If you look for Waste, Fraud and Abuse (WFA) you look into all contracts & do forensic accounting. Here's DOGE's ask at Interior: search on contracts with titles DEI, Social Justice, Environmental, Sustainability. That's it. This isn't WFA. It's policy difference masquerading as WFA.

Why does Musk hate USAID? While State Dept & other countries pressured the Govt of SA in the 90s to end Apartheid, USAID was a major funder of programs to facilitate those policies in SA. They watered down his elite status and made him interact with POC. Why he also hates DEI.

If you need to see a ray of hope, go to the sub-Reddit "Leopard's Ate My Face". Reposts of MAGAs realizing they screwed up bad. Hilarious. Sad. Strangely satisfying.

When you get up Monday, check the European and Asian stock markets. Should signal what we may see by 10 am in US. Should start a betting pool around %drop in market value. Shortsellers paradise.

Of all the things RFK Jr. has said, the "No autism in the 50's; lots in the 80's, so vaccines are to blame" is the most laughable. The concept of autism didn't exist except in a few research papers in the 1950s. In 1980 for the 1st time, AMA's DSM III manual had an autism diagnosis.

I wonder if some or many of Trump's way over the top, constitutionally questionable actions derive from his belief, thanks to SCOTUS, he can do anything with impunity?

CMS is a major focus of HHS purge. Biden's IRA charged CMS with lowering drug prices, which has been underway now 2nd fiscal years, lowering prices for the first 10 drugs. Each year another tranche would get negotiated. Trump eliminated this program. Someone needs to shout this from the rooftops.

I suspect that anti-DEI folks like Hegsmeth & Trump conflate DEI with sex harassment & hostile work environment. Not the same. DEI are policies & practices voluntarily adopted. SH&HWE are enshrined in case law going back to 1980s. Was corporate officer 4 20 years.

USAID issued stop work orders on all contracts for 90 days. If & when Rubio is confirmed he will decide with OMB. Maybe no big deal for some contracts, but PEPFAR, which provides AIDs medications & Sscs, helps 20 million AIDs survivors. Also - we are no longer in WHO.

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I Will Walk Before They Make Me Run.....written after busted for heroin coming into Toronto then facing 10-20 years in jail. Still wrote a "fuck you, I don't care" song. Theme song for the next 4 years and beyond.