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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

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If 40% of DOGE’s canceled contracts won’t save a dime, what’s Musk really up to? Sabotage. He’s gutting agencies that enforce environmental rules, worker protections, and media oversight—things he & Trump want gone. Less regulation means more room for misdeeds—we’re the ones who will pay the price.

submitted 2 days ago • 241 comments

Just want to make you all aware that weeks before hurricane season, DOGE has fired 1,000 at FEMA and a dozen senior officials are leaving, and today NOAA fired 800 employees, with more possibly on Friday.

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

NEWS: The Trump administration has funneled Elon Musk's company $86 million out of NASA coffers since the inauguration - all while NASA now slashes 5 percent of its entire workforce.

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NEW: Per a source, the firings of probationary employees hit NOAA's office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) today. It includes not just newer young scientists but people at the top of their field who have been there for years but were technically probationary for admin/not-relevant reasons.

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

Musk: federal employees are lazy, DOGE officials are hardcore, they work endless hours! White House: this rando person we are listing as the DOGE administrator is on vacation in Mexico.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

A public State Department procurement document for fiscal year 2025 listed the purchase for $400 million. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is a top White House official.

submitted 18 days ago • 413 comments

Here’s fake, illegitimate US Attorney Ed Martin on January 6th. Now he’s threatening people who question DOGE’s legitimacy and legality. This is a coup by insurrectionists who should be in jail.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.

submitted 24 days ago • 33 comments

Hmmmmmmm 🤔 gizmodo.com/elon-musks-e...

submitted 25 days ago • 175 comments

Call the US government today, flood the lines and apply maximum pressure. Demand they do their jobs, arrest Musk, and impeach Trump. 5 minutes, 5 calls, repeat. #3E

submitted 28 days ago • 172 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 26 days ago • 2610 comments

Musk's DOGE has been on a tear across the federal government in recent days. On Wednesday, he announced that the FAA was next.

submitted 26 days ago • 101 comments

This seems like an awfully good question from Senator Ron Wyden about DOGE: “If they were really continuing a routine audit of the payment system, why did the nonpartisan official who managed the system for years get forced out when Musk’s hatchet brigade showed up?”

submitted 25 days ago • 26 comments

And that was under a Republican president!

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What Trump and Elon are doing is illegal. What Trump and Elon are doing is illegal. What Trump and Elon are doing is illegal. What Trump and Elon are doing is illegal. What Trump and Elon are doing is illegal.

submitted 27 days ago • 81 comments

Again, I want to know WHY security isn’t pushing back. I have never seen security officials cower in the corner like this. Inexplicable.

submitted 26 days ago • 41 comments

“The US Postal Service is temporarily suspending inbound international packages from China and Hong Kong Posts, potentially delaying or blocking shipments from retailers like Shein and PDD Holdings Inc.’s Temu,” @bloomberg.com reports.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

So, who's going to run the government? Much like Air Traffic Control and the TSA and FAA if Musk fires everyone? What could go wrong? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 29 comments

Murphy: "Let's not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions off of his business with China. And China is cheering at this action today. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our govt right now is doing it based on self-interest."

submitted 28 days ago • 542 comments

This makes ZERO sense. Sovereign wealth funds exist to invest a nation’s foreign currency holdings from running trade surpluses. The U.S. has a net negative foreign reserve balance, with U.S. dollars held abroad, as a function of its reserve currency status.

submitted 28 days ago • 186 comments

Trump signs an executive order to create to start the process of creating an American sovereign wealth fund

submitted 28 days ago • 385 comments

We're only 2 weeks in and Trump has has managed to raise prices on prescriptions, groceries, cars, clothes, construction materials and more, for us — while making billions for himself off his meme coin and lawsuits extorting media companies. He's only "Making America Great" for him.

submitted 28 days ago • 31 comments

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is spending his time doing border safaris with Fox News

submitted 27 days ago • 303 comments

Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders All tracked together in one place. Forgot to include the link: www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that we have to require a DNI nominee swear to this in writing is probably a good sign that they cannot be trusted as DNI. "I will provide timely and comprehensive information to the Committee regarding my foreign travel and visits with officials or agents of foreign governments."

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found. The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 119 comments

Pushed on by ALEC, GOP leaders in states like TX, KS, IA, MO, NH, NC, OK, and WI are creating their own DOGE-like bodies. stateline.org/2025/02/04/r...

submitted 27 days ago • 29 comments

Everyone realizes they’re trying to shift the Overton Window, right? They’re conditioning you to be accepting of the insane shit they’re doing now so you’ll accept the more insane shit they do later.

submitted 29 days ago • 327 comments

Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

submitted 30 days ago • 744 comments

If Shari Redstone does ink a deal to settle Trump’s absurd lawsuit, she will be remembered as the mogul who sold out "60 Minutes.” It will not only be a stain on the venerable program, but on Redstone’s legacy as well. More in Status: www.status.news/p/paramount-...

submitted 31 days ago • 37 comments

🤦‍♀️ thehill.com/homenews/med...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

They are waging a censorship campaign through litigation and now government retaliation. That's what it is, and we should call it that. This is a war on free speech. They are enemies of the First Amendment.

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

The new administration implemented a hiring freeze creating staff shortages. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The FAA Dir resigned because of the new administration. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022. They get none of these benefits. itep.org/undocumented...

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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 40 days ago • 2399 comments

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

submitted 33 days ago • 329 comments

This ⤵️ Dems look like deer caught in headlights

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This is perfection.

submitted 37 days ago • 81 comments

Trump is more popular than he has ever been. The media is softer on him than it’s ever been. The chief task of the Dems, and of any self-styled #resistance, should be to puncture that bubble of popularity that he currently has in this honeymoon. To drag him - down. Forget the bipartisanship BS.

submitted 36 days ago • 320 comments

JD Vance pretty much admitting what Pete Hegseth is going to do is work on recruitment for the army. So probably all those militia and Proud Boys in insurrectionists to build Trump‘s army as predicted. And watch for Erik Prince and the war criminals he lobbied to pardon.

submitted 36 days ago • 28 comments

HELL YES: Michael Steele delivers a genius game-plan to absolutely DERAIL the GOP. Democrats need to STOP helping Republicans. “Let them choke on (their majority).” His words were BLUNT: “Y'all need to chill on this, all this kumbaya partisan bi-partisan crap.” He added. 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 36 days ago • 1432 comments

Freud would not know what to do with all this shit.

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments