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The silence of my friends on the far Left who incessantly beat the, "Kamala is as bad as Trump" drum for months (likely costing her the election), while vilifying those of us trying to keep them from a stance that was going to harm the people of Gaza—is deafening.

We kept receipts.
February 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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An intelligence agency worker says that unidentified outside staffers arrived to sweep the office of anything they felt was related to DEI. That included a plaque, confiscated from a supervisor’s desk, that read, “Be kind to everyone.” via @annamerlan.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk's midnight takeover
The world's richest man and his allies are “avoiding office hours at all costs” as they take a wrecking ball to the US government.
www.motherjones.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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"Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old former camp counselor who called himself 'Big Balls' on LinkedIn before being tapped to do the bidding of a billionaire, held a call with SBA staff ..."
NEW: DOGE has requested and is being granted “access to all SBA systems,” per an email sent to Small Business Admin employees today. Edward Coristine, a DOGE official, held a call with SBA staff detailing level of access they wanted, including HR, contract and payment systems
February 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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"The men appear to have barricaded the entrance to the bank, spray painted the security cameras, and ordered the employees to lie on the floor. We're watching now to see if they do anything wrong."
I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
February 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office.

Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
February 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
February 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The risk of a global trade war could hurt U.S. corporate profits and pressure inflation, potentially upending U.S. interest-ratecut expectations and further weakening currencies such as the Canadian dollar and China's yuan reut.rs/40WkEXC
Tariff hikes unnerve Wall Street, markets prepare for fresh jolt
Analysts expect a selloff in stocks and other high-risk assets.
reut.rs
February 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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"The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over CLASSIFIED MATERIALS in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s government-inspection teams."

#USAID
USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk's DOGE from classified info, officials say
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material to Elon Musk’s government-insp...
apnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM