Derek Coffrin
@dcoffrin.bsky.social
Paramedic, IT Engineer, burgeoning homebrewer, 6th gen. VTer, diehard #RedSox and #StarTrek fan. Tweets are my own.
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the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
March 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
March 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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DOGE has quietly deleted the biggest “savings” it once celebrated — but its list of savings is still full of errors. Why DOGE’s data is so wrong, and why it matters. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: Musk’s Cost-Saving Claims Are Wrong in So Many Ways
We found huge errors in the “wall of receipts” for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where the group lists what it has saved by canceling federal contracts. After The New York...
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE has quietly deleted the biggest “savings” it once celebrated — but its list of savings is still full of errors. Why DOGE’s data is so wrong, and why it matters. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Smoke, mirrors, and bullshit.
MORE DOGE DELETIONS...
Elon Musk's error-plagued effort has deleted about $4B *more* of the savings it claimed on its "wall of receipts." The total amount it claims to have saved has shrunk from $16 billion to $9 billion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Elon Musk's error-plagued effort has deleted about $4B *more* of the savings it claimed on its "wall of receipts." The total amount it claims to have saved has shrunk from $16 billion to $9 billion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Smoke, mirrors, and bullshit.
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This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.
Mike Johnson on Elon Musk: "We meet late into the night in his office and we've looked at that. What he's finding with his algorithms crawling through the data of Social Security system is enormous amounts of fraud, waste, and abuse."
March 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.
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Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.
March 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.
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Putin and Russia are the bad guys.
Zelensky and Ukraine are the good guys.
Trump has us siding with the bad guys.
This is like if Roosevelt told Churchill that if he’d just let Hitler have the rest of Europe, everything will be fine.
Zelensky and Ukraine are the good guys.
Trump has us siding with the bad guys.
This is like if Roosevelt told Churchill that if he’d just let Hitler have the rest of Europe, everything will be fine.
February 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Putin and Russia are the bad guys.
Zelensky and Ukraine are the good guys.
Trump has us siding with the bad guys.
This is like if Roosevelt told Churchill that if he’d just let Hitler have the rest of Europe, everything will be fine.
Zelensky and Ukraine are the good guys.
Trump has us siding with the bad guys.
This is like if Roosevelt told Churchill that if he’d just let Hitler have the rest of Europe, everything will be fine.
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Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix*
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
February 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix*
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
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Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.”
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.”
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
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We knew from the start that DOGE was a scam designed to dismantle the critical programs Americans depended on.
This mass resignation proves DOGE employees know that too.
We must stop Trump and Musk's destruction before the damage becomes irreparable.
This mass resignation proves DOGE employees know that too.
We must stop Trump and Musk's destruction before the damage becomes irreparable.
More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”
Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE
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 5:26 PM
We knew from the start that DOGE was a scam designed to dismantle the critical programs Americans depended on.
This mass resignation proves DOGE employees know that too.
We must stop Trump and Musk's destruction before the damage becomes irreparable.
This mass resignation proves DOGE employees know that too.
We must stop Trump and Musk's destruction before the damage becomes irreparable.
apnews.com/article/doge...
“It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective,” said Charles Tiefer. “Their terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn’t accomplish anything for saving money.”
“It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective,” said Charles Tiefer. “Their terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn’t accomplish anything for saving money.”
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 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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“It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective,” said Charles Tiefer. “Their terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn’t accomplish anything for saving money.”
“It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective,” said Charles Tiefer. “Their terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn’t accomplish anything for saving money.”
"Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire con man with a lot of money." - @aoc 🎯
Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
February 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire con man with a lot of money." - @aoc 🎯
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Balint: And now the United States stands with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and all of our allies in Europe? It’s sick
February 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Balint: And now the United States stands with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and all of our allies in Europe? It’s sick
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Shoutout to Governor Janet Mills! This is the kind of courage we need.
February 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Shoutout to Governor Janet Mills! This is the kind of courage we need.
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Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.
Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)
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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
February 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
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This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ?
And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions !
We all look forward to reading your thoughts
And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions !
We all look forward to reading your thoughts
I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.
February 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ?
And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions !
We all look forward to reading your thoughts
And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions !
We all look forward to reading your thoughts
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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This is how the world views the US.
Australia calling out fascism, then adding that "Trump is a disaster for humanity and he belongs behind bars, not the oval office."
Australia calling out fascism, then adding that "Trump is a disaster for humanity and he belongs behind bars, not the oval office."
February 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is how the world views the US.
Australia calling out fascism, then adding that "Trump is a disaster for humanity and he belongs behind bars, not the oval office."
Australia calling out fascism, then adding that "Trump is a disaster for humanity and he belongs behind bars, not the oval office."
This is insanity. The world’s economies rely on the USD as the primary reserve currency. This could easily upend our economy permanently.
“Now, as fears emerge Trump’s administration is ‘dangerously’ undermining the U.S. dollar, Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—including Musk’s pet project dogecoin.”
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan
Elon Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...
www.forbes.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is insanity. The world’s economies rely on the USD as the primary reserve currency. This could easily upend our economy permanently.