaceX engineers are already being onboarded at the FAA. @wired.com has identified several, who were hired under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.” www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

submitted 18 days ago • 36 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 20 days ago • 89 comments

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...

submitted 19 days ago • 169 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 21 days ago • 231 comments

I paused my #Google Ads campaigns. Not sure what impact this will have on my web orders, but it’s likely substantial. Can’t in good conscience pay them while they do evil. Owning a small business in 2025 sucks. Hopefully people will find ny site without Google Ads.🤞🏼 luckydoghotsauce.com, btw.

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 30 days ago • 105 comments