Steve Goodman

This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services Twenty-one members of the United States DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

Cool!

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines th...

So outrageous and scandalous!

‘He who comes too late is punished by life’ Rather than lamenting the perceived irrationality, corruption or indecency of Team Trump, Europeans must recognise what is truly at stake

Some interesting views and much food for thought in this article.

'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos The Trump administration is derailing decades of conservation efforts in California's most loved park.

This is truly sickening.

This headline from the New York Times is mind-blowing.

Why doesn't Vance just come out and say, "Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party."

Good advice ⬇️

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

How do Trump’s 25% tariffs on aluminum, steel imports impact Vietnam? Vietnam will still hold multiple opportunities to export aluminum and steel to the U.S.

Vietnam is already impacted by Trump's tariffs.

Is Donald Trump Afraid of Elon Musk? The president has long operated without anything resembling worry when it comes to appointments or executive action, but as his most powerful—and richest—political ally chainsaws his way through the f...

Is Trump afraid of Musk? Yup!

Only hot take hacks — who style themselves as bold truth tellers and brave contrarians but are really just pathetic lapdog amanuenses — are inside the Pentagon now.

What you can do Revised and expanded

Here's a good list of things you can do to fight back against the madness currently in the USA.

My neighborhood in America struggling two weeks since Trump takes office - VnExpress International For two weeks since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, life around me has been chaotic.

Khanh Huynh is a Vietnamese lawyer living and working in the U.S. Here is his tale of woe as reported here in Vietnam. America's reputation is going down the drain.

The CIA Is About to Get a Trump Makeover The spy agency’s workforce received a buyout-style offer on Tuesday.

WTF?

What Does it Mean if Vietnam is the Next Asian Tiger? With this in mind, this article looks at what the Asian Tigers were before 1997, what happened in 1997 when the AFC hit, and then what that might say about Vietnam’s current economic development traje...

Put a tiger in your tank. Vietnam rising.

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

This by Ezra Klein is really spot on: “You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.” It looks like a power grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...