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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15/03/2025
The Musk-rats are firing people who block their access to your private tax records. Data is money to the billionaire tech bros, so look out. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
Top IRS lawyer pushed aside as DOGE seeks records and 20% staff cuts
The acting chief counsel of the IRS has been removed from his position as Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service seeks access to sensitive taxpayer records, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Why elite institutions MUST speak out.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Every single word here is on point.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 15/03/2025
This sort of quote is something else man. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say other global elites see the American elite that were enthusiastic about Trump as total rubes. [gift link] on.ft.com/3XTyeJb
That ebullient mood has been rudely shattered by Trump's first weeks in office. The bewildering volatility of the president's policymaking - as tariffs are threatened, withdrawn, ratcheted up and then dialled back again - is raising corporate uncertainty, dampening sentiment, and prompting recession warnings.
"At Davos all the glib bankers were saying party time, here we go, deregulation, low taxes, M&A boom, IPO boom," says the chief executive of a global investor with $200bn in assets under management. "This has completely backfired in their faces."
The predicted slowdown is remarkable in that it is largely a self-inflicted wound driven by the administration's own policies, economists say, rather than the consequence of external shocks such as energy price surges, war, pandemics or banking implosions.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son.
"Many more children will die in the coming weeks," said Margret Amjuma, a health worker who confirmed the deaths of Peter and Achol.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Two days later, everyone at VOA has reportedly been fired.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Here’s Elon cutting pediatric brain cancer research 👇🏻
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“It’s a clusterf***, and I can’t believe no one is stepping in to do anything,” said another top staffer who worked at the IRS. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/03/15/p...
cnn.com
‘‘Delete’ is one of their favorite terms’: Inside DOGE’s IRS takeover ahead of tax season | CNN Politics
The chaos at the Internal Revenue Service began almost immediately after the first envoy from the Department of Government Efficiency arrived last month at the agency’s Washington, DC, headquarters.
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Mark Igra @markigra.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
The Seattle Times
"There's nothing you need to do - we've deducted the funds from LEONARD A.
JOHNSON's account."
Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn't justified to get those benefits - because he was dead.
That was for payments he'd received in December and January.
Ned found that his February Social Security check hadn't been paid, and he's yet to receive his March check, either. His Medicare insurance had been canceled.
He also learned that when you die, your credit score gets marked as "deceased, do not issue credit," which makes it tough to get a loan.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Can’t know specifically why this happened. But the DOGE boys were leafing thru the files and canceling some individual accounts that didn’t look right to them and there have been daily computer crashes at SSA after DOGErs canceled a number of the computer servicing/maintenance contracts
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 16/03/2025
@raskin.house.gov
If Vladimir Putin himself had invaded America and come up with a plan to destroy our economy and wreck the cohesion of our society, he could not have done better than Donald Trump has done on his own with the help of Elon Musk.
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Little Fury Fellah @elnosnusk.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In case you doubted that he’s a russian asset, know that VOA was instrumental in keeping the hope of freedoms alive in the Soviet Union and is hated with a passion by putin for exactly that. This is no accident.
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Angelo Carusone @goangelo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
2. So much of the conversation in Democratic circles and in parts of political media has been about messaging. 'Oh, Democrats just need better messaging,' I hear folks say. Wrong. Even if Dems had the perfect message, it wouldn't get anywhere. This isn't messaging problem; it's a media crisis.
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April @dhammamama.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is horrible. We need the NIH
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
So Romania, Serbia, Hungary. People rising up against authoritarianism. Clearly, we’re up soon.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/03/2025
Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
wunc.org
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
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🦋🧿Tempestori 🌬🌊 @tempestori.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
theblop.org
theblop.org
The Big List of Protests
The BLOP hosts a large and detailed list of upcoming protest events submitted by users across the United States.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/03/2025
Trump’s EPA just launched the biggest attack on clean air and water in decades. Slashing pollution rules, gutting climate protections, and undermining basic science. They're trying to Make Pollution Great Again—and we can’t let it stand.
theguardian.com
Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding
EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of ‘malice toward the planet’
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Oh look Elon musk cutting pediatric cancer research
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips
The president, who derided Barack Obama for golfing while in office, even makes money off his Mar-a-Lago weekends
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A strong statement from the head of Voice of America, who points out that Trump‘s move to silence this important journalistic entity will help the tyrannical governments of Russia, China, Iran, and other repressive states. This is not America First; this is the abandonment of democracy.
