🚨 Another whistleblower has come forward about DOGE mishandling of sensitive data.
"He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint."
Last week, Third Way held a conference in South Carolina to discuss strategy on how to block the Democratic Party's progressive wing from gaining power come 2028. Our @henryburke.bsky.social tuned in to their conference where they discussed their hatred of the left... and not much else
NEW: Tomorrow marks three years since Silicon Valley Bank's failure. Despite the passage of time, accountability remains elusive. For @prospect.org, our @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social breaks down how Fed Vice Chair Michelle Bowman's calls for a new review ring hollow.
prospect.org/2026/03/09/t...
NEW: Kristi Noem’s firing is a welcome development, but the Trump admin’s many salacious scandals aren’t going anywhere. We unpack the Trump admin’s latest corrupt actions and how they imperil all of us in our latest Corruption Calendar newsletter:
Nearly 60 years ago, Ohio's Cuyahoga River was so polluted it caught fire, galvanizing the environmental movement that gave us the Clean Water Act and other lifesaving environmental laws. The AI industry's vision of our future hinges on a return to an era of unchecked industrial pollution.
Billions of dollars in federal disaster money has been tied up by Noem's $100k grant approval rule.
Now, Trump is releasing $5B in overdue aid, but not to CA, IL, MN, & CO—Democratic-led states w/ governors Trump has maligned.
Using disaster relief as a political weapon is unconscionable.
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This is OMB Director Russell Vought's DOGE in action.
And as we argued last year, it's going to kill a lot of people: prospect.org/2025/03/19/2...
The largest rent strike in a century?
The Minnesota unions behind the massive Jan. 23 day of action are now backing a potential rent strike to demand an eviction moratorium. At least 10K could withhold rent starting March 1. Here's what to know (1/6) inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
NEW Corruption Calendar
In our latest edition, @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social analyzes into Trump’s shakedown of the IRS, his backroom deals with the Emirati government, ICE’s plans to build camps across the country, and more.
Trump and his lackeys spent the past year gutting the EPA—minimal enforcement actions, slashed grants, lifelines for coal. It wasn't enough for industry.
The repeal of the endangerment finding, supported by industry and business groups alike, is icing on the whole rotten cake.
Bad Bunny, the world's most streamed artist for four years in a row, is also an eloquent critic of disaster capitalism. Our newsletter delves into the climate politics of his half-time show, from the sparking utility poles to the endangered toad that represents Puerto Rico’s imperiled heritage.
Trump's war on public data rages on: the EPA erased references to human-related climate change from its website, and the highly cited CIA World Factbook was quietly taken down without notice or reason. Americans are being deliberately kept in the dark
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
He was then flown to the Ice facility in El Paso, Texas. He said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions. Fights often break out over food, “even over those little child-sized juice containers”. Toilet areas are “filthy”. He said there is little to do but lie on a bed all day. Most detainees do not speak any English. He said he has been allowed outside for air and exercise fewer than a dozen times in nearly five months. The atmosphere is full of “anxiety and depression”, he said.
The government says the people being deported are violent criminals, and they treat them inhumanely. But mostly they are subjecting ordinary people to extraordinary punishments.
"DOGE’s objective was never to save taxpayer dollars. Musk did not 'fail'...DOGE was—and remains, through Vought’s OMB—an effort to extinguish the existing government and create a new one in the image of oligarchs and far-right ideologues."
The Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard to the nation's capital has cost taxpayers $330M and delivered little in the way of measurable results, per a new report from Democrats on the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security Committee.
Karp’s decision to surrender to the Trump administration drew condemnation from legal professionals who called the move cowardly.
Will Paul Weiss (and other law firms who cut deals with Trump) take this moment to reassess their capitulation?
Paul Weiss is attempting accountability. Brad Karp is resigning as chairman from the BigLaw firm after the newly released documents revealed his friendship with Jeffery Epstein.
The catch: Karp is still reportedly staying on as a partner at Paul Weiss.
NEW: Elon Musk's DOGE team officially disbanded last year, but its reactionary mission was being carried out in parallel—and continues to be executed today—by OMB Director Russell Vought, a far quieter, but no less villainous, figure.
We explain in @prospect.org
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Tax season is officially upon us. Thanks to DOGE, the IRS is completely unprepared.
"The divisions in IRS that process tax returns and provide telephonic and in-person customer service, as well as other duties related to filing season, have lost 8,300 workers, or 17% of their staff, the IG found."
we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.
The Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights is holding a hearing to "examine the competitive impact" of the Netflix/Warner Bros. merger.
The two witnesses? Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos and Warner Bros. exec Bruce Campbell. This is not serious oversight.
HUD is invoking the Fair Housing Act when attacking disfavored cities for, checks notes, complying with the Fair Housing Act. Read my latest to learn more about what is going on and why it is very bad!
In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
NEW: Our @jeffhauser.bsky.social on Kevin Warsh, Trump's Fed chair nominee with ties to a would-be Greenland profiteer.
"Warsh’s record suggests commitment to class and personal self-interest, not a broader dedication to an intellectually consistent view of the public interest."
Full statement:
NEW Corruption Calendar: Trump used tariffs to bully foreign governments into regulating Big Tech on Big Tech's terms, and the EPA will no longer consider the value of a human life as it hands corporations a huge win at the literal cost of our health.
the power of a tenant union 💛💛
The tenants won two-year leases, rent reductions, good cause eviction protections, and a schedule for major repairs by March 2026. All current evictions against strikers will be dismissed, and all lease non-renewals against strikers will be rescinded.
RENT STRIKE WIN
Yesterday, four months into their rent strike– the first in Raytown, MO history– Bowen Tower Tenant Union signed an agreement with their landlord. The agreement satisfies key demands and allows the union to de-escalate the strike by Feb 1.
In light of last week's revelation that DOGE mishandled Social Security data and violated the Hatch Act, @kjboyle.bsky.social looks back at DOGE's activity at SSA.
From dismantling customer service operations to using SSA data to surveil immigrants, DOGE agents must be accountable for much more.
