Gretchen Whitmer is a MAGA Democrat. If you're from Michigan, call her and tell her to resign immediately.
We need leaders who will fight the fascists, not ones who kiss their asses.
Gretchen Whitmer is a MAGA Democrat. If you're from Michigan, call her and tell her to resign immediately.
We need leaders who will fight the fascists, not ones who kiss their asses.
It is literally *easier* to get the votes to impeach, convict, and remove an orange fascist from the White House than to get the votes to override a veto of legislation designed to limit his illegal destruction of our country.
"#ElonMusk’s minions in the federal government have just fired key experts who regulate #Tesla"
https://newrepublic.com/post/193850/elon-musk-doge-tesla-firing-self-driving-car-experts
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #DOGE #NHTSA #DOGEbags #cronyism #CronyCapitalism #Musk #SiliconValleyRight
Trump says countries are 'dying to make a deal'
So why hasn't he made any deals?
Why is he just sitting around watching the economy collapse?
"While much of #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency remains shrouded in secrecy, the #surveillance would mark an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings and severe cost cutting."
Musk's #DOGE using #AI to snoop on U.S. #federalWorkers, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/
#USpol #USpolitics #tech #DOGEbags #TechBros #stateRepression #MAGA #austerity #SiliconValleyRight
Make sure everyone at your water cooler knows that Congress can stop the #Trumponomics Tariff Crash in about an hour, any time they want.
'A “mega API” could potentially allow someone wih access to export all #IRS data to the systems of their choosing, including private entities. [...]
' “Schematizing this data and understanding it would take years,” an IRS source tells WIRED. “Just even thinking through the data would take a long time, because these people have no experience, not only in government, but in the IRS..." '
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/
https://archive.ph/fkFvf
#USpol #DOGE #DOGEbags #Palantir #WhatCouldGoWrong?
Seems like our least favorite South African Weirdo has been awful quiet lately.
They say Tesla cars are made in China, so with that new 35% import tax their price is going to rise significantly.
"People compare #Trump to Hitler or to Putin. But for us the closest historical comparison is Boris Yeltsin.
"So today we talk to #JacobSilverman about Trump’s #shitcoins and other #crypto schemes because they remind us so much of 1990s Russia and Yeltsin’s family corrupt deals."
#TheRussians pod w/ #EvgeniaKovda & #YashaLevine
https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/shitcoins-for-shitocracy-wjacob-silverman
#USpol #MAGA #cronyism #cronyCapitalism #oligarchy #SiliconValleyRight #CryptoBros #tech #TechBros #DOGEbags #MoveFastAndLootThings
"All You Fascists Bound To Lose" - Woody Guthrie cover (by me)
HT Billy Bragg and the Blokes
Xitter @billybragg
Dumb & DumbFUCKer
#DogeBags
What True #WASTE #FRAUD & #ABUSE Looks Like
#USPolitics
'The U.S. #SecuritiesAndExchangeCommission (#SEC) "is beginning to onboard members" of #ElonMusk's Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE), an SEC spokesperson told Newsweek on Friday.
'The move comes after the commission sued #Musk over alleged violations of securities laws related to his failure to disclose his #Twitter shares in a timely manner before acquiring the #socialMedia platform...'
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-staff-sec-suing-elon-musk-2052109
#USpol #cronyism #cronyCapitalism #DOGEbags #MoveFastAndLootThings
DOGE's 'Big Balls' teen has been linked to a cybercrime ring. You can count on that not mattering to the Musk/Trump administration. #DOGEBags
The ACLU: Recyclers of jackboot junk since 1977.
via threads @davidhornik
[Alternative headline: Fox named Chief Information Officer at Henhouse]
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/doge-operative-named-chief-information-officer-at-social-security-administration-report-6a70c71c
#DOGE #SocialSecurityAdministration #USpol #USpolitics #cronyism #CronyCapitalism #DOGEbags #MoveFastAndLootThings #SSA #SocialSecurity
The Department of Redundancy Department (a.k.a. DOGE) wants to reinvent the wheel.
"Obviously they're doing it wrong because it wasn't my idea."
via xitter @Wired
mstdn @wired@mastodon.social
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-usaid-blockchain/
When someone uses "Social Justice Warrior" as an insult, are they anti-social or anti-justice?