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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

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New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

Not Schumer, not Jeffries……. AOC and J Crockett…..👊🏿👊🏿

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

“Weaponization” was always projection.

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This Substack is an excellent read. It includes the theory that Elon Musk plans to force his “everything” app on us for our banking, cell service and socials (like the Chinese WeChat), and explains the activities and motive of what is occurring with the doge bros.

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US Coup Gains Speed open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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“[SSA] has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more.” “Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

NBC News: The Trump admin has terminated hundreds of employees at the CDC — including fellows responsible for key public health roles. @msnbc.com

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 2403 comments

I worry that people are still underestimating what is happening here. They think the U.S. is abandoning Europe, where in fact it is realigning against Europe, as an adversary.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Read this whole thread 👇

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

This is an excellent synopsis of our current moment. It’s like there is a buzz saw in my head from the friction between what I am witnessing is actually happening and then watching the majority of people acting like nothing unusual is occurring.

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

Thank you Jack White with the blue and yellow for his set. Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦

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Is it sabotage, idiocy, nihilism, or all of the above? Seriously, where are the competent adults? We are running out of time before this cannot be undone.

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Brandi Carlile is a f’ing badass. She just tore it up on the SNL special. The Joke is truly a song for these times.

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Absolutely accurate af.

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

ABC: “.. Multiple current and former employees described the situation as ‘a national security crisis.’” @abcnewsgo.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

submitted 8 days ago • 628 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

submitted 12 days ago • 165 comments

“A very obvious coup”

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JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

submitted 13 days ago • 1045 comments

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 15 days ago • 336 comments

Trump on air traffic control: "We're gonna sit down & do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new...let's spend less money & build a great system done by 2 or 3 companies...when I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country...I won't tell you what country"

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please stop telling people that x, y, or z "is a distraction." we've been doing this for nearly a decade now. all the things are the things. theyre all the fights. its like arguing that japan attacking in the pacific was a distraction from hitler attacking in europe. its all the war.

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Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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I don't this story has registered with enough people. OPM is trying to make it possible for Musk to control the IT of every federal agency and department. I assume that would give him access--backdoor access?--to...everything. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 101 comments

Is there going to be any oversight or transparency on this one or is it going to be another “trust me bro” where anyone who asks questions about it gets investigated by the DC US Attorney for DOGE harassment?

submitted 17 days ago • 543 comments

One of the most important websites in America right now.

submitted 17 days ago • 395 comments

ChatGPT updated model: If current trends continue unchecked, the US faces an 85-95% chance of authoritarian transformation within 5 years, evolving from illiberal democracy (Orbán Model) to hybrid authoritarianism (Putin Model) and, in extreme cases, soft totalitarianism (early Nazi Germany Model).

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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 20 days ago • 214 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 20 days ago • 1978 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 21 days ago • 312 comments

My latest for my Substack, on connecting the dots on Musk's master plan for the takeover the Treasury Department asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-x-factor

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

When Ruth Ben-Ghiat is saying this, we are all in grave danger. Right now.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A must read. A sobering post of the view from the outside looking in.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I hope people see how truly alarming this is: 1. Musk's team, who may not even be US govt employees yet, have complete access to OPM's databases of PII on federal employees and have locked out career employees 2. Musk's people trying to do same with THE US TREASURY MASTER PAYMENT SYSTEM 🚨

submitted 22 days ago • 245 comments

Democrats shld make clear to voters that this gives Musk's private sector employees the power to stop checks to any individual recipient in the US (Soc Sec, vets benefits, Medicare) as well as examine their private financial info. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 127 comments