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Let’s do this. Let’s cause some GOOD TROUBLE. Who will come after you? The IRS just cut to the bone. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time for Americans to withhold their taxes | Judith Levine
The point is not to deprive the government of funds. It’s to expose the regime’s criminality
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Let’s do this. Let’s cause some GOOD TROUBLE. Who will come after you? The IRS just cut to the bone. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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5. For more independent reporting on Musk and his minions, subscribe to Musk Watch.
We launched three weeks ago, and our reporting has already been cited in two federal lawsuits against the Trump administration.
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We launched three weeks ago, and our reporting has already been cited in two federal lawsuits against the Trump administration.
muskwatch.com/subscribe
February 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
5. For more independent reporting on Musk and his minions, subscribe to Musk Watch.
We launched three weeks ago, and our reporting has already been cited in two federal lawsuits against the Trump administration.
muskwatch.com/subscribe
We launched three weeks ago, and our reporting has already been cited in two federal lawsuits against the Trump administration.
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1. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of DOGE launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” URLs that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape.
DOGE Teen Ran Image-Sharing Site Linked to URLs Referencing Pedophilia and the KKK
The site launched by Edward Coristine in 2021 promised to protect the privacy of its users, stating, “All your images are encrypted. We do not log IP addresses, device agents or anything else.”
www.muskwatch.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
1. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of DOGE launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” URLs that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape.
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The heart of this issue is whether the abrupt removal of these webpages — which contained medical information that the govt has long encouraged physicians to rely on for making medical diagnoses — complied with decisionmaking laws/regulations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The heart of this issue is whether the abrupt removal of these webpages — which contained medical information that the govt has long encouraged physicians to rely on for making medical diagnoses — complied with decisionmaking laws/regulations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Literal Andrew Jackson backed off that position because he realized it would tear the Union apart, and he threatened to invade South Carolina over nullification a couple years later
For folks who are surprised about, or shocked by, Vance calling on Trump to ignore judges, he’s been saying it for a while but much of our political press wasn’t paying attention:
February 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Literal Andrew Jackson backed off that position because he realized it would tear the Union apart, and he threatened to invade South Carolina over nullification a couple years later
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Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.
February 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.
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As a retired IT Consultant, this is very concerning. They have been tasked with an assessment. Where is the documentation, recommendations and risk assessment? Who is the client who weighs these things and determines the move forward. Checks and balances matter.
Have reporters looked into whether this also violates state laws?
When Musk's minions forced their way into USAID's servers, they made themselves "super administrators" meaning they had access to workers' Social Security numbers, credit histories, and home addresses.
They may have well broken the law.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
They may have well broken the law.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
February 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
As a retired IT Consultant, this is very concerning. They have been tasked with an assessment. Where is the documentation, recommendations and risk assessment? Who is the client who weighs these things and determines the move forward. Checks and balances matter.
This is so important. Is Musk killing our existing systems so he can replace them with a complex AI system created on his super computer? Machine learning won’t end well if it is garbage in, garbage out. Who is verify the data AI consumes?
World leaders and technology executives are convening in Paris to discuss how to safely embrace artificial intelligence at a time of mounting resistance to heavy-handed red tape that businesses say stifles innovation reut.rs/4gBO4in
Paris AI summit draws world leaders and CEOs eager for technology wave
World leaders and technology executives are convening in Paris on Monday to discuss how to safely embrace artificial intelligence at a time of mounting resistance to heavy-handed red tape that businesses say stifles innovation.
reut.rs
February 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is so important. Is Musk killing our existing systems so he can replace them with a complex AI system created on his super computer? Machine learning won’t end well if it is garbage in, garbage out. Who is verify the data AI consumes?
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I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to wreck the economy, I didn’t know that he really meant that he was going to wreck the economy.
February 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to wreck the economy, I didn’t know that he really meant that he was going to wreck the economy.
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I often encounter people who are barely making ends meet while promoting the agenda of billionaires who keep their wages low and healthcare out of their reach and their kids’ educations defunded. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Show Up Where You Aren't Wanted
Or invited...
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I often encounter people who are barely making ends meet while promoting the agenda of billionaires who keep their wages low and healthcare out of their reach and their kids’ educations defunded. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Reupping from when you were all sleeping off Super Bowl.
In DC, Treasury told Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Tom Krause and DOGE boy Marko Elez had read-only access to Treasury's systems.
Now they confess that Elez had a copy of source code he had sandboxed.
DOJ cites that to Tom Krause's declaration.
In DC, Treasury told Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Tom Krause and DOGE boy Marko Elez had read-only access to Treasury's systems.
Now they confess that Elez had a copy of source code he had sandboxed.
DOJ cites that to Tom Krause's declaration.
A footnote in last night's filing from DOJ confesses that DOGE boy Marko Elez was playing with a copy of Treasury data in a sandbox, which it cites to Tom Krause's declaration.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reupping from when you were all sleeping off Super Bowl.
In DC, Treasury told Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Tom Krause and DOGE boy Marko Elez had read-only access to Treasury's systems.
Now they confess that Elez had a copy of source code he had sandboxed.
DOJ cites that to Tom Krause's declaration.
In DC, Treasury told Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Tom Krause and DOGE boy Marko Elez had read-only access to Treasury's systems.
Now they confess that Elez had a copy of source code he had sandboxed.
DOJ cites that to Tom Krause's declaration.
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During our collective 18 years at the helm of the Treasury, we never were asked to stop congressionally appropriated funds from being paid out in full. Not since the Nixon administration has this type of executive action been contemplated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
During our collective 18 years at the helm of the Treasury, we never were asked to stop congressionally appropriated funds from being paid out in full. Not since the Nixon administration has this type of executive action been contemplated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
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"J.D. Vance is an embarrassment to the law school that I attended," Conway said. "But the fact of the matter is, he's telling us something that we should have already known, and last week I said it. They are not going to obey court orders,..."
www.rawstory.com/george-conwa...
www.rawstory.com/george-conwa...
'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy
George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts “aren’t allow...
www.rawstory.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"J.D. Vance is an embarrassment to the law school that I attended," Conway said. "But the fact of the matter is, he's telling us something that we should have already known, and last week I said it. They are not going to obey court orders,..."
www.rawstory.com/george-conwa...
www.rawstory.com/george-conwa...
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"With many conservatives salivating at the thought of judges who are even more conservative, agenda-driven and loyal to Trump than those appointed in the first term, there is no room to give a single nominee the benefit of the doubt."
The Resistance We Need From Senate Democrats Under Trump 2.0
Opinion | Of the harms Trump can and will do over his next four years in office, the judges he appoints will have the most lasting effect.
www.democracydocket.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"With many conservatives salivating at the thought of judges who are even more conservative, agenda-driven and loyal to Trump than those appointed in the first term, there is no room to give a single nominee the benefit of the doubt."
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Barely three weeks in, and a single, solid order from a highly respected federal judge, and they already are hinting at ignoring judicial orders, the ultimate constitutional crisis. Trump and Vance as Thelma and Louise speeding up and driving car over the cliff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Barely three weeks in, and a single, solid order from a highly respected federal judge, and they already are hinting at ignoring judicial orders, the ultimate constitutional crisis. Trump and Vance as Thelma and Louise speeding up and driving car over the cliff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
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ICYMI: One of the inspector generals that Trump fired was examining Elon Musk's failures to meet reporting protocol designed to safeguard national security as a major recipient of Pentagon contracts.
Details in this thread:
Details in this thread:
In December, NYT revealed that Elon Musk and SpaceX were failing to meet govt reporting protocol designed to protect state secrets while they haul in billions in Pentagon contracts.
This triggered three reviews, according to the NYT. One was from the Defense Department inspector general. 1/
This triggered three reviews, according to the NYT. One was from the Defense Department inspector general. 1/
February 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ICYMI: One of the inspector generals that Trump fired was examining Elon Musk's failures to meet reporting protocol designed to safeguard national security as a major recipient of Pentagon contracts.
Details in this thread:
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Today, I’m calling on our brave public servants:
I’m launching a new portal for anyone who wants to expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety with the legal protections of being a whistleblower.
www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers
I’m launching a new portal for anyone who wants to expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety with the legal protections of being a whistleblower.
www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers
Whistleblowers | Senate Democratic Leadership
Senate Democratic Leadership
www.democrats.senate.gov
February 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Today, I’m calling on our brave public servants:
I’m launching a new portal for anyone who wants to expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety with the legal protections of being a whistleblower.
www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers
I’m launching a new portal for anyone who wants to expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety with the legal protections of being a whistleblower.
www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers
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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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Chief Justice Roberts’ King v Burwell opinion “would, if applied conscientiously, compel rejection of the Trump-Vought attempt to “undo” Congress’s “plan” for a merit-based civil service system.”
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
There May Be Enough Supreme Court Votes to Save the Government
Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But there is a way to win them back.
newrepublic.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Chief Justice Roberts’ King v Burwell opinion “would, if applied conscientiously, compel rejection of the Trump-Vought attempt to “undo” Congress’s “plan” for a merit-based civil service system.”
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
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I’ve said we should watch the things trump does that will hurt members of Congress that actually have to run for reelection. There will be lots of examples to come.
February 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I’ve said we should watch the things trump does that will hurt members of Congress that actually have to run for reelection. There will be lots of examples to come.
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This confirms what we are seeing before our eyes, Trump is repaying Musk's support for his campaign by letting him direct policy in a way that reflects Musk's whims, not the best interests of the American people.
February 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This confirms what we are seeing before our eyes, Trump is repaying Musk's support for his campaign by letting him direct policy in a way that reflects Musk's whims, not the best interests of the American people.
Wow. Worse that the Pinto. Perhaps they should wrap them in flames.
Back in the day, @motherjones.com exposed how deadly the Ford Pinto was. A new report indicates that the cybertruck is even worse: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Report: Elon's cybertrucks are deadlier than infamous Ford Pintos
It's just the latest reason to be skeptical of the car's safety record.
www.motherjones.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Wow. Worse that the Pinto. Perhaps they should wrap them in flames.
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