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What are we doing people? This is madness.. all of it…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
Trump’s National Security Firings Come as He Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses
The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country’s fortifications against cyberattacks, especially those targeting elections.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What are we doing people? This is madness.. all of it…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
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Look, I don't expect Witkoff or anyone else in the administration to read my book. Or any book. But if someone shows them how to use Google Translate I will be happy to send them the mountains of stuff that I have in which Russians explain the war in Russian. And "Crimea and four regions" it ain't.
Crimea and “four regions” are key issues in Russia’s war against Ukraine – Trump’s envoy Witkoff
Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, has stated that the largest obstacles to resolving the war started by Russia are “the so-called four regions: Donbas, Crime...
www.pravda.com.ua
March 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Look, I don't expect Witkoff or anyone else in the administration to read my book. Or any book. But if someone shows them how to use Google Translate I will be happy to send them the mountains of stuff that I have in which Russians explain the war in Russian. And "Crimea and four regions" it ain't.
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It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.
March 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.
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And to ensure no democracy or nonpartisan civil service can ever switch that computer off.
March 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
And to ensure no democracy or nonpartisan civil service can ever switch that computer off.
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I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.
March 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.
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/4 SO: this is a completely false description of fraud. What it is is laying the groundwork to belittle and demean and intimidate anyone who complaints about Social Security collapsing.
These people are absolute scum.
These people are absolute scum.
March 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
/4 SO: this is a completely false description of fraud. What it is is laying the groundwork to belittle and demean and intimidate anyone who complaints about Social Security collapsing.
These people are absolute scum.
These people are absolute scum.
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When asked if “the United States is doing too much to help Ukraine, not enough, or the right amount,” 46 percent of respondents said the US is not doing enough—up 16 points from December and the highest support for doing more Gallup has recorded since the war started.
www.cfr.org/blog/america...
www.cfr.org/blog/america...
American Public Support for Ukraine Grows
As Donald Trump pushes for a quick end to the war in Ukraine, Americans increasingly favor doing more to help Kyiv.
www.cfr.org
March 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
When asked if “the United States is doing too much to help Ukraine, not enough, or the right amount,” 46 percent of respondents said the US is not doing enough—up 16 points from December and the highest support for doing more Gallup has recorded since the war started.
www.cfr.org/blog/america...
www.cfr.org/blog/america...
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Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE team from accessing Social Security Administration personal information for now.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE team from accessing Social Security Administration personal information for now.
March 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE team from accessing Social Security Administration personal information for now.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE team from accessing Social Security Administration personal information for now.
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Elon Musk has been attacking USAID — because USAID has been investigating Musk
Why? Because USAID paid for the Starlink units Musk claimed to give Ukraine in 2022 (!!!)
Some ended up with Russia — so USAID opened an inquiry
Meanwhile Musk started speaking to Putin in late 2022
Why? Because USAID paid for the Starlink units Musk claimed to give Ukraine in 2022 (!!!)
Some ended up with Russia — so USAID opened an inquiry
Meanwhile Musk started speaking to Putin in late 2022
February 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Elon Musk has been attacking USAID — because USAID has been investigating Musk
Why? Because USAID paid for the Starlink units Musk claimed to give Ukraine in 2022 (!!!)
Some ended up with Russia — so USAID opened an inquiry
Meanwhile Musk started speaking to Putin in late 2022
Why? Because USAID paid for the Starlink units Musk claimed to give Ukraine in 2022 (!!!)
Some ended up with Russia — so USAID opened an inquiry
Meanwhile Musk started speaking to Putin in late 2022
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From 7 years ago
February 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
From 7 years ago
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It’s wild to see so many Members of Congress so easily giving up and abdicating their core power of appropriations. Like we have 535 people whose main job it is each year to look over federal spending and decide what money should go where….
someone tell ernst that neither the president nor musk embodies the american people and that if they want to cut funding they should work with congress to pass a bill www.semafor.com/article/02/0...
February 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It’s wild to see so many Members of Congress so easily giving up and abdicating their core power of appropriations. Like we have 535 people whose main job it is each year to look over federal spending and decide what money should go where….
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The self-abasing, servile conduct of congressional Republicans, whose own power is under attack, is the element of the current crisis that the founding generation didn’t anticipate.
