Rhi
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This shit's scary. We must keep shining a harsh light on what these supervillains are doing with our personal data.
The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions.
We ignore history's lessons at our own peril.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions.
We ignore history's lessons at our own peril.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You (Gift Article)
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This shit's scary. We must keep shining a harsh light on what these supervillains are doing with our personal data.
The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions.
We ignore history's lessons at our own peril.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions.
We ignore history's lessons at our own peril.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
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The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.
April 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Two friends in gov tell me this is common practice in this admin as Trump & Co try to circumvent the Presidential Records Act and FOIA requests.
So much for us plebes that followed the rules!
So much for us plebes that followed the rules!
This is the wildest story I have literally ever read. In any normal circumstances, a half-dozen senior officials would be forced to resign over this—starting with the National Security Advisor. And I doubt anyone will face any accountability at all.
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
March 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Two friends in gov tell me this is common practice in this admin as Trump & Co try to circumvent the Presidential Records Act and FOIA requests.
So much for us plebes that followed the rules!
So much for us plebes that followed the rules!
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Fellow feds - if you’re being directed to destroy records, report it to the National Archives Office of Records Management Oversight and Reporting. www.archives.gov/records-mgmt...
Unauthorized Disposition of Federal Records
Federal agencies are required to "notify the Archivist of any actual, impending, or threatened unlawful removal, defacing, alteration, corruption, deletion, erasure, or other destruction of records in...
www.archives.gov
March 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Fellow feds - if you’re being directed to destroy records, report it to the National Archives Office of Records Management Oversight and Reporting. www.archives.gov/records-mgmt...
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Fun fact, DOGE is fucking around on the back end of ID.me Word is, they are stealing the code. Look for a mush competitor to come soon!
ID.me
ID.me
March 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Fun fact, DOGE is fucking around on the back end of ID.me Word is, they are stealing the code. Look for a mush competitor to come soon!
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I know people are concerned about Feds going without paychecks for a while, but this is not our first shutdown, and we have ways to keep our bills paid during a shutdown so we will be ok. But we will not be ok if this CR passes! Please call your senators and ask for no on cloture!! #ShitShowShutDown
A shutdown is necessary to preserve and protect our democracy. We can not sustain this oligarch's slash & burn strategy.
They have taken food away from children, stripped jobs from families & have taken direct aim at your social security. We must draw a hard line and hold it.
#ShitShowShutDown
They have taken food away from children, stripped jobs from families & have taken direct aim at your social security. We must draw a hard line and hold it.
#ShitShowShutDown
Dear Senators,
Do not hand over our democracy because you are afraid of owning the shutdown. We will remember if you sell us out. We will support you if you support us.
Do not hand over our democracy because you are afraid of owning the shutdown. We will remember if you sell us out. We will support you if you support us.
March 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I know people are concerned about Feds going without paychecks for a while, but this is not our first shutdown, and we have ways to keep our bills paid during a shutdown so we will be ok. But we will not be ok if this CR passes! Please call your senators and ask for no on cloture!! #ShitShowShutDown
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Among the more inhumane things Trump/Musk have done this week, DOGE cut off food, water, & fuel to the US embassy in South Sudan. They are living on what power the generator can provide. The country has no potable water & there's a cholera outbreak in the country.
These Americans are in real danger.
These Americans are in real danger.
February 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Among the more inhumane things Trump/Musk have done this week, DOGE cut off food, water, & fuel to the US embassy in South Sudan. They are living on what power the generator can provide. The country has no potable water & there's a cholera outbreak in the country.
These Americans are in real danger.
These Americans are in real danger.
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
February 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
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U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.
February 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.
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February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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The Trump Administration wants to undo generations of progress in addressing racial discrimination against Black people.
No matter what, we will always fight for a version of “We the People” that includes everyone.
No matter what, we will always fight for a version of “We the People” that includes everyone.
February 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Trump Administration wants to undo generations of progress in addressing racial discrimination against Black people.
No matter what, we will always fight for a version of “We the People” that includes everyone.
No matter what, we will always fight for a version of “We the People” that includes everyone.
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The American Bar Association is made up of all political affiliations, remaining committed to justice.
This letter from Bar president William R. Bay speaks volumes.
This letter from Bar president William R. Bay speaks volumes.
The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
www.americanbar.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The American Bar Association is made up of all political affiliations, remaining committed to justice.
This letter from Bar president William R. Bay speaks volumes.
This letter from Bar president William R. Bay speaks volumes.
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Republicans have a 2 seat majority in the House. They’d love nothing more than a few progressive members of Congress being behind bars for days/weeks while fighting federal obstruction charges. Every vote matters over the next two years.
February 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Republicans have a 2 seat majority in the House. They’d love nothing more than a few progressive members of Congress being behind bars for days/weeks while fighting federal obstruction charges. Every vote matters over the next two years.
So half the country apparently thought "Great Again" would mean wonderful, and the other half of us correctly knew it meant how my dad said it : "well, this is just fuckin great" again.
February 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So half the country apparently thought "Great Again" would mean wonderful, and the other half of us correctly knew it meant how my dad said it : "well, this is just fuckin great" again.
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.