Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funding for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine US health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract for bird flu shots that the Biden administration awarded to Moderna Inc., people familiar with the matter said.

The fuck.

Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Not known for political coverage, Wired takes a leading role in tracking Elon Musk's team The tech outlet Wired set up a new politics team in time for the presidential election — but its most impactful work is coming after the election is over.

"Wired gained 62,500 new subscribers in the United States during the first two weeks of February alone"

The only difference is that in America, these fuckers won instead of getting arrested

Pete Hegseth on FOX NEWS with headline chyron that reads: Tracking Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine.

This you?

Again, any time a Republican says we have to slash Medicaid to fix the deficit, they need to be asked why we shouldn’t just increase taxes on the rich.

It’s a zero sum game. Make them defend giving more money to billionaires over keeping ordinary people healthy.

Please let this pass with one vote. Every single vulnerable Republican will be tarred as being the deciding vote on stripping healthcare from their constituents and exploding the debt, all to give tax breaks to billionaires.

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.

So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

Random foreign actor: send us all your deets by tonite.

Military leaders: Who the fuck is this guy? Don't do it. Obey the chain of command.

Random foreign actor: Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?

Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in California’s Sierra Nevada. Beutler, 59, worked alone with a chain saw to remove every fallen tree on a 10-mile stretch of road between the town of Long Barn in Tuolumne County and the popular Hull Creek Campground. She single-handedly finished the work so the road could open in time for Memorial Day. As a recreation technician based out of the Summit Ranger Station in the Stanislaus National Forest, Beutler’s job was to clean toilets, pick up trash and maintain recreation sites and campgrounds up and down Sonora Pass. She’d typically drive her Forest Service truck 100 miles a day. She sprayed pit toilets with a fire hose. She wiped away graffiti and removed thousands of pounds of house trash, old furniture and useless stuff that people dumped in the forest. She extinguished hundreds of abandoned and illegal campfires. She assisted law enforcement during emergency accidents, helping officers navigate a swath of rugged forest land that she grew up on and knows intimately.

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump.

www.sfgate.com/california/a...

Every Democrat should be telling this story.

Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk.

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This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on.

That is part of the crisis we face.

I was previously told by Republicans that the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was one of history’s greatest scandals. But the chaotic withdrawal of *all* USAID from the whole globe?! Crickets.

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

Federal Elections Commission Chair Says Trump Tried to Illegally Fire Her Read more here.

Ellen Weintraub, the chair of the Federal Elections Commission, said Thursday in a social media post that President Donald Trump tried to illegally remove her from her job.

Scene at Treasury

Members of Congress were just denied entry to the Department of Treasury. This is a 5 alarm fire.

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

If you are more worried about protecting a political party from criticism, or spend more time policing the different types of leftists, progressives or liberals, all the while a right wing regressive oligarchy is dismantling the foundations of your country, you need to recalibrate your priorities.

I think there are good odds that the Trump administration uses the retaliatory tariffs imposed by Canada on lumber as an excuse for large-scale private timber operations on federal lands. They may even try to privatize national parks, etc. at a significant level.

Democrats need to learn how to treat real scandals with the same intensity and seriousness that Republicans use on bullshit like Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop. Non-stop circus. Run shifts outside treasury, someone there 24/7. Make them prove they're not breaking the law.

hey question, is this bad?

It wasn't DEI, it was DOGE.

Senior FBI leaders ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday | CNN Politics At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department ...

NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough.

The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.

No acting FAA head has been appointed.

Update: It's not going so well.

FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”

I missed this entirely:

The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.

Musk demanded he resign.

He did.

On January 20th.

www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

Maybe cheap, maybe not. Completely fair for Dems to demand an investigation of whether Trump’s lawless, destabilizing blitz against the civil service, and his cronification of the Pentagon contributed to the accident in any way. Completely.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