DOGE

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I knew, viewtopic.php?p=213421#p213421

Opps, I even commented.

Just goes to show there's so much crap every single day most people's head swims.

Bears repeating though.

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... Just goes to show there's so much crap every single day most people's head swims.

Bears repeating though.

I'm being discerning.

Oh, DonOLD or a sycophant said something really stupid? Is it uniquely stupid? Is it especially funny? Is it on a well-worn topic? Meh, maybe I won't bother sharing.

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All he did is cause a lot of headaches grief and job losses for people just so the very rich get more tax cuts they do not need. Unreal.

All he did is cause a lot of headaches grief and job losses for people just so the very rich get more tax cuts they do not need. Unreal.

Walz is a decent human being, who realizes that the world is changing and is evolving with it. He's not a neanderthal, who believes this country is built on religion, like Christian Nationalists. This country is built on a charter, a foundation, the Constitution. The greatest document in our country, ever. And the commander in chief is treating it like tp. The Constitution supersedes the Bible, especially if it is a trump produced one.

spot on Mr. Walz

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this has damaged your brand beyond anything you can imagine

Gene Trevino

REMEMBER PEOPLE, THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY

@elonmusk
used DOGE to target ....
1) OSHA for investigating both Tesla and SpaceX safety violations.
2) the National Labor Relations Board for investigating @elonmusk
for violating workers' rights and federal labor laws.
3) USAID bcos they were investigating Starlink and its Ukrainian connection.
4) the FAA bcos they imposed a $633,000 penalty against Spacex after investigations concluded @elonmusk
"fail[ed] to follow its license requirements" in May 2023 and July 2023.
5) the FDA for investigating @elonmusk
Neuralink trials and animal welfare violations.
6) the Department of Justice (DOJ) for investigating @elonmusk
conversations with Vladimir Putin, raising concerns about potential risks to national security due to SpaceX’s contracts with the Pentagon and the intelligence community
7) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for investigating @elonmusk
Tesla for racial harassment and discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation
8) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for investigating @elonmusk
over false claims about having "funding secured" to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
They also sued Musk for failing to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock which allowed him to buy more shares at low prices, potentially saving him millions of dollars.
9) the Federal Election Commission was looking into @elonmusk
for paying voters in swing states $1 million a day.
Federal election laws expressly prohibit any payment to any person to register, vote or withhold their vote (52 U.S.C. §10307(c)). This prohibition also applies to payments to encourage any person to register to vote.

Again — THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT "GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY!!"

All DOGE was - was a rich, entitled prick throwing his money around to buy the presidency to exact revenge against those who told him he is not about the law, and investigated his violations of rules, regulations, and/or laws.

Everyone wants to cut waste, left, right, and center. But you barged in with a chainsaw where we needed a precision. No plan, no clue, just chaos sold as reform. You don't trim fat, while slashing muscle, just to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires. That was the problem, and people saw right through it.

The "mission" has already failed, as you admitted; the debt will now explode. All that time and money you gave to him and you've been cast aside at the first opportunity and blamed for all their failings. The entire world could see this coming but you.

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Did that Tesla molotov bomber see it coming?

Stop Drop & Roll!

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-2 ... er-bottle/

Picture this: You’re a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college — whose main qualification appears to be founding a company that puts ads on the blockchain — logs into a Zoom meeting, pays more attention to his fingernails than the discussion, and kills your grant with an uninterested thumbs down.

Welcome to science under DOGE.

This isn’t hyperbole. It’s exactly what prompted Alondra Nelson — a pioneering scholar at the intersection of tech, policy, and society who led the Social Science Research Council and headed the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Biden — to publicly resign from both the National Science Foundation and the Library of Congress. As she explained in a piece at Time Magazine, the DOGE/Trump assault on institutions is systematically destroying scientific inquiry and academic freedom.

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This is the expertise now trumping peer review at the NSF. Not content knowledge, not research experience, not even basic familiarity with how science works. Just the confidence that comes with being a 23-year-old techbro who thinks he knows better than any actual expert.

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USA speed-running itself into global irrelevancy in sciences.

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-2 ... er-bottle/


USA speed-running itself into global irrelevancy in sciences.

I wrote my CDC PhD SIL:

... Whether or not your job is at risk it must be horrible at the CDC these days. It's like sci-fi - every time you look away colleagues wink out of existence. I'm so sorry.

She wrote back:

My latest metaphor is this:
It’s like CDC is a person getting its arm amputated, and the surgeon gets halfway through and someone says, “Wait! This is illegal! Stop!” So the surgeons stop and Twitler starts threatening to amputate more limbs while his opponents demand the limb gets reattached. But of course you can’t really reattach it and expect that it will work anymore. But having it hanging off your body and bleeding out isn’t exactly healthy. So it’s a mess.
Not a cheerful metaphor but it’s not a cheerful time.

Holy crap.

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All of us must be seeing stories like this:

Needs increase amid financial decline, says Bounty & Soul

Before Tropical Storm Helene, the nonprofit Bounty & Soul set up five weekly markets — parsing out boxes with up to 18 different items (think fresh kale, beets, oranges, bread, etc.) — and assisting nearly 9,860 individuals every month.

Since the storm, founder and Executive Director Ali Casparian says the nonprofit has seen a nearly 200% increase in food needs. The organization’s farmers market truck now journeys to 10 markets a week and serves nearly 26,000 people a month.

The challenge, says Casparian, is maintaining the level of financial support the nonprofit experienced in the immediate aftermath of the storm, especially as demand continues to soar....

In early March, Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) cuts hit local organizations when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it was eliminating more than $1 billion in funding for the Local Food for Schools and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement programs for 2025.

Bastards.

Bounty & Soul is also involved in Medicaid’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots program, which is federally funded and provides nonmedical services to eligible members in four key areas: housing, food, transportation and interpersonal violence.

“It all trickles down, whether it’s food that’s supporting kids in school or supporting food banks,” Casparian says. “If kids aren’t getting their food in schools, that’s increasing food insecurity now for kids; and if food banks aren’t getting those funds, then it’s all just less food going out while the need is increasing.” ...

“We come always with the glass half-full mentality of abundance, and there’s enough, and that has served this organization through the 10 years of its life, and I’d like to think that’s going to continue,” Casparian says. “But there’s also reality, and the reality is the need is increasing and the resources are decreasing.”

Thanks, PINO and Mush.

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It's sort of unbelievable.