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He nails it.

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Local news has picked this up, noting, “Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris also appeared to be in attendance at the event, although he has yet to offer a public statement after multiple attempts to contact his office.“ You can see him downthread. www.khq.com/news/attende...

submitted 19 hours ago • 33 comments

Here is your self-care checklist for today and every day! 💚 💙 🩵 💜 🧡 💛 ❤️

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

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submitted 18 hours ago • 878 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 556 comments

Focus on the positive: this has overall been a very bad week for Trump! * he is falling in the polls - both his favorability and his policies * he lost his first Supreme Court case on firing an watchdog, setting the way for others fired to fight back 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 1184 comments

Another shakedown: U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target. They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed. This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Hegseth fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations. Trump fired Gen. Charles Brown Jr., a four-star fighter who became only the second African American to hold the job of Joint Chiefs Chairman. A Black man and a woman.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the safety-standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Two DOGE workers are now at CISA (DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) I've confirmed. Edward Coristine, the 19-yr-old known as Big Balls, and Kyle Schutt, a 37-yr-old software engineer. Marisa Kabas (bsky.app/profile/mari...) was first to report about Coristine. My piece for Wired

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

ICYMI— “9/11 community advocates warn of staffing cuts at federal health program… Spectrum News reached out to the Trump White House, they did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.” ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

A reminder: I've started a Discord server! If you'd like to join, please follow this invite: discord.com/invite/DmP4K...

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

It is very clear that this and other DOGE officials did not pass any serious security background check, even as they are being handed access to the most sensitive data in government. www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

The official White House account just referred to Trump as a “king” and posted an image with a crown on his head. They’re not even hiding it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1184 comments

Trump's latest executive order puts independent agencies — including the FTC, SEC, and NLRB — under his direct control. It's a blatant attempt to shield his corporate donors and his own business from agencies that hold the powerful accountable. This is an alarming power-grab.

submitted 4 days ago • 128 comments

Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 5 days ago • 1924 comments

NBC News confirms: An IRS employee affiliated with Elon Musk's DOGE has accessed an IRS system that holds sensitive taxpayer information. @msnbc.com

submitted 6 days ago • 370 comments

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 317 comments

WASH POST: “Musk’s DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial info about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in 🇺🇸 — sparking alarm within the tax agency.” Alarmed yet? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 133 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 7 days ago • 186 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

Musk’s website, DOGE, leaked classified government information to the entire world. NOFURN [Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals] information on their website about the [intelligence community] headcount has prompted a scramble as people check whether their information has been accessed.

submitted 7 days ago • 228 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 9 days ago • 600 comments

If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

submitted 9 days ago • 619 comments

As a parent of two kids with special needs, I'm pretty damn excited to know that a racist billionaire who routinely uses the slur "r*tards" is destroying the federal department that's a bulwark for special education and support for disabled children.

submitted 12 days ago • 189 comments

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acknowledged that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team, which has been tasked with slashing federal spending, has access to her agency’s data, including that of federal disaster aid recipients’ personal information, as part of an “audit” she welcomes.

submitted 13 days ago • 146 comments

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

submitted 13 days ago • 221 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 16 days ago • 158 comments

The richest man on earth, Elon Musk is trying to kill a department, USAID, that helps the poorest people on earth Because USAID has been investigating Musk and his Starlink company — and their ties to Vladimir Putin and Russia THAT is why Musk is attacking USAID

submitted 14 days ago • 231 comments

With our Tracker, we are now following 41 cases 1. Immigration and citizenship 2. Structure of government/personnel 3. Federal assistance 4. Civil liberties 5. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility 6. Removal of information from government websites 7. Actions against FBI employees

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

“Internal VA emails obtained by TMJ4 News show that official job offer templates, job postings, and new hire records are all blocked by OPM pop-ups.”

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

This is insane. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

submitted 15 days ago • 42 comments

It’s almost like President Elon and his sidekick Donald have no idea what they’re doing.

submitted 16 days ago • 68 comments

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

submitted 16 days ago • 1127 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 16 days ago • 1142 comments

One reason Musk might be so driven to shut down USAID? The agency's inspector general opened a probe into Starlink last year. Now the Trump administration says Musk will self-determine his conflicts of interest. Hello?

submitted 16 days ago • 188 comments

The moment we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down one agency – we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down anything.

submitted 16 days ago • 382 comments

Elon Musk. The Un-Elected President of the United States.

submitted 16 days ago • 101 comments

Musk’s team—Christopher Young, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gavin Kliger—is currently at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This move comes just months after Musk posted “Delete CFPB” on his X social media platform.

submitted 16 days ago • 137 comments

Elon Musk’s team has arrived at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters, according to Politico

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

NEWS: A 23-year-old from Elon Musk’s DOGE was granted access to the Energy Department’s IT system on Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, sources told CNN. This occurred despite objections from people in the agency, which controls access to info about the US nuclear weapons

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments