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Our worst enemies couldn't design a better way to harm our govt than what's going on right now.”
“There’s no real method to it -no geopol connection."
Under Musk: admin is firing 1000s of prob employees. The effort has upended the lives of govt workers.
“Move fast & break things,” If that involves breaking the law, then that becomes problematic.”
#Trump largely speaks to the country thru SM posts that go viral...
#Tariffs #Firings #DOGE #Musk #Chaos #Resist #USPol
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Chaos, confusion, reversals: The story of Trump's second term so far
President Donald Trump has moved quickly on his far-reaching agenda, but his administration has frequently changed both its messaging and its course.Peter Nicholas (NBC News)
#DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, & Still Overstating Its Progress
#ElonMusk now says his group will produce only 15% of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors & guesswork.
…when #Musk’s group tallies up its savings so far, it inflates its progress by including billion-dollar errors, by counting spending that will not happen in the next fiscal year—& by making guesses about spending that might not happen at all.
#Fraud #law #Trump
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DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress
Elon Musk now says his group will produce only 15 percent of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork.David A. Fahrenthold (The New York Times)
News is out today that Tesla has to abruptly stop selling the model S and X in China due to the tarifs.
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#Tesla #Tariffs #Swasticar #nazicar #elonmusk #trump #doge
Tesla Stops Selling U.S.-Made Vehicles In China Because Of Tariffs
We're looking into which cars Tesla will no longer import to China and how Audi's most popular model might be impossible to sell here because of tariffs.Andy Kalmowitz (Jalopnik)
But his objections did not go over well w/ #Trump political appointees. And so on Thurs, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.
They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy—pushed by #Musk’s #DOGE & #DHS — to add thousands of immigrants ranging in age from teenagers to octogenarians to the agency’s Death Master File. The dataset is used by govt agencies, employers, banks & landlords…
#law #immigration #labor
The episode also followed earlier warnings from senior #SocialSecurity ofcls that the database was insecure & could be easily edited without proof of death—a vulnerability, staffers say, that the #Trump admin has now exploited.
The warnings & Pearre’s removal have not previously been reported.
#law #immigration #labor #Musk #DOGE
This account of how the #Trump admin pushed #SocialSecurity to wrongly declare thousands of living immigrants dead is based on interviews w/15 people, including current & former Social Security ofcls, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, as well as more than two dozen pages of records obtained by WaPo.
#law #immigration #labor #Musk #DOGE
Looks like Tesla joined the #Tesla boycott
#elonmusk #doge #fascism
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Tesla Dealers Are Now Refusing Cybertruck Trade-Ins, Sources Report
Just as new Cybertrucks are languishing on dealers’ lots, current owners are already looking to unload them as Tesla sales continue to slide.Forbes
#Trump admin overrode #SocialSecurity staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.
#law #immigration #labor #Musk #DOGE
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WHUT. THE. F*CK!!
The Social Security Administration will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90%
#SocialSecurity #politics #DOGE #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #nazis wired.com/story/social-securit…
"The CDC has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after HSS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team."
Trump & RFK Jr find sinister ways to sicken & kill us.
#Resist #HHS #Firings #DOGE #Musk #RFKJr #CDC #GOPDeathCult #USPol
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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.Alexander Tin (CBS News)
Another day and another bullshit ruling by #scotus. #doge #FederalLayoffs
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Supreme Court blocks order for Trump to reinstate federal workers
The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the ...Daily Kos
Musk & DOGE are disrupting Federal computers on purpose & people will die.
We'll be told it was "an accident" a " mistake" & they'll fix it promptly.
But they won't stop.
The GOP will say DOGE is Necessary,
Tech Bros will defend the use of AI in DOGE.
The media will give #Musk the benefit of the doubt.
Then more will die.
"It wasn't intentional!" Fox will say & downplay the deaths
I'd ask JD Vance, "How many have to die until you stop Musk, #DOGE, & Vought to complete Thiel's plan?"
