Jeff
@jp1007.bsky.social
Dog dad of 2 Weimaraners and a Chiweenie 🐶🐶🐶living outside Hilo, Hawaii 🌈🌺🤙🌋
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
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CALIFORNIA WATER UPDATE: The Army Corps knew the water wouldn’t reach LA—but they followed Trump’s orders and dumped it anyway.
He wasted billions of gallons for a photo op. Hope farmers don’t ask where their precious water went when they need it this summer—the clown they voted for sabotaged them.
He wasted billions of gallons for a photo op. Hope farmers don’t ask where their precious water went when they need it this summer—the clown they voted for sabotaged them.
March 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
CALIFORNIA WATER UPDATE: The Army Corps knew the water wouldn’t reach LA—but they followed Trump’s orders and dumped it anyway.
He wasted billions of gallons for a photo op. Hope farmers don’t ask where their precious water went when they need it this summer—the clown they voted for sabotaged them.
He wasted billions of gallons for a photo op. Hope farmers don’t ask where their precious water went when they need it this summer—the clown they voted for sabotaged them.
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Gutting Alzheimer's research.
First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
See also...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
See also...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
See also...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
See also...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
February 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gutting Alzheimer's research.
First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
See also...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
See also...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
See also...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
See also...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Such a proponent of free speech
OMG! Hear what Musk has to say about protesters??
Attention, Elon! The golden age is a VIP club for billionaires, and guess what? We’re not on the guest list! While you thrive, the rest of us are fighting for scraps. 🤬
Attention, Elon! The golden age is a VIP club for billionaires, and guess what? We’re not on the guest list! While you thrive, the rest of us are fighting for scraps. 🤬
People that don’t agree with Elon deserve prison. Ain’t you glad he ain’t in charge?
No. Wait!
No. Wait!
February 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Such a proponent of free speech
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Transparency? www.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...
Exclusive-FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say
U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sour...
www.yahoo.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Transparency? www.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...
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To be clear: the United States Government deployed this family to a country with substandard healthcare with the promise that help would be on the way if they ever needed it.
Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.
Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
To be clear: the United States Government deployed this family to a country with substandard healthcare with the promise that help would be on the way if they ever needed it.
Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.
Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.
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"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.
February 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.
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BREAKING: DOJ refuses to provide Judge Chutkan with any numbers regarding last Friday's firings. DOJ also refuses to make any commitment regarding what "personnel actions" the seven agencies at issue — OPM, Education, Labor, HHS, Energy, Transportation, Commerce — might take in the next two weeks.
February 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
BREAKING: DOJ refuses to provide Judge Chutkan with any numbers regarding last Friday's firings. DOJ also refuses to make any commitment regarding what "personnel actions" the seven agencies at issue — OPM, Education, Labor, HHS, Energy, Transportation, Commerce — might take in the next two weeks.
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Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.
www.nbcnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
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Cancer research paused
February 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Cancer research paused
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Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
February 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
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The fact that an Oligarch is standing in the Oval Office, speaking to the press about gutting government funding that he finds wasteful, without any congressional oversight, should be a huge fucking red flag.
February 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The fact that an Oligarch is standing in the Oval Office, speaking to the press about gutting government funding that he finds wasteful, without any congressional oversight, should be a huge fucking red flag.
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Nobody voted to let Elon Musk cut funding for pediatric cancer research.
February 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Nobody voted to let Elon Musk cut funding for pediatric cancer research.
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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
wrd.cm
February 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Real shocker here. The 25 year old rooting around in the code of the US government's payment system likes to post things like "Normalize Indian hate."
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
Exclusive | DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to Treasury payment systems was approved by a judge, has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism a...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Real shocker here. The 25 year old rooting around in the code of the US government's payment system likes to post things like "Normalize Indian hate."
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
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"Coup Klux Klan" feels like a keeper
February 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Coup Klux Klan" feels like a keeper
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Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.
Trump: “I’m supposed to say she’s going to be totally impartial… I’m not sure if there’s a possibility of totally.”
Trump: “I’m supposed to say she’s going to be totally impartial… I’m not sure if there’s a possibility of totally.”
February 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.
Trump: “I’m supposed to say she’s going to be totally impartial… I’m not sure if there’s a possibility of totally.”
Trump: “I’m supposed to say she’s going to be totally impartial… I’m not sure if there’s a possibility of totally.”
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What is, say, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center supposed to do with this?
Our latest scoop: An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all work with 'foreign nationals.'
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”
wrd.cm
February 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
What is, say, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center supposed to do with this?
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i think it's super cool that the government is run by the klan right now
Joe Kent, the guy Trump is nominating to lead his counterterrorism division, employed Proud Boys and Patriot Front members, met with Nick Fuentes and sat down with a neo-Nazi YouTuber for an interview.
February 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
i think it's super cool that the government is run by the klan right now
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"Coristine, as WIRED previously reported, appears to have recently graduated from high school and to have been enrolled at Northeastern University. According to a copy of his resume obtained by WIRED, he spent three months at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company, last summer."
February 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Coristine, as WIRED previously reported, appears to have recently graduated from high school and to have been enrolled at Northeastern University. According to a copy of his resume obtained by WIRED, he spent three months at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company, last summer."