“Elon Musk’s hyperactive efficiency drive failed to prevent US federal spending rising to a record $603bn last month, new Treasury data has revealed, highlighting the Trump administration’s difficulty in drastically cutting the size of government.”

New in PN: Turns out DOGE can't beat FOIA by shouting NOT AN AGENCY

"Perhaps more importantly, the rulings that DOGE *is* an agency may provide a handle for outside litigants and Congress to grab hold of it before it succeeds in decimating the entire federal government. Let the FOIA cases begin!"

"DOGE’s claims are often either mathematically impossible, or, like the $50m 'condoms for Gaza' claim, simply false. This allows the administration to take a strategically ambiguous stance in hopes of shielding DOGE from judicial interference. But that strategy is failing." -- @lizdye.bsky.social

Holy shit, a whopping 56 percent of Americans DISAPPROVE of trump's abysmal handling of the economy.

This is lower than any other point even in his first term.

PASS IT ON.

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

So good. Just run this on loop @democrats.org.

Walz: "I wouldn't do those town halls if I were them either because they have to defend cutting Medicare, cutting Medicaid, hurting their local public school, fighting a trade war with Canada. Just the nonsense, and defending President Musk."

President Trump's tariffs have not only triggered trade wars, they're also leading to a "Boycott USA" global consumer backlash against U.S. goods.

A federal judge in Washington has reinstated Susan Tsui Grundmann to the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the agency responsible for adjudicating labor disputes between federal employees and management, after her removal by the Trump administration last month.

Democrats won a Minnesota state House special election Tuesday night — restoring a tie in the chamber and ending a monthslong power struggle in the Legislature.

NEW: A federal judge, for the first time, has ordered discovery on Elon Musk’s role in DOGE and his authority over the massive overhaul of the federal bureaucracy.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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Tim Walz & Bernie Sanders are going out and getting after it, they’ve got the right idea!

Good.

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.

The UK PM will host world leaders in what may be the largest gathering to date to specifically discuss achieving lasting peace in Ukraine.

Attending are leaders of 11 EU countries, Canada, Norway, Ukraine, NATO, the European Commission, the European Council, and the foreign minister of Turkiye.

The colour of integrity: When Putin invaded Ukraine, Haltbakk Bunkers of Norway stopped selling marine fuel to Russian ships. After the Trump mafia's Oval Office Ambush on Zelenskyy, they announced US ships too can buy their fuel elsewhere.

#SlavaUkraini
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