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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

So DOGE terminates lease on FDA quality lab in St. Louis and 29 other sites. This is a major concern for drug safety in America. 🦶🔫

Here's why:

'Putin will wage war against NATO,' Zelensky tells NBC News Russia is training 150,000 troops in Belarus for a large-scale operation that could happen as early as this summer, Zelensky said. "There are risks that this can be Poland and Lithuania."

⚡️'Putin will wage war against NATO,' Zelensky tells NBC News.

Russia is training 150,000 troops in Belarus for a large-scale operation that could happen as early as this summer, Zelensky said. "There are risks that this can be Poland and Lithuania."

The US health department fired employees Saturday across some of its biggest agencies including Medicare, Medicaid and the FDA.

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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

This whole "Gulf of America" brouhaha could have easily been resolved if they just took my suggestion to split the difference, find something we can all agree on, and call it the "Gulf of Avocado."

Once proud fans, some Tesla owners in Canada embarrassed by company's CEO MONTREAL – Stéphane Pascalon’s Tesla fan club brings people together to share their pride for the company’s cars, but that pride has turned into shame for some, and now the club plans to distribute hundreds of bumper stickers so owners can distance themselves from CEO Elon Musk.

MONTREAL – Stéphane Pascalon’s Tesla fan club brings people together to share their pride for the company’s cars, but that pride has turned into shame for some, and now the club plans to distribute hundreds of bumper stickers so owners can distance themselves from CEO Elon Musk.

Remember that even cutting government personnel by one-fourth would only reduce federal spending by about 1 percent. And the whole point of these indiscriminate cuts is just to make way for renewing tax cuts heavily skewed to benefit the wealthiest.

CDC to lose one-tenth of workforce under Trump team probationary job cuts With a $9.2 billion core budget, the CDC is charged with protecting Americans from outbreaks and other public health threats.

Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the CDC — roughly one-tenth of the agency’s workforce — are being forced out under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of all probationary employees.

As the Washington Post points out, even cutting government personnel by one-fourth would only reduce federal spending by about 1 percent. And the randomly inflicted damage will be great.

At least this is one layoff that wasn’t orchestrated by Elon Musk.

U.S. Government May Award Tesla $400M Contract for Armored EVs The U.S. Department of State may soon award Tesla a US$400 million contract for armored vehicles. According to the latest procurement forecast issued by the government agency, Tesla is named as the re...

Trump and Musk haven’t found any evidence of waste or fraud in the government … oh wait, here’s some.

Bezos’ Rocket Firm Bracing for Job Cuts After Years of Expansion Blue Origin LLC is bracing for a large reduction in its workforce, people familiar with the matter said, in a sign the Jeff Bezos-backed space company is looking to cut costs and focus resources on ra...

Blue Origin is bracing for a large reduction in its workforce, people familiar with the matter said, in a sign the Jeff Bezos-backed space company is looking to cut costs and focus resources on ramping up rocket launches after years of R&D work.

Probably not the Nobel, but he’s a shoo-in for the Needy Narcissist award.

Republicans Love Trump’s Spending Cuts. Just Not in Their States. (Gift Article) Even as they praise the president’s unilateral actions to slash federal spending, G.O.P. lawmakers have quietly moved to seek carve outs or exemptions for their own constituents.

As Trump's slash-and-burn campaign to remake the government has begun to affect their states and districts, some Republicans have tried to push back. They have sought carve outs and special consideration for agriculture programs, scientific research and more. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Putin began the all-out war on Ukraine almost three years ago.

I very much hope I'm wrong, but I'm very worried that Trump has begun the all-out betrayal of Ukraine today.

Tom Friedman rightly says "Trump’s proposal is the single most idiotic and dangerous Middle East 'peace' initiative ever put out by an American president."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...

There is no content on the doge website other than a name and motto

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

Trump’s USAID Shutdown Alarms Republican Allies While GOP lawmakers complained about the agency’s “woke” excesses, they also see it as crucial to American soft power.

WSJ: Some congressional Republicans who for years wanted to curb USAID’s activities are now watching its sudden collapse with alarm, saying they worry about the fate of programs they see as playing a critical role in protecting U.S. national security and countering China.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses Some traders made tens of millions off a new cryptocurrency launched by President Trump and his sons. Many others lost out.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

Red-state politicians may wake up to the NIH budget cuts when they realize the top 50 recipients of NIH research grants include Washington University (MO, #5), Duke & UNC Chapel Hill (NC); Vanderbilt (TN); Emory (GA); Baylor & UT Southwestern Medical (TX); others in Florida, Ohio, Indiana and Utah.

Yeah, and she was a heck of a reporter when she worked at the Seattle Times.

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means ...

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole

Sen. Patty Murray calls the sudden switch illegal and adds, "Trump and Elon are functionally forcing an indiscriminate funding cut for research institutions across the country that will be nothing short of catastrophic for so much of the lifesaving research patients and families are counting on."

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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The WSJ reporter targeted by Musk was one of the most impressive young journalists I ever worked with, and it’s not surprising she dug up the slimy posts of that DOGE operative, so offensive that even his bosses fired him (until they reversed themselves).

Trump and Musk Attack Journalists by Name in Social Media Posts Since his inauguration, the president has been quick to demonize what he calls “the fake news media.” On Friday, both men demanded that individuals be fired.

“Musk’s call for this journalist’s firing contradicts his self-proclaimed free speech advocacy and reveals his hypocrisy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

Another blow for Boeing looms.
Don't waste time wondering what Musk thinks about this.