Monica Teschler

Listen to @leahlitman.bsky.social

Three things that are all true:

1) What Trump and Musk are doing is an unprecedented, authoritarian power grab

2) Their methods are slapdash and hamfisted because they lack the muscle to act legislatively

3) If the courts choose not to enforce the law, 2) won't matter — and 1) will succeed

Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...

EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic"

www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

Most insane part is that you or I have as much right to storm into a government agency and seize computers as Musk does. As in: zero. But it’s all being normalized by #complicitmedia. “doge” is bullshit.

‘Patriotic education’: Trump orders federal push to monitor K-12 curriculum Former Education Department staff describe the move as unprecedented interference into the country’s education system.

President Donald Trump has directed the federal government to begin a campaign to monitor and influence K-12 curriculum — a move that former Education Department staff describe as unprecedented interference into the country’s education system.

What the actual fuck?

$500 billion for an AI-created MRNA vaccine? That’s a lot of teacher salaries.

I’m sure the price of eggs will go down though.