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submitted 1 day ago • 693 comments

“Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.”

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Trump’s budget cuts could kill your local weather forecast — and put you in danger. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Weather #NOAA #DOGE #Musk #Trump

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨ANOTHER TRUMP ATTACK ON VETERANS! The Postal Service is one of the largest employers of Veterans in the country. Hundreds of thousands of Veterans rely on USPS to deliver medications, benefits, and critical information. We WILL fight this! MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

@votevets.org is going to do everything possible to help veterans and military families during these perilous times. If you are affected, please fill out this form. It will remain confidential. votevets.org/doge-tipline

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 5 days ago • 522 comments

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They are vital members of our community. They make our government actually work for people. Remember this.

submitted 5 days ago • 79 comments

Unexpected niche beat for @melissagiragrant.com: Covering the myriad protests happening right now despite claims on social media that 'no one is protesting.'

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

I don’t think an unelected billionaire like Elon Musk should have access to your personal data—we need to prevent DOGE from getting into the IRS. abcnews.go.com/Politics/elo...

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

The Army and Navy just deleted web pages honoring women’s military service—falling in line with Trump’s DEI purge. This isn’t about readiness. It’s about erasing the contributions of women who served and sacrificed for this country. Shameful. READ MORE: www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

submitted 10 days ago • 92 comments

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

submitted 43 days ago • 403 comments

Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

submitted 11 days ago • 368 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 11 days ago • 247 comments

Nearly every medicine we benefit from started with NIH-funded research. Early discovery work starts in academia. Immunotherapies? Gene therapy for rare diseases? Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines? Vaccines? Novel cancer treatments? Psychiatric medicines? You betcha. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 89 comments

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ILLEGALLY FIRED FEMA OFFICIALS AFTER ELON MUSK TOLD LIES ABOUT THEM. jfc it's not that hard!

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

Fully acknowledging that I don’t know the physical, on-the-ground details of how all these things go down, but… why aren’t more people, especially after a couple weeks of this, just saying no, fuck off

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

flip.it/iK_yD2 People need to be told: this money supports many hospitals and medical schools. Also, science made America Great You are being screwed

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

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.

submitted 17 days ago • 777 comments

Texas:

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

submitted 17 days ago • 1127 comments

Elon Musk belongs behind bars—along with these clowns. When the time comes, I’m backing a president who gives zero f*cks about “looking partisan.” Someone who’ll do what’s right, appoint an AG with a spine, and restore justice—no matter what it takes or how it looks.

submitted 16 days ago • 325 comments

I do believe that PPP fraud and Pentagon spending really need to be audited

submitted 16 days ago • 314 comments

Real shocker here. The 25 year old rooting around in the code of the US government's payment system likes to post things like "Normalize Indian hate." www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 17 days ago • 188 comments

The latest from Marshall Ramsey: Rescue! https://buff.ly/414B00s

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

USAID supports Missouri Ag producers. I hope you’ll share… #USAIDrural

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

SENATE DEMOCRATS HAVE STARTED A MARATHON PROTEST TO STOP THE NOMINATION OF RUSSELL VOUGHT This architect of Project 2025 basically said he’d VIOLATE US LAW By taking money specifically designated by Congress And use the cash to fund whatever Trump wants CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW 202-224-3121

submitted 18 days ago • 176 comments

Here's a bit of what's maybe going on at NOAA. Please reach out if you are there/know more/want to chat, Signal is davelevitan.26

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

NOBODY ELECTED ELON.

submitted 19 days ago • 361 comments

Democrats are out in front of the Treasury right now, demanding answers! This is EXACTLY the fight we want to see.

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments

Now Musk has sent Booger, Broccoli Rob and Big Balls to the NOAA, in order to be sure us freeloaders stop getting all those free warnings about hurricanes and stuff.

submitted 19 days ago • 101 comments

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

submitted 19 days ago • 1591 comments

It's time to stop supporting Musk's fascist platform. We at X Out Hate have a new letter to call for an immediate boycott of X.

submitted 20 days ago • 95 comments

The news keeps saying "accept" and "house" deportees and that's an unconscionable to deceptive way to say: El Salvador wants the US to pay them & ship them criminalized American citizens & non-citizens alike to work and die as slaves in El Salvadoran prisons, which Trump & Rubio want to make happen

submitted 20 days ago • 79 comments

This report is especially notable because it seems that, just hours before it was published, Treasury Secretary Bessent lied to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee about this exact issue. (And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.) www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 20 days ago • 92 comments

Treasury folks: Call FBI Washington Field Office. Report an intrusion into the agency’s system. Let them know what you are seeing. Use a burner phone if you have to. It is better than nothing (screenshot from www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...)

submitted 20 days ago • 42 comments

There's a current fetish for publishing primary source documents rather than having a reporter describe them, and I totally get it. But remember Reality Winner was caught almost immediately because the Intercept published what she printed out, unaware the NSA printer left an imperceptible watermark.

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

Some good news for a change…👇 Pay ATTENTION, now!

submitted 20 days ago • 441 comments

FIRST: USAID NEXT: Dept. of Education THEN: Your Social Security benefits? Your health insurance? Your kids' health insurance? Everything is on the table and Trump/Musk don't care who gets hurt. We will not sit by while this happens. We will put up a fight.

submitted 20 days ago • 328 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments