A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Breaking character: The 50501 protests were a success. And the events list on indivisible.org now works great.
Saw a great idea: "Tesla Tuesdays", protest at Tesla dealers with signs saying "No one elected Elon".
Share any other ideas you have in the replies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
It cannot be stressed enough how much our nation's current fascism problem can be traced back to the fact that white people didn't want their kids to go to school with black kids.
Simplification? Sure.
But it REALLY isn't far off at all.
From my reporting:
The resegregation administration says no science for coloreds or ladies
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DOGE staffers took over USAID offices as senior officials and other employees placed on leave, sources tell ABC News
BREAKING: Staffing was “not normal” in the air traffic control tower at the time of a midair collision near D.C., an FAA report obtained by AP says.
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
This Sunday, Cecilia Vega meets the veteran State Department officials who left their jobs and are speaking out about the U.S. government’s role in the war in Gaza.
I mean duh. It was Merrick Garland’s job to get these folks. He & the DOJ did not. Here we are.
$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
In response to the death of their colleague Stephanie Holland, writers at The Root were asked to write more stories to "offset" her death
Last month, State Farm — the largest home insurance provider in California — said it would drop 30,000 home insurance policies across the state.
Thousands of those losing coverage are homeowners in LA County, and in the Pacific Palisades specifically.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized a rule to remove medical debt from credit reports.
Millions of Americans' credit scores could improve as one of the biggest sources of debt is taken off reports.
abcnews.go.com/US/new-feder...
and just like with 2001, there is a better than even chance that this republican president and his gleeful allies will plunge us right back into chaos and disorder
The minimum wage just went up in 21 states, increasing the pay of 9.2 million workers by a total of $5.7 billion, according to @epi.org.
The federal minimum wage continues to sit at $7.25 as it has since 2009.
this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight
Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Five people are dead and others injured after a shooting Monday at Abundant Life Christian School, a private Christian school in Wisconsin. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes says the suspected shooter is among the dead.
Disney has agreed to settle California's largest wage theft lawsuit, paying out $233 million to 50,000 workers who are owned back pay.
The workers are owned this money because the corporate giant failed to pay them the legally mandated $15/hr minimum wage.
www.yahoo.com/news/disneyl...
Nancy Pelosi is an 84 year old who is worth $240 million dollars. She didn't let falling down a marble staircase in Luxembourg get in the way of working to block a 35 year old working class Latina woman from becoming a committee chair.
This is why we're fucked.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law
Jeff Bezos makes over $14,000 in the span of time that a worker earns 50 cents.
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Came here to KiKi about this CNN shit show.
So embarrassing
Thanks for the love!
