Lisa
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when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
www.wired.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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Tip of the staggering human cost.
Link to resources for those terminated: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Link to resources for those terminated: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Trump Costs America
Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.
trumpcostsamerica.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Tip of the staggering human cost.
Link to resources for those terminated: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Link to resources for those terminated: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.
Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED
wrd.cm
February 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.
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#JustIn: More than half of the enviro money that was frozen in Massachusetts is now re-frozen 🧐
This comes a day after a judge reiterated the Trump administration must comply with a temporary restraining order and let contractually obligated money flow www.wbur.org/news/2025/02...
This comes a day after a judge reiterated the Trump administration must comply with a temporary restraining order and let contractually obligated money flow www.wbur.org/news/2025/02...
Trump administration refreezes some environmental grant money to Mass. despite judge's order
One day after a federal judge reiterated his order that the Trump administration immediately restore billions of dollars of frozen funds across the country, two state environmental agencies have disco...
www.wbur.org
February 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#JustIn: More than half of the enviro money that was frozen in Massachusetts is now re-frozen 🧐
This comes a day after a judge reiterated the Trump administration must comply with a temporary restraining order and let contractually obligated money flow www.wbur.org/news/2025/02...
This comes a day after a judge reiterated the Trump administration must comply with a temporary restraining order and let contractually obligated money flow www.wbur.org/news/2025/02...
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"Shutting down the information from NOAA serves the interests of the big oil companies polluting our climate." @vanhollen.senate.gov #forkoff
February 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Shutting down the information from NOAA serves the interests of the big oil companies polluting our climate." @vanhollen.senate.gov #forkoff
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