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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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Trump and Musk cuts are forcing Social Security offices to close SSA website is filled with notices of local office closures and service restrictions across multiple states

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.

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Lets put this in "business" terms. If you have an arm of your firms that costs $50k to operate, but it produces $500k in profits, and you cut it, you don't save $50k, you lose $450k. By cutting billions, they have the potential to reduce future growth by the trillions.

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PETE: “What we have to do now is make clear we do want government to work differently and better than it has, but burning it to the ground won’t do that for anyone.”

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Would hate to leave them out of the drama

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Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

submitted 3 days ago • 885 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Here is the oath all executive branch employees take. It is to support and defend the Constitution, not to “implement the president’s agenda.” If the two purposes diverge, the Constitution prevails.

submitted 7 days ago • 277 comments

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Okay, here's something that will surprise you probably. There are way more DC fast chargers being built right now with private funds than the NEVI program managed to get moving. This tells us two things:

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

Images from the #TeslaTakeDown protest in Manhattan, one of close to 50 such events taking place across the country. Protesters are chanting "Stop the Coup" and "Boycott Tesla."

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The Republican budget prioritizes a $4.5 trillion giveaway for billionaire donors while cutting Medicaid. Every single Budget Committee Democrat voted against it.

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

I don’t think many people realize how bad the job environment is for scientists right now. Thousands of jobs now lost in the government on top of big ongoing layoffs in the biotech/pharma sector. Bad times ahead and I don’t see how it won’t reverberate through the economy

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Every Friday afternoon, I’m waiting with anticipation to see what the Trump administration hoped Americans wouldn’t notice as they started their weekend

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I had something to say on this topic www.lawfaremedia.org/article/musk...

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So much for draining the swamp. Here's something really important you probably missed this week: youtu.be/9WNMZLMtv34?...

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This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to programs that millions of people rely on. 4) Repeat. Don't let them get away with it.

submitted 9 days ago • 240 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

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⚡️ INBOX: We’re being told Trump’s administration has told Oak Ridge National Lab to stop work orders on all contracts stemming from the hundreds of millions Biden’s bipartisan Infrastructure Act sent their way. Context: www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-re...

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Dozens of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees sued Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for unconstitutionally wielding extreme power in destroying agencies and accessing sensitive information, constituting a “government takeover.”

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See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

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Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed. Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly. Yet another reason he must be rejected.

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A little-known office in the FAA safeguards the public during commercial rocket launches. Elon Musk says it works too slow. Now he’s in a position to change that. New: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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NEW: In a move that could jeopardize U.S. election security at the state level, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency put employees tasked with securing elections from foreign threats on administrative leave.

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“That’s what keeps me up at night,” said Kreis, the law professor at Georgia State University. “If members of Congress don’t stand up for their own authority and power, nobody else is going to.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its unlawful freeze on foreign assistance funds. The administration's illegal actions halted life-saving health programs around the globe and will cost thousands of American jobs.

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The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. https://buff.ly/42ReSrr

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Make Bribery Great Again!

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“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way.“ www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

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WATCH: Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social reminds us Tennessee’s state budget is heavily reliant on the federal government Musk & Trump are (illegally) ransacking, and our state is already feeling the impact. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFydBOd...

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UPDATE: Bragging about being racist not disqualifying for the Trump administration. This guy is coming back with the blessing of both Vance and Trump. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-...

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It's ILLEGAL for special government employees to do government work that affects their own financial interests! Musk's companies got $3.3 BILLION in US government contracts in 2024, and now he's deciding who gets federal funding. House Judiciary Dems are calling on the DOJ to investigate NOW.

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