Jeff Hauser

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18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director:

Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse

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...

🚨 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."

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...

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"A former U.S. DOGE Service employee claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency databases and planned to share the information with his private employer...an unprecedented breach of security protocols."

As I mentioned in a prior post, three of the mayoral candidates say they support congestion pricing. @janeese4dc.bsky.social went farthest in explaining why in a @ggwash.org questionnaire:

The neoliberal mayor... Opposes the neoliberals on an issue where the neolibs are actually in line with progressives/greens because.... Bowser has always been awful and indefensible.

In remarks before the U.S. Judicial Conference, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took aim at the Supreme Court's shadow docket.

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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
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hah yeah we've been writing about this for years; @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social tried to pre-empt Abundance/AI data center crowd here: www.thenation.com/article/envi...

and here:

prospect.org/2022/09/23/p...

and many other places!

We’re winning the messaging battle against Trump’s extreme immigration policies, even while “popularists” who apparently haven’t read the news or the polls since 2024 bleat that we should be more cautious and accommodating

Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry - The American Prospect As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.

THIS PIECE HAS AGED WELL! Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry prospect.org/2025/09/05/2...

John Roberts did this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The only topics surveyed in the new NBC News poll that were less popular than AI? The Democratic Party and Iran

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... by @allansmith.bsky.social

A chart from CBS news on "How Senate Democrats voted on confirming top Trump officials Includes Democratic-leaning independents"

REFRESHER on the list of Senate Democrats who routinely voted to confirm some of the members of the worst cabinet in American history.

And remember all of them voted for Marco Rubio. www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

Centrists: Better Things Aren’t Possible - The American Prospect Third Way’s strategy session for Democratic moderates lacked any vision other than a hatred for progressives.

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

(screwed that up--obviously progressives blame corporate greed unfettered by a captured government)

Also, Nvidia is pissing on their old customer base of gamers--we've (sadly) seen what enraged gamers can do politically. Perhaps that anger can be used more constructively?

Conservatives/Abundance people think that scarcity is driven by government regulation.

Progressives believe that scarcity is driven by government regulation.

In an odd moment of candor, Nvidia CEO agrees that progressives are right. www.pcworld.com/article/3080...

And algorithms!

War Brings New Water Crises to an Already-Parched Iran

It's crazy that accelerationists and rationalists bemoan declining growth in human population as climate change creates quagmires like insufficient potable water in Iran.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/c...

NEW @nytimes.com ANALYSIS:

In 2008 (the last election before Citizens United), billionaires accounted for 0.3% of federal election spending.

In 2024, 300 billionaires & their immediate families accounted for 19% of all spending, either directly or through PACs, totaling $3B+.

Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB The credit bureaus have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.

Real-world implications: Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB @joeljacobs.bsky.social

‘I share your outrage’: Democrats woo MAHA moms ahead of the midterms Democrats hope the Trump administration's recent pesticide move will sway voters in their direction.

MAHA underscores how lefty anger at corporations can be EXTREMELY popular across the partisan spectrum.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

“Only ChatGPT is allowed to tell us to kill schoolgirls.”

Financial markets are STUPID.

It's all a grift.

I see we’re also taking the sanctions off of Putin we put in place after his ego driven war of choice aimed at regime change in Ukraine to help Russia sell more oil to mask for the damage from Trump’s ego driven war of choice aimed at regime change in Iran.

I thought this analysis was very well executed (and judging by the like count so did a lot of people!)

1970s NYC real state developer/1980s Atlantic City casino operator uses language like he is a Mafiosa.

Color me shocked!

I suspect the United States is out of bombs.

Which is INSANE -- AND good news, of course*, but we're up to $1 TRILLION a year budget, have been poked in the eye about munitions industrial capacity for more than 4 years due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine....

(* I want US to stop invading Iran!)