DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

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The US Factory Where Trump Previewed His Tariffs in 2017 Is Now in China The president celebrated the first 100 days of his first term at a Pennsylvania factory that’s since closed.

On his 100th day in office in 2017 Trump headed to a PA wheelbarrow factory to launch his trade policy and put the US on the path to today’s tariffs.

Eight years on that factory is closed. The wheelbarrows are now made in China.

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Let’s disappear people to foreign prisons based on allegations they committed crimes isn’t a slippery slope, you’ve already rolled all the way down the mountain.

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Abruptly ending USAID support in the poorest parts of the world, ended lives in much the same way ordering aitstrikes would have.

These are deaths that happened for no reason besides spite and scoring political points to own the libs. It is beyond tragic and a stain on the soul of this nation.

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

Analysis | We declare winter over and the start of spring in D.C. After the coldest winter in a decade, a springlike weather pattern has taken hold.

It's that time: We declare winter OVER!

Spring is here 🌸

Rejoice! Talk a walk! Stow away your snow shovels. ☃️

Enjoy the sunshine!☀️

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Phineas Gage, but instead of a railroad spike going into his brain it was posts.

Analysis | The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending Eleven out of 12 claims about the agency’s work are misleading, wrong or lack context.

Musk is rumored to spend $40M on Super Bowl ads with his wildly distorted claims attacking USAID. Don’t believe them.

The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM

And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13

Breaking: Trump imposes a 25% tariff on Columbia House Record Club.

“Make America healthy again” lmfaoooo

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i think opponents of trump also have to resist the temptation of intellectualizing his outbursts or attributing them to some recognizable goal. the fact is that trump is obsessed with greenland because it is big on a map. he wants canada because it is also big on a map. that's it.

Never Underestimate the Ignorance of the Powerful When you’re a star, people let you think you're smart

Do you not know with how little wisdom the world is governed? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/never-unde...

Opinion | If Joe Biden had been serious about inflation, he would have spent Christmas threatening to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: Two green aliens are at a press conference, sitting behind microphones. One alien happily says, "Jesus? We love that guy!" Panel 2: A human reporter with a microphone looks surprised and says, "We’ve been waiting centuries for his second coming." Panel 3: The first alien casually responds, "Really? He comes to us every year." The second alien adds, "We invited him for cookies. What did you do?" The reporter starts to sweat. Panel 4: Both aliens pause, looking inquisitive. One alien asks, "Wait. What did you do?" All reporters sweat.

Explain this, humankind

Trump fixed the economy without even taking office

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The actual synthesis between the GOP’s pro business commitments and RFK’s various crunchy instincts isn’t food system reform, it’s going easier on scammy supplements.

Pete Hegseth's drinking worried colleagues at Fox News, sources tell NBC News Ten current and former Fox employees say Trump’s pick for defense secretary drank in ways that concerned his co-workers. A Trump transition team spokesperson called the claims "completely unfounded an...

obviously this guy shouldn’t be within 100 miles of the department of defense but i think it is interesting that none of our Meritocracy Defenders have come out to say that we shouldn’t hand important jobs to plainly unqualified people like hegseth. weird! i wonder what’s different.

For the 100 most iconic technologies, of all time, Kevin and Casey have Waymo at 18, above the Wheel, but below the toilet. I think we’ve peaked

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Louisiana lawmakers pass income and corporate tax cuts, raising statewide sales tax to pay for it Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase.

Preview of coming attractions.

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