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I have meandered over here from Elmo's Hellscape. Sarcasm is my jam. I like to use the f word a lot. Uh... Why does this feel like a job interview? Stop pressuring me. See out there on the field, kids.
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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

MORE: The Trump/Hegseth Friday-night military purge continues—and includes top JAGs.

This is an article that prefigures very accurately what we will be reading about American (and American based) scientists in about ten months. The collapse of the top scientific research network in the world. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dear Mr. Musk: 1. Your mom 2. Your mom 3. Your mom 4. Your mom 5. Your mom I hope this answers any questions you might have, son. Sincerely, Kiss my ass

Dear Elon, • 1, 1, 1 'cause you left me • 2, 2, 2 for my family • 3, 3, 3 for my heartache • 4, 4, 4 for my headaches • 5, 5, 5 for my lonely You know, I got a lot done, let's keep going • 6, 6, 6 for my sorrow • 7, 7, n-n-n-n-no tomorrow • 8, 8, I forget what 8 was for!

New on MSNBC: Elon Musk has sent out an email giving federal employees just over 48 hours to explain their job. The actual subject line: "What did you do last week?" Musk said online that not responding will be considered a resignation.

Notice anything about this list of new trustees of the Kennedy Center, appointed by the President? Names like Levine. Lomagino. Scavino. Lutnick. Blumberg. Bondi. Castellani. Falconetti. Zampolli. I'd like to send them all a copy of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act. I'll wait while they read it.

Congrats to Trump’s new picks for top military posts for meeting the job description. You don’t have to say yes, you know.

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

What this basically means is that the Supreme Court would have given Trump what he wanted but since the TRO expires in five days, they’re gonna wait and see what the DC circuit does.

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world just lost $1.4 billion (with a B) to a hack. This is 5x as much as the previous largest exchange hack in history.

Supreme court declines Trump administration request to reverse District Court order reinstating Hampton Dellinger as the head of the office of special counsel. Alito and Gorsuch dissent. Can’t draw too many conclusions from it b/c of very unusual procedural posture, which may have driven decision.

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

Saluted Hitler yesterday, invited to speak at CO GOP fundraiser today

Why not have a division, at least?

Musk, Trump, and RFK Jr.’s cuts to the CDC have halted 9/11 health care for Ground Zero workers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

🚨 BREAKING: Ohio broke the law, illegally depriving 300,000 Ohioans of thousands of dollars (each) in federal unemployment benefits. $900M total. The dollars are still available. In a federal account. But Musk will no doubt be eyeing the funds for billionaire tax cuts. 1/

There's a certain former Republican US Senator who lost his job because his constituents demanded he host a town hall meeting to explain why he was serving Trump instead of the state that elected him and that state *hasn't elected a Republican to a statewide office since*

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

DOGE = Department of Gross Errors

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Last I checked there was a federal criminal statute on extortion that’s enforced by the United States Department of Jus— … oh wait, never mind

Bannon: "The J6 choir is gonna play the Kennedy Center!"

We're here live from the committee hearing on HB25-1208, the awful anti-worker bill that would cut majy tipped workers' wages by thousands of dollars a year. And well - it's so packed the room is overflowing into the hall! #coleg #copolitics

This would feel good, but it would be dramatically misreading the situation. This isn’t a bumptious lawyer sending a bogus defamation threat. It’s the U.S. Attorney of an office that can seek to charge you. Don’t yield, but exercise communications discipline.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

🚨 Scoop: Treasury Dept agrees to block DOGE access to personal taxpayer data at IRS 🚨 IRS was preparing to try to reject this request, but was able to negotiate with the Trump admin to narrow access. Now DOGE will get the same access as academic researchers and some IT professionals, per sources.