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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

#handsoff #boston

Senator Merkley asks if Trump is a Russian agent. Nominees can’t (won’t) answer youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA

These highly skilled software professionals who were creating secure government websites were all fired.

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

A few moments of calm

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.” Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

Think about this when you consider downloading personal information to be benign.

www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

Download of personal data is not required to evaluate any federal budget. Anyone can do it. Budgets are public and online. Or are they? www.usaid.gov returns a blank page Thank goodness there’s a wayback machine. web.archive.org/web/20250102...

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

We know what’s going on here.

A moment of pleasure

Musk earns over $500/second. He just wiped out $2 billion worth of rice, wheat, lentil, and pea USAID purchases from American farmers each year - and didn’t even blink.

"That coup is, in fact, happening. And if we do not recognize it for what it is, it could succeed." snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...

EM has decided you should not be able to file your taxes electronically without paying a for-profit prep service like Intuit or H&R Block. Looks like the 'Direct File' team is next on the chopping block.

"This is part of the 'revolution' Roberts has long talked about, and it has a history that runs through right-wing dictatorships across a century." lucid.substack.com/p/a-new-kind...

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

this is exactly it. i wrote something similar not long ago

Find a group that aligns with your beliefs, like americanprogress.org or democracyforward.org or the aclu.org and donate to help them protect your freedoms.

Interesting and good to know.

The Air Force has removed videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump admin’s crackdown on DEI initiatives. apnews.com/article/air-...

January 25, 2025

“Trump is creating an energy emergency that does not exist.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/b...

Stay informed. Read the list of executive orders rescinded on January 20, 2025 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...