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JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

But how much does he want the penguins to pay?

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Especially someone who claims to be a master at making deals.

Was that before she killed the puppy?

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

"We reserve the right to refuse service ..."

Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

A typical human story. Acceptance of abuse invites more abuse, even if retaliation can be costly. People are warier of people who hit back.

It's not falling into a recession; it's being pushed into one.

That seems like a pretty low price for betraying your country and helping to dismantle its government.

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.

Why is everything so dumb

This made me happy.

Framing this.

Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...

More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”

BREAKING: Trump $5k stimulus checks coming out February 31st

New Doge/Musk Email Goes Seriously Sideways We’ve got a fascinating story unfolding with the new Musk email I...

NEW: New Doge/Musk Email Drama Goes Seriously Sideways talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-d...

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

Zelenskyy Agrees to Hold Immediate Election and Run for President of United States “I will gladly relocate from Ukraine to do the job.”

“For almost 250 years, the USA has been a beacon of democracy and freedom,” he said. “It should have a president who respects those ideas, and I will gladly relocate from Ukraine to do the job.”

Both can be true.

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.

The biggest line item on the site of Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is temporarily closed after Elon Musk fired members of its staff.

Senate Democrats Launch Portal For Whistleblower Submissions From Federal Employees This portal is being launched this morning in response to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE

Senate Democrats launched a new portal for federal employees to blow the whistle on illegal or illicit activities being done in the federal government under the purview of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or DOGE.

JUST IN: USAID employees say the administration is not complying with Judge NICHOLS' order to prevent the immediate dismantling of the agency.

They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions cut against his order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And watch the Trade Uncertainty Index shoot near 20-year highs. Legal chaos generally NOT a driver of domestic business investment.