I guess it’s not kidnapping if the government does it.

The top agent at the Secret Service’s New York field office is Hollywood-named Matt McCool.

To end his UN speech, Trump said, “Bye,” like he was on a phone call.

The lady doth protest too much.

Should be called the “Big Billionaire Break-the-Bank Bill Your Kids.”

Trump will go down in history.

The SAVE Act Extends the GOP’s War on Women to the Voter Rolls Opinion | It sounds like Trump’s idea of protecting women is limiting their rights to preserve his own grip on power.

"It sounds like Trump’s idea of protecting women is limiting their rights to preserve his own grip on power." - Susan Rinkunas
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Calling what Trump does “dumb” may seem folksy and relatable, but it’s so much worse than that.

Whistleblower org says DOGE may have caused 'significant cyber breach' at US labor watchdog A whistleblower complaint says that Elon Musk's team of technologists may have been responsible for a "significant cybersecurity breach," likely of sensitive case files, at America's federal labor watchdog.

www.reuters.com/technology/c...

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

Trump’s people are promising “bespoke negotiations,” which makes me hate that word even more.

Trump still lives in the 1980s, so in his mind, a 2025 stock market crash is inescapable, no big deal, and recoverable from.

*Elonfreude

Broadside from 1936:

DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many federal agencies.

NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

I’m on vacation and watching Fox News, which is not reporting this. It’s almost like national security stopped mattering once their guy got in.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Not to be overlooked is the fact that Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Defense and notorious alcoholic, initiated this group chat.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

New Social Security requirements calls for in-person checks The Social Security Administration is set to impose tighter identity verification measures starting March 31.

It has begun.

While on the one hand they're closing Social Security offices
On the other they're now requiring you go to an office.

They are designing failure into the system.

47 Social Security offices are listed for closure.

www.yahoo.com/news/social-...

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Elon is to J.D. as Don Jr. is to Eric.

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Trump/DOGE headlines are ALWAYS about cruelty to people who happen not to be:
white
rich
men
Christian pretenders
Fox News hosts
South African Nazis

How to buy your way out of a federal lawsuit On June 6, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against Coinbase, a crypto trading platform, alleging that the company was operating as an unregistered securities broker.

How to buy your way out of a federal lawsuit
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Trump and Musk stand for one thing: aggregation of unchallenged power to themselves and other rich, white, “Christian” men.

Today, U.S. Post Offices received an email ordering the immediate destruction of all U.S. Passport Application forms containing gender marker X. I took one to keep, for posterity.

Every accusation is a confession.

On Le Show this week, harryshearer.bsky.social interviews Matt Stoller about a conspiracy among corporate housing investors to fix rents, resulting in up to 25% of US rent inflation & enabled by software company Real Page, current defendant in an FBI antitrust case. Hoping this case survives Trump.

Hearing Republicans justify debt-increasing tax cuts for the rich, saying Musk will uncover offsetting waste, fraud, and abuse. Let’s get rid of Musk & his unelected band of rogue teenagers and rehire the Inspectors General Trump fired.

Elon Musk's DOGE Wants Access to the Treasury's Payment Systems: Report Musk’s allies repeatedly demanded access to sensitive government payment systems, according to the Washington Post.

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