2025 Administrative Coup Memory Bank
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A recording of the 2025 Administrative Coup of the Federal Government.
“Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go.” - Utah Phillips
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2/20/2025
- The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug
- Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP (Corruption)
- History Will Not Treat Those Sleepwalking Through This Crisis Well / Original
- IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season
2/19/2025
- The Department of Education approved a grant to help students with disabilities into adulthood. Then Trump came along (True Costs)
- Trump firings hit Great Lakes sea lamprey program, Michigan forestry workers (True Costs)
- WMNF employees among Forest Service staffers cut (True Costs)
- Trump Backs $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut in House GOP Budget Plan (Austerity)
- X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks With Ad Giant to Increase Spending (Gangster Capitalism)
- State Plaintiffs Lose A Disappointing Battle, While Musk And DOGE Get Closer To Losing The War (Court Battles)
- DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up (Bullshit Savings)
- GOP Senators Are Having to Literally Beg Trump for Their Own Money (Article I Follies)
- “They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress (Cowards)
- The Fundamental Flaws in the Barnett/Wurman Defense of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order (Constitutional Rights)
- LGBTQ history videos find new home after PBS pulls content due to Trump executive orders
2/18/2025
- By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller (True Costs)
- Russell Vought Wants to Burn the Government Down (Endgame)
- Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst” (Corruption)
- Moving on from 18F (Effects) - Ground level view of the layoffs and what we are losing in one government agency with committed people trying to make government tech work for all of us.
But what’s happening right now is not about “government efficiency,” nor is it about “cost-cutting.” I would gently urge you to look at the net worth of the people who are telling you otherwise. After all, there is no financial analysis; no review of possible downsides, no weighing of potential negative impacts. There is no discussion of what could happen if our math is wrong? Or even more importantly, no consideration of who might be harmed? Instead, as Anil Dash predicted, the billionaire’s so-called “efficiency“ “department” is best understood as a sprawling form of procurement capture, in which a group of impossibly rich individuals are trampling over the regulations — and the federal workers — that stand between them and a deep, deep revenue stream: your tax dollars. And as they do, they’re making an explicitly fascist move to roll back rights for every marginalized community in the country — for anyone who doesn’t look like them, or who stands in their way.
2/17/2025
- A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul the FAA’s air traffic control system (Corruption)
- Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash (True Costs)
2/16/2025
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/politics/justice-department-trump-eric-adams.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU4.pHPo.JoDR5_SGnfFB
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/opinion/what-if-trump-defies-courts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk4.ljF4.vQnYAZ9zGxQa&smid=url-share
2/15/2025
- https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-peter-marocco-state-department-bosnia-serbia-diplomacy-trump-foreign-policy
- https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/02/15/trump-ice-jail-prison-arizona
2/14/2025
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112 (Security/Data Privacy)
- https://fortune.com/2025/02/14/elon-musk-doge-website-hacked-hackers/ (Security/Data Privacy)
- https://economic.github.io/federal_workforce/ (Tool on Federal Jobs)
- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-eyes-canceling-leases-space-used-by-us-judiciary-2025-02-14/ (Threat to Judiciary Independence)
- https://www.wired.com/story/musk-krause-treasury-bfs-conflict-of-interest/ (Corruption)
- https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5296910/trump-federal-workers-fork-resign-buyout (Federal Layoff)
- https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-and-its-agencies-are-being-smothered
2/13/2025
- https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-in-chaos-20163260.php (Loss to Citizens)
- https://www.notus.org/courts/pennsylvania-1-billion-federal-funds-frozen-lawsuit-lawsuit (Theft)
- https://gizmodo.com/the-400-million-armored-tesla-story-is-a-fake-scandal-in-a-sea-of-real-graft-and-horror-2000563641
- https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-13-elon-musk-general-secretary-of-doge/ (Endgame)
- https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-02-13/fort-carson-iraq-army-veteran-deportation-ice-barco-16820694.html (Immigration/Military)
- https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/elon-musk-rich-taxpayer-expense/
- https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2025/02/13/google-s-gemini-ai-recorded-meetings-without-consent-two-usaid-staffers-tell-it-brew
- https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-salt-typhoon-spies-are-still-hacking-telecoms-now-by-exploiting-cisco-routers/
- https://clarksvillenow.com/local/books-mentioning-slavery-civil-rights-removed-from-shelves-at-fort-campbell-schools/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIe2-RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVGrScXBR6df4uOBrRnDGN2_eqxT8Tc1OyYFy341D1neiRONXXRKCCcXtw_aem_XWmt17HtVUmgVNmaqHIgog (Censorship)
2/12/2025
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/largest-data-breach-in-us-history-three-more-lawsuits-try-to-stop-doge/ (Data Privacy)
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/usaid-musk-soviet-bloc
- https://xtramagazine.com/power/identity/missing-trans-kids-trump-271140
- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/elon-musk-x-settle-trump-lawsuit-capitol-riot-doge.html (Corruption)
- https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6131665/2025/02/12/title-ix-nil-college-sports-department-of-education/
- https://www.wired.com/story/gsa-sell-government-buildings/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/business/elon-musk-cfpb-x-money.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
2/11/2025
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-green-lights-bribery-with-new-executive-order-on-the-foreign-corrupt-practices-act/ (Corruption)
- https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/ (Endgame)
- https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-musk-doge-coup-media-wired-20250211.html
- https://bsky.app/profile/brendannyhan.bsky.social/post/3lhvx77lumk2p
- Family of Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo: ‘My Brother Is Not a Criminal.’ (Suffering)
- Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States (Its the insurgency, stupid)
2/10/2025
- https://www.asiafinancial.com/810000-investors-have-lost-over-2-billion-on-trump-coin-nyt
- https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/us-spy-planes-mexican-drug-cartels/index.html
- https://marketnews.com/necs-hassett-targets-lower-aggregate-demand-more-supply-1739216218810
- https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/02/10/nec-director-kevin-hassett-on-new-metal-tariffs-trumps-reciprocal-tariff-plan-and-tax-priorities.html
2/9/2025
2/6/2025
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immigration-deportations-google (Immigration)
2/4/2025
1/27/2025
- https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/beltway-bandits/ (Real Govt. Savings)
1/4/2025
7/24/2024
6/21/2010