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It's not about Brown, or Caine, or other individuals. It's not about reforming DOD . What it's about, at DOD and DOJ and the FBI and the intelligence community, is breaking all institutional resistance to Trump, and ensuring as much as is possible personal fealty to Trump.

Trolling people is juvenile and not something a leader of the free world should do to the citizens of their country. Always take seriously any remarks Trump makes, as there usually is more than a grain of truth as to his true intentions. What an immature, disrespectful sleazeball. wapo.st/4gUHAvd

NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

BREAKING: In a stunning moment of defiance, Maine's Governor Janet Mills stands up to Trump, saying she is complying with state and federal (anti-discrimination) law, and will see him in court over his threat to withhold federal funds. This is incredible.

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

“If you put this town hall together with the flurry of polls showing erosion in support for Trump and his agenda, you might discern the beginnings of some grounds of hope. But the public may be beginning to rise up in protest. Perhaps some “leaders” will follow.” www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-dog...

Front page of today's New York Post.

ABC News made a mistake by stating that "The Republican Senate package would allow up to $175 billion to be spent on border security, including money for mass deportation operations and building the U.S.-Mexico border wall..." No, no - Mexico is paying for the wall. Donald said so.

“If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

“Check the replies...Illiberal, deeply conspiratorial, occasionally racist, and far more often than not grossly ignorant of or dishonest about basic reality: That’s the populist ‘reply guy’ in 2025. That’s who’s running the U.S. government now.” thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...

🚨 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.

It's worth noting that the comments on this article indicate that Trump supporters do NOT agree with his stance on Russia and what he's been saying. Even Fox News followers think Trump is Putin's puppet. Let's all focus on amplifying that disconnect.

NEW, from @telliotter.bsky.social and me: SpaceX engineers have already been onboarded at FAA - an agency that directly regulates them www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

Track the progress of the dismantling of our democracy as told in Project 2025. www.project2025.observer

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is deeply concerned that the Administration’s recent actions are threatening the NIH and its lifesaving mission to accelerate progress for patients with cancer and the hundreds of other diseases that afflict millions of Americans.

Dark Pence is back.

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Estonia 👇

Oh great, always a great idea. Just let anyone do work on the most sensitive plane(s) in the U.S. Government.

It’s difficult to overstate how much Trump is shredding the US’s standing in the world. James O’Brien/LBC is one of the most popular, independent broadcasters in the UK. “Trump is lying on a scale that is almost impossible to compute…peddling Kremlin, pro-Putin propaganda. It’s extraordinary.”

Donald Trump doubles down on his attacks against President Zelensky, calling him a “dictator” and accusing him of starting a war that “couldn’t be won, that never had to start.” Fuc*ing POS traitor.

I don't know if this is true, but I want it to spread anyway.

[Gift article] If you're looking for a way to de-throne Trump, here's a model to follow. wapo.st/4hJAOcD

The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is the department that is fighting to protect US Energy and Nuclear classified information from being accessed by the kids at DOGE (and, by extension, Russia and China). Give them all the support you can. www.energy.gov/intelligence...

BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.

@raskin.house.gov: "The most glaring conflict of interest of all is that Elon is a government contractor himself, who collects billions of dollars from the US government... And like all authoritarian and fascist movements around the world in history, corruption is at the heart of it."

This is HUGE. The administration is trying to dismantle the board so that government employees have nowhere to file termination grievances.

"By law, all private foundations must give away 5 percent of those assets every year." "Mr. Musk’s group has fallen further and further behind. In 2021, his foundation was $41 million short, then $234 million the following year. Now, the hole is deeper still."

Musk is in charge of DODGE

“This is someone who made his money by ripping off American taxpayers and who shouldn’t come anywhere near a position of authority over tax dollars,” Sen. Ron Wyden told @propublica.org's @peterelkind.bsky.social about Schuler. “He’ll fit right in with the Trump administration.”

So if Musk doesn’t run DOGE, and DOGE isn’t a real government agency, then no one has to listen to Musk or do what the DOGE bros tell them to do, right?