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Garcia: The fact that the Trump DOJ now wants to silence members of Congress because we’re actually willing to take on Elon Musk is quite dangerous. It’s incredibly disturbing. But we’re not going to be silenced. We’ve got to push back.

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

submitted 14 hours ago • 92 comments

Strong statement by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith, President of NSL4A: "National Security Leaders for America strongly condemns the removal of senior military officers without just cause. ... Removing experienced leaders with meritorious records weakens the force and emboldens America’s enemies."

submitted 11 hours ago • 138 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 4 days ago • 1052 comments

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 806 comments

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'Incredulous': Judge bemused as Trump lawyers can't confirm if federal workers fired www.rawstory.com/doge-lawsuit/

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BREAKING: DOJ refuses to provide Judge Chutkan with any numbers regarding last Friday's firings. DOJ also refuses to make any commitment regarding what "personnel actions" the seven agencies at issue — OPM, Education, Labor, HHS, Energy, Transportation, Commerce — might take in the next two weeks.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Any air traffic accident is on him now... 100%

submitted 5 days ago • 5 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 5 days ago • 317 comments

“Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.”

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

1. Trump has turned over the keys to much of the federal government to Elon Musk. Musk is now using his power to advance his PRIVATE FINANCIAL INTERESTS This was on display last week when Musk met with Indian PM Narendra Modi

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

President Donald Trump wants the Supreme Court to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

submitted 6 days ago • 327 comments

Every single policymaker should read this. Send a copy to your Members of Congress. If they're Republican send it in hardcopy so they have to physically throw it away. If they get enough copies one staffer might actually read it.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Breaking: Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to let him to fire the head of the agency that protects government whistleblowers.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

submitted 7 days ago • 1437 comments

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

The CFPB will begin deleting agency data as soon as today. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and Musk staffers are rewriting history on U.S. government websites and erasing data from databases nationwide—removing information that doesn’t align with their political agenda.

submitted 8 days ago • 214 comments

Article - Elon's DOGE is installing keyloggers on their computers across multiple agencies to monitor employee activities. As one insider noted: "It's like a Soviet-style reporting system, Orwellian nonstop monitoring. This is bananas." www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n... @404media.co @wired.com

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JUST IN: The remaining employees at the General Services Administration are being warned that their work will be heavily monitored, from their swipes into the office to what they type on their computers.

submitted 11 days ago • 328 comments

Is this why USDA had a massive internal phishing attempt exercise this week - to install keyloggers? 🤔 www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n... NPR reports that remaining employees at GSA are warned their work will be heavily monitored, from their swipes into the office to what they type on their computers.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

submitted 8 days ago • 419 comments

I’m seeing Darwin references again related to vaccine refusal. This is not accurate. People who refuse to vaccinate harm their entire community, not just themselves or their kids.

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

LITTLE X (Elons son) TOLD TRUMP 🚨🚨🔥 "You're not the President. You need to go away" "I want you to shut your fucking mouth" Trump might not think Elon is the President, but Elon and his son believe Elon is the President.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 896 comments

#ReidOutBlog: A Trump executive order reportedly has ended a racial discrimination probe at Tesla A recent executive order kneecapped a key Labor Department office responsible for investigating federal contractors — including Elon Musk’s Tesla — that have been accused of workplace discrimination.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 1573 comments

Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

submitted 11 days ago • 165 comments

It would have been ideal if Kendrick had performed a protest song Alright. It is my wish that some talented artist out there creates a protest song fitting for what is happening right now. This is the last good protest song IMHO youtu.be/jRJKjiCtVco?...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Can you sue Elon Musk? youtu.be/QpvjnY56uO0?...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I'm avoiding MSM but when I saw the Title of this Video I had to watch and learn. Jamie Raskin says "People need to understand they have the power", we can SUE Elon Musk using "The Computer Fraud & Abuse Act of 1986"! #TheNobodyElectedElonMuskAct www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpvj...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Elon, if you need more teenagers for DOGE…

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

Not even trying to hide it…

submitted 13 days ago • 1280 comments

Events are proceeding apace: at least 1 federal judge has denied an emergency attempt to access the Department of Labor database (a Bush appointment). Keeping information accurate here, folks!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

HEADLINE: CDC posts, then deletes, data on bird flu spread between cats and people. The data which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 173 comments

New on @MSNBC: Some U.S. Agency for International Development and State Dept. career employees are concerned information in their personal devices may be being monitored. The employees received pop-ups in the last few days warning them that info on their personal phones or laptops could be tracked.

submitted 16 days ago • 194 comments