Trump and Elon made massive cuts to all US weather tracking and warning systems in the spring of 2025.

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This is what happens when everyone knows gramps shouldn't be driving but no one wants to take away his keys.

Social Security wrongly told disabled people and some seniors their benefits ended, causing alarm One family said they were dismayed when the Social Security site said their disabled adult son was no longer receiving benefits.

Social Security wrongly told disabled people and some seniors their benefits ended, causing alarm

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Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.

There Is No Method to Trump’s Madness. He’s Simply Insane. His defenders try to apply reason to his erratic, nonsensical decisions. That’s a fool’s errand—but fools abound in this administration.

There Is No Method to Trump’s Madness. He’s Simply Insane. newrepublic.com/article/1927... via @newrepublic.com

Welcome to Trump’s America: Where Immigrants Vanish, Courts Are Ignored, and No One Is Safe History warns us: Once the government starts rounding people up, it doesn’t stop...

Welcome to Trump’s America: Where Immigrants Vanish, Courts Are Ignored, and No One Is Safe
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NEW: The Trump administration has just told a federal judge in a court filing that it will not comply with the court's order to resume funding for USAID and State Department foreign assistance.

Yes - me!

Vance saying Sweden is backsliding on free speech, a country that will rigorously defend freedom of speech even at the expense of its own national security, while his own administration is deleting whole datasets and freezing research around words and ideas they don’t like, is simply projection.

The audacity of Vance scolding Europe for having annulled Romanian election results due to Russian interference, representing a president who violently physically attacked the US system of governance and refused to acknowledge his defeat, still claiming the elections was stolen, is simply disgusting

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case.

Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested cod…

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Kristen Grind, my San Franciso-based NYT colleague, and I went through every federal investigation/lawsuit targeting Musk companies. What did we find? At least 11 federal agencies targeting Musk companies have seen leadership disruptions/changes that could undermine these efforts -- and benefit Musk

Trump Says Musk Has Found Huge Fraud in Oval Office “He said it’s unbelievable what a waste this gigantic fraud is,” Trump said.

Trump Says Musk Has Found Huge Fraud in Oval Office
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A story about the virulent racists Musk is regularly promoting on his site.

This include many interactions (as recently as this morning) with an anon who is "impressed" by the Holocaust.

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I was there with you today... my handle is @marymi.bsky.social

"...scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder wrote that “[t]he people who now dominate the executive branch of the government…are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation.””
--Heather Cox Richardson, February 2, 2025 (Sunday)

Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

""Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin." --By Vittoria Elliott
PoliticsJan 28, 2025 6:01 PM, wired com

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White House Says We Were Out of the Loop—ON EVERYTHING We’re getting clearer indications now that the effort to bamboozle, frighten and...

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Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it's looking pretty grim.”

mass RIF notices down the road. The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed. Please share this

Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various "test" message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate

political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup.

collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non

they've sent numerous request-all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenud. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales Rut Amanda is not actually an OPM employee. Under his name, they've sent numerous requests to all the agencies to

Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest "yes man" you'll ever meet. He never says no. It's clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name,

Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current