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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

Elon Musk is paid TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to be the CEO of Tesla. What did Elon get done last week for Tesla?

MAGA Governor Mike Braun getting Booed off stage in Indiana. 💙💙💙💪

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

I am inundated with messages from federal workers who are feeling frantic, furious and fed up after receiving Musk’s email and reading his threatening X post. The psychological warfare is the point.

Yes. It seems like they didn’t get nearly as many people as they’d hope to accept the deferred resignation program and now they’re trying to mentally break them and get them to quit. They want agencies to fail.

this is an example of why i disagree with people who urge us to distance ourselves from the phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “DEI”, and in effect cede them to the fascists. Instead our professional communities should claim ownership of them and articulate clearly what they mean.

Graeme Keyes @KeyesGraeme on #Ireland #IrishDefenceForces #Russia – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

To state the obvious as has been observed my countless people on numerous occasions, Dems speaking about red areas 10 percent as harshly as Republicans speaking about blue areas is treated as a massive scandal.

🚨ACTION: Federal workers are receiving this email. 👇 SPREAD THE WORD: Have you been illegally terminated? Post 5 bullets about what you would have done this week tagged #LetUsWork. Let's help the public understand what they have lost. Tag us and we'll reshare! #AltGov

Non-elected President, Senator and Representative, His Majesty Elon Musk sent an email to all fed employees asking them to respond with what they did last week, stating failure to reply by a deadline will be taken as a resignation. Here is a statement from the AFGE President in response.

FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

This is an article that prefigures very accurately what we will be reading about American (and American based) scientists in about ten months. The collapse of the top scientific research network in the world. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Remember, Russell Vought said he wanted to "traumatize" federal civil servants.

C-PAC is a cult gathering, not a convention! This “Third Term Project” poster at CPAC is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. The same people who were screaming about “the deep state” are now openly fantasizing about a dictator-for-life.

Every day we can be overwhelmed or every day we can overcome. We choose. Don’t feel like he can’t be beat. You are making a difference. We are making a difference. Big step or small, just keep moving the resistance forward. #Bluecrew #Strongertogether #Unite

The MAGA clout goblins can't BELIEVE we could possibly be offended at all their Nazi salutes, such soft lefty cucks we are, when less than five years ago they were LOSING THEIR MINDS over people taking the knee after the murder of George Floyd.

T-Mobile, ATT, and Verizon are going to partner with Elon Musk's Starlink. I will not support any company that supports Musk in any way, shape, or form. If you have one of these carriers, write or call and voice your displeasure. I will change my service if necessary. Resist! Repost!

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

Ok, so IRS got the 5 bullet points, justify your job, email. Our Union NTEU is saying to not respond at this point until National NTEU has a chance to assess the implications of responding. 1/2

1. Why, if you control OPM and have all the job details, do you need me to tell you what I do? 2. When did feeding your AI system become part of my job? 3. This is just another Fork email to intimate. You can't send Fork emails anymore, so this is the next latest crazy.

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

There’s a crucial election coming up in a battleground state: The liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is at risk. Elon Musk is not only determined to infiltrate every level of the federal government, he’s coming after our local elections, too. We’re not going to let him get away with it.

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

Dan Caine, Trump’s new replacement for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly told Trump, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” He also put on a MAGA hat, despite it violating military protocol.

He nails it.

Musk was angry at OpenAI, so he said AI would destroy humanity. Then he founded xAI and sued OpenAI—and said AI might not be so bad. Now he wants his AI to take over DC, so he’s killing all AI safety. The man is knowingly betraying his _species_. He’ll certainly have no problem betraying America.

Hobbling NIST will impair business productivity and raise costs for consumers. www.wired.com/story/the-na...