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Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency

A thread on Trump’s latest unlawful executive order dismantling the U.S. Agency for Global Media (which oversees Voice of America and RFERL) and the Wilson Center, where I was a fellow across two programs for four years. 🧵 (Gift link 🎁) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...

Cult behavior is scary - anyone who doesn't believe has to be separated and culled from the group.

youtu.be/4WmWZ0pZpyQ?...

Well.. youtube.com/shorts/EPjtz...

There it is: Speaker of the House says Elon has already started running your Social Security through his AI.

The “constitutional sheriff” movement has long argued that sheriffs, as elected officials without direct oversight, are beholden to no court, legislature or other executive. Instead, the movement presents the sheriff as an “expert” in the constitutionality of laws and scorns...lawyers and judges.

Deleted tweet from incoming FBI deputy Director Dan Bongino on January 6th www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/p...

Quite an own goal. We r allowing an increased Russian intel presence in the US. Incredibly shortsighted-we worked for years to kick them out. And new FBI boss wants to reduce number of CI squads. Russian intel is thrilled-will run rampant in the US.

Please fold this into stories about Trump’s little performance yesterday.

Gov. Abbot wouldn't let the Texas Tribune bring a photographer to his State of the State speech -- which drew 1,100 people. Instead, his PR team supplied photos that were "basically wedding photography." The Trib covered the speech, but ran a file photo instead www.texastribune.org/2025/02/02/g...

Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Predicting the path of tornados, the landfall of hurricanes, or whether it's going to rain next Monday might seem like magic. But it's not. It's the hard work of the people at NOAA who make the impossible possible through science. This is dangerous.

"We are all trying to imagine what is means that a Beloved Community exists and the condition to be invited into that Beloved Community is predicated on your humanity"

MLK's Letter From a Birmingham Jail www.learningforjustice.org/sites/defaul...

For a YouTube posting of a C-Span podcast about MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" with Dwayne Betts (starts at 2:30) youtu.be/c20VvyVL0rc?...

@wired.com has unique insight into DOGE

Also, speaking of local, @bostonglobe.com @tulsaworld.com and @texastribune.org are great options. Keep free press alive.

Eyes on the Prize III is out, the legacy of John Lewis continues. Where to watch.. www.mlive.com/tv/2025/02/h...

JUST IN: Hundreds of NOAA and NWS employees were laid off Thursday in the latest round of federal workforce cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration. It’s not clear whether employees at the Boulder, Pueblo or Grand Junction offices were impacted.

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

Fun continues youtube.com/shorts/7nKdk...

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A pro-Hitler paid advertisement is being served to users of X, encouraging them to rethink their opinions of the genocidal Nazi leader.

Sierra Farrell youtu.be/V8e9nbsq-18?...

More good music youtu.be/UVtpXvzzXiA?...

The music is still good youtu.be/lJDCYh5iWQs?...

As @nathantankus.bsky.social reports live from the govt payments coup... ...Elon is ofc, working w/ Visa to operationalize X for payments In 2023, he said X could "become the biggest financial institution in the world" (+ he wants to eliminate the CFPB) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/t...

Same was true in Poland

Musk has had no problem naming individual federal employees he thinks should be fired (see article). Now he wants anonymity and zero oversight for his officials who are creating a constitutional crisis. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

Please remember this as the D.C. U.S. Atty threatens to take action against those who commit the crime of…revealing the publicly available names of the young men who are rifling through govt computers? www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

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mind you, this "doge official" IS A FRESHMAN AT NORTHEASTERN

This is perhaps the most chilling article I’ve read yet. Seriously Even if not *literally,* Musk has *effectively* done the same thing as locking up sensitive personnel data for the entire federal workforce with the equivalent of a ransomware attack. It’s criminal www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

It sure has. www.columnblog.com/p/us-medias-...

Go inside the cockpit to see and hear the incredible work and skill it takes the pilots and crews to do a fire retardant drop….awesome stuff 🎯💪

Can't even x.com/wutangkids/s...

This is the kind of new energy the Dems need!