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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1843 comments

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

submitted 9 hours ago • 330 comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

submitted 4 days ago • 631 comments

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

submitted 5 days ago • 2339 comments

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

submitted 5 days ago • 512 comments

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which oversees government whistleblower protections and enforces certain ethics laws.

submitted 6 days ago • 143 comments

This upside down delta flight reminds me that, as a mother, I cannot comprehend how "lap infants" are legal or at least opted in to by parents. Yall have much more trust in your reaction time and arm strength VS the force of a crash landing/crash than I do.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2289 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5665 comments

Some of the positions of folks at NIH who were terminated (mostly by virtue of timing) At least 1 institute deputy director At least 1 institute director of extramural activities At least 1 program officer (and I am sure many more) At least 1 SRO (and I am sure many more) 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

submitted 8 days ago • 561 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 7 days ago • 1614 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

Roses are red, Violets are blue, RFK Jr was confirmed, Looks like we’ll all get bird flu.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

The Republican budget resolution: * $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations; * Cuts of $2 trillion, including Social Security and Medicare; * $150 billion in cuts to supplemental nutrition programs; Cut food aid for 40 million * An increase of $4 trillion in the debt ceiling.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has spent literally half of his presidency at Mar-a-Lago.

submitted 12 days ago • 722 comments

🎤New fork email!🎤At this point there have been so many forks in the road we’re starting to get lost. Offer closing “as soon as is legally permissible” makes it sound super legit. We recommend certain special government employees take the offer immediately. #thirstymotherforkers #desperateDOGEwives

submitted 12 days ago • 42 comments

Super Bowl halftime show generating big “Trump won, why am I still seeing black people” energy from the indignant grifter class

submitted 12 days ago • 99 comments

Trump has dismissed the director of the Office of Government Ethics. David Huitema, the former director, played a key role in vetting Trump administration appointees for conflicts of interest.

submitted 12 days ago • 145 comments

Edward Coristine joined Elon Musk’s DOGE team at 19 but lost his Path Network internship in June 2022 after leaking proprietary information to a competitor. Following his dismissal, Coristine revealed on Discord that he still had system access and could have disrupted operations but chose not to.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

As companies shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that average profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???

submitted 13 days ago • 556 comments

🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does. Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does: (1/14)

submitted 13 days ago • 218 comments

Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

submitted 14 days ago • 181 comments

Ideally, both the Chiefs and Eagles would lose and America could heal. But, Harrison Butker, the Chiefs kicker, is a nasty Christian nationalist who pals around with Josh Hawley, so...yeah...Chiefs can kick rocks. Hope Eagles win.

submitted 13 days ago • 441 comments

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole

submitted 14 days ago • 339 comments

There are some infosec folks who are playing semantics or splitting hairs or saying ‘let’s wait and see’ in defense of what the DOGE workers are doing. If they witnessed such sloppy cybersecurity in any corporate environment, they would be screaming bloody murder. Why the double standard? Why?

submitted 13 days ago • 119 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 1680 comments

Déjà vu all over again.

submitted 14 days ago • 963 comments

Totally normal

submitted 15 days ago • 181 comments

As a cybersecurity person, my professional opinion is: shit's fucked, yo

submitted 15 days ago • 133 comments

Want to see advertisers lose MILLIONS this Sunday? A record-setting low for viewers during the Super Bowl would do that. Money talks and bullshit walks.

submitted 16 days ago • 1875 comments

Oh nothing, the kid who Elon allowed to access our sensitive information was a eugenicist who "was racist before it was cool."

submitted 16 days ago • 377 comments

Marko Elez, an Elon Musk staffer with access to the Treasury Department’s sensitive payments system, has quit after racist and pro-eugenics posts surfaced, including one stating, ‘Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.’

submitted 16 days ago • 411 comments

LOLOLOL this is the 'genius' 23 engineer doing Elmo's bidding at Doggy.

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McGovern: People voted for lower egg prices, not for a Middle East Mar-a-lago. People did not vote to send their sons and daughters into the tunnels of Gaza so that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump can build Trump Tower Gaza.

submitted 17 days ago • 208 comments

Another reminder of the power of rightwing propaganda and the failure of mainstream media coverage: more people probably have heard about USAID ‘funding’ Politico (it isn’t) than about USAID funding anti-malaria programs which were just cut off and frozen by Musk and Trump.

submitted 16 days ago • 106 comments

Beyond. Parody.

submitted 17 days ago • 286 comments

The @detroitpistons.bsky.social are literally giving me a heart attack tonight. 3pt game. 6s left. Odds are not in our favor but...it's scientifically possible. i'm also old and tired and want to go to bed, but OT is within reach. 🙏

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We last beat the Cavs Feb 24, 2022. I would go to bed SO happy if we miraculously pulled this off. We had a pretty rough 1st q, not ideal 1st half. 3q was looking great. Let's get it together in the last q and break this losing streak against Cleveland!

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Is the oath to the constitution or to Supreme Ruler?

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