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#Professor_Dave Explains

The Tale of #Trump and the #Woke #Trans_Mice

It's time to start talking about Trump and his #war on #science. The budget cuts to the #NIH have absolutely devastated the scientific community. When addressing Congress last week, with the help of #DOGE crony Elon #Musk, he made a claim that Biden spent 8 million dollars on making trans #mice. This claim is so unbelievably #idiotic that it's a challenge to even process.

yewtu.be/watch?v=TxOj5_rNzz0

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”Tesla’s brand image is being tarnished precisely because Musk is so close to Trump, is actively involved in gutting the US government, and is endorsing far-right movements across the globe.”
—Paris Marx, Elon Musk is running Tesla into the ground
#tesla #musk #trump #doge

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Update. "The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge. Can #librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from #DOGE.
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th
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"Lynda Kellam, a social scientist and data librarian,…who’s served in leadership positions at two Ivy League universities, described the vulnerable data as “irreplaceable.”…Kellam told me that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late January, when the #CDC began removing information from its website. Kellam was encouraged, but worried about a lack of coördination. What if the backups languished on private hard drives? What if archivists duplicated one another’s work? She created a Google Doc to centralize information about preëxisting initiatives—an archive of archives, with detailed instructions on how to contribute to each…Kellam met with the heads of other data-librarian organizations, and together they founded the #DataRescueProject."

NEW: Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run #DOGE.

One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.

#news #government #musk #ElonMusk #AmyGleason #Trump

propublica.org/article/doge-le

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Leaked audio from a staff meeting at the U.S. Social Security Administration suggests the agency may be in peril. Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek, a career civil servant who was promoted to his current position by the Trump administration, told others at a closed-door meeting: “Are we going to break something?” referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know.” Here's more from @ProPublica.

propublica.org/article/recordi

ProPublica“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump
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Inside #ElonMusk’s ‘Digital #Coup
#Musk’s loyalists at #DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data.
In Musk’s mind, #Washington needed to be debugged, hard-forked, sunset. His strike teams of young engineers would burrow into the government’s byzantine bureaucratic systems and delete what they saw fit.
The next step: Unleash the #AI.
wired.com/story/elon-musk-digi
archive.ph/vF0uL

WIRED · Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’By Makena Kelly

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surf.socialEverything Elon All At Once by Jason Culverhouse :flipboard: on SurfSurf - Your one-stop feed for diving deep into the multifaceted world of Elon, prepare for a whirlwind of insights, updates, and thought-provoking commentary—all centered on the enigma that is Elon.

Curious How Trump’s Cost Cutting Could Affect Your National Park Visit? You Might Not Get a Straight Answer.

National Park Service staff have received talking points ordering them to describe layoffs as “workforce management actions” and to reassure visitors that changes resulting from the cuts won’t impede “memorable and meaningful experiences for all.”
propublica.org/article/nationa

ProPublicaCurious How Trump’s Cost Cutting Could Affect Your National Park Visit? You Might Not Get a Straight Answer.
More from ProPublica
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Making DOGE Cuts Permanent Is Easier Said Than Done

Plus: #GOP town halls are scarce these days.
thebulwark.com/p/making-doge-c

"The prospect of ending these far-reaching programs—like #PEPFAR and, on a much larger scale, the foreign aid administered by the #USAID—remains distant. Beyond that, #DOGE ’s haphazard cuts are difficult to codify because they have a weak legal foundation & are hard to explain, let alone justify (hence the repeat un-firings)."

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Trump Suffers Huge Loss as Judge Overturns “Unlawful” Mass Firings

At Donald Trump’s behest, #DOGE had sought to gut the federal workforce.
newrepublic.com/post/192719/do

"the mass firing of federal employees was an “unlawful” directive...

ordered several agencies to “immediately” reinstate... employees... the #VA... Depts of #Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, & #Agriculture... the IRS, which falls under the helm of the Treasury Dept"

Federal judges in California and Maryland on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers who lost their jobs as part of mass firings carried out at 19 agencies. The back-to-back rulings were the most significant blow yet to the effort by Trump and top adviser Elon Musk to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #trump #donaldtrump #elonmusk #Doge

I have so many emotions about things going on in the USA. Most of the time, it’s anxiety. Right now, it’s anger. I shouldn’t post when I’m angry. I say & do things that I regret. I’m so furious that so many voted for Trump! Trump & Musk has done more unforgivable crap in a shorter period of time than anyone else in my memory. I feel completely helpless & angry! You Republicans should hang your heads in shame!

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UPDATE: Musk attacks Musk Watch
muskwatch.com/p/update-musk-at

"the Musk Watch #DOGE Tracker... authoritatively demonstrated that #ElonMusk had been grossly overstating the cuts implemented by DOGE...

#Musk offered no actual critique of the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker's methodology...

Musk Watch is a four-person team, but we can rock the boat of the wealthiest and most powerful man in the world."