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Friday, February 7, 2025

JD Vance Goes to Bat for 25-Year-Old 'Kid' Elon Musk Staffer Who Resigned Over Racist Tweets: 'Bring Him Back'

JD Vance Goes to Bat for 25-Year-Old 'Kid' Elon Musk Staffer Who Resigned Over Racist Tweets: 'Bring Him Back'

...The Wall Street Journal published a story on Thursday about Marko Elez, a “key DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Department’s central-payments system” and resigned “after he was linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics.”

Even if they stopped, full stop, right now, the damage is already done and it will take years and years to fix.

I guess we know why Musk was so angry about his team's identity being shared. - Alex Cole

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.

Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form. - Angry Staffer

Trump Cancels News Subscriptions For Executive Branch

President Donald Trump ordered on Thursday that the federal government end all paid news subscriptions for employees and agency offices across the executive branch.

According to an email obtained by Axios, the White House told the General Services Administration to terminate “every single media contract” paid for by the federal government.

Ironic how Marco Rubio’s parents fled a fascist dictator in Cuba - only to have little Marco serve a fascist dictator in America. - anyonewantchips

The first stage of Trump’s Gaza plan should be him personally clearing the place of unexploded munitions. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

I want to live in boring times.
Give me mundane.
Give me trivial. - John Collins

They're Trying To Kill Us, Plain & Simple

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put more than 160 workers who tackle pollution in overburdened communities on leave.

The employees were part of the agency’s Office of Environmental Justice, which sought to help people in areas with significant levels of pollution — including minority neighborhoods.

There isn’t anti-Christian bias in America, there’s anti-Jesus bias in American Evangelical Christianity. - John Pavlovich

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Rock The Voter News

Q: If the US cuts off foreign aid, who will be there to get involved with all of those countries?
A: China.

Schatz Takes Direct Shots At Derelict Democrats
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) had some pointed remarks for Democratic strategists who have been advising the party’s elected officials to pick their battles carefully against President Donald Trump...“I’m not going to let some pundit dictate whether or not I exercise my obligations as a member of the Article I branch,” Schatz said. “David Axelrod, James Carville. I mean, those guys have not been in the trenches legislatively or electorally in a full generation. And there’s a cottage industry out there of Democratic strategists. But in order to be a Democratic strategist, you actually have to do politics currently and not just podcast about it.”

Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops. - Josh Marshall

USAID purchases over $2b of American soy and grain products annually.
Red State farmers are deep into FAFO.

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Business/Tech News

Musk says he's spending $40M of his own money on five, 30 second Super Bowl ads, revealing government waste that his DOGE hackers have supposedly found. - Molly Ploofkins

The Richest Man and the Most Powerful Man In The World Join Hands To Hurt The Most Vulnerable In The World

The United States Agency for International Development will lay off almost its entire workforce as President Donald Trump forces through cuts at the agency and elsewhere in complete circumvention of Congress, which funds USAID.

On Thursday, The New York Times reported more than 10,000 employees at the agency will lose their jobs and fewer than 300 will remain for the time being.

I hope they boo the s**t out of Trump at the superbowl. - Dave Matt

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Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

I💖NYC.

Peace.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

DOJ limits DOGE access to Treasury payment system

DOJ limits DOGE access to Treasury payment system

The Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed Wednesday to limit the number of employees affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who have...

It's too late, Musk already accessed the data or at least, his musk rats did

I would trust DOGE more if they started at the top with the $64 billion in PPP fraud instead of instantly nuking humanitarian efforts for babies in Africa.

who does that. - ZaksJerryRig

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

At what point does the military step in? Isn’t that what often happens in dictatorships where the dictator goes insane? Isn’t the US military supposed to have a plan for everything? - godpod

What you see now is a suit and tie version of January 6th

-Lawrence O’Donnell

Protests Across the USA Didn't Change A Thing

Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s early actions, decrying everything from the president’s immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States. - The Onion

Republican Shenanigans

Hold the f__k on — the Department of Government Efficiency, the entity which claims its mission is to end “wasteful spending”, was given SEVEN MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to cover its “expenses” in the span of a single week?!?!

Are you f__king kidding me?!? - JoJoFromJerz

I Didn't Know There Was A War on Christians. KKKristians, Yes.

President Trump announced plans Thursday to establish a task force and a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination.

Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, where he laid out multiple steps he planned to take to address what he described as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular.

I know so many atheists who are so much more Christlike than any MAGA member.

