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If you by chance were wondering which of the dogebag kids Gavin Kliger was again, then no, he's not the one who wanted to see Israel wiped off the face of the earth (at least not publicly) and he's also not the one who was associated with a cybercriminal hacker group (at least that we know of) and was fired from his last job for leaking data. He's the one who reposts content from Nick Fuentes, the openly white supremacist neo-Nazi that Lord Dampnut had over for dinner.https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...taxpayer-data/
Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to three people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.
Under pressure from the White House, the IRS is considering a memorandum of understanding that would give officials from DOGE — which stands for Department of Government Efficiency — broad access to tax-agency systems, property and datasets. Among them is the Integrated Data Retrieval System, or IDRS, which enables tax agency employees to access IRS accounts — including personal identification numbers — and bank information. It also lets them enter and adjust transaction data and automatically generate notices, collection documents and other records.
According to a draft of the memorandum obtained by The Washington Post, DOGE software engineer Gavin Kliger is set to work at the IRS for 120 days, though the tax agency and the White House can renew his deployment for the same duration. His primary goal at the IRS is to provide engineering assistance and IT modernization consulting.
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Imagine what he'll sell that for on the dark web.
The best people...
So, they fired scores of people doing critical and essential work without even checking what they do, deleted their e-mail accounts, and are now scrambling to find them to attempt to rehire them.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...ire-rcna192716
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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The error is the latest in the Trump administration's attempts to rapidly shrink the size of the government by conducting mass firings of federal workers — an effort that is being carried out by tech billionaire Elon Musk and the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, which is heavily staffed by people who have no experience in government.
On Friday, the administration tried to notify some nuclear safety employees who were fired last week that they are now due to be reinstated — but struggled to find them because they didn’t have their new contact information.
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That sounds like exactly what Musk did with Twitter. What a rip-roaring success that was.
Being the US's CEO has been successful for him ... for now.
But there are like 90,000 angry unemployed federal workers and 10s of 1000s more of their antagonized buddies from their offices that are already taking to the streets now & are highly galvanized. I wouldn't want to be him rolling those dice by the end of this. The military isn't going to take Musk's side.
Last edited by demagogue; 20th Feb 2025 at 00:51.
Even if the madness stopped tomorrow, so much damage has been done already.
*** BREAKING NEWS ***
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as Director of the FBI.
As I've said before, recognizing that all "radical" revolutions eventually eat their own, I'll protest them coming to arbitrarily arrest Vae and his friends & family as vigorously as anyone else of us. A political system designed around arbitrary arrests without evidence are always bad for everyone, and make everyone vulnerable to it, "enemies" & "friends" of the regime alike.
You start this, which we just have with this appointment, and neighbors start spying on neighbors and turning them into the regime for petty grievances, and all your displays of "loyalty" mean nothing to them. Cf. every other time in history that this has happened.
Saying the loud part even louder...
"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
-President Donald J. Trump
If Time mag feels safe to mock him openly, maybe you shouldn't worry too much?
Kellogg too says the contrary of Trump
This is not a Time Magazine cover. It's a fake cover that the White House account tweeted out.Originally Posted by RippedPhreak
I find it friggen' hilarious that you mistake the White house' own propaganda for somebody else making fun of them.
TheEmperorPresidentKing has no clothes. Never did.
Reading the transcript of Elon's interview at CPAC is a trip.
I get annoyed at people talking about DOGE as if it's a legit government office trying to audit agencies and not a glorified dog meme. But for the person running the show, it's a dog meme.
The whole thing is a meme start to finish. He has become meme. That quote right there sums up the entire thing.
He's very transparent about what the whole thing is, comedy fodder before anything else. We're the Republic of Kekistan right now, and I'm not sure many journalists or people on the Hill know, or will ever know, what that means or, um, memes.
Edit: Do I even need to mention what famous politician from times past was basically just a graphic designer that began his entire political movement from the iconography & public performances?
