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#Skycards alert! The elusive (once a month?) flight to Wake Island is airborne now, for those working on their Oceania badge!

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NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

#Skycards copter alert! Bell 225 Relentless, 9.94 rarity, near Waco, TX.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 8 days ago • 853 comments

#Skycards alert - North American T2 trainer, 9.96 rarity, NW of Grand Junction, CO

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Senator Richard Durbin says he has info from "multiple sources" & meeting notes indicating that Kash Patel has secretly helped direct the FBI purge (via Stephen Miller to Emil Bove), and asked for an IG investigation. Says if true, Patel may have perjured himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 475 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 471 comments

The outcome of this political moment depends a lot on Americans being able to escape or see past the billionaire-controlled prison of right-wing propaganda our devices have become www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

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 Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.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 15 days ago • 1142 comments

"Individual engineers experimenting directly on live systems... violates every best practice for controlling risk in the industry. Elon Musk says he wants to run the government like a business, but no business operates this way." Super explanation by @lizthegrey.com of the dangers posed by DOGE.

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WSJ: A staffer for Elon Musk’s DOGE whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics He resigned Thursday after the WSJ asked about it. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 16 days ago • 72 comments

LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship. It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.” Part 1:

submitted 16 days ago • 76 comments

Elon Musk's impulse is to destroy, and claim that what rises in place of the thing he destroyed will be better. But when he did it to Twitter, we could leave. You can't leave behind the US government and everything it does. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/appetite-f...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

submitted 18 days ago • 191 comments

"In normal times, I would report insider threats to the appropriate security channels inside the government- but there is no one left for me to report it to." Helpful context on Musk's takeover of Treasury:

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 20 days ago • 357 comments

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

submitted 21 days ago • 26 comments

Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 67 comments

#Skycards alert - B1 bomber near Lubbock, TX

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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... via @statnews.com

submitted 22 days ago • 61 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 23 days ago • 2305 comments

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

submitted 24 days ago • 729 comments