@angelawi.bsky.social
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So what's next after today's May Day mobilizations?
On June 14, Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday.
But real power isn't staged in DC. It rises up everywhere else. That's why we're planning a nationwide day of action to say No Kings. 🧵
On June 14, Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday.
But real power isn't staged in DC. It rises up everywhere else. That's why we're planning a nationwide day of action to say No Kings. 🧵
May 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
So what's next after today's May Day mobilizations?
On June 14, Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday.
But real power isn't staged in DC. It rises up everywhere else. That's why we're planning a nationwide day of action to say No Kings. 🧵
On June 14, Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday.
But real power isn't staged in DC. It rises up everywhere else. That's why we're planning a nationwide day of action to say No Kings. 🧵
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I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
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Elon Musk attacking Peter Navarro is good because Navarro's a fucking idiot. This doesn't make Musk any better, since he too is a fucking idiot. The enemy of our enemy is also an asshole
Elon Musk And Peter Navarro Just Won't Stop Fighting And Golly That's Sad, Huh?
www.wonkette.com/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk And Peter Navarro Just Won't Stop Fighting And Golly That's Sad, Huh?
www.wonkette.com/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk And Peter Navarro Just Won't Stop Fighting And Golly That's Sad, Huh?
Oh dear. Please, stop. It's so sad when wingnut idiots fight.
www.wonkette.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Elon Musk attacking Peter Navarro is good because Navarro's a fucking idiot. This doesn't make Musk any better, since he too is a fucking idiot. The enemy of our enemy is also an asshole
Elon Musk And Peter Navarro Just Won't Stop Fighting And Golly That's Sad, Huh?
www.wonkette.com/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk And Peter Navarro Just Won't Stop Fighting And Golly That's Sad, Huh?
www.wonkette.com/p/elon-musk-...
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SCOOP: DOGE is getting audited.
Elon Musk's DOGE Is Getting Audited
The General Accountability Office's audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
SCOOP: DOGE is getting audited.
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Since this is a Congressional power they can take back from the President any time they want, I will believe Republican Senators are concerned when they start to act.
Some Republican senators on Capitol Hill, including one of President Trump’s most ardent supporters, have signaled their uneasiness to the sweeping global tariffs that the president announced this week and that sent global markets reeling. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...
April 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Since this is a Congressional power they can take back from the President any time they want, I will believe Republican Senators are concerned when they start to act.
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Does the Privacy Act not exist anymore?
It is bewildering how many laws which governed basic public sector practices for decades are being ignored.
It is bewildering how many laws which governed basic public sector practices for decades are being ignored.
SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Does the Privacy Act not exist anymore?
It is bewildering how many laws which governed basic public sector practices for decades are being ignored.
It is bewildering how many laws which governed basic public sector practices for decades are being ignored.
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New from @pamherd.bsky.social &I:
Americans lucky enough to have retirement savings are watching them melt away because of Trump's economic mismanagement. In normal times they could rely on Social Security.
Here is how Trump is also threatening SSA. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/as-savings...
Americans lucky enough to have retirement savings are watching them melt away because of Trump's economic mismanagement. In normal times they could rely on Social Security.
Here is how Trump is also threatening SSA. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/as-savings...
As Savings Disappear, Social Security is Also Under Threat
A two-pronged attack on Americans' financial security
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New from @pamherd.bsky.social &I:
Americans lucky enough to have retirement savings are watching them melt away because of Trump's economic mismanagement. In normal times they could rely on Social Security.
Here is how Trump is also threatening SSA. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/as-savings...
Americans lucky enough to have retirement savings are watching them melt away because of Trump's economic mismanagement. In normal times they could rely on Social Security.
Here is how Trump is also threatening SSA. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/as-savings...
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Hands off Madison, Wisconsin
April 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hands off Madison, Wisconsin
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April 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Trans women are women, anti-trans legislation does not protect any women, and this sort of anti-trans sentiment is dangerous for cis women too.
Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.
www.advocate.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Trans women are women, anti-trans legislation does not protect any women, and this sort of anti-trans sentiment is dangerous for cis women too.
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This is a great explainer for how efforts to automate fraud detection will inevitably lead to lots of innocent people being accused. We know this, because it happens again and again.
This is so far beyond hubris. www.techpolicy.press/doge-plan-to...
DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous | TechPolicy.Press
There are already many instances of AI-driven governance gone wrong, writes Ben Green. DOGE may offer a new case study.
www.techpolicy.press
March 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is a great explainer for how efforts to automate fraud detection will inevitably lead to lots of innocent people being accused. We know this, because it happens again and again.
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Breaking: DOGE got access to the child-support database
Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers
The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS
Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social
Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers
The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS
Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Breaking: DOGE got access to the child-support database
Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers
The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS
Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social
Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers
The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS
Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social
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New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Real chilling effects
A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
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"The filing said that if the appeals court didn't pause the order, the government wouldn't be able to make the deadline because it will take "weeks" to free up the money owed."
Are they lying and intentionally delaying? Did DOGE break the payment system?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Are they lying and intentionally delaying? Did DOGE break the payment system?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Supreme Court temporarily pauses judge's order on releasing frozen foreign aid funding
In court filings, the Trump administration contended it would take "weeks" to free the funding that a federal judge ordered released almost two weeks ago.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"The filing said that if the appeals court didn't pause the order, the government wouldn't be able to make the deadline because it will take "weeks" to free up the money owed."
Are they lying and intentionally delaying? Did DOGE break the payment system?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Are they lying and intentionally delaying? Did DOGE break the payment system?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
"Musk is the one committing an unprecedented fraud on the American people, conning it out of a functional government. He is systematically lying, claiming that there is widespread fraud and abuse, then leveraging those lies to remake government in ways that benefit the broligarchy."
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
Musk and Trump are modernizing the fraud trope, using it in new ways:
*Targeting core programs in unprecedented ways
*Undermining the government’s capacity to address fraud
*Providing a veil of legitimacy for state capture 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...
Musk and Trump are modernizing the fraud trope, using it in new ways:
*Targeting core programs in unprecedented ways
*Undermining the government’s capacity to address fraud
*Providing a veil of legitimacy for state capture 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...
Musk’s Fraudulent Fraud Squad
A tired trope gets a new lease of life
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"Musk is the one committing an unprecedented fraud on the American people, conning it out of a functional government. He is systematically lying, claiming that there is widespread fraud and abuse, then leveraging those lies to remake government in ways that benefit the broligarchy."
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There is a very good chance that next year tens of thousands of people will be dead because of an ideological opposition by the Trump administration to doing the basics of governing
NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There is a very good chance that next year tens of thousands of people will be dead because of an ideological opposition by the Trump administration to doing the basics of governing
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Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash
After a monthlong honeymoon for the G.O.P. at the start of President Trump’s term, lawmakers are confronting a groundswell of fear and disaffection in districts around the country.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
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“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote. “We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s actions.”
21 federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE slash size of government
Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...
apnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote. “We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s actions.”
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Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk’s DOGE are expected to produce no savings @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money,...
apnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk’s DOGE are expected to produce no savings @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...