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Thanks for reading! Appreciate it, link: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

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The US government recently bought powerful spyware that could make hacking your phone easier—and shape the way Trump executes some of his campaign promises, including mass deportations. My latest in @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

submitted 153 days ago • 113 comments

The FBI and CIA allowed the Russians to kill former US District Attorney, Jessica Aber, on our soil. Her death is on the hands of Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe. The case she was working on involved Russian money laundering. databreaches.net/2024/09/26/t...

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

submitted 29 days ago • 938 comments

"Thousands of employees returned to the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies..." apnews.com/article/fda-...

submitted 35 days ago • 1075 comments

ICE detained Julio Noriega, a 54 year-old US citizen who was born in Chicago, for over 10 hours on January 31st. He was walking around "Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses." They didn't show him a warrant. They didn't give him paperwork. And he's now suing.

submitted 35 days ago • 1413 comments

Our selection committee chose 64 competitors with the best resumés to compete in a single-elimination tournament. Now it's your turn to vote for the GOAT in America's REAL favorite pastime: Racism. Who is the Greatest Oppressor of All Time?

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

Becky Burke (British): 20 days in detention Jasmine Mooney (Canadian): 12 days in detention Jessica Brösche (German): 8 days in solitary and multiple weeks in detention The US is not safe. Not for tourism. Not for work. Not for a “quick visit”. Vote with your dollar. Stop going to America.

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 35 days ago • 2591 comments

Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the U.S. District Court in Maryland ruled that the Defendants’ unilateral decision to shut down USAID likely violated the US Constitution. Indefinitely blocked the agency’s dismantling and barred Musk’s staffers from accessing sensitive personal data maintained by USAID.

submitted 35 days ago • 147 comments

What if I told you Martin Luther King, the Underground Railroad, Medgar Evers, John Brown's raid, Emmett Till's murder, Muhammad Ali, Fannie Lou Hamer, the Emancipation Proclamation, Rosa Parks and the Tuskegee Airmen all have the same origin story... A nationwide slave revolt started it all.

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 53 days ago • 5996 comments

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 52 days ago • 716 comments

18F staffers- who were summarily fired en masse overnight- issue statement expressing shock, bewilderment: "18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated."

submitted 52 days ago • 135 comments

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 54 days ago • 496 comments

There's a reason they keep doing the salutes that are banned in Germany.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

This AM I have re-posted stories from WaPo, the NYT and NPR. The NYT story has multiple bylines and is a thorough factual debunking of an official government communication. You can argue about headlines and stay mad about past errors or you can realize institutional journalists are doing the work.

submitted 60 days ago • 224 comments

I honestly hope that if people hear this coming from me then maybe it will sink in you DO NOT need to get arrested. We live in a surveillance state, an arrest now does not carry the same consequences as arrests in ‘68. The state is violent & will escalate on you. You should avoid arrest if possible

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

Ooops, sorry, didn’t mean to drop this. 😏

submitted 65 days ago • 116 comments

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 65 days ago • 313 comments

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

submitted 67 days ago • 657 comments

New Contraband just dropped

submitted 71 days ago • 28 comments

I understand why everyone fled to here. But the people who need to hear simple, common-sense truths about caring for the most vulnerable among us are not here in your curated lists.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Open message to Elon Musk: Rumors are swirling that you’re spending $40 million on Super Bowl ads targeting USAID. If there were truly fraud, wouldn’t you not need to spend millions trying to convince people?

submitted 73 days ago • 321 comments

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

submitted 74 days ago • 261 comments

We know what’s going on here.

submitted 73 days ago • 1001 comments

I'm a reporter at NBC News and I'm interested in speaking with people who are familiar with the specific technical details of onboarding DOGE staff at the federal agency level — USAID or CFPB or wherever. You can reach me on Signal at: davidingram.77. I can honor requests for anonymity.

submitted 74 days ago • 305 comments

@skyeperryman.bsky.social and the team are doing all the work. All I do is live rent free in MAGA's heads. www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/06/d...

submitted 75 days ago • 227 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 75 days ago • 6523 comments

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 75 days ago • 1120 comments

Important point from @gregsargent.bsky.social: Elon Musk is a vulnerability for Trump. Polling from @boldprogressives.org and @dataforprogress.org show his approval is underwater—and voters are swayed by a “he’s stealing from you” message. newrepublic.com/article/1911...

submitted 76 days ago • 6 comments

Gonna deviate from politics and point out that the reason marketing people get dumped on in the workplace and are asked to do so many non-marketing-related things is because: - We are smart and versatile. - We get shit done. - We make easy scapegoats later.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.

submitted 81 days ago • 9 comments

Trump does not give a f*ck about “malnourished babies”. Pro-life is just a front for his followers to justify electing a tyrant.

submitted 78 days ago • 106 comments

The FBI has a massive opportunity to be the hero of this American story.

submitted 78 days ago • 832 comments

Since the FBI appears to be the only agency that is both still functioning and not headed by a lunatic, the Washington Field Office needs to open an investigation into the breach of the computer systems at Treasury, stat

submitted 78 days ago • 918 comments

Today’s (first) 5-alarm fire. A 25 year old is rewriting the code base for a critical treasury system. The implications of this are just … staggering. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

submitted 78 days ago • 8 comments

NEWS Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.

submitted 79 days ago • 1114 comments