Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

Are you ready to hold Elon and his DOGEbags criminally accountable yet? #TeslaTakedown
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This is the way a lot of us would like to think we would respond to hostile questions in a Congressional hearing, but its rare to see a witness just turn the tables on a Senator like this.

Exclusive: U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year Snubbing Ukraine's offer ranks as one of the U.S.'s biggest tactical miscalculations before the war, officials say.

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The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children.

The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war.

Priorities.

'They're giving me up to die' A federal judge placed Arizona's prison health care in receivership after 14 years of unconstitutional neglect and preventable deaths

The preventable suffering and deaths in Arizona’s prison system must end.

We sued Arizona and after a decade of the state failing to address the crisis, prison health care is now controlled by a third party who reports to the court. This intervention will save lives.

Approximately 140 U.S. service members have been wounded in the first 10 days of the war with Iran, according to the Pentagon

@davidjbier.bsky.social is so so good at this. He's my guest on next week's #WITHPod

ICYMI: Republicans BLOCKED my bill to fund TSA.

Republicans are punishing travelers and forcing TSA agents to work without pay because they want to cut another blank check for ICE & Border Patrol.

It's shameful.

Daily Report US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll and injuries live tracker.

Preliminary figures are 1,255 dead in Iran, at least 13 in Israel, eight US soldiers and 14 killed in Gulf states.- Middle East news sources

The average American senior’s Medicare premiums last year were about 10% higher, or more than $200 annually, because of alleged overpayments to private Medicare Advantage plans, congressional investigators found. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3PcusZX

Markwayne Mullin is the same dude already under scrutiny for suspicious stock trades.

And he’s supposed to run America’s national security.

• No government security experience
• No law enforcement background
• No intelligence work
• No military service
• Not even a bachelor’s degree

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

I just left another briefing on Iran. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

I just left another briefing on Iran.

Here's the only part of Trump's plan that is clear to me:

He won't spare a cent for the 15 million Americans who will lose their health care, but he'll spend a billion dollars a day bombing Iran.

The Ayatollah is *alleged* to have *tried* to kill Trump. Well, guess what, Ted? Trump actually DID kill the Ayatollah. And I bet you wouldn't use the word "murder" to describe that, would you?

And Trump killing Iranian schoolgirls *increases* risks to him and other Americans, you dishonest tool.

The war with Iran is barely a week old, but more than 330,000 people have already been displaced as a result of intensifying hostilities, according to the UN.

Keep in mind that the affected regions already host 24.6 million forcibly displaced people.

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❗️Iran begins laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, deploying a few dozen in recent days, according to people familiar with US intelligence reporting. The waterway carries about one-fifth of global crude oil supply. #Iran

In 1972, the US had more metro lines per capita than Canada, France, or Germany. Now, it's below all of them. It only has 50% of Canada's per-capita metros.

In 1990, 4 of the world’s 14 longest metros were in the US. Today, not a single US network sits on that list.

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OPINION: Why Is There No Anti-War Movement in the US? - Bucks County Beacon For the sake of Iranians, the Middle East, and working people in the US, we’d better start building one as soon as possible.

OPINION: Why Is There No Anti-War Movement in the US? | For the sake of Iranians, the Middle East, and working people in the US, we’d better start building one as soon as possible.

Per Witkoff, yesterday Jared Kusher had a call with Putin’s adviser Ushakov "independently of Trump”

these people do not care about our service members. they don’t respect your hard-earned tax dollars.

they’re spending millions on steak and lobster while they send working class kids to die in ANOTHER pointless war in the middle east

GOP’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ erases 12 years of solvency for Medicare trust fund: CBO Congressional scorekeepers expect the Hospital Insurance trust fund to run dry more than a decade earlier than they previously expected, after Republicans’ megabill slashed the revenues it receives…

Thanks to Republicans’ budget, the Congressional Budget Office estimates funds for Medicare Part A will run out 12 years earlier than expected.

Republicans chose to fund tax cuts for billionaires over health care for millions of Americans.

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ICYMI yesterday, check out this conversation about ICE's detention warehouses. We cover what is going on, who is profiting, and what the dangers are. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

Baltimore police say an officer and suspect have been shot in an 'active shooter incident' Police in Baltimore say an officer and a suspect have been shot in an “active shooter incident.” Police say the officer was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma unit.

BREAKING: A Maryland officer and a suspect have been shot in an active shooter incident in Baltimore, police say.

Polymarket Bets on Iran War Show Limits of Prediction Markets for Wall Street Prediction market platforms have justified their existence to regulators and lawmakers with a high-minded argument: their contracts are novel financial instruments that let investors hedge against eco...

Ban online gambling on military operations. End of story.

Georgia voters are choosing a successor for Marjorie Taylor Greene The winner will serve out the remaining months of Greene’s term. But if they want to remain in Congress beyond next January, they will have to run again.

Months after Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress after a falling out with President Donald Trump, voters in her Georgia district will vote for her successor in a special election Tuesday. https://to.pbs.org/4bbGMBa

Meta has deliberately cut civil rights and civil liberties out of its calculus. As an internal Meta memo reasoned, “Many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” The company presumably sees a business opportunity in the ongoing assault on American democracy. That’s where Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, is wrong: We are paying attention, and we understand clearly that this technology is part of that very same assault on our rights. We are always ready to fight, and we will continue to defend everyone’s rights — from both the government and Big Tech.

It was recently leaked that Meta plans to quietly roll out smart glasses equipped with facial recognition while civil liberties groups like ours are busy dealing with the Trump administration.

They're wrong. We can walk and demand Meta halt production on these creepy glasses at the same time.

Our hearts are with the family and friends of Sergeant Pennington. The brave members of our military and armed services who put on the uniform in service to our state and country are our neighbors, friends, and community members. Colorado honors Sergeant Pennington’s service and bravery.

A shocking number of people responding to this video clearly did not watch the video. David is extremely opposed to the Trump administration's terrorization of immigrant communities. He is describing serious problems with the current laws which make accountability difficult.