Noble Fox

Ah here comes @cnn.com with the bullshit straight out of 2003

6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip

Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

Providers owe $1B for misused COVID-19 funds. DOGE just cut the office recouping them The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cut a little-known bureau in its ranks that was trying to recoup more than $1 billion in improper payments dispersed to providers during | By cutting ...

Remarkably short sighted.

www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/p...

Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building.

This is great, but why aren’t you brining the candidates who are going to be running against these GOP seats in the next election cycle to these town halls? You need to be elevating whoever is running against John James in 2026.

Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian The order directs the vice president to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

This is fucked. The Smithsonian is potentially in a position to fight this and I hope they do. Unlike organizations like the Kennedy Center and US Institute of Peace, the Smithsonian's board is controlled by congress, not the president (except the defacto board seats of the VP and Chief Justice)

Like in Brazil’s case (cited in the article): The shift back didn’t happen just because voters made a different choice. It took mass mobilization, legal resistance, institutional defiance, and social breakdown. In the process, people died, activists/journalists threatened/jailed, etc.

I appreciate the optimism, but this glosses over the real effort and cost involved in swinging back to democracy.

Tufts international graduate student taken into ICE custody A Tufts University international graduate student was reportedly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and remains in federal custody, according to an email sent by the university ...

A Tufts University graduate student is in federal custody in Louisiana after being detained by ICE. Rumeysa Ozturk was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast yesterday when she was detained near her home in Somerville, MA www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

America's "Constitutional Crash" This isn't "just" a crisis.

We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

I guess the Trump admin is waging war against peace now.

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

“We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas” - Chuck Schumer, probably

I don’t think enough attention has been put on how services for DC residents are going to be destroyed they have to find 1$ billion dollars in their budgets from schools, police, fire, parks etc

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

A must-read feature (with heart-stopping design) from the @wired.com team:

Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data.

What's next? Unleash the AI.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Chamath Palihapitiya ® Au @chamath Follow Make no mistake, just like in a private company, these are losses. America is deeply unprofitable, far away from breaking even and if outsiders stop lending us money, we will go bankrupt. So, in case you didn't know better, if you are still wishing DOGE to fail, you are wishing for America to default.

“America is deeply unprofitable” it’s a country not a B2B startup you fucking dweeb

The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Rep. Al Green:

Ami Bera, Calif.
Ed Case, Hawaii
Jim Costa, Calif.
Laura Gillen, N.Y.
Jim Himes, Ct.
Chrissy Houlahan, Pa.
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Jared Moskowitz, Fla.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Wash.
Tom Suozzi, N.Y.

clerk.house.gov/Votes/202562

Ma'am, you are a federal employee. STFU.

US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine | CNN Politics The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.

The fascism is coming from inside the house amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social John York's LinkedIn now states he is a "Counselor to the Secretary" at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. www.linkedin.com/in/john-york...

The "E" in DOGE stands for efficiency, but is that really the goal? Drastic cost-cutting measures and sweeping tech overhauls with no consideration of downstream effects simply aren't sustainable ... or maybe that's the point 🤔

👉 Read our full analysis here: www.wethebuilders.org/posts/a-tale...

Republican Congressman Slams Trump’s “Out of Control” Executive Orders Representative Troy Balderson, who has benefited from a Trump endorsement, is now speaking up.

Every week there's some quote from a GOP member speaking out against Trump, but without fail they still fall in line with the rest of the Republicans and vote for the MAGA agenda. I'd love to be wrong.

Trump claims expanded power over independent agencies The executive order would affect agencies like the SEC and FDIC, but it excludes the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and Open Market Committee.

Vought advocated against the concept of independent agencies in an interview with far-right broadcaster Tucker Carlson shortly after Trump's November election.

"There are no independent agencies"

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are my own. They do not reflect the official position of the US Government or the Social Security Administration. Colleagues: At 4:30pm EST, my boss called to tell me I had been placed on administrative leave pending an Investigation. They want to fire me for cooperating with DOGE. I confess. I helped DOGE understand SSA. I mailed myself publically accessible documents and explained them DOGE. I confess. I moved contractor money around to add data science resources to my anti-fraud team to examine Direct Deposit Fraud. I confess. I asked where the fat was and is in our contracts so we can make the right tough choices. Lt's end the revolving door

of an executive being a fed one day, letting a fat cat contract, and then walking out the next day for that contractor. I confess. I bullied agency executives, shared executive contact information, and circumvented the chain of command to connect DOGE with the people who get stuff done. I confess. I work long hours. I work odd hours. I get the job done. I confess. I talk to industry partners, advocates, and others about our challenges. I'm honest. I won't reveal PIl, FTI, or sensitive information. I educate. I confess. I post uncomfortable truths on Linkedin. I have a lifetime of posts in me. Everything I have ever done is in service to our country, our beneficiaries, and our agency.

New—Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner stepped down bc she wouldn't comply w/ DOGE. Lower-level staffer Leland Dudek replaced her.

In a now-deleted LinkedIn post (pre-promotion) shared w/ me, he said he was placed on admin leave bc he "circumvented the chain of command" to help DOGE.

Trump says AP will continue to be curtailed at White House until it changes style to Gulf of America President Donald Trump says his administration will continue to restrict The Associated Press' access to cover presidential events until the news agency goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mex...

President Trump said he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against AP's editorial policy.

Fact-checking Trump and Musk's claims that they are cutting government 'fraud and abuse' Elon Musk and President Donald Trump say they have uncovered massive "fraud" in the federal government. But the projects the White House points to are largely ones that the administration disagrees wi...

Facts are hard www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

From CFPB's former chief technologist:

The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us ‘If you build a door, other people will try to get in.’

I am still mad that crypto now stands for cryptocurrency and not cryptography because the crypto wars are back except they aren't because crypto doesn't mean what it used to www.theverge.com/policy/61213...