Because atheism does't require rejecting the actual teachings of Jesus. MAGA does. - John Fugelsang

Donold’s supporters don’t care if they lose their jobs or their freedom as long as he is performatively ‘owning the libs.’ That’s how much they have been taught to hate you. - godpod

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Rock The Voter News

I’ll say this much for Trump. He’s setting Elon Musk up perfectly to be the fall boy when things start to fall apart, which they will. - Rex Huppke

Sen. Fetterman Has Gone To The Dark Side

The U.S. Senate Tuesday night confirmed Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi as the attorney general of the United States under President Donald Trump.

Senators voted 54-46 to install the former Florida attorney general at the top of the U.S. Justice Department, an agency Trump has in his crosshairs after federal prosecutions targeted his actions following his loss in the 2020 presidential election.

Correspondents’ dinner headliner Amber Ruffin: ‘No one wants’ Trump to attend

I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtrooper's. - Kelsey Hightower

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism. - Fred Wellman

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Business/Tech News

Did Musk use this same team of hackers with the vote-counting computers? - Molly Ploofkins

DOJ Going After Sanctuary Cities, Starting With Chicago

President Trump’s Justice Department sued the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago and local officials Thursday over laws creating a so-called “sanctuary city.”

Accusing the officials of impeding federal immigration enforcement efforts, the Justice Department asked a judge to declare the state and local measures unconstitutional because of the federal government’s supremacy.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons. - Jorts

I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government. - SketchesbyBoze

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Trump Declares U.S. ‘Will Take Over the Gaza Strip,’ Says ‘We’ll Own It’

Trump Declares U.S. ‘Will Take Over the Gaza Strip,’ Says ‘We’ll Own It’

President Donald Trump said the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip” after Palestinians are expelled from the area.

Speaking at a joint press conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, Trump repeated his belief that Gazans should leave Gaza for places such as Egypt and Jordan. In a twist, the president claimed the U.S. “will own” the besieged territory, much of which has been reduced to rubble by the Israel Defense Forces after the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks.

The mainstream media must stop ignoring there's a coup by an unelected oligarch ideologically aligned with Russia and with business ties to Russia and China. The media empowers the coup by refusing to ring the alarm. - Andrea Chalupa

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

The world's richest man is orchestrating a coup. This is a constitutional crisis. Senate Democrats should not be confirming any of Trump’s nominees while this power grab continues. Nothing should be "business as usual." Call them and tell them that. (202) 224-3121. - Robert Reich

Two weeks ago, what Musk is doing now would be called espionage.

Now Would Be A Good Time For Some Sane Soul In The CIA To Leak The Bad Stuff About Trump
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.

Now wiping out the entire #CIA workforce. Folks: martial law is not far away. He is going to do it. Get your Supplies. Get some cash. Food. Gas in cars/garage. Check on your parents-make sure they are good. Get ammo for your weapons. This is a coup. Period. In broad daylight! - Sophia Nelson

Shuttering the agency responsible for international assistance.

Turning the government over to wealthy oligarchs motivated by economic self-interest.

Telling all CIA officers they will be paid if they quit.

China and Russia are winning so much they’re getting tired of winning. - Sen. Adam Schiff

Republican Shenanigans

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire education department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is. - Robert Reich

What A Clown Show
The U.S. Postal Service said on Wednesday it would accept parcels from China and Hong Kong again after a temporary suspension following President Donald Trump scrapping a trade provision used by retailers including Temu, Shein, and Amazon to ship low-value packages duty-free to the United States.

Why in hell did we spend billions of taxpayer dollars to fund the CIA, FBI and NSA to ‘protect national security’ if they allowed this to happen in real time when there were multiple published news reports documenting it happening years and months prior? - Fernand R. Amandi

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Rock The Voter News

Someone needs to tell Trump’s enablers that when this shitshow is over and the tribunals begin, he will have immunity but they won’t lol - Andy Borowitz

Not Only Are They Trying To Push Out Federal Employees, They Want To Renege On Office Leases.

One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages thousands of federal employee worksites around the country to cut down on office space.

Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee.

Poor Joe and Mika - they should have been sucking up to the South African dude. - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

Sen Chris Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

A $2 Flight. $2. Really?
President Donald Trump said his administration will investigate a high-speed rail project in California that, if completed, would connect San Francisco and Los Angeles with several stops along the way. Trump said a railway project isn’t necessary because, according to him, a plane ticket can be purchased for $2.

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today.

It's the little things. Microdose hope. - MuellerSheWrote

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