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Team Trump has defended their FAA cuts. Former staffers warn the purge will only create more safety risks® Despite assurances from transport secretary Sean Duffy that none of the 400 FAA staff let go were critical safety personnel, industry experts disagree Rhian Lubin in New York • Friday 21 February 2025 16:47 GMT

One FAA staffer let go last week was an aeronautical information specialist just outside of Washington, D.C., whose job is to evaluate and prepare navigation maps, routes and flight paths, including helicopters around major airports.

"They may not be touching air traffic control equipment, but their work is critical to the aviation ecosystem," an air-traffic workers' union spokesperson told The Independent. The fired staffer, who was on a team of 12, told Politico that without them, "pilots would quite literally be flying blind."

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National Musk's blitzkrieg is unnerving many of Trump's senior advisers Officials have been blindsided by DOGE's actions. But the president's strong support of the group means other advisers have limited options. Today at 12:00 p.m. EST a15min 贝 5 332

"Basically every Cabinet member is sick of him, but nobody feels like they're in a position to do anything about it," said one person who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations with several incoming secretaries or their staffs. "People are afraid to cross him even as he's wreaking havoc on their agencies."

“Basically every cabinet member is sick of him” lol

What ProPublica’s Reporters Will Be Covering During Donald Trump’s Second Presidency — and How to Contact Them From Trump’s relationships with billionaires to immigration, here are some of the issues and topics our reporters will be keeping an eye on as his second presidency begins.

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NEWS Elon Musk's DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it / Instead of using government servers, the DOGE website appears to pull from an insecure database. by Jess Weatherbed Feb 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM PST f 16 Comments (16 New) REPONTREN GOVERAMIEN A EFFICIENCY Such security, much open. Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge

Two web experts reported a security flaw to 404 media after discovering doge . Com is pulling from database that third parties can access and update, pushing unauthorized entries to the live website.

They can’t even set up a website securely and we’re supposed to trust them with everyone’s personal data.

Photo of the Trump and Musk Oval Office press conference. Trump is sitting down at his desk leaning forward looking intently at Musk, however Musk has been replaced by the Businessman Kid from Bojack Horseman (3 kids in a trench coat)

“We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X and to the DOGE website. So all of our actions are maximally transparent.”

team's work. As he answered questions, Musk's 4-year-old son, X, stood between the two men when he was not hoisted on Mr.Musk's shoulders or sitting on the floor. Mr.Trump often appeared to be staring at the child, relegated to something of a side character in his own office.

Oof lol

• Some Democrats see the callers as barking up the wrong tree given their limited power as the minority party in Congress: "It's been a constant theme of us saying, 'Please call the Republicans," said Beyer.

Great strategy, let’s see how it plays out for them.

You would think the ONE thing we could all agree on as a country is that billionaires shouldn’t be involved in running our government and yet…

1 hr 55 min ago Booz Allen says Treasury subcontractor behind DOGE threat assessment has been terminated From CNN's Sean Lyngaas The subcontractor responsible for an internal Treasury Department threat assessment warning about the "unprecedented insider threat risk" posed by the Department of Government Efficiency's access to the agency's sensitive payment system has been terminated, contractor Booz Allen Hamilton said in a statement on Saturday. Booz Allen claimed the assessment was a "draft report," though it was widely circulated internally at the Treasury Department. "Commentary provided in a draft document by a subcontractor contained unsubstantiated personal opinions," the statement said.

Firing the whistleblowers and rehiring the racists. Great country we’ve got here.

U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test Candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement jobs were asked to give "yes" or "no" responses to questions such as: Was Jan. 6 "an inside job?"

Separately, at least two individuals in FBI field offices outside Washington, who were being interviewed for senior positions, were asked similar questions, said one U.S. official familiar with the incidents. The questions included: Who were the "real patriots" on January 6? Who won the 2020 election? Who is your "real boss?"

Who is your “real boss”?

Trump Administration The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk's DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.

Kmiec appears to have become interested in crypto long before it went mainstream. A friend wrote an essay published online recalling meeting Kmiec at an Irish pub in Washington's Dupont Circle in the mid-2010s, where the men spoke about "the errors of central banks, the libertarian movement, and Bitcoin." In 2021, Kmiec began working for a Swiss foundation that promotes a blockchain called Tezos, according to his LinkedIn. He then served for nine months as CEO of a now-defunct startup called InterPop, which described itself as "forging the future of digital fandom with comic, game, and collectible NFTs minted responsibly on the Tezos blockchain." A former staffer at InterPop described the company in an interview as a refinement of the Magic: The Gathering card game. But the former staffer added, "We ran out of money and the game failed."

Yes this definitely checks out

There are a bunch of “that’s what they voted for” in the comments and I am once again reminding you that kids did not vote for anything. Kids cannot help having dipshit parents, and kids will be the ones suffering. I understand that excising empathy feels better but come ON, y’all.

Elon fires thousands of people but the minute the racist guy leaves he’s like “ohhh no!!!”

THIS IS WHAT YOU LATCH ON TO???

Some intel: I've talked to journalists and folks on the Hill about this. Last night after OMB's action, some Senate Dems tried to unify the caucus to vote against Duffy. Schumer, among others, opposed it, and it flopped.

The current Dem leadership strategy is to use strong language but not do shit.

I dunno, it’s still completely insane to me that Trump was allowed to run again. Four years to prevent this and nothing.

Costco doing more out here than the Democrats.

Screenshot at elon laughing at Tim pool comment suggesting Selena Gomez is friends with pedophiles and rapists and murderers

Screenshot of Elon replying with fire emoji to Gad Saad long winded tweet about how Selena Gomez has “suicidal empathy” and she’ll be featured in his book

Just watching the owner of a large social media platform gleefully promote harassment of a young woman.

Republicans spend all this time screaming about how unfair it is immigrants get benefits and aid and then turn around and cheer when Trump guts funding for Americans.

Yayyy!

it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol

If you’re old enough to have opposed the Iraq war in the run up to it, you probably remember a very specific feeling: the distress born from knowing that either you’re insane, or everyone in power and every “serious” professional opinion-haver is.

I feel the same way about generative “AI.”

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fight with ratatouille’s

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we are watching JOHANNE SACREBLU, a Mexican trans woman’s response to EMILIA PÉREZ featuring an all-Mexican cast playing broad French stereotypes as a croissant and baguette heiress face off

“France” is peopled with mimes and twisty moustaches and every character has a Ratatouille secreted on them

Matt Yglesias gleefully using the r-slur.

Noah Smith gleefully using the r-slur.

I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.

I tried to warn people that Weaponized unreality was going to come for the entire world if it’s succeeded in coming from America as it has now. It is on everyone in every place outside of the country and inside the country to fight back against the blatant rewriting of reality by fascists.

Can you not though

Shatner qt Netanyahu sticking up for Elon’s “salute”: this should end this debate once and for all. If you disagree then contact mr Netanyahu Elon: bullseye emoji

Oh it ends the debate all right

Trump's anti-DEl executive orders target employee resource groups, federal workers say "In the snap of fingers, our work is being completely undone.... It's one step forward, two steps back," one employee said of changes across the resource groups.

"There are affinity groups for parents of mentally disabled or physically disabled children. It provides the ability for people to meet like people, to share positions in life and to identify struggles and ways to get over the struggles," he said. The experience has left him anxious for what's to come, the worker said. He explained that he and his fellow group members have decided to disband the ERG and get rid of the distribution lists, which they fear could be used to target employees in the future. The move was also in light of a recent memo from the Office of Personnel Management that in part instructed agency and department heads to provide lists of DEI offices in their divisions and employees. "We went ahead and deleted everything else, because we don't want people to be swept up in becoming part of a list," the worker said. "That was a really sad step - having to pull the trigger ourselves and just end up deleting our entire existence."

People are afraid they’re going to be put on lists and targeted. If you’re not seeing parallels here you’re part of the problem.

if you say this to another human being i literally don't know if you are redeemable. maybe you deserve to be a greasy smear on the side of an overpass

Poster: text is red font, overlayed on black and white drawing of a smiling Anne Frank and Hind Rajab, with the dates of their birth and death. “Never again means never again for anyone”, with the word “anyone” underlined for emphasis. Social media accounts of creators also listed @tinil.valeur @flyers-for-falastin

Never again. That has to mean something more than a slogan used to feel good about condemning a distant genocide it costs nothing to condemn.