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nytimes.com

Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government

The Times identified 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few wee

Oh no. MAGA is mad that the NYT shared the names of DOGE staffers. Don’t share this! Would be a shame

"I know it's chaos but give him time for his plan to work!"

No person who is educated in History, or Economics, or Civics believes the Mad King's plans will accomplish anything but Evil. I would not give a murderer time for their plan to bear fruit. Why should people in this country do that for a mass murderer?

How many detainees do we have zero proof of life for? How many detainees are children? How many detainees 'fit the profile so they grabbed them anyway'? How many detainees were literally involved in Immigration Court proceedings attempting to become citizens and following the rules, but snatched up by thugs near the court?

How many people have died in airplane crashes? How many have died from measles? How many have died from food poisoning? How many will starve without Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare? How many will die overseas because USAID was cut?

"The Mad King isn't Chairman Mao, he isn't trying to hurt people to weaken our resistance to him dismantling our entire nation and government"- quite the opposite there is zero reason to think this shameless group of criminals, grifters, bigots, and their assembled hate movement aren't trying to enshrine some Christo Fascist White Supremacy version of America, and they have to know they are outnumbered and only fear and terror will let them maintain their grip on power. Project 2025 and all this crazy talk about being angry at judges and the rule of Law and Constitutional Overreach- it's all about seizing power and never letting go.

They win and everyone loses, or they lose and everyone wins.

Only QAnon grandmas believe "Trump has a divine plan and he is killing evil people" meanwhile these fascist imbeciles are tormenting toddlers because their whole world view is about power and doing evil deeds.

A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

my brother got covid because he's a college professor and there's not much he can do to mitigate exposure when he has 200+ students per lecture. he's got a baby at home, so he does his best, but.

the governmental website for covid information is now propaganda. not a joke, not hyperbole, not an exaggeration: it's genuinely the definition of propaganda. this is biased misinformation determined to push a political stance. it is being hosted on a government server. it looks like something you'd find in a "top 10 weird internet conspiracy stories (and their origins)" youtube video.

my brother called me when he saw it. he had me type it into google. for a second i legitimately thought that i had typed something wrong. we have both taught college: we have both said "a .gov site is usually a reliable resource." i just stared at my phone for a long, long time.

i thought about how when i was a kid, conspiracy theories were mostly fun and a little spooky. unserious. i remember reading some long, complicated website about how avril lavigne is dead. how bigfoot is real. it used to be funny-and-a-joke.

over seven million people (globally) have died from covid. america has the highest death rate with over 1.2 million people.

the thing is - every time a person dies from something like a mass shooting or poverty or treatable illness - we are told don't make it political. we are told it's just something that can happen. we are told it's sad but what can you do!

the president of the united states is using a government website to try to erase the very-real deaths that he personally caused due to a complete mismanagement of the pandemic. the president of the united states is using a government server to host propaganda, undermine science and medicine, and encourage distrust amongst his followers.

nothing is going to happen. nobody's gonna, like, do anything about it. it's a thursday today, and we are just going to move on from this like we have been moving on from everything else.

yesterday my brother was outside walking his dog, mask included. a guy in a truck pulls up and shouts something about covid and whatever the fuck else. my brother has a good sense of humor, described it to me as enthusiastic! i hadn't ever been catcalled before, this was new and therefore thrilling! i do see why you hate it, though. like. i have actual covid, does he want me to cough on him?

my brother doesn't get extra time off work anymore, because the cdc practically doesn't exist. my brother said i'm not exposing 200 students to covid. his boss shrugged and said: who cares? they're going to get it eventually anyway. like it isn't a pandemic.

like it's just a fucking thursday, and who cares about it.

Hey, just in case you have trouble with false equivalency between Antifa and Fascists. Someone made this handy chart to help you with your stupid bullshit!

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