Last edited by demagogue; 21st Feb 2025 at 13:14.
Yeah that was pretty dumb. Didn't pay attention. I'll blame this viral pneumonia for now.
I mean, Bannon gave a Nazi salute to a cheering crowd just after Elon's... let's call it performance for the lack of a better word.
Begun, the drug wars have:
WASHINGTON — In recent days, the Trump administration has ramped up CIA surveillance drone flights over Mexico, formally designated drug cartels as “foreign terrorist” groups and floated the possibility of deploying troops there to fight organized crime.
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Todd Zimmerman, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s special agent in Mexico City, said in an interview that the administration’s decision this week to label drug cartels as terrorist organizations was a pointed message to their leadership that U.S. military action is on the table.
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The hope, he said, is that the cartels will “step back away from fentanyl, and they’ll just go back to what they’ve always done, which is cocaine and methamphetamines and a little bit of heroin.”
Other experts pointed out that past efforts to deploy military might against drug traffickers have failed to slow the flow of drugs into the United States. When the Mexican government declared war on cartels in 2006 and sent soldiers into the streets to fight them, the clearest result was a massive increase in homicides.
“It doesn’t work,” said Elisabeth Malkin, deputy program director for Latin America at the International Crisis Group. “A whole constellation of actions are needed: to pursue proper investigations, to create cases that hold up in court, to dismantle whole networks rather than just going after the big drug kingpin, who is paraded before the cameras.”
Mike Vigil, a former head of international operations at the DEA, described Trump’s efforts as “all for show.”
“The military aircraft, the troops at the border, the talk of drones: It’s all a flash in the pan,” he said. “It’s not going to have an impact.”
Using multimillion-dollar munitions to strike primitive drug laboratories would be a laughable waste of resources, Vigil said.
“You’re not talking about sophisticated laboratories. We’re talking about some tubs and pots and pans, kitchenware,” he said. “And the labs are not fixed, they’re mobile. They move them around, they’re not operational 24/7. And these labs are easily replaced. So you’re not accomplishing anything.”
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You sure it isn't advanced TDS?
Like Jake Paul said to Mike Tyson when he got ill, it's no good sparring with someone unless they're in top form.
So get well soon!
The update of note for today is the proposed direct take over by Trump of the US Postal Service.
Of course it's stupid. This whole farce is stupid. But what's the real play here?
Easy. He's just going to refuse to carry the 2028 mail-in ballots so that he's sure to win his third election, sorry, fourth election.
What other reason could it be?
Postal reform? XD XD XD
The guy is an open book.
All he cares about ... no wait ... the only thing that even exists for him is his personal ego stroking.
A reminder: there is no Inner Circle, with Trump. Only a moral black hole which sucks everything in its orbit to its doom.
He used his grand daughter as a human shield, and he cheats at golf.
Not enough bad apples in the US for Lord Dampnut's liking, apparently:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...abase-deleted/
The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records.
The database was first proposed by Trump in 2020 in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. But it wasn’t created until two years later when an executive order from President Joe Biden launched the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database. Trump issued an order last month revoking Biden’s orders, and the database.
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The policing order revoked by Trump laid out steps to improve use-of-force standards and research, ensured appropriate use of body cameras, and required anti-bias training, in addition to creating a misconduct database.
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The predictable outcome of forced pregnancies:
https://www.propublica.org/article/t...ality-analysis
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.
The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.
The surge in this life-threatening condition, caused by infection, was most pronounced for patients whose fetus may still have had a heartbeat when they arrived at the hospital.
ProPublica previously reported on two such cases in which miscarrying women in Texas died of sepsis after doctors delayed evacuating their uteruses. Doing so would have been considered an abortion.
The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years, which ProPublica used as a baseline to avoid COVID-19-related distortions. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas.
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Time to stock up on "The day after pills".
Those are taken after sex to prevent pregnancy.
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