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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

All federal workers will shortly receive an email asking what they did last week — and that if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation, Elon Musk wrote in a post on X Saturday.

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

Associated Press sues White House over ban from Oval Office and Air Force One www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

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.

This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles, will fire a “modest” number of employees, an agency spokesman said Friday.

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

"Kash Patel sought to be immunized because he believed he might incriminate himself if he answered questions truthfully in the Mar-a-Lago case." How's that for an FBI director? Carol Leonnig joins Tim Miller:

I know this is a tired, cliched gripe these days, but if Biden had said something as remotely dumbass there would've been days upon days of stories about how he's too old and feeble to be in office.

Crockett: "This is nothing more than another payday for Elon Musk bc we know that if there is any govt welfare to be handed out, it is consistently being handed out to Elon Musk, who stopped all the money to USAID while at the same time deciding that he would get another contract for over $300m."

The commander in chief of the U.S. military.

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

If true, this is the economic ballgame

The answer is yes www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

People who are concerned about their government should absolutely call their representative, no matter what party they are. That's the only way some members will hear that their constituents are pissed that Musk is breaking parts of the government that impact their lives.

"Ukraine is a country that's at war and USAID plays a huge role in Ukraine also in ways that people probably don't know," said @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. "It has a role in restarting the Ukrainian energy grid, ... it has a role in helping Ukrainian farmers get back to work."

It's a coup.

Blumenthal: "It would be one thing if we had some disinterested, impartial business person -- highly successful -- looking at ways to make our govt more efficient and save money. That's not what's happening here. Elon Musk is doing a power grab & information heist, the biggest in American history"

Thank you!

WOW! Have you seen all those posts calling Trump ‘Genocide Don’ or the Free Palestine protests outside the White House today? Yeah, me neither.

Elon Musk’s secretive 20-something DOGE minions reviewing federal agencies for cuts are refusing to reveal their full names to civil servants, federal employees say.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 64. 2/4/25. The madness continues as King Donald announces that the US is going to take over Gaza, Don Jr is in hot water for allegedly killing an endangered bird in Italy, & so much more my head hurts. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Elon Musk has seized control of computer systems that process trillions of dollars of payments and the private info of ALL Americans. Now he’s trying to shut down USAID. Congress must reassert its authority NOW and stop this coup. SIGN HERE if you want to stop Musk's illegal government takeover!👇

Bingo. Nailed it.

Donald Trump is now talking about the United States “OWNING” Gaza. Owning it. What the actual fuck.

Trump is in it only for himself. As the Kash Patel hearing and Trump's hijacking of the plane-crash tragedy show, the president's top 2nd term priorities are: 1) revenge, 2) revenge, and 3) revenge. My latest @postopinions.bsky.social column. wapo.st/42xEJop

NEW: Officials across the US government privately warn that Musk's DOGE blitz appears to be violating numerous laws Legal objections voiced at Treasury, Education, USAID, GSA, OPM, EEOC, OMB & elsewhere Messages, audio, interviews all reveal internal concerns www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

So the US is going to occupy Gaza? Where are all the MAGA people who claimed Biden was going to send our troops to fight in Ukraine because he wanted conflict? I thought this guy was all about ‘America First.’ Now we are going into Gaza??? bsky.app/profile/acyn...

"Elon Musk is not the president, but it appears that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States...It is nothing short of an administrative coup." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This is what I think of as a specific kind of ignorance that heavily affects young white guys who work in tech. It says “i don’t know about this, so I assume no one else does either.” It’s new to them, so it must be new to everybody!

A total of zero votes were cast for the guy currently running America.

BREAKING: We just filed for an emergency order to block the release of names of FBI agents who had any involvement in investigations related to the president These are people who have put their lives on the line for the citizens of this country Their rights & privacy must be preserved 👇 - TN

Chris Murphy: "We don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22 year olds working for Elon Musk. We pledge allegiance to the United States of America."

If we had a healthy legislative branch right now, @elonmusk would be hauled in front of Congress today & asked questions under oath. There’d be immediate hearings/congressional oversight. But that’s if we currently had the legislative branch our Founders envisioned. And we don’t.

Dear Senator Bill Cassidy, You’re a doctor. A doctor. I mean…come on man, you’re a physician! How could you? Sincerely, Your Former Congressional Colleague

The start of week three:

This is so good.

Imagine saying this about an agency that has helped millions of people around the world avoid malaria, obtain clean water, and gain access to food & health care. Especially when you’re the world’s richest man & your net worth is something like 20 times this agency’s annual budget. What a foul soul.

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!