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The DOGE numbers don't add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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"Much of modern life would not be possible without the scientific innovation that NSF investments supported. "There is no guarantee the US will continue to lead in scientific innovation, and without innovation, talent and resources will naturally flow elsewhere" www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/n...

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Thousands of Ukrainians have been and are now being tortured, murdered, raped by Russians.

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Teenage DOGE worker Edward Coristine is grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov who was an officer in Line X - the technical espionage division of the KGB. Martynov became a double agent after FBI recruited him and began feeding Soviet secrets to the Bureau www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Germany warned of a Russian propaganda campaign Trollgruppe, targeting voters with false social media videos to boost the AfD party and undermine democracy. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...

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Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty. Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free. The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ... 1/2

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Ukrainians are literally famous for opposing dictators. In fact, Russia launched a war against us when we overthrew a certain Russian-backed dictator back in 2014.

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Project 2025: 35% complete in 32 days in office www.project2025.observer

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We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

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“If you destroy the rule of law, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” the DOGE lawyer said literally five months ago.

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Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027

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“Betrayed. First Zelensky, Soon Us?” The headline of today’s cover of Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s most renowned weekly magazines.

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Breaking: Apple pulls end-to-end encrypted storage option from UK after secret order for a back door. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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This talk by Andrew Kelly on Data Oriented Design is a must watch for all #software engineers youtu.be/IroPQ150F6c

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NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

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Don't mind me any, just keeping those busybodies in the AWS & GitHub security teams from getting in my way as I bro down and crush code.

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From the Admin that purports to support free speech, this baseless “Operation” is only meant to chill free speech. There is no predication for the FBI to open this investigation. The DOJ IG must monitor this closely — it appears to violate Department guidelines.

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Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.

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48% of Brits believe it is more important for the UK government to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US

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"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Obviously this is bad and very stupid, but the tenor of this kind of Trump communique is very funny to me. It's a real HOA energy, just someone being annoying and small who knows they're being that way, and who more or less sees that as both their highest personal calling and the purpose of the job.

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Macron has just urged the French to join the military reserve. “We are entering a new era”. France will have to spend more on defence. “The threat that Russia represents imposes choices on us” (Live exchange on social media)

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"Arms deliveries from the US to Ukraine have stalled. Even weapons meant for sale are now on hold. Companies ready to supply them tomorrow are waiting—no decision yet. Everyone expects a resolution so that arms can keep flowing, even for money," Head of Ukraine’s Defense Committee Roman Kostenko.

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Partisan media reports have cited a document from a 2015 NSArchive pub to assert that “USAID reportedly bankrolled al Qaeda terrorist's college tuition.” Former NYT reporter Scott Shane explains why real story is considerably less damning than the headline suggests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sQ5...

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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NEW VIDEO: News that DOGE is now seeking to access the most sensitive information in the IRS' database has lead to a new lawsuit by @democracyforward.org. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ua...

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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A Must Read👇 "Once our justice system is destroyed and replaced with one in which power and cronyism make adherence to laws optional, who will want to spend large amounts of money on highly credentialed and knowledgeable lawyers trained to counsel clients in how to comply with them?"

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For those new here, I spent last year writing for @newrepublic.com about an extremist tech ideology. It calls for tech elites to control governments and/or create new ones. It seeks to dismantle nations and destroy democracy. Some call it the "Network State," and it may now seem familiar to you 🧵

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BREAKING: Donald Trump issued an executive order tonight aimed at ending several decades-old and highly successful government programs. Among the programs Trump says he's ending: The Federal Executive Boards and the Presidential Management Fellows Program. What do they do, you ask? Key things!

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Wow: Research covers seven LTE implementations (Open5GS, Magma, OpenAirInterface, Athonet, SD-Core, NextEPC, srsRAN) and three 5G implementations (Open5GS, Magma, OpenAirInterface); we find vulnerabilities in every single LTE/5G implementation tested.

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The Russian Air Force dropped a glide bomb on an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson overnight, injuring four, including two children.

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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov boasts that Trump's information comes straight from Putin after their 1 1/2 hour long phone call, as well as the preceding 3 1/2 hour long conversation between Putin and Trump's buddy Steve Witkoff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyeY...

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"DOGE's savings page also does not include any evidence of fraud, waste or abuse in contracts, but does highlight ideological differences between the Trump administration and the previous priorities of former President Joe Biden." www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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“The people who represent the nation that has committed these war crimes are sitting across the table from Rubio with the hope of relief from devastating sanctions and an end to a conflict they started, all the while continuing to inflict suffering on Ukraine.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

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The "high pressure process" touted by Northwest Naturals and other purveyors of raw pet foods is not pasteurization and, obviously, doesn't deactivate H5N1 (a dead cat is proof enough of that). Feed heat treated food — let's do our best to keep our kittens safe. www.patreon.com/posts/118857...

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What Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett are doing isn’t best understood as legal scholarship. It’s more like wartime public relations, or like SEO. It’s creating bullshit that will give dishonest judges a pretext to pretend that there is a serious constitutional dispute. They’re fascism’s fixers.

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