Scott Mikos

The enemy is inside the gates.

Universities employed this man in a position with authority over students.

And they are still employing others just like him.

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?

Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.

Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?

Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Like everything else in our timeline, our version of "callow young white boys blithely fuck everything up, never appreciate the damage they did, and face zero accountability" is just so f'ing ham-handed & over-the-top. Not believable. Terrible writing.

This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.

We cannot stop mass deportations without seriously reckoning with the American obsession with arrests and prosecutions.

"You don't regret that people might have lost important income?"
"No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero."
"Did you reduce the federal deficit?"
"No we didn't."
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IT'S NOT A TEST OF SAFETY REGULATIONS IT'S A TEST OF A "SELF-DRIVING" SYSTEM THAT STILL DOESN'T WORK AFTER A DECADE OF BLOWN DEADLINES

When he returned to the White House in January 2025, he brought this tic with him. The plan to fire federal employees was ahead of schedule in March 2025, and bringing gas prices down was ahead of schedule a month later. Passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” was ahead of schedule in May and then again in July. In October, the country learned that Trump had authorized the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, the first step in a massive project aimed at building a ballroom for official events. This would be a $200 million project, the White House website assured Americans, and — sure enough! — would be completed ahead of schedule. “It’ll be under budget, ahead of schedule,” Trump said in March. “It’ll be $400 million or less.” The project was delayed after preservationists sued to keep it from moving forward. But when a “schedule” exists solely as a rhetorical device, an abstraction that the president can be ahead of, such delays get shrugged aside as easily as a doubling of the budget.

For Trump, everything is always "ahead of schedule" for the same reason that everything is the "greatest" and has "never been seen before": it's a boastful superlative he has internalized regardless of whether there's any connection to reality.
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

MAGA's rhetoric of western civilizational emergency is so weird. They look at ICE arresting grandmothers and they see the ancient Greeks defeating the Persians or the Franks stopping the Islamic invaders in 732.

Everyone else sees ICE arresting grandmothers.

newrepublic.com/article/2076...

every day we get closer to elon musk promising to dig a tunnel to solve this problem

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Everybody who claimed it was just about the kids should be whacked in the shins

DR MARIO: you have a tumor

ME: i have two more what

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

I confess "Cato Institute allies" did not seem realistic a decade ago, but here we are

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.

NEW: An events company whose associates helped plan the Jan. 6th insurrection have raked in millions in contracts with the U.S. government since Trump's election.

The firm had previously netted only $50,000 in government contracts over the past decade.

Notice that both the mainstream press (owned by oligarchs) and most of the tech press (which passes every idiotic whim of "founder disruption" uncritically as acts of genius) have said nothing about this and it's 4 days old.

This was such a good job by the NYT's Shawn McCreesh.

He asked a very pointed and direct question to Trump about the school bombing, leading the president to corner himself (was he claiming the US sold Iran Tomahawks???) before admitting he doesn't "know enough" and will abide by the final report.

the best part is she really thinks she did something here

He slaughtered dozens of their children, then accused them of slaughtering their own children, then admitted that, hey, he was just popping off, who knows really.

I know nothing matters any more but here's the president admitting that he accused Iran of bombing a school full of their own children based on absolutely nothing.

everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true

It's bad the president is completely clueless, but even worse that he's being influenced by his failson-in-law who doesn't actually hold a government role at all.

Is he getting tips from cabbies, like Tom Friedman, too?

He doesn't remember saying it.