Treasury defends DOGE's 'read-only access' to payments system (Michael Stratford/Politico)
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Google is ready to work on AI weapons now
The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deletedCasey Newton (Platformer)
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This is a huge!
We can’t undo Musk/DOGE rewriting government code
-- and no one in CISA or the Defense Department is stopping them.
Restoring trust may be impossible because we have no record of what they've done.
Musk and Theil want banking disrupted.
Please Talk to krebsonsecurity
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The facts behind Trump's claim that autism rates are rising
The president said the country "needs" Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who has falsely claimed connections between autism and vaccines — to address the issue.
How Trump Gutted America's $40 Billion Aid Agency in Two Weeks (Wall Street Journal)
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How Trump Gutted America's $40 Billion Aid Agency in Two Weeks
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Swiss development aid to Eritrea is cut after asylum tensions
Swiss development aid for Eritrea is stopped Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated with artificial intelligence.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Elon #Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers’ Data
“They’re looking through all the position descriptions …to remove folks”
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Elon Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers’ Data
Elon Musk’s DOGE henchmen are helping him make his most terrifying power grab yet.The New Republic
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Should Canada ban X and Tesla? Why calls are growing
As Trump and Musk take aim at Canada, some high-level observers are calling on the feds to consider sanctioning or even banning corporations owned by those close to Trump.The Canadian Press (Global News)
Pyle is having a sale on bullhorns. These will soon be as essential as tissues in your pocket. I recommend at least 50 watts and a siren function!
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The sexism and racism are clearly evident for all to see:
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
The righteous #LetitiaJames, NY AG told hospitals "they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments."
I hope this means that NY Langone Health will either get sued for denying on 2.2.25 gender-affirming care to 2 12 year-olds or will reverse their loathsome decision.
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#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Letitia James Tells Hospitals To Continue Transgender Care Despite Trump Order
New York's attorney general reminded health care facilities that they had to adhere to state discrimination laws regarding gender-affirming treatment.AP (HuffPost)
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the protest was well attended, at the Treasury.
if you want a taste of the fire, check out Ayanna Pressley at 56:56 - here she is all cued up.
meanwhile here are some pics
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> If you would have asked me a week ago, I’d have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck knows.
🍜 A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System wired.com/story/elon-musk-asso…
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.Vittoria Elliott (WIRED)
I got it off my chest and onto my blog yesterday. It's like something from a poorly-written dystopian novel.
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What can we learn from this? - MacPsych dot blog
Despite my best efforts, I stumbled across some real ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ shit emanating from the American Nazis.A wholesale gutting of initiatives and programmes, firing of experts, all the way through to...MacPsych dot blog
I wouldn't feel very safe as an American tourist travelling abroad as my President is announcing the forced deportation of 1.8 million people so that he could build a resort on the ashes of their homes.
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Cue up a ton of future cases for JAG for "disobeyed direct order"
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Thousands of Marines Booted for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Get Messaged About Returning
Roughly 8,200 service members were separated from the military over their refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccination.Drew F. Lawrence, Konstantin Toropin (Military.com)
🤦🏻♂️ just realized the older version of myself that time traveled was trying to tell kid me to floss
#FOSS
#opensource #sanctions
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Linux Foundation warns of US OFAC sanctions
The Linux Foundation has posted a guide to navigating US Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions and other global regulations for open source developers.Paul Krill (InfoWorld)
On Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump in The White House during his second term. During the meeting, Trump doubled down on previous suggestions to remove Palestinians from Gaza.
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in reply to ɹ uɐp • • •Here is Senator Chris Murphy, who revealed that "Elon has a micro peen" *
* paraphrasing here a little
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in reply to ɹ uɐp • • •some more signs
HANDS OFF MY SSN
VOUGHT NO!
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in reply to ɹ uɐp • • •I think the only 2 pols who got their names chanted were RASKIN (my REP) & WARREN
I may be wrong, but they DEFINITELY did
Here's some shots of Elizabeth Warren. Sadly the view of her was 100% obscured from me when she was actually speaking - so this is right before (probably during the chants)
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in reply to ɹ uɐp • • •As I posted above, Ayanna Pressley brought the 🔥
She got people chanting on more than one occasion, but I couldn't get a clear view of her for a picture - even from my vantage point atop a wall.
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in reply to Heidi Li Feldman • • •@heidilifeldman thank you!
those are from a while back... I just posted a bunch from today (but I didn't need the long lens and didn't get out the fish-eye lens either today)