DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.

Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.

CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.

Are you kidding me?! Think twice before you take that cruise. I worked the COVID cruise evacuations—they scarred me for life. And now? They’ve gutted the CDC unit that inspects cruise ships for norovirus, E. coli & other outbreaks. This is how preventable disasters happen. Again.

This is really scary and bad

Even for MAGA, this is fucking NUTS.

I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

As I expected, the government ignored the 9:30 a.m. deadline set by the federal court in Maryland.

The court moved the deadline to 11:30 a.m.

As I expected, the government ignored the 11:30 deadline.

A 1:00 p.m. court hearing was scheduled.

As I expected, the government demanded it be canceled.

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

In prior administrations, the main entry hall at DOJ displayed the portraits of the POTUS, VPOTUS, and AG. Now?

Social Security backs off cuts to phone services amid outcry "Telephone remains a viable option to the public," the agency said in a statement.

We sounded the alarm, and they're backing off.

But the fight's not over. Trump and Musk still want to fire thousands of Social Security workers, close offices, and cut services.

We'll keep fighting back.

pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country

ICE: "We must punish immigrants for NOT paying taxes!"

IRS: "But they do pay taxes."

ICE: "Well, then help us punish them for PAYING taxes!"

We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Look, as long as this dangerous idiot is in the White House, the rest of the world should just ignore America and certainly not even think about investing in America. If I’m the rest of the world, I’m taking a four year break from America.

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

Don’t blame just Trump for this. Blame every congressional Republican. They own this tariff disaster too. In fact, they own every stupid, ignorant, cruel, authoritarian, un-American thing Trump does.

Cowards. Enablers. Accomplices.

The American Age Is Over Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from @jvl.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

He’s an idiot. If you didn’t know that before, know that now. He’s an idiot.

If you live in Wisconsin or in the 6th congressional district of Florida you’ll have a chance to do something the rest of us only dream about doing...

[It's also an election day in many other parts of the country, too.] https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-you-live-in-wisconsin-or-floridas

Elon Musk’s Megadeal Between X and xAI Breaks Wall Street’s Rulebook The tech titan can follow his own rules when he is combining two companies he owns, but the merger is still raising dealmaker eyebrows.

“It’s like using Monopoly money to buy Pokémon cards.”

www.wsj.com/business/dea...

The CDC has literally been gutted today.

There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.

Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.

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One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

“Improper ideologies? Those alone are two words that signal the end of America as we know it. There are not supposed to be “improper ideologies” in these United States, a country with freedom of expression woven into the fabric of its founding documents.”

Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns.

Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity.

It’s been the plan for decades.

There are two House elections in Florida, CD-1 and CD- 6, on Tuesday, that could have a major impact on the balance of power in House. Please post as comments ways to volunteer or donate.

JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.