Incredible interview

If anyone recognizes the secret police in this video (even with their masks) please let me know via email or Signal.

I'd like to file FOIA requests and it's helpful to identify people so you can instruct a federal agency where they should look for records. (John Smith's email account, etc)

A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.

Mob

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...

"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

Another disgusting part of all of this is the proof a blatant war crime to which the Vice President of the United States responded: Excellent.

You want us to believe you voted for the unlawful Trump/Musk impoundment and agency destruction because you see yourself as above politics, the thing you were elected to do?

BTW, you are outright lying about no cuts for veterans. This is what you just endorsed.

Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office | CNN Politics As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for ...

“.. In at least a dozen videos filmed in her OPM office, political appointee McLaurine Pinover modeled her outfit choices for the day, while directing followers from her Instagram account to a website that could earn her commissions on clothing sales.”

@cnn.com #DOGE
www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...

This is very good. The best piece of communication on this topic from a Democratic senator so far.

This shit is so grim. These guys are grifting like they're stripping the copper wires out of a slowly collapsing building.

Department of Education laying off half its employees

www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

I have no idea. He was low-hanging fruit because he's on a green card and organized protests on a college campus. They're trying to set a precedent to disappear political protesters without charges or legal recourse.

“But he quickly added, ‘The only reason there could possibly be a recession is because the Biden nonsense that we had to live with.’”

How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Fuel a Prison Labor Boom Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable group—incarcerated people.

“The shift from forced labor… laid the groundwork for the contemporary reliance on incarcerated people to fill labor shortages, not just in prisons but in industries like agriculture”

7 in 10 US farmworkers are foreign born; 40+% are undocumented

The Trump deportations will be BIG for prison labor

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

Beyond betrayal.

www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

Beyond threat--they are being damaged every damn day now.

I fear that this is just a prelude to further purges, the installation of yes men (pun intended), and the introduction of loyalty oaths. These are the steps that destroy professionalism and make the use of violence to restore "domestic order" thinkable --- and more likely.

The Independent: “Texas city refuses to give people hurricane aid unless they pledge not to boycott Israel” American Civil Liberties Union says application form for flooding relief grants 'reminiscent of McCarthy-era loyalty oaths' Chris Baynes Friday 20 October 2017 14:45 BST

If they will do this to Americans, what won’t they do to Palestinians. When we say fascist US foreign policy will always come home to roost, this is a very visible - albeit small - example of that.

This is from 2017. They’re even more motivated now.

The documentary Boycott goes into great detail about this.

youtu.be/FAMAFyR7L9U?...

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion.

Please read and share:

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

These Are the SpaceX Engineers Already Working Inside the FAA SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment ...

SpaceX at the FAA: conflicts of interest, “DEI” hires, subterfuge and misdirection, this story has it all. www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

I wonder what would happen if @wyden.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov asked GAO to investigate whether DOGE's "receipts" claiming savings amounts to fraud.

Honestly, it's the only fraud found so far.

www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

From the Jan. 6 pardons through this invitation to the White House, Trump has shown unsurpassed favor toward perpetrators of — and purveyors of material about — child sexual abuse.

How a Risky State Investment in Seafood Cost Alaskans Millions and Left a Fishing Town in Crisis Leaders of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which pays residents dividends and finances public services, wanted to invest in Alaska firms. There were warning signs ahead of the bet on Peter Pan Seafood,…

Alaskans lost millions after a state-backed deal with a seafood company went south. Our investigation reveals that state leaders and the management firm they hired ignored or overlooked warning signs leading up to the deal.

With @adn.com and Northern Journal

Forced to flee Congo, USAID workers lost everything. They’re suing Trump. USAID workers based in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, tell a harrowing story of how Trump’s attack on the agency complicated an escape.

"the house of the USAID mission director in Kinshasa had been looted, and videos of the ransacking began circulating on social media..."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal

Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE