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Whistle Blower: Russian Breach of US Data Through DOGE Was Carried Out Over Starlink "Directly to Russia" Daniel Berulis appeared on Rachel Maddow's news show with his attorney Andrew Bakaj

This is extremely disturbing. It needs to be taken very seriously. It appears that they have been doing this systematically throughout multiple agencies.
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No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore Even legal residents and tourists are being terrorized by Trump-emboldened officers at ICE and CBP.

A legal resident of New Hampshire was “violently interrogated” for hours, stripped naked, and forced into a cold shower. Given little food or water and prevented from taking medication, he collapsed and was hospitalized.

How was Elon to know that Elmers dissolves in water?

What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.

Seriously. We have handed total oversight of essential federal government services to a man who publicly admits to using powerful psychoactive drugs on (at least) a weekly basis. Drug abusing leadership didn't help Nazi Germany, either.
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Who needs that fancy-pants European wine when we've got hardworking American chemists cooking up plenty of meth and bathtub fentanyl? America First!!!

YouTube video by The Unwieldies - Topic Veronica

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The goal was clearly to make the vast majority of Americans dumber, poorer and sicker. Mission accomplished.

If another country decided to wage an undeclared war on the United States government and civilian population, it would look just like this. But I'm sure Russia has our best interests in mind.

1999 REM is among my faves, as is 1993 Neil Young. But my absolute fave is Nirvana's 1993 Unplugged. It's when I started to take that band very seriously. I think it's a harrowing performance (and thank God Pat Smear and most of the Meat Puppets were playing with them).

Wall Street Journal: "The Dumbest Trade War in History." Tariffs for tariff's sake, with constantly shifting rationales. (How does taxing car parts curb American appetites for illegal drugs?) It makes Smoot-Hawley look carefully well-considered in comparison.

Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.

“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall,” a surgeon who formerly led USAID’s global health initiatives tells @gregsargent.bsky.social. “Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.”

The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.

For anyone wondering why Donald Trump refuses to criticise Putin, while hectoring Zelenskyy, here is my piece about the US president's 1987 trip to Moscow. Trump's visit was arranged by the ... KGB. Extract comes from my #1 New York Times-bestselling book 'Collusion' www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

He's going to send all those Javelin anti-tank missiles he's taking out of Ukraine.

The Birth of the Trump Doctrine Lies in the 1987 Recruitment of Donald Trump By the KGB During His Trip to Moscow That Year How Trump responded to his recruitment remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that it shaped his entrance into politics and his foreign policy in a way the world now ignores at its peril.

This is one of the most shameful days in U.S. history. A weak, corrupt, deceitful, compromised Kremlinist U.S. president recruited his Yarvinist VP to gang up on a heroic ally on live TV. It devolved into a shouting match.

Why? This report explains _exactly_ why:

His contribution to underground music and culture was enormous. David Johansen made the world safe for high heels on men.

David Johansen, Who Fronted the New York Dolls and More, Dies at 75 In the 1970s, he and the transgressive Dolls were proto-punk pioneers. He later refashioned himself as the pompadoured lounge lizard Buster Poindexter.

Breaking News: David Johansen, who as frontman of the New York Dolls was in the vanguard of glam and punk rock, has died at 75.

Senior Leaders Are Leaving FEMA Along with about 1,000 rank-and-file workers, FEMA is losing some of the managers most experienced in handling emergency efforts.

More than a dozen senior leaders at FEMA have been fired or have quit under President Trump, weeks ahead of hurricane season.

The grift continues: FAA is taking a $2.4 billion contract, awarded 2 years ago to Verizon, and giving it to Musk's Starlink. Meanwhile, Musk has fired the FAA investigators who were looking into Musk's SpaceX for alleged safety violations. www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

The Trump administration isn't just pro-Russia. It's pro-virus as well.

Grabbed my measles vax and a pad-kee-mao lunch special, extra spicy, with a large Thai iced tea, and enjoyed driving around so much on this glorious sunny spring day in Las Vegas, I almost forgot that our country is rapidly sliding into tyranny and depraved corruption.

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

ICYMI: DOGE’s *own data* show that approx 40% of its cuts are saving the government a grand total of… 🥁 $0 👀😬⤵️

"FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled..." Drug companies need about 6 months to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns.
No flu strain selection, no flu vaccine, lots of sick people. A triumph for pathogens, courtesy of idiot conspiracy theorists.

Sounds like Bezos is promoting libertarianism. I've always found that libertarians are just Republicans who take too much ketamine.

Today is a good time to remind everyone to consider supporting independent journalism.

Also, federal workers, please consider talking to journalists from independent news outlets.

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Grabbed my measles vax and a pad-kee-mao lunch special, extra spicy, with a large Thai iced tea, and enjoyed driving around so much on this glorious sunny spring day in Las Vegas, I almost forgot that our country is rapidly sliding into tyranny and depraved corruption.

The horrible tragic crash last night over DCA is an example where this third principle is important. We don't really know what caused the crash. It is totally appropriate to ask tough questions of the people running the government, and as context to note they've undertaken a war on the civil service

Too late. Dana White has been paling around with racists and rapists for a long time. I wrote a story for CityLife 10 years ago on his efforts to greenwash his abysmal record. There is zero chance he just woke up this morning and decided to change his stripes.