Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under Trump (Gift Article) Elon Musk’s role in the White House allows him to cancel contracts and influence policy, potentially benefiting his companies. Supporters say he has the best technology.

Elon Musk might be cutting government spending, but not on his own projects — billions in extra federal money is likely headed toward SpaceX, thanks to policy changes that will make the world’s richest man even richer. A NYT investigation examines the Trump-era shift toward SpaceX

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Trump and DOGE have fired 25,000 federal workers so far.

Now Trump and DOGE have to hire them back thanks to court orders.

Most workers have been placed on administrative leave — technically rehired and paid, but still unable to do vital work in our communities.

"Efficiency."

Jackie Robinson’s Legacy Vanishes, Then Reappears, on Defense Department Site A number of military pages focused on African American achievements have been lost amid the Trump administration’s effort to scrub references to diversity and inclusion. Some return. Others don’t.

An article on the Defense Department website devoted to Jackie Robinson’s military career disappeared and then reappeared, joining a series of government web pages on Black figures that have vanished under the Trump administration’s efforts to purge government websites of references to DEI.

U.K. Tourist Returns Home in Chains Like ‘Hannibal Lecter’ Becky Burke was released in chains and handcuffs after spending 19 days in an ICE detention facility

U.K. tourist Becky Burke finally returned home to Wales on Tuesday after spending 19 days in a U.S. ICE detention facility. Her parents relayed their daughter’s description of her release from ICE, saying how she was taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” which left her “traumatized.”

Last night,Russia launched a very deliberate&demonstrative massive strike on Odesa: that's the ceasefire you get.
This is very usual for prison culture:to beat up& kill demonstratively.

I will repeat the facts once more:
Russia is a terrorist state.
Putin is a war criminal

More of this, please. A LOT more of this, please.

Ah, ye olde "critics said," huh?

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Trump vowed to end surprise medical bills. The team working on that just got slashed Trump's first round of staff cuts to federal agencies eliminated dozens of positions at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, in charge of implementing the No Surprises Act.

As a candidate, Trump promised to end surprise medical billing.  

Just weeks into his second term, DOGE has slashed the federal office charged with implementing a bipartisan law cracking down on surprise medical bills.

Yet another Trump lie.

Extending the Trump tax cuts for the next 10 years would add roughly $4 trillion to the deficit.

Remember this the next time Republicans try paying for them with cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. 

The "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.

YouTube video by Katie Couric “Democracy Is Fragile” and Trump’s Threat to Us All, With Heather Cox Richardson

“Democracy Is Fragile” and Trump’s Threat to Us All, With @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @katiecouric.bsky.social youtu.be/f-78R0monV4?...

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda.

Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying.

Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate.
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COME ON JUST THROW THE FUCKING RING INTO THE FIRE FRODO WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT

Hollywood flips the bird at Kanye West with this #EnoughIsEnough campaign.

When you tow with these, the range is cut in half. Couple that with the recommendations to not deplete the battery below 50%, the range will 60-80 miles. How is this even practical for a military vehicle? Will there be battery trucks to refill them? Re-charge stations?

Zowie

I want to thank Senator @edmarkey.bsky.social for this post - it's the first thing that's made me feel hopeful since the election.

Save this image to your phones.

Whenever you feel like things are hopeless and we can't win, look at that image.

It made me want to fight again!

Family of Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo: ‘My Brother Is Not a Criminal.’ Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.

Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the U.S. so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.

"Medicaid waiver programs" pay for medically necessary treatments and services that commercial insurers will not cover.

Cigna will, quite simply, let kids die.

Defend Press Freedom: Urge Paramount Not to Settle Out of Court with Trump If we lose our First Amendment rights and freedom of the press, democracy is finished.  We need big media companies and powerful CEOs to stand up to Trump. 

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We are indeed done here -

The new cover of TIME.

This.

> @markruffalo.bsky.social

February 2, 2025 Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...

February 2, 2025

📌Three soldiers are dead tonight. Their Commander in Chief took no responsibility for it, and didn’t show a shred of empathy.
He is a tiny man, a coward, completely unfit for duty, and an embarrassment to all of us who served.
I spit on him.

The Trump administration is mounting a full-on assault against disabled children and it’s not even subtle.

January 30, 2025 Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.

January 30, 2025