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“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote. “We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s actions.”
21 federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE slash size of government
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 ...
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February 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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If you missed it, here was today’s “live” where I discuss among other things, how we can keep pushing back!

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/live-with-...
Live with Adam Kinzinger
A recording from Adam Kinzinger's live video
adamkinzinger.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Behind the Curtain: Hard truths about Trump budget cuts www.axios.com/2025/02/25/d...
Behind the Curtain: Hard truths about Trump and Musk's budget cuts
This is our attempt to clinically outline the facts about deficits — and efforts to reduce them.
www.axios.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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3 judges just slapped down the Trump administration in 90 minutes.

The judges are saying what we all know: Trump and DOGE want it to be a Golden Age for lawlessness and chaos.

Democrats will not stop standing up for the American people.
February 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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DOGE wants to cut 875 contracts that help cover medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors and provide burial services to veterans www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
DOGE to cancel government contracts that help veterans, records show
Records show among the 875 contracts were arrangements to help medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors and provide burial services to veterans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Tonight, I voted no when Republicans tried to call a trick vote for their budget.

We need to ensure they cannot take healthcare away from millions so the wealthy get a tax break.
February 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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“You’re terminated because…?”

Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside.

DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”
February 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Not great: “They are greatly diminishing CDC and the country's ability to respond to emerging infectious threats."

Let’s all hope that bird flu doesn’t get any worse 🤞🏽

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Upheaval and firings at CDC raise fears about disease outbreak response
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The expectation that there will be fewer jobs out there 6 months in the future just surged to its highest level in over a decade
February 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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21 U.S. DOGE Service staffers resign over a refusal to 'jeopardize Americans' sensitive data,' letter says www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
21 U.S. DOGE Service staffers resign over a refusal to 'jeopardize Americans' sensitive data,' letter says
The joint resignation letter was addressed to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and uploaded to a webpage called WetheBuilders.org.
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Even the people working at DOGE say it is a lawless nightmare for America. In fact, they know it better than anyone.

Thanks to these true public servants who won’t stand for such a dangerous betrayal of the American people.
21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services
Twenty-one members of the United States DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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'It's time to say no!': @warren.senate.gov torches Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and 'these damn billionaires' youtu.be/eJIImDa-Ygw?...
February 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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From a guy who used to work there: Rachel is a remarkable person and the best TV news talent there is. If she says something is fucked up, it is. Getting rid of Joy, who dared to see through this fascism bullshit years ago and had the gall of occasionally being funny about it, is dumb.
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Rep Tom Suozzi: “Very simple. Putin is a dictator. Zelenskyy is not.” What’s so hard to understand about that?
February 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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"The fact remains that the president of the United States publicly berated a democracy fighting an invasion by the autocrat next door while portraying that autocrat as a man of peace." If he *is* playing multi-dimensional chess...he's not very good at it.
Betrayal and Hope in Ukraine
Russia is not nearly as strong as Trump would have you believe—and Ukraine is not nearly as defeated.
www.thebulwark.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
February 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Comer threatens to remove Dem Rep. Maxwell Frost from chaotic Oversight hearing after bashing Trump as a 'grifter' nypost.com/2025/02/25/u...
Comer threatens to remove Dem Rep. Maxwell Frost from chaotic Oversight hearing after bashing Trump as a ‘grifter’
Tensions flared as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer threatened to forcibly remove Rep. Maxwell Frost from a chaotic Tuesday hearing after the Dem rep violated a ban on him speaking fo…
nypost.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM