#BreakingGovernment

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…

#Politics #BreakingGovernment from #ProPublica
More damage by #RFKjr.
Science, who cares?

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…

#Politics #BreakingGovernment from #ProPublica
More damage by #RFKjr.
Science, who cares?

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

#Politics #BreakingGovernment
I'm not surprised by this, but I still think it's shameful.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

2 months ago

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...

#Politics #BreakingGovernment
How is it OK for #SpaceX to have Rapid Unplanned Disassembly(RUD) events on a regular basis over active/busy airspace?
www.propublica.org/article/spac...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

2 months ago

A Year On: The DOGE Disaster A Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of your government

#Politics #BreakingGovernment
#DOGE -> Rapid Unplanned Disassembly of our government
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

3 months ago

Reporter's Notebook: A 1954 plea and the fading power of public shame YouTube video by CBS Evening News

#PoliticsWarning #BreakingGovernment
#TheSituation #OnShame
Heard of this?
#McCarthyEra - "Have you no sense of decency?"
For those running the current US government, the answer is a resounding "NO!"
youtu.be/QTOuuNXisww?...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

3 months ago

The Situation: On Shame What is the morally serious person supposed to feel?

#PoliticsWarning #BreakingGovernment
An excellent & very painful, piece by @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org of @lawfaremedia.org on dealing with deepening shame at the acts of the current US government.
#TheSituation #OnShame

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

7 months ago

Ukrainian Protesters Remind Us How to Fight for Democracy In the middle of a war, thousands of Ukrainians stood up against corruption and for good government.

#BreakingGovernment #FightingBack
open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

7 months ago

The Senate Confirms Trump's Criminal Defense Lawyer to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals In a tragic moment for the judiciary, Senate Republicans, instead of waiting to get all of the facts, rushed to confirm Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove to a judgeship on the Third Cir...

#BreakingGovernment #CourtsAndJudges
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

7 months ago

What's really appalling? Iowa leaders' suppression of free speech on campuses Gov.

#BreakingGovernment
"Protection for me, but not for thee."
open.substack.com/pub/basurekh...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

7 months ago

When Truth Becomes Treason: The Ouster of Jen Easterly and the Right’s War on Reality A West Point alumnus with decades of national service is canceled for fighting lies.

#BreakingGovernment #WarOnTruth
open.substack.com/pub/thetonym...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

7 months ago

We Are Fumbling the Fight Against AIDS Senate Republicans saved some PEPFAR funding at the last moment—but Trump has already heavily damaged the program.

#BreakingGovernment #ForeignAid
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

7 months ago

Opinion | A New Era of Hunger Has Begun

#BreakingGovernment #HungerInAmerica
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

7 months ago

How Trump’s Big Bad Bill Will Kill Americans What research tells us about how Trump policies are bad for your health

#BreakingGovernment #WorthReading
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

7 months ago

Stephen Colbert's Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show's death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.

#BreakingGovernment #WorthReading
open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

8 months ago

The Chaos and Cruelty of DVD v. DHS The litigation over third-country removals highlights the Trump administration’s pattern of legalistic noncompliance.

#BreakingGovernment from #Lawfare

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

8 months ago

How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13 President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....

#BreakingGovernment
Good work from #ProPublica.
www.propublica.org/article/buke...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

8 months ago

NYC mayoral candidate is arrested at immigration court after linking arms with man being detained New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested by federal agents at an immigration court.

#BreakingGovernment
apnews.com/article/brad...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

8 months ago

#BreakingGovernment

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

8 months ago

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

#BreakingGovernment
Good work from #ProPublica.
This seems like normal practice from the #DogeBros
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

9 months ago

Dying for a Paycheck: How Race Still Determines Who Lives or Dies at Work How deregulation and the gutting of OSHA under Trump2.0 makes it worse

#BreakingGovernment
This is shameful.
open.substack.com/pub/thetonym...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

9 months ago

The Walls Are Closing In On Corporate Media Legacy outlets stuck between a president who wants them dead and consumers who are increasingly tuning out

#BreakingGovernment
Blackmailers keep coming back.
open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

9 months ago

Don’t Quit, You Wavering Bureaucrat The government literally wants to traumatize you out of a job. Now is the time to stand your ground.

#BreakingGovernment
I understand the sentiment but I think it's asking a lot of someone else. Spend the next 4 years working for an administration that despises you and wants to ‘Put you in trauma.' because it's important to the rest of us.
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

10 months ago

#BreakingGovernment
#PamBondi #MagicMath from #Lawfare
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pam-...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

10 months ago

#BreakingGovernment
#TheSituation from #Lawfare
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

10 months ago

Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F

#BreakingGovernment
Do this! The #CivilServiceMatters
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

11 months ago

Elon Musk's secret weapon: the US Marshals Service “The risk to people’s civil rights is enormous.”

#BreakingGovernment
What could possibly go wrong.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

11 months ago

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

#BreakingGovernment
Seems like a pretty high risk profile.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

11 months ago

Here Comes the Gulag Trump comes for American citizens

#BreakingGovernment #FearOfGovernment
I'd to think the author is being alarmist, but I'm not confident any more.
Martin Niemöller: "First they came for..."
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Peter Jones

@petergjones.bsky.social

11 months ago

Hegseth Has All the Wrong Enemies Appointing his personal lawyer to a top spot at the Pentagon is another sign that the U.S. military is now fighting culture wars.

#BreakingGovernment
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...