Approps Chair Collins voted for Vought but told @pressherald.bsky.social he might lose a lawsuit 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼:
“I do intend to support his nomination...If there are impoundments, I believe it will end up in court, and my hope is the court will rule in favor of the 1974 impoundment and budget control act"
“I do intend to support his nomination...If there are impoundments, I believe it will end up in court, and my hope is the court will rule in favor of the 1974 impoundment and budget control act"
February 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The self-abasing, servile conduct of congressional Republicans, whose own power is under attack, is the element of the current crisis that the founding generation didn’t anticipate.
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This remake of “WarGames” is both stupider and more alarming than the original.
(The Department of Energy is home to the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for maintaining and upgrading the 3,700 bombs and warheads in the US nuclear stockpile.)
(The Department of Energy is home to the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for maintaining and upgrading the 3,700 bombs and warheads in the US nuclear stockpile.)
Trump energy secretary allowed 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from general counsel | CNN
On Friday, DOE leadership installed a different SpaceX engineer as chief information officer — the department’s top IT official.
www.cnn.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This remake of “WarGames” is both stupider and more alarming than the original.
(The Department of Energy is home to the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for maintaining and upgrading the 3,700 bombs and warheads in the US nuclear stockpile.)
(The Department of Energy is home to the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for maintaining and upgrading the 3,700 bombs and warheads in the US nuclear stockpile.)
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"Insider threat is the potential for an insider to use their authorized access or understanding of an organization to harm that organization." For example, spies, leakers, et. al. www.cisa.gov/topics/physi...
February 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Insider threat is the potential for an insider to use their authorized access or understanding of an organization to harm that organization." For example, spies, leakers, et. al. www.cisa.gov/topics/physi...
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Imagine if the entire DC media was reporting on Musk and Trump with the *ferocity* and *velocity* of WIRED these past three weeks.
IMAGINE what we would know now that we don’t.
IMAGINE what we would know now that we don’t.
February 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Imagine if the entire DC media was reporting on Musk and Trump with the *ferocity* and *velocity* of WIRED these past three weeks.
IMAGINE what we would know now that we don’t.
IMAGINE what we would know now that we don’t.
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Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.
February 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.
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Normal U.S. Attorneys do not write like this. This is servile and buffoonish, light-years outside how federal prosecutors normally act. Ed Martin has gone Full Renfield. He’s a confessed lackey with vast federal prosecutorial power.
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin says he will open an inquiry following a criminal “referral” of certain individuals by Elon Musk.
“If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable,” Martin writes.
“If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable,” Martin writes.
February 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Normal U.S. Attorneys do not write like this. This is servile and buffoonish, light-years outside how federal prosecutors normally act. Ed Martin has gone Full Renfield. He’s a confessed lackey with vast federal prosecutorial power.
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Russia's spies, in retaliation against the CIA, urge Americans to get in touch - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Russia's spies, in retaliation against the CIA, urge Americans to get in touch
Russia's foreign intelligence service released an English-language video on Thursday, urging "true American patriots" who care about world peace to get in touch via secure communication in response to efforts by the CIA to recruit Russians.
www.reuters.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Russia's spies, in retaliation against the CIA, urge Americans to get in touch - www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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America in Crisis: Navigating the Dark Road Ahead
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The New Republic
America in Crisis: Navigating the Dark Road Ahead
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February 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The New Republic
America in Crisis: Navigating the Dark Road Ahead
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The New Republic
America in Crisis: Navigating the Dark Road Ahead
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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A letter to Senate and House Intelligence Committees from The Steady State, a group of concerned retired intelligence, diplomatic, and national security officers.
February 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A letter to Senate and House Intelligence Committees from The Steady State, a group of concerned retired intelligence, diplomatic, and national security officers.
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12/20/2024: Intuit, owner of TurboTax, donates $1 million to the Trump Vance inaugural.
2/3/2025: Elon Musks says he deleted the division that created the IRS's Direct File, a free alternative to Turbo Tax
Sources:
lda.senate.gov/filings/publ...
x.com/elonmusk/sta...
2/3/2025: Elon Musks says he deleted the division that created the IRS's Direct File, a free alternative to Turbo Tax
Sources:
lda.senate.gov/filings/publ...
x.com/elonmusk/sta...
February 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
12/20/2024: Intuit, owner of TurboTax, donates $1 million to the Trump Vance inaugural.
2/3/2025: Elon Musks says he deleted the division that created the IRS's Direct File, a free alternative to Turbo Tax
Sources:
lda.senate.gov/filings/publ...
x.com/elonmusk/sta...
2/3/2025: Elon Musks says he deleted the division that created the IRS's Direct File, a free alternative to Turbo Tax
Sources:
lda.senate.gov/filings/publ...
x.com/elonmusk/sta...