The third James Bond novel was published this day in 1955. The thriller Moonraker is from a long-ago era with a villain that makes no sense today - A rocket-building technocrat who is actually a secret Nazi working for the Russians
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #elonmusk #nazi #corruption #doge
Another Gambit: #DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Magnetic Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
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Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
DOGE claimed it saved "$1M per year" by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes to digital storage.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.
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The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.
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The used Tesla market is crumbling | CNN Business
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#BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #SissySpaceX #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
"Many Americans are watching their retirement savings melt away because of President Trump’s disastrous trade policies. In normal downturns, they could at least reassure themselves that Social Security would always be there. The program was created during the Great Depression precisely because it was clear that the market would not provide for retirees."
~ Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan
#Musk #Trump #tariffs #SocialSecurity #DOGE
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As Savings Disappear, Social Security is Also Under Threat
A two-pronged attack on Americans' financial securityPamela Herd (Can We Still Govern?)
"There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment still running and hazardous materials left unattended."
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#PublicHealth #HHS #CDC #InfectiousDiseases #STI #chlamydia #gonorrhea #HIV #hepatitis #syphilis #laboratories #testing #surveillance #DOGE #USpol
RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis
CDC officials are warning of delays and disruptions due to cuts to laboratory staff.Alexander Tin (CBS News)
👉Masernepidemie in den #USA--wird es nicht Zeit, die Grenzen zu schließen?!? 👈
In den USA gibt es bereitd mehr als 600 #Masernfälle in 22 Bundesstaaten, so die von #DOGE personell dezimierte Bundesbehörde #CDC.
Darunter sind 481 Fälle allein in #Texas. Das Land hat 👉in diesem Jahr bereits mehr als zweimal so viele Masernfälle gemeldet wie im gesamten Jahr 2024.👈
Laut CDC gab es in diesem Jahr bisher 6 #Masernausbrüche.
#Gesundheit #Impfstoffe #Medizin
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Y’all, I don’t want to cause alarm, and I may be the only one affected,which seems unlikely, but I just checked my social security statement, and my entire history is blank. #Doge is fucking shit up, y’all.
I’ve been working and paying taxes since I was 14, and I’m less than a decade away from being old enough to collect SS, and my statement shows no work history. None. I’ve been told I need to fill out a form for every year missing to send to the irs, and then send those forms from the irs to SS, so I can prove to SS I worked. None of this can be done online, and each year is a separate process.
Check your statements. We are being robbed in broad daylight.
#socialsecurity #doge #taxes #WellFuckWeAreDoomed
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DOGE cuts to Social Security: Millions of records have already been deleted
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is pushing forward with its federal cleanup initiative-this time taking on the Social Security Administration&aposTBS (Marca)
#Layoffs by the federal government drove job losses last month to the highest levels in the pandemic.
What do federal workers actually do? From business exports to veteran care, a law professor looks at the 35,000 federal workers in Philadelphia region: buff.ly/AzBpHC2
From business exports to veteran care − here’s what some of the 35,000 federal workers in the Philadelphia region do
Over a dozen federal agencies have offices in the Philly area. Understanding what they do can highlight how mass layoffs and cutbacks might affect the region.The Conversation
The largest federal program helping low income households pay their energy bills no longer has any staff.
Someone working for that agency said most of their payments are to widows.
#CrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #DOGE #USPOL
Trump’s single most aggressive attack on immigrants is now before the Supreme Court
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#MassDeportation #Immigration #PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump’s single most aggressive attack on immigrants is now before the Supreme Court
The president claims he can deport people without due process under a wartime law, even though we aren’t at war.Ian Millhiser (Vox)
You’d think they bring him back, but "Fuck you! Make me!"
White House admits it sent innocent man to brutal prison in El Salvador
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#PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
White House admits it sent innocent man to brutal prison in El Salvador
President Donald Trump campaigned heavily on the promise that he would lock up and ship out dangerous MS-13 gang members. But when ICE started sending Venezuelans and Salvadorans to El Salvador’s ...Daily Kos
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Most employees at US Institute of Peace mass-fired via late-night email
Congressionally created and funded thinktank taken over by ‘Doge’ seeks to prevent and resolve global conflictsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
#Musk / #DOGE fires nearly all staff at US Institute of #Peace HQ
The #Trump admin summarily fired the staff of the #USIP late Friday night, <2wks after forcibly removing the congressionally funded org’s president & installing in his place an agent of #tech billionaire #ElonMusk’s DOGE….
