Matt Whitehouse
@prezwhitehouse.bsky.social
Iowa State alum, Aerospace Engineer and proud anti-nazi.
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
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"Is it not the Republican Party that's added a quarter of all debt in Trump's first term and added $4 trillion because of this budget?"
Mick Mulvaney: "I'm not gonna debate a podcaster."
Mick Mulvaney: "I'm not gonna debate a podcaster."
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"Is it not the Republican Party that's added a quarter of all debt in Trump's first term and added $4 trillion because of this budget?"
Mick Mulvaney: "I'm not gonna debate a podcaster."
Mick Mulvaney: "I'm not gonna debate a podcaster."
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
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Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.
September 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.
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Call me crazy, but I would check with a doctor about that wacky stuff Trump said yesterday before making any decisions
September 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Call me crazy, but I would check with a doctor about that wacky stuff Trump said yesterday before making any decisions
This is great!
September 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This is great!
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This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is why they’re deleting studies
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under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus
"We stand firmly on the principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the protection of free speech. HOWEVER, that right does not extend to speech that incites harm OR UNDERMINES THE DIGNITY OF OTHERS."
Emphasis added because holy fuck
Emphasis added because holy fuck
![@ClemsonUniv on X: A statement from Clemson University: [image of statement]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreid6n6w5ec7olzm2wahdjop6juf2tpvrean5lqesze2m7xtbpr2laa@jpeg)
September 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
July 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
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A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
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A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
June 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable
Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents
June 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable
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Even though they’re in the minority, Congressional Democrats have a lot of tools they can use here.
In addition to showing up at detention centers etc, Dems can grind the Senate to a halt, push impeachment articles against Noem in the House, and more.
Flood the zone.
In addition to showing up at detention centers etc, Dems can grind the Senate to a halt, push impeachment articles against Noem in the House, and more.
Flood the zone.
We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.
June 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Even though they’re in the minority, Congressional Democrats have a lot of tools they can use here.
In addition to showing up at detention centers etc, Dems can grind the Senate to a halt, push impeachment articles against Noem in the House, and more.
Flood the zone.
In addition to showing up at detention centers etc, Dems can grind the Senate to a halt, push impeachment articles against Noem in the House, and more.
Flood the zone.
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My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
June 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
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It's hard to show in a picture but this crowd is HUGE. I have it on good authority that it's "way bigger" than Hands Off.
June 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It's hard to show in a picture but this crowd is HUGE. I have it on good authority that it's "way bigger" than Hands Off.
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Shortly after the Atlanta #nokings event kicked off at 10, organizers said Liberty Plaza near the state Capitol had already reached maximum capacity of 5,000.
June 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Shortly after the Atlanta #nokings event kicked off at 10, organizers said Liberty Plaza near the state Capitol had already reached maximum capacity of 5,000.
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Manhandling a sitting US Senator is just the latest in a series of authoritarian moves by this Administration…Silencing your opposition from even asking a question.
They do this shit because they think they can get away with it.
Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.
They do this shit because they think they can get away with it.
Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.
June 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Manhandling a sitting US Senator is just the latest in a series of authoritarian moves by this Administration…Silencing your opposition from even asking a question.
They do this shit because they think they can get away with it.
Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.
They do this shit because they think they can get away with it.
Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.
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A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.
May 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.
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This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.
RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."
May 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.
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i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has begun baselessly claiming that birthright citizenship is a massive welfare scam.
Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.
Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.
Stephen Miller Unveils Bizarre New Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Stephen Miller has found a new excuse to ignore the Constitution.
newrepublic.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
April 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
April 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.