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The clearest formulation of the Trump administration pitch to the average American I can articulate is: "You should accept an indeterminate but significant amount of economic pain short term, and higher prices and less choice long term, in order to live in a country that has more factories in it."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

“Entire neighborhoods were conquered” is the kind of thing the crazy guy on the street corner says. It’s divorced from reality. Yet there are millions of people who legitimately believe it and panic at the idea of going into a city because they think Tren de Aragua is lurking around every corner.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

After leaving the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention (Ottawa Convention), Poland plans to mine the borders to Russia and Belarus. The Polish Ministry of Defense sees no alternative, in light of current events.

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 19/03/2025

News: Zelensky tells me @FT tonight on zoom it was NOT all 4 of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants he and Trump were talking about US owning but “the one under temporary [Russian] occupation,” referring to Zaporizhzhia plant, that the US could potentially control if it is able to be “recover[ed].”

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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

State Department statement on the Ukraine talks today:

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

NEW: Among the work jammed up by the Trump administration's freeze on government purchase cards is genealogy research that the Army sees as essential to identify the remains of soldiers who went missing in combat. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Businesses like stability.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thank you for your support. 🇺🇦

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

you can tell the people trying to gut the government have never had a real job because they landed on "one micromanaging email" as the thing that would break regular people

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The White House says Elon Musk is not administrator of DOGE and that he’s merely a Senior Advisor to President Trump. Incredible but not surprising. Reminds me of the movie Casino when DeNiro played a Casino boss but said he was food and beverage manager to avoid scrutiny.

1, Joshua Fisher, declare, under penalty of perjury, as follows:
1. I make these statements based on personal knowledge and knowledge obtained in the
course of my official duties.
2. I am the Director of the Office of Administration. that capacity, I am personally involved in the appointment of special govemment employees. I have personal knowledge of Mr. Elon Musk's employment status with the federal govemment.
3. Mr. Musk is an employce of the White House Office. He holds that position as a non-
career Special Govemment Employee.
4. In that job, Mr. Musk is a Senior Advisor to the President. It is not uncommon for
the President to have Senior Advisors who are SGEs. For instance, Anita Dunn was an influential
Senior Advisor to President Biden, while serving as SGE.
5. In his role as a Senior Advisor to the President, Mr. Musk has no greater authority than other senior White House advisors. Like other senior White House advisors, Mr. Musk has no

actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself. Mr. Musk can only advise the
President and communicate the President's directives.
6. The U.S. DOGE Service is a component of the Executive Office of the President.
The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is within the U.S. DOGE Service. Both are separate from the White House Office. Mr. Musk is an employee in the White House Office. He is not an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service or U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization. Mr.
Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator.
Dated: Washington, D.C.
February 17, 2025
Joshua Fisher
Director
Office of Administration

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I do not have a problem with ketamine as a therapeutic device, I do have a problem with some dickhead who takes ketamine piping up about people taking adderall. Mentioning his ketamine usage is completely acceptable, as it is germane to the discussion at hand.

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It's somewhat different depending on your sector and the demand for employees with a given set of credentials.

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

In the consulting world money is made when the employees bill the government for services. Human capital is critical.

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Federal contractors are not risking their entire businesses and the livelihoods of their employees over this.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15/02/2025

Worth repeating: The administration is unilaterally cancelling spending from programs that have been funded by Congress, in agency after agency. This is a direct violation of the Impoundment Act. Yet here we are.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"

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Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨 JUST IN: US rolls out > $6 Billion Arms sale to Israel : 1- Munitions, Guidance Kits, Fuzes, and Munitions Support and related equipment for an estimated cost of $6.75 billion 2- AGM-114 Hellfire Missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $660 million

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:

A facebook post from Lisa Murkowski: I want to thank Alaskans who have been reaching out to my offices in D.C. and across Alaska. The U.S. Senate phone system has been receiving around 1,600 calls each minute, compared to the 40 calls per minute we usually receive, which has disrupted our call systems. Thank you for your patience as my staff works to review your messages and share them with me. We’re all working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What on earth is this performative BS? Musk broke into a Federal building and stole data and your here talking about Asylum claims?

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I made this handy diagram to explain that I am clearly a DoD contractor fella.

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Lol. I'm in Nova. I used to live in MoCo!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Chris Van Hollen says "this has nothing to do with making the US government more efficient and everything to do with aiding and abetting our adversaries, around the world."

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Don Beyer said about USAID, says it's no coincidence "that Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man with billions of dollars of investment in China, is doing China's bidding."

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/02/2025

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dude is on enough meth to get his panzer division from the Luxembourg border to the Channel in nine days.

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

NEW: The two top Democratic appropriators, Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, write to Trump budget office: "The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences across the country."

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

If you think your job is a waste of time, consider that someone works to monitor voting at Belarus election commission.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

1. BREAKING President Trump has signed an order re-designating Ansar Allah (the Houthis) as a Foreign Terrorist Org. (FTO). This designation was placed on Ansar Allah during the Trump administration but was lifted when Biden took office because it was impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2025

Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Did someone say contractor (fella)? I joke, we already do all the work. That boat sailed a while ago.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The oil depot in Lisky, Voronezh Oblast, which was sanctioned yesterday, is still burning. Interestingly, when you look at the city’s recent local news, it almost feels like Lisky should consider seceding from Russia altogether. In 2023, the city faced a rabies outbreak....

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 01/01/2025

Russian channels moan about another possible loss of a helicopter. This time a Mi-28 helicopter was allegedly shot down by their own air defense. This is not yet confirmed.

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Fighterbomber confirms the shoot down of Russian Mi-8 helicopters by Ukrainian naval drones modified to carry R-73s. This is consistent with claims and video published by the HUR the other day

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Which, for any other industry, would be fine, but not when someone is literally bleeding out.

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Howie @howitzer203.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Did the orange moron threaten to annex Canada again?

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