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The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said. (Published Sept. 2025)
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social SecurityDOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...www.propublica.org
I was wondering if anyone was keeping a running total on Trump’s waste and abuse. You have to check out this video. And there’s so much, I bet you forgot about some of it: 💰Ballroom: $1 billion project, taxpayers already on the hook for $300 mill 💰 J6 Slush Fund: $1.776 billion for his rioters 🧵
DEEP DIVE: The Trump administration's court losses are putting taxpayers on the hook for potentially millions in legal fees. (plus, a $250K fee fight in the Kennedy Center's case against a musician who backed out after the board added Trump's name) Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
Pixar's Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit. So I Wrote California Officials.State tax incentives should create and retain jobs for Californians, not subsidize corporate layoffs.amidamidi.substack.com
English novelist & poet Emily Brontë was born #OTD in 1818. She authored the 19th-century Gothic masterpiece Wuthering Heights (1847) under her male pen name Ellis Bell. It was her only work of #fiction before she tragically died of tuberculosis a year later at the age of 30. #LitSky #BookSky
Ebola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detectedA remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report sayswww.science.org
Trump Decides He'd Rather Have Tax Crimes and Rewards for Terrorists Than a Todd Blanche Confirmation emptywheel.net/2026/07/30/t...
Trump Decides He'd Rather Have Tax Crimes and Rewards for Terrorists Than a Todd Blanche Confirmation - emptywheelTrump may have been unable to placate John Cornyn's demands for changes to the Terrorist Slush Fund for sound legal reasons. Or, maybe he just likes terrorists and tax crimes more than he likes Todd B...emptywheel.net
It's noteworthy that the sticking point in getting Todd Blanche confirmed as AG involves financial corruption rather than Blanche refusing to release files about the sex trafficking of children by Trump's former friend. To Republicans, money is always more important than the welfare of children.
congressional cranks also share responsibility in the positives and negatives from covid times (reworded and don't need to @donmoyn.bsky.social 🙏)
Don MoynihanNew, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
This has not received enough attention but a Commerce Dept order from June threatens the availability of Census data including the American Community Survey. So it may become a lot harder to understand health coverage trends. My colleague Aubrianna Osorio explains: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/30/c...
Change to Census Data Processing Methods Threatens Health Policy Research and Federal Data SystemsOn June 4, 2026, the Commerce Department issued Department Administrative Order (DAO) 216-26, Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products, which bans a class of privacy techniques called “noise infu...ccf.georgetown.edu
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Meta will train its AI on far-right media outletThis week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.popular.info
The goal of the battle over the origins of COVID19 is “to sow distrust in science and scientists”. This article shows why experts believe that this was a spillover event and not a lab leak. The maps showing the cluster of the first cases around the wet market are old school Epidemiology. Solid.
Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diaries has rekindled the debate over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Here's how scientists have weighed in.www.npr.org