Good morning…I needed to start out with a laugh. I don’t know why that meme was so funny to me. It just was.
Ok, I got a video to share with you. I taped it myself yesterday…sorry about the train, yes I live near a train track and you can hear it in the video. But if you are having any problems, I have the closed captions on…so you can read what they are saying. This is a few minutes from Deadline Whitehouse.
What they are talking about is this:
US prosecutor warns of legal risk for anyone hindering Musk's efficiency effortwww.reuters.com/legal/us-pro…
In related news, look who has filed suit over Musk getting into the classified Treasury accounts:
If the acting attorney general is sending out whatever remaining loyal FBI agents after people getting in the way of Musk and his fucking Coup conspirators…I guess the folks from these Unions will be arrested soon.
EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
Two of those sources say that Elez’s privileges include the ability not just to read but to write code on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: The Payment Automation Manager (PAM) and Secure Payment System (SPS) at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS).
this guy needs to be a focus of Dem TV appearances and Trump staff need to be asked about him in every interview“why is a 19 year old who called himself Big Balls being given access to our most sensitive personal information?”it sounds absurd because it is absurd and people need to hear it
1/ Important development"The FBI’s office of general counsel decided the demand by the Trump Justice Department for all the names was legal and compliance was not optional."www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat…
I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi…
UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call – write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.
🚨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.
Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution … we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"
Their brief is here. It is badly written, badly reasoned, and filled with bad history, and the people who wrote it are bad people who are seeking to strip million of their own residents of the constitutional guarantee of citizenship. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…
Joe Kent, the guy Trump is nominating to lead his counterterrorism division, employed Proud Boys and Patriot Front members, met with Nick Fuentes and sat down with a neo-Nazi YouTuber for an interview.
Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-…
I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate. They also control the White House and the Supreme Court. If they wanted to get rid of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for example, they could introduce a bill, debate it, pass it, and send it on to President Trump for his signature. And there would be very little the Democrats could do to stop that change.
But they are not doing that.
Instead, they are permitting unelected billionaire Elon Musk, whose investment of $290 million in Trump and other Republican candidates in the 2024 election apparently has bought him freedom to run the government, to override Congress and enact whatever his own policies are by rooting around in government agencies and cancelling those programs that he, personally, dislikes.
The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-…"The changes that have been made all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked…” – Josh Marshall
A 25-year-old Musk engineer has write access to Treasury systems that "control, on a granular level, govt payments that in their totality amount to more than a fifth of the US economy." No prior govt experience. Literally trillions of dollars move through these systems. http://www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The only thing about Trump and all his drug addicts is they are likely to not have much life left in them. All RFK jr has to do is drink some raw milk and he’s gone with avian flu.
FARTUS (Felon, Adjudicated Rapist, Traitor of the United States is coming to the Super Bowl. I hope Kendrick Lamar sends a message to him during that half-time show. The Lousyiana governor is allowing the nuts to bring guns into the city but not coolers. And The military and the state troopers are so well-armed it’s like a damned invasion. Let’s show the country we have something better than a Bronx cheer.
It would be fun to go the river down by all those super yachts with pitchforks and torches and shout Guillotine and proceed to the big shoe. A girl can dream, can’t she? Actually, I’ll be home with a pillow over my head, hoping the Gun Fetishists that will come to the City won’t stage an actual shoot-out in the Quarter or somewhere else. I guess FARTUS has spare time on his damned orange hands since our POTUS appears to be Musk.
Thanks, as always, for summarizing the chaos and bringing some humor into this living nightmare.
At this point, the idea of using tools like the legislature and Congress against something so fast-moving is laughable and Trump et al don’t gaf anyway.
Trump picked a science advisor with no science experience. But: "After school, he was a Wall Street analyst before working in an investment fund run by *Peter Thiel*, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley who backed Mr. Trump’s first presidential bid and advised him on technology issues."
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Sorry if this post is all over the place, I was updating it until 3:30 in the morning. I want to add this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-3-2025?r=4de05&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
read that:
By the way, they are voting on JFK Jr in an hour!
Cassidy voted yes…we all are gonna die!
The only thing about Trump and all his drug addicts is they are likely to not have much life left in them. All RFK jr has to do is drink some raw milk and he’s gone with avian flu.
I keep wondering how Dump can keep pissing off the FBI for years and get away with it.
The last two weeks have been the biggest cluster frack ever. It’s just exhausting.
Thank you guys for helping us not have to watch too much teevee news.
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FARTUS (Felon, Adjudicated Rapist, Traitor of the United States is coming to the Super Bowl. I hope Kendrick Lamar sends a message to him during that half-time show. The Lousyiana governor is allowing the nuts to bring guns into the city but not coolers. And The military and the state troopers are so well-armed it’s like a damned invasion. Let’s show the country we have something better than a Bronx cheer.
It would be fun to go the river down by all those super yachts with pitchforks and torches and shout Guillotine and proceed to the big shoe. A girl can dream, can’t she? Actually, I’ll be home with a pillow over my head, hoping the Gun Fetishists that will come to the City won’t stage an actual shoot-out in the Quarter or somewhere else. I guess FARTUS has spare time on his damned orange hands since our POTUS appears to be Musk.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/donald-trump-will-be-first-sitting-president-to-attend-super-bowl
This will also be fun without the FBI.
Thanks, as always, for summarizing the chaos and bringing some humor into this living nightmare.
At this point, the idea of using tools like the legislature and Congress against something so fast-moving is laughable and Trump et al don’t gaf anyway.
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It is so fucking depressing.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/proud-boys-trademark-trump-church-enrique-tarrio-b2691799.html
Some good news?
Fortunately most of our courts are still working.
@skydancingblog.com well if your going to do things to large groups of people like federal workers 🙄