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A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
February 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
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🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.
Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.
Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.
February 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.
Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.
Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.
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Tomorrow is the final Senate vote on whether to confirm Russ Vought as the head of the Office of Management and Budget.
Vought has made clear he thinks the president can freeze whatever spending he wants without checks or limits—he’s wrong, but determined. https://protdem.org/3EmYDbJ
Vought has made clear he thinks the president can freeze whatever spending he wants without checks or limits—he’s wrong, but determined. https://protdem.org/3EmYDbJ
Russ Vought’s Article I takeover
Explaining the Trump spending freeze and impoundment theory
protdem.org
February 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Tomorrow is the final Senate vote on whether to confirm Russ Vought as the head of the Office of Management and Budget.
Vought has made clear he thinks the president can freeze whatever spending he wants without checks or limits—he’s wrong, but determined. https://protdem.org/3EmYDbJ
Vought has made clear he thinks the president can freeze whatever spending he wants without checks or limits—he’s wrong, but determined. https://protdem.org/3EmYDbJ
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The same ELON MUSK who went ballistic over our tracking of his private jet flights, is now laughing in our faces as his team of geeks Hoover's up our private gov't data.
February 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The same ELON MUSK who went ballistic over our tracking of his private jet flights, is now laughing in our faces as his team of geeks Hoover's up our private gov't data.
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@dell.bsky.social on the Temporary Restraining Order we requested today to stop OPM from using the mystery server that contains info on pretty much the entire federal government community.
Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server
Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Musk’s associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order.
www.wired.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@dell.bsky.social on the Temporary Restraining Order we requested today to stop OPM from using the mystery server that contains info on pretty much the entire federal government community.
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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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February 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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
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...
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More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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It’s McCarthyism via executive fiat, directed by the world’s richest and most online man who thinks a thing called “the woke mind virus” has infected many parts of the federal government and will destroy “western civilization” if not ripped out root and branch. It’s John Bircher anti-communism, 2.0.
It's really appalling that things are happening -- like firing career Department of Education officials because they attended a diversity conference -- that remind me of what I've read about Mao's mid-1960s Cultural Revolution in China, a humanitarian disaster we don't talk about nearly enough
February 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s McCarthyism via executive fiat, directed by the world’s richest and most online man who thinks a thing called “the woke mind virus” has infected many parts of the federal government and will destroy “western civilization” if not ripped out root and branch. It’s John Bircher anti-communism, 2.0.
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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
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People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.
(Photos shared with me)
(Photos shared with me)
February 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.
(Photos shared with me)
(Photos shared with me)
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you can watch the press conference here: www.c-span.org/event/news-c...
Congressional Democrats on Trump Admin. Closing USAID HQ
Democratic members of Congress, including House Oversight and Judiciary ranking members Gerald Connolly (VA) and Jamie Raskin (MD), hold a news conference on the Trump administration closing the U.S. ...
www.c-span.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
you can watch the press conference here: www.c-span.org/event/news-c...
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EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
(Link at the end)
(Link at the end)
February 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
(Link at the end)
(Link at the end)
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Interim US attorney Ed Martin, whose office just fired a bunch of J6 prosecutors, is now telling Elon Musk they will prosecute anyone who "targets" DOGE employees. Presumably this is in response to a Wired article naming some, and a protest at OPM that occurred yesterday.
February 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Interim US attorney Ed Martin, whose office just fired a bunch of J6 prosecutors, is now telling Elon Musk they will prosecute anyone who "targets" DOGE employees. Presumably this is in response to a Wired article naming some, and a protest at OPM that occurred yesterday.
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Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.
February 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.
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Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private.
Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.
/ more for Canadians
Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.
/ more for Canadians
February 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private.
Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.
/ more for Canadians
Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.
/ more for Canadians
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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They also covered the People of Color in Cryptologic History honorees—like Wash Wong and Ralph Adams.
February 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
They also covered the People of Color in Cryptologic History honorees—like Wash Wong and Ralph Adams.
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Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.
February 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.
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Who can we get to weaponize the speech and debate clause?
One thing that has not been widely discussed:
A big reason some media outlets are treading carefully is threats of Trump defamation lawsuits.
Congressmembers are immune from defamation lawsuits.
And if a member says something, the media can repeat it safely.
A big reason some media outlets are treading carefully is threats of Trump defamation lawsuits.
Congressmembers are immune from defamation lawsuits.
And if a member says something, the media can repeat it safely.
WUTERICH v. MURTHA (2009) | FindLaw
Case opinion for US DC Circuit WUTERICH v. MURTHA. Read the Court's full decision on FindLaw.
caselaw.findlaw.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Who can we get to weaponize the speech and debate clause?