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HUD sources say this is playing on all TV screens in D.C. headquarters this morning

Blaming journalism exposing government abusing power for why government no longer builds big things is kinda crazy

It wouldn’t shock me the least if the “what did you do last week” email was simply a prank Elon came up with on the fly

Let’s hope this didn’t get forwarded to anyone undercover in the field on an insecure email address. Trust me, crazier things have happened.

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

我花了两天写的报道就被李老师这么直接抄袭了👍👍👍

How long until Chinese actors pivot to DeepSeek and cut off visibility into their ops?

"OpenAI also said it had uncovered a separate Chinese campaign, called Sponsored Discontent, that used OpenAI’s technologies to generate English-language posts that criticized Chinese dissidents."

Noticed an interesting *maybe* new TTP with these Matryoshka/Overload bots: posing as freelancers or journalists of reputable news organizations. Some screenshots of ones live today:

Asked to describe Kanye West in one word, Kari Lake claims she doesn't know enough about him, then applauds his "courage" in supporting Trump.

VOA - The vast majority of human rights groups focused on North Korea face an existential crisis after receiving notices from the US government that their grant funds have been frozen. www.voanews.com/a/north-kore...

Used to read similar headlines that started with "China" but here we are

Kash Patel has agreed to divest the shares he owns in public companies such as Meta and Apple if confirmed as FBI director, but he plans to retain shares in Shein’s parent company, Elite Depot.

BREAKING: Donald Trump issued an executive order tonight aimed at ending several decades-old and highly successful government programs. Among the programs Trump says he's ending: The Federal Executive Boards and the Presidential Management Fellows Program. What do they do, you ask? Key things!

Lmao

The leader of a Chinese Students and Scholars Association chapter in London said the Chinese embassy asked them to find out the names of students who took part in campus protests, including White Paper protests. Not good, but also no great surprise. blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit...

Perplexity just released what it calls an unbiased version of DeepSeek, removing its embedded censorship on topics such as Taiwan. www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/ope...

NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

The State Department has suddenly awoken to the incredible opportunity that is $400 million of expensive and impractical armored Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

A US-based vocal critic of China's censorship regime has found himself in the crosshairs of a months-long online harassment campaign that experts say is likely the work of a Beijing-backed operation known as Spamouflage. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies 🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

五毛到现在还没复工,我很生气 www.voachinese.com/a/china-trol...

Chinese e-commerce merchants, including some on Temu, are using fake shipping labels to trick the U.S. postal service into delivering products for free. Latest for @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/temu-se...

If the PRC jacks up spending on public health in East Africa that is a good thing, but I can tell you right now there is huge opposition within China to increasing foreign aid. The more likely scenario is just that lots of people will die from malaria

Well well well

A person with direct knowledge confirmed with me that Marko Elez requested that the Wayback Machine remove all of his past tweets. A Internet Archives rep said this is their longstanding policy — that rights holders can request URLs to be excluded — but wouldn't comment on any specific case.

这些新闻和视频,每一个抖需要花大量时间和精力去查证,找出起因经过和结果,最后写出文案配音制作出视频,并不是简单的转发,如果只是简单的转发的话,我平均每天可以发至少50条。

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...

🚨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...

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Pam Bondi is the first AG in American history who was a lobbyist for a foreign dictatorship. And in her first move as AG: "The Justice Department is scaling back enforcement of laws governing foreign lobbying transparency and bribes of foreign officials." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

“The former environmental lawyer said if it is entirely left for China to provide aid, areas such as women's rights and natural resource management will lose a large portion of funding, if not entirely, because China is not interested in improving local governance.” www.voanews.com/a/china-may-...

WIRED’s @aarianmarshall.bsky.social obtained a DoT memo that pauses funding for all states to build electric vehicle charging stations. This is making US’ already pitiful EV charging infrastructure even worse.

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.

“The former environmental lawyer said if it is entirely left for China to provide aid, areas such as women's rights and natural resource management will lose a large portion of funding, if not entirely, because China is not interested in improving local governance.” www.voanews.com/a/china-may-...

“Impact” of IO is notoriously hard to measure. The Breakout Scale, from @benimmo.bsky.social, continues to be one of the best tools for doing so. This one is a great example of a “Category 5” op, if the attribution to Overload/Matryoshka is indeed correct.

HUGE: a federal judge just enjoined Elon Musk’s “fork in the road” offer of “deferred resignation” for federal employees, blocking it from proceeding until the court can hold a hearing next week. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...