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Monday, February 10, 2025

'Our Democracy Is Under Siege’ Former Treasury Secretaries Write Scathing NY Times Op-Ed Warning Against DOGE's 'Threat to America'

'Our Democracy Is Under Siege’ Former Treasury Secretaries Write Scathing NY Times Op-Ed Warning Against DOGE's 'Threat to America'

Five former Treasury Secretaries issued a stark warning calling out President Donald Trump’s latest moves at the Treasury as a direct threat to American democracy’s financial backbone in a show of rising alarm.

The letter, published in The New York Times, unites Robert E. Rubin, Lawrence H. Summers, Timothy F. Geithner, Jacob J. Lew, and Janet L. Yellen—all veterans of Democratic administrations—in condemning what they describe as “arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments.”

I never understood the musicians playing music while the Titanic sank.

Now I do. - Brian Guest

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

Hold the f**k on a minute — Assistant President Poopy Pants spent $15 million taxpayer dollars to attend a single football game, but Phony Stark’s Division of DOGEbags can’t find the money to fund childhood cancer research?

Are you f**king kidding me?!? - JoJoFromJerz

My Guess: Hegseth And Musk Run Off With The Nukes!

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo that he expects to uncover “hundreds of billions” in “wasteful spending” at the Defense Department.

During an interview on Sunday Morning Futures, Hegseth told his former colleague that he welcomes Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to come help cut “wasteful spending” inside the department.

Here's to all the millionaire-at-birth racist brats,
surrounded by yes-men,
who think America's CIA & FBI agents
really enjoy being abused & hunted,
and would never, ever push back;
especially against billionaires
who might have things to hide. - John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

Kendrick literally protested, and taunted America in front of the president during America’s biggest sports event. Chefs kiss. - Joy DeAngela

Poll: Americans Favor Adjusting Trump’s Medication. - Andy Borowitz

Trump Says Accepting White Refugees from South Africa Will Alleviate US’s Severe Shortage of Racists. - Andy Borowitz

Trump has terminated the head of the National Archives because she had the nerve to try to recover documents he stole. - Henry M. Rosenberg

Three Strikes And You're Out. Right? I Wish.

A third federal judge indefinitely blocked President Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, dealing another stark blow to the controversial directive.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante granted the request Monday morning but said a written order setting forth his reasoning would follow in coming days.

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Nation Nostalgic for When Trump Had Rational Ideas like Drinking Bleach. - Andy Borowitz

Democrats Still Blaming Biden. Sheesh.
Democratic strategist David Axelrod criticized former President Biden for missing out on opportunities to reach American voters after he skipped the 2024 traditional presidential interview ahead of the Super Bowl.

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Business/Tech News

All of these “lets stop hating each other” commercials are fucking annoying when the source of the hatred and division is sitting in the stadium with his bronzer and 34 convictions watching the game like he’s not awful. - Alisa

Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?

President Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to axe the “wasteful” penny during a social media rant while watching the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to stop producing new pennies”, he wrote in an 8:30 p.m. Truth Social post Sunday.

Curious that talented athletes frequently credit God when they win, but we rarely see them blame God when they lose. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry. - godpod

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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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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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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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