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April @dhammamama.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
So scary
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/03/2025
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
wrd.cm
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“Army Corps data last year showed at least 4,000 dams are in poor or unsatisfactory condition and could kill people or harm the environment if they failed. They require inspections, maintenance and emergency repairs to avoid catastrophes” Trump / Musk making us less safe example 923,504
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April @dhammamama.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It’s all part of the grift
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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We ALL need and depend on public services that our tax dollars now provide for us The difference is Trump and Republicans want to privatize them so WE PAY MORE www.cbpp.org/research/fed....
cbpp.org
Policy Basics: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go? | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
In fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent $6.9 trillion, amounting to 24 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to the June 2024 estimates of the Congressional...
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 16/03/2025
Things are going very efficiently: "He called Social Security two or three times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected. Finally someone answered and gave him an appointment for March 13. Then he got a call delaying that to March 24."
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My latest on the two questions Kash Patel reportedly asked his staff, and why we should care: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
msnbc.com
Opinion | Kash Patel is asking two questions that should concern everyone
Whatever his reasons, Patel’s queries are important indicators of how he may conduct himself as director.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What is going on here? Why does MAGA hate cancer research? The Trumpists don’t look at a specific budget item or topic - they are engaged in a comprehensive assault against what they have identified as their enemy. In response, we must also develop a holistic view of their political project.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The @wired.com of DOGE.gov is superb, but misses a trend: we are no longer just seeing state power on social media, but the emergence of state social media on X that will superchange propaganda campaigns, crowd out journalism, & drown democracies in mistruths. civic-texts.ghost.io/the-truman-c...
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"It is promoting the X account as the main source, with the website secondary," Declan Chidlow, a web developer, tells WIRED. "This isn't usually how things are handled, and it indicates that the X account is taking priority over the actual website itself."
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All the other US government websites WIRED checked used their own homepage in their canonical tags, including the official White House website. Additionally, when sharing the DOGE website on mobile devices, the source code creates a link to the DOGE X account rather than the website itself.
"It seems that the DOGE website is secondary, and they are prodding people in the direction of the X account everywhere they can," Chidlow adds.• wired.com
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"It seems that the DOGE website is secondary, and they are prodding people in the direction of the X account everywhere they can," Chidlow adds.
Alongside the homepage feed of X posts, a section of Doge.gov labeled "Savings" now appears. So far the pagg is empty except for a single line that reads: "Receipts coming soon, no later than Valentine's day, followed by a heart emoji.
A section entitled "Workforce" features some bar charts showing how many people work in each government agency, with the
information coming from data gathered by the Office of Personnel Management in March 2024.lol - DOGE changed the page to hide that they missed their Valentine’s Day deadline
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025
NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/02/2025
CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.
democracydocket.com
CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave
Read more here.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
To everyone's surprise, it turns out that attaching a money-sucking machine to a hospital system makes it worse.
nbcnews.com
Private equity reduces patient care while enriching investors, Senate report finds
The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research.
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Liberal Rocks @liberalrocks.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
"We should have free health care for all!" "Who's gonna pay for it?" Says Mr. Smug "The taxpayers" "Who's gonna benefit from it?" "The taxpayers" See how that works? We need to stop ending the conversation at "who's gonna pay for it?" as if that's some brilliant Gotcha question.
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Glen Jackson @glenjackson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
How we got into this mess, and how we get out of it. Capitalism is compatible with democracy only if democracy is the dominant partner. It was dominant from 1933 until 1980. Then hyper-capitalism took over, and finally gave us Trump. @rbreich.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The Big Picture: How we got into this mess, and how we get out of it.
Capitalism is compatible with democracy only if democracy is the dominant partner. It was dominant from 1933 until 1980. Then hyper-capitalism took over, and finally gave us Trump.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Brendan Carr, Trump's FCC chair pick, is signaling his intention to punish broadcasters that the incoming administration believes has been unfair to them. He's doing something else here, too: he's discouraging broadcasters from critically covering Trump moving forward.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Exactly this www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...
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April @dhammamama.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Just finished Hillary on Hulu and taking another minute to grieve this bizarro reality we are in. I just want to shout out into the void again, “thanks Comey, thanks Bernie.” What they each separately brought to pass is unforgivable. Putin and Trump bear the brunt, but THEY should have known better.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I wrote about being more focused covering trump’s second administration in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
vanityfair.com
We Need to Cover Donald Trump Differently This Time
Every outrage and insult can’t be a five-alarm fire, as it’s critical for the media to stay focused on the most serious threats to America’s democratic institutions.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The COVID vaccine probably saved around 15 million lives but nearly a third of American voters think it's the "deadliest vaccine ever made" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m seeing A LOT of examples of Murc’s Law on here.
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April @dhammamama.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Fascismobiles
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