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Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.
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We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.
May 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.
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I have gotten confirmation from sources inside the Coast Guard that this is in fact true and happened in Key West.
ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.
ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.
April 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I have gotten confirmation from sources inside the Coast Guard that this is in fact true and happened in Key West.
ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.
ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
Not sure if this is stolen valor or someone who needs a Chief to kindly provide some guidance on grooming standards...
March 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Not sure if this is stolen valor or someone who needs a Chief to kindly provide some guidance on grooming standards...
Make sure to call in tomorrow for the town hall with @lisamurkowski.bsky.social. Especially if you haven't been able to get through to her office over the last few weeks.
February 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Make sure to call in tomorrow for the town hall with @lisamurkowski.bsky.social. Especially if you haven't been able to get through to her office over the last few weeks.
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.
February 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.
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So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
February 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
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This is the most powerful form of protest. Never underestimate the power of sitting on your ass and doing nothing. The Broligarchs waging war on you can't survive without you. That's the irony. You make them possible.
February 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is the most powerful form of protest. Never underestimate the power of sitting on your ass and doing nothing. The Broligarchs waging war on you can't survive without you. That's the irony. You make them possible.
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I love this. This should be the symbol of the new rebel coalition.
February 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I love this. This should be the symbol of the new rebel coalition.
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Epic by @wired.com
“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
![February 4, 2025
Edward R. Martin, Jr.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Patrick Henry Building
601 D Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20530
Transmitted via email
Re: Threats to prosecute critics of DOGE
Dear Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Edward R. Martin, Jr.:
We write to raise serious concerns about your recent public statements threatening to prosecute those who
"target" or "impede" Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Executive Office of the President. We request that you publicly commit to abide by the First Amendment, which your office is sworn to uphold and Musk himself claims to champion, in any DOGE-related investigations or prosecutions you may pursue.
On Monday, you tweeted a letter to Musk asking him to use the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to protect DOGE staff and their work and directing him to refer "any questionable conduct or details that [Musk] find[s] or notice[s]" to your office.' In the letter, you assert that "actions in any way that impact [DOGE's] work may break numerous laws," and that you commit to the pursuit of
"all legal action against anyone who impedes [Musk's) work or threatens [Musk's] people." You also state that you will "protect DOGE and other workers no matter what," citing past protests in Washington, D.C., which you refer to as riots.
As you know, DOGE, or the United States DOGE Service as it is formally known, is a government entity established within the Executive Office of the President; by executive order, DOGE is supposed to access only "unclassified agency records." The day before your letter, WIRED reported about and named six young engineers working for DOGE — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. The experience and qualifications of public employees is of significant public interest.
Following this news report, a user on X — the social media platform owned by Mr. Musk — made a post also naming th…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreibo4srxmqoq44eo4bp5wyc26moq2mvevrpvyul5eibwjeh6l6acia@jpeg)
![X has since suspended the account of the user who posted the names.
As an experienced attorney holding such an important public position, you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment protects the right to publish newsworthy information that the publisher lawfully obtains, including names far more sensitive than those of government personnel.' Musk himself has publicly touted DOGE's engineers while citing "media reports" regarding them.
Nor is it a crime to harshly criticize government employees and officials, even if transparency and criticism "impede" their work? Moreover, while certain true threats are unprotected and may be criminally punished, they are limited to serious expression[s]' conveying that a speaker means to
'commit an act of unlawful violence."$ Hyperbolic speech, even using threatening language, is entitled to full First Amendment protection.'
You must also surely be aware that the First Amendment protects Americans' right to peaceably assemble, especially to protest government actions.' The First Amendment severely constrains the government's ability to limit protests in public forums, such as the public streets of Washington, D.C." The government also cannot ban or restrict future protests based on unlawful conduct alleged to have occurred at past protests. 2
Threatening to prosecute First Amendment speech and activity is not only at odds with the U.S.
Constitution, it is also entirely inconsistent with Musk's own stated principles and the right of the American people to know what the government is up to. Musk describes himself as a free speech absolutist and has proposed a massive declassification of government records, opining that all government records should be public by default. '3 Just three months ago, Musk publicly posted…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreigtzd6v5yrwc6ikbo6jmt77r4yc5oikqeop4g3a6qswpxbhjtzxuq@jpeg)
![government employees with whom he disagrees on X.' If it is Musk's intention for the U.S. Attorney's Office to censor the press and public from identifying and discussing those conducting DOGE's work on his behalf, that would be incredibly hypocritical.
It is also vital that the U.S. Attorney's Office maintain the highest ethical standards and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Rule 3.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for the Washington, D.C. Bar, of which you are a member, states: "A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous."Is Under Rule 3.8, prosecutors are additionally prohibited from filing in court or maintaining a charge "that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause."l6 The same rule provides that "[i]n exercising discretion to investigate or to prosecute," prosecutors shall not "improperly favor or invidiously discriminate against any person."17
Threatening to file frivolous charges against Americans and vaguely insinuating that wide swaths of constitutionally-protected speech and activity could invite criminal investigations and prosecutions may already violate these and other rules of professional conduct. Actually doing so almost certainly would.
Additionally, publicly offering the Office of the U.S. Attorney's services to Musk in the context of his asserting that protected expression is a criminal act is unbecoming of your public office and your duties as a public servant. Your oath is to the U.S. Constitution - including the First Amendment - not to President Donald Trump, Musk, or DOGE's desire to operate in secrecy and without criticism.
We request that you immediately (a) identify the specific "targeting" of DOGE staff your letter to Musk was referring to and what specific laws you contend it violated, (b) publicly commit to not investigate or prosecute journalists or others for reporting on or publish…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreihjaig2236xfdb6rhe5u5644xzvjc5p2lva7fkj6rc3z3sthfswbi@jpeg)
February 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Epic by @wired.com
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Dear Internet.
You keep calling them musks underlings. Or lackeys or kids or unelected interns. Or any one of a hundred euphemisms.
"Twitlers youths" is right there.
You keep calling them musks underlings. Or lackeys or kids or unelected interns. Or any one of a hundred euphemisms.
"Twitlers youths" is right there.
February 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Dear Internet.
You keep calling them musks underlings. Or lackeys or kids or unelected interns. Or any one of a hundred euphemisms.
"Twitlers youths" is right there.
You keep calling them musks underlings. Or lackeys or kids or unelected interns. Or any one of a hundred euphemisms.
"Twitlers youths" is right there.
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Trump Attorney General, Pam Bondi, issues flurry of memos! Order prosecutors to begin work on prosecuting companies with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies! Folks this is why we have Black History Month!
youtu.be/kTVYZXmF--o
youtu.be/kTVYZXmF--o
AG Pam Bondi & Trump To Prosecute Companies CRIMINALLY For Diversity, Equity And Inclusion (DEI)!!!
YouTube video by Texas Paul
youtu.be
February 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump Attorney General, Pam Bondi, issues flurry of memos! Order prosecutors to begin work on prosecuting companies with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies! Folks this is why we have Black History Month!
youtu.be/kTVYZXmF--o
youtu.be/kTVYZXmF--o
Defund Musk. He shouldn't need government contracts, subsidies, and handouts for his businesses to succeed.
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Defund Musk. He shouldn't need government contracts, subsidies, and handouts for his businesses to succeed.
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I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls
February 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls
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If Trump is wondering who made the "terrible" deal with Canada, maybe he should look in the mirror
February 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If Trump is wondering who made the "terrible" deal with Canada, maybe he should look in the mirror
bUt HeR eMaiLs!!!
NEW: White House requested a list of CIA employees as part of efforts to shrink the federal government. The list, which included partial names, was sent in an unclassified email. David Sanger and I report: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees (Gift Article)
The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
bUt HeR eMaiLs!!!
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If they wanted to take over the country, they only had to wait like three weeks until every technocratic nerd was unreachably distracted.
They fundamentally do not understand us, and that is why they will lose.
They fundamentally do not understand us, and that is why they will lose.
February 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If they wanted to take over the country, they only had to wait like three weeks until every technocratic nerd was unreachably distracted.
They fundamentally do not understand us, and that is why they will lose.
They fundamentally do not understand us, and that is why they will lose.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Donald Trump each announce their agreement to pause tariffs for a month.
Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.
Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.
February 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Donald Trump each announce their agreement to pause tariffs for a month.
Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.
Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.
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Kaine: "Why race-bait at a moment like this? I think POTUS didn't want to be asked tough questions like, why did you let Elon Musk force the FAA administrator to resign... why did you scrap an aviation safety advisory committee on the 2nd day of your presidency?... why did you issue a buyout offer?"
February 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Kaine: "Why race-bait at a moment like this? I think POTUS didn't want to be asked tough questions like, why did you let Elon Musk force the FAA administrator to resign... why did you scrap an aviation safety advisory committee on the 2nd day of your presidency?... why did you issue a buyout offer?"
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Dear Canada and Mexico,
We’re so, so sorry.
— Sane America
We’re so, so sorry.
— Sane America
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Dear Canada and Mexico,
We’re so, so sorry.
— Sane America
We’re so, so sorry.
— Sane America
bUt HeR eMaiL sErVeR! #lockthemup
US Government sued after mass emails to federal workforce allegedly sent from insecure server
Musk appointees allegedly plugged their own email server into OPM network, breaking data security rules.
www.computerworld.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
bUt HeR eMaiL sErVeR! #lockthemup