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Derek Coffrin

@dcoffrin.bsky.social

Paramedic, IT Engineer, burgeoning homebrewer, 6th gen. VTer, diehard #RedSox and #StarTrek fan. Tweets are my own.

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the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the worldโ€™s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.

13.03.2025 05:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22805    ๐Ÿ” 4006    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 256    ๐Ÿ“Œ 139

youโ€™re fired. wait youโ€™re rehired. email us a list of things youโ€™ve done today wait forget it youโ€™re fired again. come back your job was important. youโ€™re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

05.03.2025 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97215    ๐Ÿ” 26879    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1550    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1267

I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired.

Letโ€™s start with Elon Musk.

05.03.2025 03:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18266    ๐Ÿ” 2988    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 637    ๐Ÿ“Œ 108
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American peopleโ€ฆ your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential itemsโ€ฆ

04.03.2025 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76243    ๐Ÿ” 20620    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2051    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1382
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Video: Muskโ€™s Cost-Saving Claims Are Wrong in So Many Ways We found huge errors in the โ€œwall of receiptsโ€ for Elon Muskโ€™s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where the group lists what it has saved by canceling federal contracts. After The New York...

DOGE has quietly deleted the biggest โ€œsavingsโ€ it once celebrated โ€” but its list of savings is still full of errors. Why DOGEโ€™s data is so wrong, and why it matters. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

03.03.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1950    ๐Ÿ” 681    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

Smoke, mirrors, and bullshit.

04.03.2025 13:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

02.03.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8261    ๐Ÿ” 2356    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 238    ๐Ÿ“Œ 94
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Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals arenโ€™t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

01.03.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15771    ๐Ÿ” 2980    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 568    ๐Ÿ“Œ 707

Putin and Russia are the bad guys.

Zelensky and Ukraine are the good guys.

Trump has us siding with the bad guys.

This is like if Roosevelt told Churchill that if heโ€™d just let Hitler have the rest of Europe, everything will be fine.

28.02.2025 21:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 794    ๐Ÿ” 203    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix*

The same way they profit off of education privatizationโ€ฆ health careโ€ฆ etcโ€ฆ

They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.

28.02.2025 02:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16997    ๐Ÿ” 6196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1976    ๐Ÿ“Œ 696
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Musk claims DOGE โ€˜restoredโ€™ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree. USAIDโ€™s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAIDโ€™s Ebola prevention but it had been โ€œrestored.โ€

Thatโ€™s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.

โ€œThere have been no efforts to โ€˜turn onโ€™โ€ Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

26.02.2025 23:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7505    ๐Ÿ” 3190    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 234    ๐Ÿ“Œ 217

We knew from the start that DOGE was a scam designed to dismantle the critical programs Americans depended on.

This mass resignation proves DOGE employees know that too.

We must stop Trump and Musk's destruction before the damage becomes irreparable.

25.02.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 117    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trumpโ€™s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program arenโ€™t expected to save the government any money,...

apnews.com/article/doge...

โ€œItโ€™s like confiscating used ammunition after itโ€™s been shot when thereโ€™s nothing left in it. It doesnโ€™t accomplish any policy objective,โ€ said Charles Tiefer. โ€œTheir terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesnโ€™t accomplish anything for saving money.โ€

26.02.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not all heroes wear capes - thank you vigilante developer! ๐Ÿค“

26.02.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire con man with a lot of money." - @aoc ๐ŸŽฏ

26.02.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Balint: And now the United States stands with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and all of our allies in Europe? Itโ€™s sick

25.02.2025 00:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8636    ๐Ÿ” 2347    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 264    ๐Ÿ“Œ 201
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Shoutout to Governor Janet Mills! This is the kind of courage we need.

22.02.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5047    ๐Ÿ” 972    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 165    ๐Ÿ“Œ 59

Governor Mills doesnโ€™t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what sheโ€™s talking about.)

21.02.2025 20:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4486    ๐Ÿ” 777    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 233    ๐Ÿ“Œ 73

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.

Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

17.02.2025 01:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7458    ๐Ÿ” 3479    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 111    ๐Ÿ“Œ 262

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ?

And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions !

We all look forward to reading your thoughts

14.02.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 83037    ๐Ÿ” 13987    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5900    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1070

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

10.02.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 117572    ๐Ÿ” 21361    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3741    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1101
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This is how the world views the US.

Australia calling out fascism, then adding that "Trump is a disaster for humanity and he belongs behind bars, not the oval office."

07.02.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19244    ๐Ÿ” 6637    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 807    ๐Ÿ“Œ 843

This is insanity. The worldโ€™s economies rely on the USD as the primary reserve currency. This could easily upend our economy permanently.

03.02.2025 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ok @maddow.bsky.social, we have our first entry on the Trump Departures 2.0 wall!! V1 was a piece of art.

21.11.2024 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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