incredible stuff happening

Trump & Bondi now straight-up defying the court, even telling the judge to cancel his hearing about deportations without due process.

Constitutional crisis is not hyperbole.
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We've been hearing this term "constitutional crisis" over and over. Please be specific, such as:

We have a dictator now.
So, no more elections.
No more Presidents.
No more Social Security.
No more Medicare/Medicaid.
No more allies.
No more science.
No more civil rights.
No more money.
No more food.

Again, we're at a point where one of two things is about to happen: some Trump people are getting thrown in jail or the judiciary no longer exists

DOGE wrecking ball could threaten Social Security for seniors Nearly 90% of Americans older than 65 rely on Social Security.

The cuts underway at the agency could break critical parts of a system millions of vulnerable citizens rely on.

If you're a current or former Social Security employee and want to talk confidentially, you can reach out to Emily Peck on Signal at EmilyRPeck.71 or emily.peck@axios.com

THIS IS NOT HOW ANYTHING WORKS

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Trump administration basically arguing the President has the right to snatch any person off the street, helicopter them to a carrier in international waters before habeas papers are filed and then murder them or whatever since laws don't apply there

EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...

A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration.

Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.

Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:

US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an ...

“DOGE has broken into our building” says CEO of the U.S. Institute of Peace, which called DC Metro Police & reported the forcible break-in by DOGE into USIP despite protests that it is not part of executive branch and is instead an independent nonprofit.
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Our system of checks and balances has stood as a bulwark against tyranny for 250 years.

The way it works is no one man can dictate how our government works.

Congress makes laws, the president executes the laws, and courts make sure laws and rights are protected.

We give that up at our peril.

Absolutely not.

NYT: “DOGE deleted the top five highest savings claims on its ‘wall of receipts’ leaderboard after variousnews outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations…” newrepublic.com/post/191973/...

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them.

It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday.

And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff.

Incompetence will be deadly.

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

Musk’s website, DOGE, leaked classified government information to the entire world. NOFURN [Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals] information on their website about the [intelligence community] headcount has prompted a scramble as people check whether their information has been accessed.

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.

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Needed this brain cleanse

Fuck refugees. Unless they’re white people from South Africa. They can stay, apparently.

JFC I have never been so angry at my government.

In happy news, Paul Staley’s is now on Bluesky

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.

- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.

The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

AG Pam Bondi shutters the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force Pam Bondi is the first attorney in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.

"Pam Bondi is the first attorney general in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force..."
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We’re officially in full airport mode all the time now: everything is crazy expensive, sweatpants are acceptable at all times, nobody’s judging anyone for drinking more than they usually do, and we’re all just out here buying books and coffee to deal with the stress