#law #USpol #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #democracy #diplomacy #fascism #tyranny
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A DOGE employee is put in charge of the US Institute of Peace, a court filing alleges - EUROPE SAYS
WASHINGTON (AP) — An official allied with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been put in charge of the U.S. Institute of Peace, aEUROPE SAYS
Intense layoffs have begun at HHS.
The agency “as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed.” — former FDA commissioner Rob Califf
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#hhs #fda #cdc #health #publichealth #healthcare #medicine #doge #layoffs
RFK Jr.'s HHS layoffs begin; thousands of FDA, CDC workers axed
As many as 10,000 employees — one-quarter of the department's workforce — are expected to be let go as part of the process.Sarah Owermohle (STAT)
Motherfuckers!!!!
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
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#DOGE #BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #SissySpaceX #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
Because peace is for suckers?
US Peace Institute Lays Off Staff After Dramatic DOGE Standoff
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#PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
US Peace Institute Lays Off Staff After Dramatic DOGE Standoff
USIP employees have been fired from their positions.Kenneal Patterson (The Daily Beast)
Elon #Musk pressured #Reddit’s CEO on content #moderation
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It's all about free speech, isnt it Elon? (But only the way you want it ...)
#censorship #freespeech #freedom #usa #politics #doge #news #internet
Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
While Elon Musk was publicly calling out Reddit users for banning X links and threatening DOGE employees, he was also privately pressuring CEO Steve Huffman.Alex Heath (The Verge)
Whoa, yesterday, #Trump illegally stripped #CollectiveBargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers in 18 different departments across multiple #FederalAgencies.
The admin stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared *#war* on President Trump’s agenda.”
Is he going to use #wartime powers against #union members now?
#law #LaborLaw #labor #Musk #DOGE #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #propaganda #Trumpaganda #gaslighting #NaziState #MafiaState
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements – The White House
PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order using authority granted by the Civil Service Reform Act ofThe White House
"I just hope that people realize that it’s not because we don’t want to serve you. It’s because we have people in power right now who want to break this system and who want to get rid of the fact that #education is an equalizer."
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#politics #USpol #news #Trump #HumanRights #schools #Project2025 #ElonMusk #DOGE
'We're Not Just Some Bureaucrats': DOE Employees on How Their Work Helps Texas Students
Department of Education workers and union leaders in Texas say kids will pay the price for Trump’s decision to “break this system.”Josephine Lee (The Texas Observer)
#EdwardCoristine is among the most visible members of the #DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the U.S. government.
Past reporting had focused on his youth - he is 19 - and his chosen nickname of "#BigBalls," which became a pop culture punchline. #Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month that "Big Balls is awesome."
Exclusive: #DOGE staffer, '#BigBalls', provided tech support to #cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon #Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data & #cyberstalking an #FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
#USpol #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Trump
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My dad died in September 2022 with $400 to his name, which was used to pay for his cremation. I scattered his ashes in the ocean because we had fun at the beach when I was little.
To DOGE: it's not that a dead man is trying to get money from you, it's that YOU ARE TRYING TO GET MONEY FROM A DEAD MAN.
And to my dad: Happy Birthday Dad, love you, miss you
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Yesterday was my dad’s birthday. DOGE wrote me a letter this month. They want money back from him.
He had schizophrenia and was sometimes homeless. In his later years I was able to help him stay housed, and he received $180 of SSI monthly which went toward his rent in assisted living in a low-income bed.
But DOGE has realized that they overpaid him. So they sent a letter warning that some of that money may need to be returned.
The thing is, my dad is dead.
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Elon Musk Goes After Bunkers Full of Seeds
"This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat"
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