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Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with DOGE when Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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US President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished Department of Homeland Security data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Joe Biden's administration reut.rs/3QrUQfQ

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JFK Library reopens with the director and deputy working the front desk after Musk's team laid off the ticket takers. The "efficiency" effort effectively replaced workers making less than $50,000 with executives making a combined $323,000. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

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#Pulitzer

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Just as we warned, Brendan Carr is establishing himself as America's top censor, and he's not being shy about it. And a hearty "fuck you" to anyone who insisted Carr was a "free speech warrior."

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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This is psychotic

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(Snow) angels in the outfield Just another day working in minor league baseball for our front office!

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I feel like she’s gonna get in trouble for not having her wig on

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NEW: DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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This is so fucking out of hand. I cannot believe this is the leadership of the United States government. Or I guess we should check in and see what President Musk says first?? apple.news/AN0ecyHjCRmO...

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Hey, guys… Good old unitary executive, just what the doctor oh who cares

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

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Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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🙂

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This is the most “unintentional Dril tweet” ever posted

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Musk is not only pulling the strings of government power to remove a disagreeable cop from the SpaceX beat, but he’s also setting up the company to potentially receive lucrative contracts to overhaul the nation’s air safety systems.

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For folks in DC with animal pals

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Like I can’t believe this is an article? That needs to be written? Seems bad??

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Gavin Kliger posted on substack two days ago that he joined DOGE because he was inspired by a nazi. Now he has access to some of the most sensitive taxpayer data at the IRS.

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Lol

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Some groups are working to archive and save government websites and data right now. Among them: WayBack Machine (my screengrab below is from) End of Term Crawl Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab ICPSR 19th News PolicyMap Public Environmental Data Partners Environmental Data & Governance Initiative

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😭

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Kevin Garnett paying tribute to Bill Russell

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Melania Trump personally pitched her self-produced documentary about herself to Bezos over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Bezos's Amazon then bought it for $40 million, with 70% going into her pocket. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter

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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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Seems bad. But also same thing that Musk did at Twitter, where he fired a bunch of people he needed and then had to beg them to come back. Just with, well, slightly bigger consequences this time.

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