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Elon Musk says Department of Education no longer 'exists' Dumbing down America to pay for tax cuts and make Americans more gullible to propaganda, while he imports tech workers from India

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Sen Cassidy: “Black lives matter only if you count them”

submitted 14 days ago • 1726 comments

Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power. They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!

submitted 14 days ago • 483 comments

USAID, NOAA …

submitted 17 days ago • 64 comments

even newsmax doesn’t know how to spin this one www.newsmax.com/amp/newsfron...

submitted 15 days ago • 643 comments

I guess it’s outrageous that the American people want to know who is inside the government seeking to dismantle it and gain access to their data and a host of other sensitive info. We aren’t allowed to know who they are? Why not?

submitted 16 days ago • 743 comments

The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages https://go.nature.com/3WS1RtU

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Trump also got outraged that an Episcopal bishop cited basic Christian values in a church service, while Musk slashed funds for a Lutheran social services program.

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

She’s not wrong.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

That’s not just a security guard, it’s a member of the Triple Canopy private paramilitary organization that merged with Erik Price’s notorious Blackwater group.

submitted 16 days ago • 179 comments

I'm not a journalist, but it seems like there's an opportunity here to go interview some farmers in the American heartland, diner-style, to see how they like a big chunk of their business just evaporating

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

“Ignore the media headlines reporting that these moves ‘raise questions’ or ‘push the boundary.’ It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.” www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 16 days ago • 126 comments

As Elon Musk continues to talk about subsidies, let’s remember that he is the LARGEST GOVT SUBSIDIES RECIPIENT in the country!

submitted 16 days ago • 459 comments

"Federal workers said they believed that Trump and Musk were trying deliberately not just to sever foreign aid and parts of the domestic social safety net, but also to create a climate in which the government itself fell apart." New from @samsteindc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-...

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

A must-read.

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NEW: The Department of Labor (DOL) agrees to not share any records with DOGE before a hearing for a long-term block on DOGE's access takes place tomorrow. As of now, Musk’s faux agency has not been able to access DOL data.

submitted 16 days ago • 50 comments

ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA: www.404media.co/national-arc...

submitted 16 days ago • 361 comments

While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.

submitted 17 days ago • 285 comments

New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

submitted 17 days ago • 921 comments

NEW — DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned. The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients.

submitted 17 days ago • 288 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 17 days ago • 1755 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 18 days ago • 2271 comments

EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic" www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

submitted 18 days ago • 100 comments

Absolutely right. Once upon a time, playing politics with the debt ceiling was unthinkable. But during the Obama era, the GOP decided it was, in Mitch McConnell's words, "a hostage worth ransoming." They used it to force spending cuts; Dems should use it to rollback Musk's unconstitutional purges.

submitted 18 days ago • 63 comments

it’s hard not to feel disillusioned when reporting all the flagrantly illegal and terrifying things this government is doing somehow doesn’t fully break through to the mainstream. it feels like cable news and corporate media made a deal to convince people to keep calm and carry on.

submitted 18 days ago • 210 comments

Lawyers Mark Zaid, Norm Eisen, and Nancy Gertner of Democracy Defenders Fund threaten to sue DOJ over fired prosecutors and FBI agents. Your turn, Senate. Bring Bondy and Patel back for more questioning.

submitted 19 days ago • 362 comments

NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

submitted 21 days ago • 233 comments

This is who has the keys to our US Treasury now. Are you ok with this, America? This is a coup.

submitted 19 days ago • 580 comments

Stock markets around the world fell as President Trump imposed tariffs on key trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China.

submitted 19 days ago • 125 comments

Once the cyberbarons fully occupy and effectively seize control of the Treasury and other key government agencies, it won’t be long before they relegate Trump to a rubber-walled romper room, wheeling him out for occasional bursts of what passes for charisma to humor him with the illusion of power.

submitted 19 days ago • 255 comments

Crockett: "There is no reason for any political appointee, if you can even call [Musk] that, to have this kind of access. There's none."

submitted 20 days ago • 362 comments

More👏👏of👏👏this👏👏

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

Yes, beyond everything that is happening. The attack on the American republic, the coming economic carnage, this is a day of great, great shame that we have targeted and attacked our dearest friends and partners.

submitted 21 days ago • 102 comments

I'm switching my voter registration to Independent. The Dem party no longer represents me or my interests. They are mostly* a bunch of aging spineless greedy losers caving to fascism. 🫡 *don't @ me, I know AOC. Mayor Pete. Etc are the future of the party.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love. I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

submitted 20 days ago • 831 comments

For those farmers and farm adjacent folks that voted for Trump, what you’re about to feel re the tariffs we warned you about. Don’t pretend ya didn’t know

submitted 20 days ago • 681 comments

My mood…

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After American airspace was closed on 9/11, over 230 flights with 30,000 passengers and crew were diverted to Canadian airports. Transport Canada received thousands of calls from members of the public offering to help the stranded passengers. Thinking about that today, for no particular reason.

submitted 21 days ago • 291 comments

Trump says there must be "pain" for Americans in this idiotic trade war of his. Ask yourself, what pain does TRUMP suffer? What pain will the billionaire class suffer? Why is it that when Republicans talk about pain and sacrifice, it's always YOU who suffers for their vision?

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 20 days ago • 615 comments

We are quite literally seeing the collapse of the United States and democracy in real time second by second. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this monstrous outcome.

submitted 21 days ago • 431 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 20 days ago • 1978 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 20 days ago • 3292 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1309 comments