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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2324 comments

The Trump administration has blocked a crucial step in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) process for funding medical research, likely in violation of a federal judge’s temporary restraining order on federal funding freezes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 1 day ago • 613 comments

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 4 days ago • 165 comments

This is really something

submitted 2 days ago • 1774 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 1154 comments

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 4 days ago • 2404 comments

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 573 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/u...

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I imagine one day, probably hundreds of years from now, scientists will finally develop a vaccine that could help people avoid getting the measles. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Our VP met with far-right German party AfP while in Europe. In case you don’t know who they are, I wrote about it when Musk argued that party, Nazi leanings & all, was Germany’s future. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

submitted 8 days ago • 134 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 3456 comments

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

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Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One

submitted 9 days ago • 114 comments

Many have observed that Trump+Musk's campaign to strangle the federal government is a continuation of Jan. 6 rioters blocking Congress. In the case of USAID, one Trump appointee allegedly was there; another posted in support online. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/two-jan...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Major news: Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5pm, sources say. Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go." Others may follow. This is an attack on our ability to detect outbreaks. More, with quotes from CDC officials: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

As President-elect Donald Trump nominates anti-vaccine movement leaders to top federal public health positions, activists are organizing to counter an anti-vax agenda that's already seeing success in Louisiana and other states. Read more from Jennifer Herricks:

submitted 63 days ago • 11 comments

Quick story here on what I've heard about cuts at NCI and NIH, and a few other things:

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

This is ballgame on the First Amendment unless there is immediate action by news media, Congress, the courts & the public to condemn & prohibt this www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 217 comments

Proud to stand with Ukraine—strongly & clearly—as President Zelenskyy movingly speaks to our bipartisan delegation at the Munich Security Conference. He is resolute & powerful—Ukraine has the will to win against Russia’s bloody assault. It needs our support.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Pizzagate conspiracy theory peddler and far-right chaos agent Jack Posobiec invited to accompany Trump’s Defense Secretary during trip to Europe Earlier today, Posobiec posted that he was accompanying Treasury Secretary Bessent on his trip to Kiev to meet with Zelensky. Gift link: wapo.st/4gInd4e

submitted 10 days ago • 73 comments

The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 days ago • 244 comments

www.ajc.com/news/nation-...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.

submitted 9 days ago • 607 comments

New from me! Workers at the Treasury received an email confirming Tom Krause will officially be taking on the duties of the Fiscal Assistant Secretary. But he will still be keeping his job as CEO of Cloud Software Group. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/musk-k...

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 10 days ago • 488 comments

One of the AUSAs put on administrative leave by this letter is Hagan Scotten, my former Hogan Lovells colleague. I am not surprised that he would risk his job for his convictions; he has some of the strongest personal integrity of anyone I've worked with.

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

Here we go. The budget fight is THE big legislative fight. Here's a brief overview -- Trump has been running around with his executive orders and Musk has been running from department to department making illegal cuts and closures. The vast majority of that has been to serve THIS (cont'd)

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

UPDATED: Three other lawyers in the public integrity unit at main Justice in DC have also resigned, according to people familiar with the developments. That bring the total number of resignations over the order to drop the Eric Adams case to six.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Beyond Pete Hegseth lacking the experience to lead the Department of Defense, many of Trump’s nominees for deputies and undersecretaries are also unqualified. During crises, few will have the knowledge to offer steadier guidance: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

External operators with limited experience and no oversight are gaining the highest levels of administrative access and making changes to the US’ most sensitive networks, introducing new security vulnerabilities and literally hacking all of America's data foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

www.chron.com/news/houston...

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The Trump administration, which has been anti-EV, is buying EVs from the company controlled by the guy overseeing wasteful government spending and possible misuses of taxpayer dollars: www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

This is bad. But not as bad as Hegseth saying that America is no longer the guarantor of European security.

submitted 11 days ago • 164 comments

I don't think it's obvious because of the overwhelming amount of chaos in the news, but this is the biggest shift in American foreign policy since 1945. This is a titanic shift, and I'm not sure anyone knows what the result is going to be.

submitted 11 days ago • 95 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 11 days ago • 464 comments

Our letter to members of Congress in support of USAID from a national security perspective. www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Breaking: Eight inspectors general fired by Trump filed a lawsuit against his administration alleging their termination was illegal

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: Treasury is doing a “forensic” investigation into how DOGE/Musk ally Marko Elez was “mistakenly” given access to alter aspects the government’s massive spending database. The probe is ongoing. w/ Michael Stratford www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 12 days ago • 189 comments

There must be consequences

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

-- A Chicago doctor is unable to consult "CDC resources to combat a recent Chlamydia outbreak" in a local school. -- A Connecticut doctor "is left scrambling for alternatives" when seeking information about contraceptives Trump's moves made doctors' jobs "harder and their treatment less effective"

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

A FEMA official responded to a judge's repeat order that the Trump administration un-freeze funds by... instructing more freezes. “URGENT: Holds on awards,” their email read within hours of the judge's order. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination On left: Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on." On right: Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge! Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”

submitted 12 days ago • 637 comments

NEW: In the days before Elon Musk helped stage a takeover of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, his social media site, X, unveiled a payment system likely under its scrutiny - underscoring one of the many conflicts of interest as Musk leads DOGE. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Just relentless insanity

submitted 13 days ago • 98 comments

This morning, I sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) regarding Elon Musk’s potential conflicts of interest. Within minutes, the White House confirmed receipt. By noon, President Trump fired the Director of OGE. I want to know: Was this to prevent his answer?

submitted 13 days ago • 373 comments

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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