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A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.

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Thousands of potential layoffs apparently still isn't efficient enough for Elon Musk. Now, operatives linked to DOGE are reportedly modifying AutoRIF, a Defense Department program that could enable mass firings of federal workers.

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🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying. WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄

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🔴 BREAKING: Israel blocks entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza after first phase of truce ends. LIVE updates: aje.io/2y192mc

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New, from me: Musk is not just destroying core government functions, he is also destroying the tech capacity of government. The people with serious tech skills who care about fixing govt have been fired. Both 18F and the US Digital Service are gone. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-te...

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An Israeli military vehicle has rammed into a Palestinian man’s car in the occupied West Bank's Tulkarem refugee camp and wounded him, reports the Wafa news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2y192mc

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The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

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FAA officials ordered staff on Friday to find tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, sources tell us, and most or all of these directives came verbally, which we are told is highly unusual. w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...

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Major update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend: 🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall. If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines. www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u... 🧵👇

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We have seen two impeachment worthy stories break today alone. Incredible levels of corruption and lawlessness. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Scoop: In a tense off-the-record meeting with reporters that went off-the rails, the Pentagon's new press chief indicated they'll do away with the travel pool. He also scolded reporters for their coverage. "It was bleak and horrible," I'm told. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/pressed-at...

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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

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The Republican Party is the party of insurrectionists. At least 39 Capitol Rioters attended CPAC, including several members of far right extremist groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Also, at least 6 Capitol Rioters have been invited to speak or participate in local GOP events. Details below ⬇️

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One thing I intend to do tomorrow while studiously not consuming anything from big corporations, is to send messages to these companies letting them know they will not be getting my business until they stop bending the knee to Trump's bigoted agenda. www.advocate.com/news/compani...

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White nationalist Lana Lokteff says we have to "repeal the Civil Rights Act" to stop black people from invading "all our white spaces": "All of this because they couldn't drink [from] the same water fountain or use the same toilet. Was it really that big of a deal?"

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Good to know.

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As the GOP eyes Social Security cuts, people should realize that our government spends nearly 4X as much on tax breaks for private retirement savings that disproportionately benefit the rich. Latest cost estimate: $2.5 TRILLION over 5 years. (2023-27). Both parties are responsible for this.

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Justice Department tells judges it can't comply with court-ordered deadline to release frozen aid funding www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Left: Brittany Petterson votes in the House with her newborn son a month after giving birth because Republicans barred remote voting for new mothers Right: Byron Donalds votes in the House secretly by proxy from the set of Bill Maher in Los Angeles, breaking House ethics rules

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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FT Exclusive: Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand. www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

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Should be called DODGE= Dept of Deceitful Government Efficiency. WHO are they kidding? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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Hegseth joined a church whose leader preaches that slavery produced "a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony." This context helps explain his laser-focus on pushing Black leaders out of office. www.salon.com/2025/02/25/s...

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All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

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A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.

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"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows." apnews.com/article/doge...

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NEWS | Israeli Deputy Knesset Speaker Calls for Killing All Palestinian Men in Gaza, Wiping Out Jenin Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of Israel’s Parliament and a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, told ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol BaRama:

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Another scoop from @peard33.bsky.social: DOGE installed Tom Krause at the Treasury Department. He's keeping his job as the CEO of a software company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts, including with the Treasury Department www.wired.com/story/krause...

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Trump and Musk are doing literally everything Putin could hope for www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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From the Daily Dispatch: TCEQ has unanimously, and without public comment, denied requests to stop SpaceX from dumping toxic launch wastewater into nearby Boca Chica wetlands. Pod: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x Story: tinyurl.com/9vdvu55r

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Drop Site’s Sharif Kouddous reports from the southern Lebanese village of Kfarkela, which is in ruins after Israeli troops withdrew on February 18. Every single structure has been completely destroyed or badly damaged. It is mostly just piles of rubble.

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One year ago, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. On the first anniversary of Navalny's death, Russian law enforcement officers detained at least 42 people at gatherings commemorating him.

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Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

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Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

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Musk called a famous astronaut a slur simply because he countered one of his newest talking points.

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elon appears to be going through his timeline and manually hiding posts from the mother of his child instead of responding to her urgent requests for help?

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Humanity created a massive tool for social control and placed it in the hands of the worst people possible techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

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Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

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Politico owner Mathias Döpfner has berated European politicians for their ‘whiny’ response to the US vice-president’s divisive speech in Munich last week. www.ft.com/content/cb1c...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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#MedSky From @walkerbragman.bsky.social Bhattacharya and his fellow GOP experts are all members of the so-called Norfolk Group, an offshoot of the Brownstone Institute, a dark money group that has become a hub for COVID-19 misinformation. whowhatwhy.org/science/heal...

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The difference between 8 billion and 8 million is about 8 billion.

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