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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
The offer to federal workers to resign and keep pay and benefits is a "scam," says Randy Erwin of the National Federation of Federal Employees.
i mean, dems are saying the things we want them to say. warren's saying it. jefferies is saying it. wyden's saying it. omar's saying it. AOC is saying it. it's not landing on the front page of any major news website, but they're saying in plain language what's happening here.
Schumer: "Today Leader Jeffries and I are joining together to push legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country ... we call our legislation, 'stop the steal'"
It's been real y'all
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
📌LISTEN TO ME: When United States congresspeople are denied entry to a United States government building, it is coup.
From a bored and affluent middle class who wanted another season of reality TV.
The funny thing is, he bought the US Federal Government ($250M) and not enough people voted against it because they had their heads up their asses for one reason or another.
Elections have consequences.
This makes more sense when you remember 3 things:
1. He doesn’t want people who do their jobs, only what he tells them to do.
2. He wants to privatize everything so he can give contracts to his friends and donors.
3. Less oversight means he can get away with more.
We really need to know if Trump directly authorized Musk to pursue access to Treasury's payment systems. Either answer is bad, in a different way:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
BREAKING WAPO:
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years.
Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
Do we have an over/under on when the orange petulant gets a hair piece and it turns into a scandal that he won’t admit to?
Started a re-watch of Silicon Valley. Hits way different now.
Ever hear about Operation Northwoods?
OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
yyyyyeah maybe we shouldn’t just “relax”
One fed employee on Reddit: “I've never been more motivated to stay. Before the "buyout" memo, I was ready to go job hunting, but then a revelation hit. I took an oath under this position to the American people and leaving my job under the current state would be failing to maintain my oath.”
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History is being made all the time.
all you people who told us to calm down can go fuck yourselves
Who would’ve ever thought that voting might be important.
No one is USING AI. They are TRAINING AI. No LLM is ready to be fully deployed. It's all early beta testing they are trying to convince you is actually a product. It is nowhere near its target goals for its intended uses. People aren't paying to use it; they're subsidizing its training. It's a scam.
LA waiting for those black clouds to start raining:
