Cheryl Dahle

And what will YOU do with your last precious egg? (Apologies to Mary Oliver’s ghost.)

Wow. This may be the EO with the most unintended consequences but it’s sure stiff competition

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

FT: “.. An entrepreneur .. told German media that he had been ‘completely overrun’ with orders for a sticker he produced for Tesla owners that read: ‘I bought this before Elon went crazy.’”

$TSLA
www.ft.com/content/ea23...

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

“There are thousands of examples of this throughout all 50 states – ICE press releases that have reached the first page of Google search results, making it seem like enforcement actions just happened, when in actuality they occurred months or years ago.“

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As an auditor, this is an internal controls nightmare. There is absolutely no way the Treasury would pass an audit now.

ICYMI:

A website called “DEI Watch List” has "published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers [who are mostly Black employees] across health agencies, describing them at one point as 'targets.'"

He didn't.

We're in the midst of a constitutional crisis.

The world's richest man is effectively orchestrating a coup.

At the very least, Senate Dems should not be confirming any of Trump’s nominees for any agency while this power grab continues.

Nothing should be "business as usual."

The Musk coup is at five alarm fire. I just received this text from a friend:
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @midastouchmedia.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @sethabramson.bsky.social
#Musk # Coup

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

To be clear, the agency responsible for making the payment always drives the payment process. Currently, Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause, a Treasury employee, will have read-only access to the coded data of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems in order to continue this operational efficiency assessment. This is similar to the kind of access that Treasury provides to individuals reviewing Treasury systems, such as auditors, and that follows practices associated with protecting the integrity of the systems and business processes. Mr. Krause is conducting this effort in coordination with veteran career Treasury officials, and all operational processes continue to be conducted only by career Treasury staff in accordance with all standard security, safety, and privacy standards.

This Treasury letter does not contradict reporting by WIRED & TPM. It says "Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause" have read-only access, and "all operational processes" are conducted by Treasury staff.

That doesn't deny DOGE has admin and altered code.

home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

I shared @hcrichardson.bsky.social ‘s analysis on Facebook of the Elon-led data breaches and it prompted me to create an event based on the post. This is the ad Meta AI created for that “event.” Trolling or does AI know how deep the doo doo is that we’re in?🫠😳🥴

Stop the #cuckoocoup

The U.S. has spent the last 40 years nurturing a culture that deems immediate self-gratification to be the only true measure of "freedom." Is it really a surprise, then, that Americans were so willing to shuck collective values like democracy and public health when goaded on by a con artist?

Taking up hobbies that don't allow me to doomscroll at the same time has been an unexpected boon to my mental health.

They're already trying to Gish gallop us into submission, and it's been less than 24 hours. The breaks to craft, or read, or sit at a gaming table, are needed

I did not expect that my instructions for resistance would be delivered via stuffies video. But here we are. www.facebook.com/share/r/1Hhr...

This is a pretty brilliant resource