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One point that seldom gets thru in most coverage. "Probationary employees" are the people getting fired today. That's usually explained as people in their first year of employment. But in many cases that's people in their first year in their particular job. So you may have been a civil servant...

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 11 days ago • 843 comments

Elon’s coverup www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 553 comments

UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring." Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.

submitted 13 days ago • 133 comments

Straight up lie. Funds approved specifically by congress to support cities experiencing major inflo of immigrants - in many cases bused in by states like Texas.

submitted 13 days ago • 154 comments

They’re absolutely going for it. Doesn’t mean they’re going to be successful, and in fact I think it’s like shooting the moon, but everyone needs to understand what they are attempting.

submitted 16 days ago • 224 comments

This is the essence of it. You can do any and all of this stuff by passing laws. They're not because they lack the votes. So all of this is illegitimate and frankly illegal. I'll go one step further and say there should not be a senate filibuster. You should be able to do any and all of this by ...

submitted 16 days ago • 49 comments

Wait … they … 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙙 ???

submitted 16 days ago • 259 comments

These Are Some of the Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

A pretty key effort to break resistance. The key here is that if you're going to defend the rights of people in the nat sec world you need lawyers who themselves have clearances and thus can dig into the facts the legal questions turn on. that's what this is about. I'm not saying Mark won't be ...

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

In reaction to all the stuff that's happened over the last week I've seen some otherwise normal people say, well, they're just pushing their interpretation of 'unitary executive theory'. it's important for everyone involving themselves in this moment to know that that's not a real thing. now ...

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

If you don't already know this. Please educate yourself and others. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-civ...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi

submitted 17 days ago • 68 comments

AG JAMES: “.. We knew the Trump administration’s choice to give this access to unauthorized individuals was illegal, and this morning, a federal court agreed.”

submitted 17 days ago • 58 comments

In December, NYT revealed that Elon Musk and SpaceX were failing to meet govt reporting protocol designed to protect state secrets while they haul in billions in Pentagon contracts. This triggered three reviews, according to the NYT. One was from the Defense Department inspector general. 1/

submitted 17 days ago • 86 comments

These ghouls need oversight and, likely, orange jumpsuits.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

If Joe Biden had said this it would have been good for a week’s worth of programming on Fox News

submitted 20 days ago • 894 comments

This. Make it hard for the Republicans to destroy the country.

submitted 20 days ago • 149 comments

here's today's post: "just a couple of dudes planning war crimes, as one does" — get ready for the Trump Gaza Golf Motel. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

submitted 20 days ago • 161 comments

an important column. This won't revert back to normal by acting like its normal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

submitted 20 days ago • 291 comments

FACT: The entire federal civilian workforce accounts for 4 PERCENT of the federal budget www.ft.com/content/3bb3...

submitted 19 days ago • 56 comments

“They are going to deliver US citizens to a supermax prison in El Salvador” just wasn’t in my list of things that could go wrong under Trump II

submitted 21 days ago • 29 comments

Elon Musk is committing a lot of felonies. He belongs in jail, and so do his criminal associates. He may not comprehend that. And if and when he does it may make him more reckless. No assumptions about where we go from here.

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

Do not obey in advance. "To that admonition, I would add “don’t praise in advance” – don’t take at face value the media herd now telling us that Trump and his agenda are more popular than they actually are, lest it become a self-fulfilling prophecy." - Michael Podhorzer

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder that DOGE is illegal.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

For those within the federal government or other organizations or entities where there are leaders or others in power that are actively trying to dismantle the US federal government by illegal and autocratic means. www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

So on this question of “doxing” of Musk gizmocrats, I was talking to staffers to today detailing one of the gizmocrats who is largely on his own rewriting the code base of one of the US governments most mission critical computer systems. And as it was described to me the staff programmers …

submitted 21 days ago • 225 comments

A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …

submitted 21 days ago • 134 comments

None of this is legal.

submitted 21 days ago • 136 comments

What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 488 comments

Trump used the last four years to turn the GOP into an anti-democratic war machine. And he is not done wreaking havoc. That is the stark reality we face. If we truly care about the future of free and fair elections, we must take the threat Trump poses to our elections literally and seriously.

submitted 21 days ago • 172 comments

Now I know why Hamilton writes like he’s running out of time.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

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!

submitted 22 days ago • 1571 comments

We can’t let a mega rich dude shut down the main foreign aid program created and funded by Congress just because he doesn’t like it and has our president by the balls www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 22 days ago • 501 comments

NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS ALERT open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: 88 FBI agents who worked on Trump cases were just physically escorted out of the Washington Field office per a source.

submitted 25 days ago • 1275 comments