Reprehensible.

Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and living with cancer

DOGE needs to be stopped. So we need to pass my bill – H.R. 2601, the Delete DOGE Act.

I just introduced the Delete DOGE Act, which – you guessed it – would defund DOGE.

There are confirmed reports of over a dozen international student visa revocations across the UCs, including at UCLA. Allegedly students have been notified by their international student center, either by email or through portal. We urge all international students to check their 'notices' tab on their my ucla portal as well as their email and monitor closely.

#BREAKING: UCLA STUDENTS VISA REVOCATIONS

There are confirmed reports of over a dozen international student visa revocations across the UCs, including at UCLA. Allegedly students have been notified by their international student center, either by email or through a a portal

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

April 2, 2025 (Wednesday) Just five months ago, on October 19, 2024, The Economist ran a special report on America’s economy.

Must read:
From Heather Cox Richardson today, April 3rd 2025:

Just five months ago, on October 19, 2024, The Economist ran a special report on America’s economy. That economy was, the magazine said, “the envy of the world.”

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Repub. Keith Self quoted Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, as if he were citing an authority on governance.

“It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.”

Spoken in defense of state control over speech.
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March 27, 2025 A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Curtis Yarvin, currently aligned with the religious extremists at Project 2025, laid out a plan to gut the U.S. govt and replace it with a dictatorship. This would be a “reboot” of the country. Yarvin wrote, and it would require a full re-start.
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"Trump is wielding unilateral power with these tariffs so that companies and countries come to him to beg for tariff relief in exchange for bribes or favors. This is all about making Trump personally richer and more powerful. Meantime, we will suffer."

America has become a gangster dystopia.

Texas reports large leap in measles cases bringing total to 481 across 19 counties

US prepares for deadly floods with many National Weather Service offices understaffed

Doge eyes cuts to Peace Corps with in-person visit and records access

@unclethirsty0.bsky.social It has been reported you are posting Biden pedophile lies. Your account has been reported.

Not as stupid as you.

@unclethirsty0.bsky.social You are a lying amoral asshole and scumbag. As if you didn’t know. You revel in your smug, cancerous ignorance, thinking you are oh so funny and smart, when you are actually a skunk and a loser. Maybe even a pedophile.

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Profoundly repugnant and inhuman.

In botched DEI purge, OSHA trashes workplace safety guidelines The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an internal February 7 email ob...

5. Page 10 of "Guidelines for Nursing Homes: Ergonomics for the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders" notes "development of MSDs may be related to genetic causes, gender, age, and other factors."

The single use of the word "gender" appears to have flagged the publication for deletion.

Who’s in charge of DOGE? Not Elon Musk, White House says A Trump administration personnel official says Musk has "no actual or formal authority to make government decisions."

“Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE — the mysterious Trump administration operation overseeing an effort to break and remake the federal bureaucracy. In fact, he’s not even technically part of it at all, the White House said in court papers Monday night.”

Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

These are the ads about Elon Musk that the Washington Post refused to run.

The paper offered NO EXPLANATION.

This is the problem with outlets that are CONTROLLED BY BILLIONAIRES focused on ingratiating themselves with Trump.

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Lawyers James Burnham, Keenan Kmiec, and Noah Peters have been identified, as well as other DOGE-affiliated staff like Anthony Armstrong, Jennifer Balajadia, Stephanie Holmes, and Adam Ramada.

The U.S. DOGE Service is led by Steve Davis, Brad Smith, and Katie Miller, while DOGE engineers include Alexandra “Aly” Beynon, Riccardo Biasini, Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier “Cole” Killian, Gavin Kliger, Nikhil Rajpal, Ethan Shaotran, Christopher Stanley, and Jordan Wick.

At the General Services Administration (GSA), Stephen Ehikian, Thomas Shedd, and Nate Cavanaugh have taken key roles. The Treasury Department now includes Tom Krause and Marko Elez. Other federal advisers include Justin Fulcher and Scott Langmack.

If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

Opinion | Refusing to Carry Out Trump’s Flagrantly Dishonest Orders The Trump administration is trying to bake quid pro quo deal making, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government.

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