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Leah Wasserman
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Boy Mom (2). SLP and Literacy Specialist.
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This is a coup. A completely unconstitutional takeover of central government institutions, resources, and functions. Unfolding at a dramatic pace. All based entirely on the regime's assertion of absolute power and impunity.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Feb 1
Musk and his allies are ransacking the federal treasury, gaining access to closely guarded payment systems that disburse trillions of dollars and hold massive amounts of incredibly sensitive information—including Social Security numbers. Just a terrifying development. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to three people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending. The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.
February 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Combs all said they were briefed on the collision, so they all knew about this internal FAA report when they went on TV to blame minorities for the crash.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Staffing was ‘not normal’ at airport tower, according to a preliminary F.A.A. report. Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times. The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.
January 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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jenrubin.bsky.social
consolation for the Super Bowl losing team: don't have to go to WH
January 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM