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While you were sleeping, Mikaela Shiffrin did a thing: 100 World Cup victories, a milestone unlikely to ever be matched. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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Jack Posobiec, a prominent influencer, has a long history of promoting antisemitic and white supremacist content. He traveled to Ukraine with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 3 days ago • 1122 comments

Multiple media reports say Senator Mitch McConnell will announce today, his 83rd birthday, that he will not seek re-election next year in Kentucky. He is set to address his colleagues on the Senate floor today.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

submitted 4 days ago • 1739 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 5 days ago • 1051 comments

"To Understand How Trump Is Upending Washington, Speak To People From His Past" @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

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This is HUGE. The administration is trying to dismantle the board so that government employees have nowhere to file termination grievances.

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 5 days ago • 627 comments

A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

submitted 5 days ago • 1093 comments

The Oval Office meeting convened by President Trump sought to figure out a way to eliminate roadblocks to the planned merger of the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf. His participation was a brazen conflict of interest, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say — one of a series in recent weeks.

submitted 6 days ago • 111 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 7 days ago • 479 comments

"The actions of Musk and DOGE have created moral dilemmas of a kind no American government employee has faced in recent history. Protest or collaborate? Speak up against lawbreaking or remain silent?" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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That article is here: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 9 days ago • 2697 comments

The website for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has major security flaws that allow anyone to edit its database, according to two sources who discovered the vulnerability.

submitted 9 days ago • 207 comments

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

submitted 9 days ago • 504 comments

After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest a need for better surveillance.

submitted 10 days ago • 132 comments

BREAKING: Judge Amir Ali, one of the final Biden appointees confirmed, just temporarily restored what looks like a wide swath of foreign aid funding that had been blocked. Full order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 11 days ago • 1457 comments

Missed this bit earlier today-- "Corey Lewandowski is now a special government employee at the Department of Homeland Security" Which is led by Kristi Noem. by @politico.com

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Gonna keep posting this link cuz it’s the prevailing legal theory of this administration and the coming months will show how hard it holds and thus how fucked we are www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 15 days ago • 131 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s DOGE is working on a custom chatbot called GSAi as part of Trump's AI-first agenda: www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

The US government has now gutted all of the tools created to fight kleptocracy. It's going to be up to other democracies to save their political and financial systems from anonymous flows of cash. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/07/w...

submitted 15 days ago • 227 comments

NEW: It's not just coders. DOGE is filled with lawyers, elite attorneys with conservative credentials. We have new names: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 16 days ago • 94 comments

Got a tip? I oversee five reporters looking at the Trump Administration, conflicts of interest, & abuses of power. And I am eager to give them more work. Get in touch here:

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

I've been a @wired.com subscriber for ... a lot ... of years, and their reporting has been extra 🔥 lately. I looked it up, and new subscriptions are only $1/month. #SupportJournalism

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

Scoop: On Wednesday, execs from top newsrooms met with the Pentagon to protest Pete Hegseth’s decision to boot a handful of outlets from their workspaces. Despite hopes for a reversal, the Pentagon on Friday night doubled the number of evictions. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/purged-fro...

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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 445 comments

The new cover of TIME.

submitted 16 days ago • 1624 comments

This link is in today's column (which I encourage you to read and share), but you can find contact information for your elected officials at this website: www.usa.gov/elected-officials. Do the panic, folks. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

As CIA officers face a purge, @steadystatevets.bsky.social -- 200 CIA vets -- write the intel committees to protest "the deliberate removal of officers who adhere steadfastly to the Constitution, the law, and the fundamental obligation to provide intelligence that is free from political influence."

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump administration plans to retain only about 290 of the more than 10,000 employees worldwide at USAID. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs

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NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen states say they will file lawsuit challenging DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data.

submitted 17 days ago • 110 comments

New: Under Musk, the federal government is using AI to target employees for cuts www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 17 days ago • 66 comments

Breaking news: A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily paused the Trump administration’s buyout program’s deadline, which had been set for 11:59 p.m. Thursday, and set a new hearing for Monday.

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Things I am telling myself to get through the day lately: -"just do 5 min" -"it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to get done" -"you can't work if you don't eat something" -"I know how hard you're trying" -"You know what to do" -"one thing at a time"

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

Donald Trump has already committed at least 23 potential illegalities, in only 16 days 🧵 1. Freezing funding for Medicaid and all other federal assistance programs 2. Revoking birthright citizenship 3. Using “expedited removal” to deport immigrants with zero due process

submitted 18 days ago • 145 comments

Meet Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a teenage DOGE engineer, who has access to sensitive federal data • Runs Tesla.Sexy, a company operating a Russian website • Worked at startup that hired convicted hackers • Someone using his Telegram handle solicited a cyberattack www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 17 days ago • 132 comments

Pete Hegseth left his Venmo on public. @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social and @drboguslaw.bsky.social looked at his transactions and found a lot of elite DC insiders with major financial stakes before the Pentagon: prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

Thoughts and prayers to anyone getting on a plane in the U.S. right now.

submitted 18 days ago • 209 comments

“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once...” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 648 comments

(WSJ) - The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, in what officials said is a bid to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s priorities .. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 19 days ago • 115 comments