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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

In response to a post on X from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social showing the effort to get into the Department of Education building this morning, Elon Musk replied, "No such department exists in the federal government"

🚨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...

🚨NEWS: The chemical industry has sent a letter to Trump EPA chief Lee Zeldin asking him to shut down the government website that lets Americans know about high-risk chemical plants in their communities & the safety records of the companies running them. https://buff.ly/4jNK014

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

the democratic party will never learn

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

NPR has identified dozens of pardoned Jan. 6 rioters with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.

Here it is. This is abominable.

Under Paul Dans, Project 2025 assembled a database of more than 10,000 Trump loyalist job candidates ready to place into federal agencies. It's a ready-use toolkit to create a second Trump administration that would be more MAGA than his first. (Published Aug. 2024)

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

I'll note again: News orgs keep repeating Trump WH line that it's targeting "DEI". As most people understand these things that's false. They're upending anti-discrimination and anti-discrimination in federal contracting rules going back as far as the 1960s. Not trying to make a big point abt ...

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Politico is reporting trans EOs will include trans people’s passports as well as ending a conversion therapy ban.

My latest w/ EITM -y'all might remember me talking about a heavy story the other day, this is that story. It's... a lot, especially if you have religious trauma, so warning for that. Nevertheless, people need to know what's going on in state legislatures across the country & treated as normal

If you know *anything* about operations of federal government, Dunning-Kruger tech bros quoted in this story sound just like: How hard could it be to land a 747? How hard could it be to do surgery on the eyeball? How hard could it be to lead a SEAL team raid? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

Some of the biggest banks are quitting their climate pledges and departing from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. The #NZBA aligns banking activities with the goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. @katearonoff.bsky.social breaks down the banks' exodus: newrepublic.com/article/1897...

An MIT lab is collaborating with the Israeli military to develop AI surveillance algorithms and the university censored a campus publication that tried to expose it. We refuse to be intimidated and continue to demand: No More Research for Genocide. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/despite-censorship…

Mistakes by US govt and dairy industry have let bird flu spread out of control, interviews with 70 farmers, farmworkers, and researchers reveal🧪🩺

A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company. (Published May 2024)

i have plenty of thoughts on why it matters that this is an illegal order but here i’ll just comment that i think liberals who throw their hands up and say “it doesn’t matter” have self lobotomized themselves into thinking that trump is god king of america

Data shows that California property crime rates are at historic lows. But “people's perception of how at risk they are has changed over the last four years,” one researcher noted, in large part due to shoplifting videos that have gone viral on social media. boltsmag.org/califor...

Deport Elon

Fox Business reports that cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is "on the table" for Republicans

God i love @propublica.org so much

For those too young to remember the conviction of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, and the case for his release, here’s a primer from @amnestyuk.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/amnest...