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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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NEW: John Chell, the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed official, used someone else’s identity in a bid to avoid paying income taxes on money he made while moonlighting as a basketball referee for 6 years, newly-released police disciplinary records reveal.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/12/j...
Chief of Department John Chell Used False Identity in Bid to Avoid Income Tax, NYPD Records Show
Chell pleaded guilty to departmental charges in that case and one other, according to records in a lawsuit accusing him of misrepresenting an incident where officers ran over a man.
www.thecity.nyc
June 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Absolutely grotesque abuse of government power. Lying to educators in order to entrap children. No wonder they want to hide their identity.
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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DOGE keeps overpromising and underdelivering on everything except destruction. We worked with @alt18f.bsky.social and other technologists across government to explain what it really takes to modernize systems like those at SSA.
We’ve modernized legacy government systems. We know what it takes. DOGE’s plan to migrate SSA’s COBOL systems without understanding is a disaster waiting to happen.

Here’s why DOGE will fail — and why it matters.

🔗 https://www.wethebuilders.org/posts/what-it-really-takes-to-migrate-cobol
April 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Trump plans on "repurposing Social Security’s 'death master file,' which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ Trump Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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New, from me:
Elon Musk is the biggest loser in Wisconsin.

His brazen effort to buy a state supreme court did not just fail - it undermined his image of political kingmaker.

This is the clearest indicator that voters are angry with Trump/Musk agenda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
The Biggest Loser in Wisconsin
The richest man in the world could not buy an election
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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NYC CTO Matt Fraser destroyed the city's digital service by declaring that Salesforce would abandon user research and build the "MyCity" platform faster and cheaper than city-employed developers. Three years and $100 million later, MyCity remains a mirage.
Does Eric Adams’s $100 Million Website Do Anything?
The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it…
nysfocus.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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AI's latest innovation is facilitating the outsourcing of call centers to countries that pay their workers less.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Call centres using AI to ‘whiten’ Indian accents
World’s biggest operator claims technology improves empathy and communication with callers
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
March 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"But perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action."
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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NEW: Elon Musk's buddies and DOGE underlings are working in the dark to make drastic changes to the US government.

@propublica.org is shining light on them with our new tracker.

Read. Share. Most importantly, send us your Musk tips: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
February 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Trump will shift many of the "FBI’s 38,000 agents, analysts and technical experts to illegal immigration, which traditionally held a limited role" and "from securities fraud, antitrust violations and other white-collar cases to drug-trafficking and violent street crime."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How Trump’s Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos
Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM