2025 Administrative Coup Memory Bank

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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5/30/2025

• Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans (Surveillance)

5/29/2025

• The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database (No Privacy)
• The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls (Got Freedom?)
• Appeals court temporarily reinstates Trump tariffs (Not helping consumers)
• State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ (Neo-Nazi terms for Neo-Nazi minds)
• White House Health Report Included Fake Citations (Definitely not peer reviewed)
• White House pressure for increased immigration arrests strains law enforcement agencies (Now with accounting fraud!)
• SEC Drops Binance Lawsuit Days After Crypto Exchange Lists Trump’s Stablecoin (Coin Corruption)
• Children zip-tied at San Antonio immigration court in new crackdown (Cruel bait and switch)
• WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge (Whistleblower)

5/28/2025

• VA-based DOGE associate gets ‘the boot’ after publicly discussing his work

5/27/2025

• What We Know About RFK’s Announcement to Reduce Access to the COVID Vaccine (Got Health?)
• FEMA at 'high risk' of disrupting 'life-saving' disaster relief, per internal memo (You're on your own)
• Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner (Corruption)

5/25/2025

• Veterans recoil at Trump plan to end Afghans’ deportation protection (Sacrificing allies)

5/24/2025

• Flying Bribery Palaces and the End of the Western Order (Corruption)

5/23/2025

• Hidden Threat to Democracy Slipped Into Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill (No Checks on Monarchical Power)
• Disarray at Department of Veterans Affairs imperils patient care, internal documents reveal (Cuts harm veterans)
• U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released (REAL ID isn't real enough)
• House GOP budget adds $150 billion for Trump’s immigration enforcement (Building the Brownshirts)

5/22/2025

• Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students (Education)
• Judge halts dismantling of Education Department, orders fired workers to be reinstated (Education)
• Trump’s White House Goes From Hiding 80% Of His Transcribed Remarks To Hiding 99.5% (Got Transparency?)

5/21/2025

• Pete Hegseth invites entire Pentagon to Christian prayer and worship service (Unconstitutional)
• Trump administration asks Supreme Court to keep DOGE records secret (Transparency)
• Supreme Court “De-Documents” 350,000 Venezuelans – And Keeps Everyone In The Dark About What’s Next (Immigration)
• Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster Clubs Are Taking In More Money Than Ever (Corruption)
• FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season (Got plans?)
• Tucked onto page 1,081 (of 1,082) of the GOP budget bill: a provision that doubles the maximum prison sentence for anyone who leaks a tax return (or publishes it) to ten years, and bumps the maximum fine from $5k to $250k (Secrecy)

5/20/2025

• White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. (Harm)
• Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump (Ideological Blinkering)

5/19/2025

• TSA complaint data disappeared. Here’s where you can still find it. (Transparency)

5/17/2025

• Trump Justice Dept. considers removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions

5/16/2025

• The Trade War Isn’t Over (Tariff effects)
• The Trump Memecoin Dinner Winners Are Getting Rid of Their Coins (LOL)
• DOGE Is Now Targeting GAO, and the Congressional Agency Is Fighting Back (Separation of Powers)
• Breaking: DOGE sought access to Congress's watchdog (Separation of Powers)

5/15/2025

• The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. (Corruption)
• Federal Budget Cuts Would Sabotage NASA’s Plans to Find Alien Life (Science)
• NOAA senior scientists in Seattle depart amid Trump cuts (Science)
• The Big Takeover: The secret plans to give Trump command of America’s police (Not so secret police)
• Trump’s sanctions on ICC’s chief prosecutor have halted tribunal’s work, officials and lawyers say (Censorship)

5/14/2025

• Republicans Think They Have a Way to Blow Up the Filibuster Without Anyone Noticing (All for Oil companies)

5/13/2025

• What’s Wrong With DOGE? Its Disregard for the Law (Illegality)
• Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF (Racism, Sexism, ...)
• Who benefits/loses from the GOP's tax cut (The rich benefit and the poor lose, of course)

5/12/2025

• Two Men Claiming to Be Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office
• Corruption and a Security Catastrophe in Plane Sight (Blatant Corruption)
• A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million (Blatant Corruption)
• Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library (Separation of Powers)
• FBI ordered to prioritize immigration, as DOJ scales back white collar cases (Deformed Priorities)

5/9/2025

• Man ‘Disappeared’ by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows (Well oiled machine)
• Computer Ban Gave the Government Unfair Advantage in Anti-War Activist’s Case, Lawyer Says (Hand on the scales of justice)
• teens arrested by ICE agents after release by police in Chelsea, Mass. (Huddled Masses)

5/8/2025

• RFK Jr.’s Measles Policy: Deaths Are Expected And It’s The Victim’s Fault (Anti-vax crazies)
• Trump Declares High-Speed Internet Program ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’ (Screwing poor people, the disabled and veterans)

5/7/2025

• Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests (Corruption. Foreign Corruption)
• West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH (Killing people)
• DOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of Interest (Corruption)
• Checkpoints by U.S. border patrol raise concerns amid drop in Canadian visitors (Tariffs)

5/6/2025

• US trade deficit surges to record high in March (Unintended consequences)
• Exclusive: Order by Hegseth to cancel Ukraine weapons caught White House off guard (Well oiled machine)
• FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control (What Safety?)
• Warnings over cuts by DOGE and RFK Jr to organization that keeps elderly people in their homes (Midsommar is their model)
• Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research (Bad Health, Bad Economics)
• ‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’ (Corruption)
• FDA names oncologist Vinay Prasad as its new vaccine chief (They want to kill us)

5/5/2025

• Trump Team Set to Dissolve Reagan-Era Transnational Crime Unit (Corruption)
• Trump promised no new business deals with foreign governments. He lied. (Corruption)
• FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas

5/3/2025

• Board of Visitors ends support for racial diversity goals (Quotas for fascists)

5/2/2025

• Why I Had to Flee the United States
• Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System
• How Mahmoud Khalil First Glimpsed His Son
• ICE agents storm Irvine couple's home in search for answers about posters placed around LA (Free Speech)

5/1/2025

• As a Shipping Loophole Closes, Small Online Sellers Scramble (Tariffs)
• Coming Soon for CEOs, a MAGA-Infused Business Association (Corruption)
• At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage (Corruption)
• Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics
• Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
• RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims

4/30/2025

• Waiting for the Supply Shock (Tariffs)
• Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Science)
• DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations
• Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. (Health)
• NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths (Health)
• Attorney General Pam Bondi Issues Guidance on DOJ Implementation of Trump Executive Orders (Health)
• RFK Jr. will require shift in how new vaccines are tested, HHS says (Health)

4/29/2025

• ‘We’re citizens!’: Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects
• 100 Days, a Trillion Dollars: DOGE’s Costs Keep Adding Up
• A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts (Corruption)

4/28/2025

• A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars
• After Federal Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp
• DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets
• ‘No way’ US can recoup lost China container imports: Analyst

4/27/2025

• ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted
• On DOGE, Directives, and DOJ (DOGE calling the shots)
• American Panopticon
• Chinese factories are stopping production and looking for new markets as U.S. tariffs bite

4/26/2025

• Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
• Tesla could benefit the most from new rules on reporting of self-driving car crashes
• Proposed NOAA cuts could shutter research institutes that train the next generation of Alaska scientists
• Trump-aligned club for the ultra rich launches in Washington (Corruption)

4/25/2025

• Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
• Exclusive: DOJ memo offers blueprint to Tren de Aragua deportation plan
• Sources tell Rolling Stone the secret project could be a perfect vehicle for embedding Elon Musk’s Starlink within the FAA’s operations (Corruption)

4/24/2025

• NIH grants plummeted $2.3 billion in Trump’s first months, as federal-academia partnership crumbles
• The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
• USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry

4/23/2025

• Washington’s Deportation Jackpot
• Congressional Republicans’ Proposals To Slash Medicaid Could Cost Tens of Thousands of Lives
• The Trump administration wants to make us too afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.
• US cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims, Justice Dept documents show

4/22/2025

• HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth
• 4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
• Social Security Benefits To Be Interrupted Soon: Ex-Administrator
• Automaker’s Tariff Plan: Cut Jobs And Pay Off Wall Street
• Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To

4/21/2025

• Trump cuts would cripple NOAA’s wide-ranging science partnerships
• FDIC Aims to Cut 1,200 Jobs as Trump Worker Purge Continues
• Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
• Education Department to begin garnishing wages on defaulted student loan borrowers

4/18/2025

• DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
• Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

4/17/2025

• Trump’s Order to Cut Drug Prices Would Raise Drug Prices
• Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program
• Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
• RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.
• 25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding (Death)

4/16/2025

• The US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated, say officials
• Ireland’s Kerrygold Butter Maker Says US Tariffs May Hit Growing Streak
• Scoop: Leaked PDF outlines major HHS restructuring proposal (authenticity now confirmed). "The safety nets are being blown up right and left."
• New: A 64-page HHS restructuring proposal outlines sweeping cuts to US public health.
• Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts

4/15/2025

• A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
• Trump calls for deporting some citizens to El Salvador, testing US law
• ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible
• The AI Tools CBP Is Using to Scan Social Media
• It was never about antisemitism
• Inside Trump’s Plan to Halt Hundreds of Regulations

4/14/2025

• This Company’s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for Trump
• Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters
• DOGE abruptly cut a program for teens with disabilities. This student is 'devastated'
• Followed the Rules. Now Thousands of Migrants Are Told, ‘Leave.’
• This Company’s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for Trump (Surveillance)

4/13/2025

• Details about immigrants in housing projects must be handed over; rent hikes or worse likely
• Trump attacks on law firms begin to chill pro bono work on causes he doesn't like

4/12/2025

• Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
• Judge relaxes ban on DOGE access to sensitive US Treasury information
• ‘One million.’ The private goal driving Trump’s push for mass deportations.
• Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners

4/11/2025

• Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
• The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
• Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI
• Customs ‘glitch’ impacting Trump tariffs fixed after lasting for more than 10 hours
• She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
• CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
• The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
• Yes, It's Fascism

4/10/2025

• Turning the little screws: What Trump's trade war means for AI, automation and making iPhones in America
• DOGE descends on FDIC

4/9/2025

• Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You. (STASI State)

4/8/2025

• New Social Security rules will create hurdles for millions of seniors, report finds
• The Stock Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor: Why Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the Stock Market While the Trump Musk Payments Crisis Hasn’t (Yet)
• DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division

4/7/2025

• The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process.
• Elon Musk’s Secret Weapon: the US Marshals Service

4/6/2025

• NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
• ICE disappeared a mother and 3 children. Neighbors of Trump's Border Czar said hell no.

4/4/2025

• RFK Jr. says HHS will reinstate 20% of reduced workforce after DOGE errors
• Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest
• Immigration actions affecting students on UMass-sponsored visas
• [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/04/irs-will-cut-25-its-employees-eliminating-its-civil-rights-office/ IRS will cut 25% of its employees, eliminating its civil rights office]
• Trump slammed for ‘covertly’ withholding FEMA funds from blue states
• Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance
• Trump Sidelines Justice Dept. Legal Office, Eroding Another Check on His Power

4/3/2025

• Smashing the Student Visa System
• Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes
• Boston judge orders contempt charge against ICE agent after defendant vanishes mid-trial
• Trump’s downfall begins now – his paranoia and baseless rage is his undoing
• Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s
• Trump’s Tariffs Give Him a New Way to Dole Out Reward and Punishment (Corruption)

4/2/2025

• The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador
• Trump’s Tariff Fantasy
• Where We Stand: The Fiscal, Economic, and Distributional Effects of All U.S. Tariffs Enacted in 2025 Through April 2

4/1/2025

• ‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass lay-offs
• Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building For Free
• Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”

3/31/2025

• DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
• Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems
• An Unfortunate Update: DOGE Dodges An Injunction
• The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating
• Private-sector Trumpism

3/29/2025

• When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed
• Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints

3/28/2025

• DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

3/27/2025

• U.S. health department plans to slash 10,000 jobs as RFK Jr. upends agencies
• Exclusive: Intelligence Dossier Compares Luigi Mangione to ‘Robin Hood’
• Musk’s Tesla One of the Only Winners From Trump Car Tariffs

3/26/2025

• Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID
• Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices
• DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why
• How the Social Security Administration is dodging a federal court order
• When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron

3/25/2025

• Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
• Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks
• Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
• Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online

3/23/2025

• Trump Wants to Force Immigrants to Share Their Social Media Handles When Applying for Citizenship (Free Speech)
• Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention

3/22/2025

• Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?

3/21/2025

• Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Dept. on whether to close agency (Toady)
• Moving the Student Loan Program to SBA is Illegal, Unserious, and a Distraction
• What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced (Bearing Witness)
• Despite refugee status in the U.S., young Venezuelan was deported to Salvadoran prison

3/20/2025

• Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services
  • "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
• The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain
• Trump moves to destroy Columbia University
• Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
• CEO’s dismissal signals the beginning of the end for Amtrak: Analysis

3/19/2025

• California couple deported after living in U.S. for 35 years
• Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses
• War-Torn Congo Has a Deal for Trump: Kick Out Rebels, Get Minerals
• The airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained (Surveillance)
• You’re Not a Criminal, But You’re Going to Jail: My ICE Detention Story as a Canadian Citizen
• ME/CFS research program shuts down at Columbia after Trump cuts
• Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
• The Trump Administration Goes To War With Health-Care Quality
• More than 425 popular campsites across Pa. are closed indefinitely due to DOGE cuts
• Illustrative Distributional Effects of Policies Consistent with the House Concurrent Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2025 (Taxation)
• Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts (Taxation)

3/18/2025

• Trump admin moves to end federal HIV prevention programs. ‘Catastrophic’ consequences, experts say

3/17/2025

• EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration
• Trump claims Biden pardons for Jan. 6 committee 'void, vacant'
• Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
• Trump Isn’t Just Attacking Trans People. He’s Denationalizing Them.
• Brown advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel

3/16/2025

• "Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington"
• Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants

• He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

3/15/2025

• Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say
• DOGE Social Security and Census Bureau transgender data privacy vulnerability (Privacy)

3/14/2025

• Trump Administration Opens Investigations At More Than 50 Universities In Anti-DEI Campaign
• Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
• Judge Rules FOIA Requests for DOGE Must Be Expedited
• A Close Elon Musk Friend Joins His Effort on Social Security
• AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza
• If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
• They're coming for the right to protest

3/13/2025

• Holy crap. Marco Rubio is seemingly purporting to exempt nearly all immigration regulations and policy, along with things like export controls, trade rules, and more, from notice and comment rulemaking requirements. / Public Register Notice
• Can the Trump Administration Arbitrarily Take Money from Anyone’s Bank Account? Federal Government’s Mugging of New York City for FEMA Funds Suggests Yes
  • Notes on the Crises Legal Memorandum No. 1
• Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
• Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules
• Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
• The United States of Elon Musk Inc.
• Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Fair Housing Groups, Weakening Discrimination Protections
• German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.
• USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers
• Stablecoin bill clears Senate Banking Committee
• These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

3/12/2025

• Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
• The AI State is a Surveillance State
• Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system (Corruption)
• “The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump (Chaos)
• The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring (Surveillance)
• Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker (Watching the Demolition Crew)
• U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes
• Mahmoud Khalil is being used as a pawn in Trump’s mass deportation plan
• Trump Officials Are ‘Pretending’ a Judge Didn’t Bar His Anti-Diversity Orders
• $42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk (Corruption)

3/11/2025

• Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
• Trump administration slashes division in charge of 26,000 U.S. artworks (Destroying history)
• Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
• U.S.A.I.D. Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records (Destroying Public Property)

3/10/2025

• Cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip
• Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities (Science)
• Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles (Privacy)
• GOP Senators Trade Constitutional Authority For Elon’s Phone Number (Corruption)
• National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval (Censorship)
• This is just the start (Disappearances)
• Word of the week: Dismantle

3/9/2025

• DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment, Claiming "Activities Aligned to Hamas"

3/8/2025

• The VA Promised DOGE Cuts Won’t Harm Veterans. Employees Say It’s Already Happening.

3/7/2025

• Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
• We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public
• Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state
• I woke up as an angry veteran yesterday
• Strike, or Else
• Attention Deficit and Defiance Division of Labor: There’s Stuff Happening Where You’re Not Looking
• Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate
• DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

3/6/2025

• Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" (AI is a Fascist Tool)
• US Employers Announce Most Job Cuts Since 2020 Amid DOGE Layoffs
• US announced job cuts surge 245% in February on federal government layoffs
• DOGE targets child support database full of income data (Privacy)
• A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale
• Suit to block the DOGEsters from destroying the United States African Development Foundation (DOGE in action)
• Historic Montgomery Bus Station, Freedom Riders Museum part of DOGE-ordered sell-off (Racism)
• Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Court rules Trump’s firing of labor board official illegal, saying president is not a king
• The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon
• Elon’s Chainsaw Automatically Shuts Off When It Gets Near the Pocketbooks of the Rich

3/5/2025

• How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA
• Here’s a Map of the For-Sale Government Properties the GSA Pulled From Its Website
• Trump “Brings Back Free Speech” By [Checks Notes Threatening To Imprison Protestors And Expose Journalist Sources]
• Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
• Elon Musk’s Next Potential Self-Enrichment (Corruption)
• Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Could Kill Your Dog (Health)

3/4/2025

• After Elon Musk Fired Her, She Kept Showing Up to Work—for Free
• People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago (Corruption)
• Exclusive: Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say (Briefings where they hand in their laptops. Ooops!)
• Email shows Trump officials are lying to federal court, directing CFPB staff to ignore law
• Trump Wants to Overhaul Biden's Broadband Program to Award Tens of Billions of Dollars to Musk (Corruption)
• Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
• U.S. State Department Shuts Down Pollution Monitoring Abroad (Pollution)
• Trump policies could hit as hard as pandemic, officials say in assessing financial worst case
• Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

3/3/2025

• The US faces ‘devastating’ losses for weather forecasts, federal workers say
• DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings
• NOAA terminates space, climate and marine life advisory committees
• Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
• Trump To Tap Head Of Anti-Union Group To Run Labor Office
• DOGE Is Trying to Close a Field Office That Directly Manages a Nuclear Waste Site
• Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
• Elon Musk’s Looming Disease Holocaust
• 18F
• The Trump administration is ready to abandon kids like my son
• What Trump’s Big Budget Cuts Could Mean for New York
• After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say
• This Is Going Even Worse Than Steven Levitsky Expected

3/2/2025

• FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk’s Starlink (Corruption)
• Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science (Ignorance is Strength)
• The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts (Lies)
• DOGE people couldn't pass the 18F entry requirements (Not the brightest people in the room)

3/1/2025

• DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records
• Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten ‘interruption of benefits,’ ex-agency head says

2/28/2025

• A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
• RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment on HHS decisions
• Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
• IRS rejected request for addresses of people believed to be in U.S. illegally
• US cuts send South Africa's HIV treatment 'off a cliff'
• The Plot to Destroy the CFPB
• U.S. Mint takes Jan. 6 coin honoring officers who protected the Capitol off its website
• CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
• How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
• DOGE isn’t Silicon Valley innovation—it’s just a sloppy rebrand of free-market dogma
• ‘Like a horror movie’: German tourist detained by ICE says she spent week in solitary confinement
• German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility

$164/day to incarcerate her when she was supposed to fly home 13 days prior. Cruelty and corruption in one go.

2/27/2025

• She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this (Voter decision making)
• Trump roundup: Five days
• The Firefighting Fire Sale
• BREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions (Corruption)
• Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers to likely be unlawful
• Tulsi Gabbard is firing trans federal employees for “sex chats” that never happened
• FBI investigating Trump EPA claims of fraud in $20B Biden grant fund
• HHS Lays Off Lawyers Who Were Defending Medicare Drug Price Cuts (Shafting citizens)
• “Significant Workforce Reductions” Underway at Social Security Administration
• Trump supporters lose $12bn as president’s cryptocurrency collapses (Corruption)
• Inside the Collapse at the NIH
• The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
• US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency: ‘It’s catastrophic’

2/26/2025

• A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin (Scams)
• Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people
• The CFPB Shutdown Is Entirely About Payment Apps (Corruption)
• DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence
• Who Is the Anonymous Data Expert Telling Elon Which Cuts to Make?
• Trump and Greedflation Take Egg (Inflation)
• F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
• As DOGE Attacks Social Security, New Report Shows Elon Is One of the Government’s Biggest Beneficiaries
• DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
• Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce
• Farmers Say Climate-Smart Commodities Projects Are Crumbling

2/25/2025

• DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers
• Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’ (Brown Shirts)
• Trump’s reversal of EV program could carry a hefty price tag (Waste)
• DOJ Hires A State Judge Who Was Once Suspended To Advise The Deputy AG
• Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns (Corruption)
• CDC will no longer process transgender data

2/24/2025

• DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System
• Trump aid freeze disrupts anti-narcotics program at Mexican ports
• LGBTQ Federal Workers Brace for a McCarthyist Purge
• When It Comes To DOGE, The Hack Is The Harm And Why There Is Harm (Court cases)
• Musk’s Big Accomplishment This Weekend Was Apparently Throwing The Entire Federal Government Into Chaos (Busy work)
  • "like a fractal of nonsense" is this week's new term.
  • Also, from the comments: "These guys who think they’re good at everything because they’re good at coding aren’t even good at coding.”
• ICE can’t enter religious sites that sued, including Philadelphia Quakers, judge rules (Immigration/Rule of Law)
• DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
• Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated

2/23/2025

• Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order

2/22/2025

• They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. (True Costs)
• Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In (True Costs)

2/21/2025

• Trump and Elon’s ‘Pointless Bloodbath’ at the FAA Is Even Worse Than You Think (True Costs)
• Elon Musk is coming for our weather service (True Costs)
• Trump EO Tries To Destroy Whatever Corporate Regulatory Oversight Hasn’t Been Already Killed By DOGE And The Supreme Court (Corruption)
• The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled (Innovation)
• Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea ($200 Million Illegal Campaign Contribution)
• Palantir’s Call to Arms Is Also a Sales Pitch (Tech lords > rule by people)

2/20/2025

• The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug
• DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion
• 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
• Military families rocked by Trump’s federal government cuts
• Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund
• The curious case of Leland Dudek
• Trump orders database on federal police misconduct to close
• Dozens of Minnesota federal workers fired in latest cuts, with no severance
• Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service

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
• DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke
• In Early-Phase Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial, Investigational mRNA Vaccine Induces Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient Group (What we gave up)

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

• In Moving to Stop Adams Case, Career Lawyer Sought to Stave Off Deeper Crisis
• This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them (Assuming courts defy Trump)

2/15/2025

• Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
• How Trump Is Trying to Expand the Already Colossal U.S. Prison System

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)
• How DOGE Could Spark a Financial Crash

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

• 810,000 Investors Have Lost Over $2 Billion on Trump Coin – NYT (ShitCoin)
  • Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses
• US spy planes hunt for intel on Mexican drug cartels as surveillance flights surge near border
• US INFLATION: NEC's Hassett Targets Lower Aggregate Demand, More Supply (Depression Watch)
  • NEC Director Kevin Hassett on new metal tariffs, Trump’s reciprocal tariff plan and tax priorities
• Civil rights attorney sounds alarm after video shows ICE agents covering cameras during immigration raids

2/9/2025

• The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won. What now? A 🧵.

2/6/2025

• Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
• US immigration is creating a mirage of mass deportations on Google search (Immigration)

2/4/2025

• Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
• Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

1/27/2025

• Beltway Bandits (Real Govt. Savings)

1/24/2025

• Team Trump Says Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘More Ass-Kissing’ to Do

Pre-Inauguration

1/4/2025

• Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture

12/14/2024

• 'Allow some of this to be privatized': GOP gov admits goal of DOGE is to gut Social Security

Pre-Election

9/30/2024

• Trump’s Alarming Use Of A Word With A Deep Fascist History (Ethnic Cleansing)

7/24/2024

• RFK Jr. Wants to Send People Addicted to Antidepressants to Government “Wellness Farms”

5/21/2024

• Trump's deportation army (Not Freedom)

5/14/2024

• Why aren’t we vaccinating birds against bird flu? (Eggs)

3/12/2024

• US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

10/4/2023

• Why Trump and his allies hate the U.S. military.

11/5/2022

• Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

10/4/2017

• They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants

5/19/2014

• Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich

6/21/2010

• US supreme court: Nonviolent aid to banned groups tantamount to 'terrorism'