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NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated. The USAID programs were cut anyway. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

submitted 36 days ago • 89 comments

From a guy who used to work there: Rachel is a remarkable person and the best TV news talent there is. If she says something is fucked up, it is. Getting rid of Joy, who dared to see through this fascism bullshit years ago and had the gall of occasionally being funny about it, is dumb.

submitted 42 days ago • 751 comments

How many plane crashes have there been since Jan 20th?

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has granted Musk even more power to reshape the federal government by signing an executive order requiring agencies to cooperate with Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” to reduce their workforces and limit hiring replacements.

submitted 56 days ago • 207 comments

At least one person is dead and several injured after a midsized business jet crashed into another jet as it arrived at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona on Monday afternoon.

submitted 57 days ago • 58 comments

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

submitted 57 days ago • 219 comments

submitted 59 days ago • 204 comments

BREAKING: Senior employees at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have been asked to rank probationary employees based on how critical they are to the agencies, per FT

submitted 59 days ago • 31 comments

US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza is illegal under international law and “amounts to ethnic cleansing,” the United Nations’ top investigator on human rights in Palestine told POLITICO.

submitted 58 days ago • 40 comments

Trust me, bro.

submitted 59 days ago • 3220 comments

New acting CFPB director Russell Vought sends a directive to Bureau staff telling them to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and "cease all stakeholder engagement," per a source familiar

submitted 59 days ago • 89 comments

The homepage of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s website was updated Friday night to display a “Page not found” error message. This change occurred just one day after members of Musk’s team gained access to the bureau’s headquarters and computer systems.

submitted 59 days ago • 127 comments

Elon Musk’s staffers are still attempting to manipulate the Treasury payment system to halt the flow of funds following their recent losses. Reminder: U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has restricted DOGE’s read-only access. No one is above the law.

submitted 59 days ago • 306 comments

We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.

submitted 60 days ago • 293 comments

Elon Musk’s 20-year-old staffers are not only demanding access to highly restricted information but are also displaying aggressive behavior—shouting at anyone who stands in their way, resorting to name-calling, throwing tantrums, and even hitting objects in anger.

submitted 60 days ago • 842 comments

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor. (There are a lot of them.) voxdotcom.visitlink.me/VETn5u

submitted 61 days ago • 20 comments

Musk’s team is asking the public to let it break federal laws, so that it can very slightly trim federal spending — before Trump’s tax cuts increase the deficit by trillions of dollars. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/Q5HUuZ

submitted 61 days ago • 19 comments

While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.

submitted 62 days ago • 278 comments

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are trying to drive a wrecking ball through our government. The people who will pay a real price are the hard-working families who are just trying to make it to the end of the month. We must use every tool to fight back.

submitted 62 days ago • 481 comments

Without public knowledge, Elon Musk is serving as a “special government employee” under President Donald Trump, with access to sensitive information (including your SSN) and broad authority granted by Trump.

submitted 64 days ago • 126 comments

Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

submitted 65 days ago • 604 comments

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

submitted 65 days ago • 398 comments

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

submitted 94 days ago • 564 comments

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

submitted 124 days ago • 1965 comments

In 2023, ProPublica reported how Mayron Hollis faced a life-threatening pregnancy under Tennessee’s abortion ban. A photographer and reporter then continued to follow the family for a year. This is their story. (Published Feb. 2024)

submitted 129 days ago • 49 comments

To ensure he can keep taking bribes and not reveal any of his donors, foreign or domestic, Trump has refused to sign a very basic ethics document that would allow his transition to proceed as normal. I think most Americans don't realize how much this endangers all of us, and media is not saying it.

submitted 134 days ago • 309 comments