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NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Here’s what we did today

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ? Then releasing it as if they discovered it ? Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me. Very Trump like too. Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?

More context here: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

If I study anxiety via threat-biased attention, the word "biased" gets me flagged. You can't design a study of humans without using at least one of the terms on the banned list, which means that biomedical, brain, social science research is now on ice in the USA

The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Trump's 'plans' to shut down USAID will erode American influence in increasingly dangerous world

"The White House neglected to mention that the new president agreed to stop U.S. guns crossing the border, CNBC confirmed."

Don't worry. All our allies hate us now, but Vladimir Putin is giddy that Trump is in charge and he is already manipulating him into starting a clash with NATO so he can take over Europe.

🚨 FAA'S MAIN WARNING SYSTEM FOR PILOTS RESTORED AFTER OUTAGE TODAY — NYT

USAID staff received an early morning email in the middle of the night telling them to stay home today. The comes after Musk said on X Spaces last night that Trump agrees with him that the agency should be shut down.

Knowing the names of the an unelected oligarch’s underlings who are destroying the government from within is a crime now, apparently.

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

HAHAHA!! That fact that she announced it first makes me smile. Of course he left out the part where he met her demands. He's a weak little coward and won't admit when he's wrong.

oh what could the salute has possibly been

Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time. To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.

NEW: Trump now says he is not confident he can keep the ceasefire in Gaza, telling reporters it is "not our war." He says that Gaza "has to be rebuilt" and "some beautiful things" could be done with the land because it is "on the sea" and has "the best weather."

Words to live by over the next four years.

Going back to the 1960’s the XY/XX chromosomes classification made no historical, scientific, ethical, legal or social sense. Recognizing this,the IOC last engaged in chromosomal testing in 1996 Olympics, and formally banned the practice in 1999. twitter.com/kirstimiller...

What a bunch of thugs. This is going to be a shit show.

Coming out of games journalist retirement for exactly five seconds and having enough time to do a better job than that New York Times article

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips theonion.com/clarence-tho...

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY 💯

Elon Musk is now calling on Republicans to shut down the government until Trump takes office — and many are jumping at the opportunity to please their unelected billionaire overlord.

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

RBG PAC’s $20M last-minute pro-Trump abortion campaign wasn’t just shady (and completely opposed by RBG’s surviving family members)—it was fully bankrolled by Elon Musk, new campaign finance reports show. Billionaire meddling in our elections must be stopped.

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo