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She said under oath she wouldn’t politicize the Justice Department. She lied.
Updated: The DOGE Fraud Is Coming from Inside the House www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/20/t...

The DOGE Fraud Is Coming from ...
The DOGE Fraud Is Coming from Inside the House - emptywheel

The reason the DOGE receipts page is so shoddy is that it serves as cover for the fact that DOGE is doing things not envisioned by USDS or Trump's original EO renaming USDS DOGE.

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Did you know: in prep for 45's admin, Project 2025 trained people, now in almost every federal agency's leadership, how to not take notes or write things down so they wouldn't be subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests or subpoenas?

Well, now you know they were trained in how to evade accountability.

Analysis of their training from August 2024: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election

at 19:20 evading FOIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxe55mU4DA8&t=1160s

project page: https://www.project2025.org/training/conservative-governance-101/

#USpol #coup

Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos

“Eradicate climate change references”; only talk to conservative media; don’t leave a paper trail for watchdogs to discover. In a series of never-before-published videos, Project 2025 details how a second Trump administration would operate.

ProPublica
Here's another way the DOGE team is behaving like ransomware actors: Their strategy for taking over agency databases is to wait until the federal employees go home on Friday and then show up and work through the weekend to undermine federal security.

In case anyone needs a handy reference to all of the lawsuits filed against this administration's actions so far, Court Watch has a fairly comprehensive and updated list:

https://www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-related-to-trump-admin-executive-orders

Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders

We put them all in one place.

Court Watch

Kilowatt Games are currently working on Isle Goblin, a curious blend of features from the likes of Stardew Valley and Terraria that I'm pretty excited to see more from.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fight-off-pesky-humans-and-raise-spider-babies-in-isle-goblin-a-blend-of-stardew-valley-and-terraria/

#Steam #IndieGame #Upcoming #RPG #PixelGraphics #OnlineCoop #NativeLinux

Fight off pesky humans and raise spider babies in Isle Goblin, a blend of Stardew Valley and Terraria

Kilowatt Games are currently working on Isle Goblin, a curious blend of features from the likes of Stardew Valley and Terraria that I'm pretty excited to see more from.

GamingOnLinux
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
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Don't make us tap the sign. 👇

I don't accept any of it. You?

Via Angry Staffer:

Everyone realizes they’re trying to shift the Overton Window, right?

They’re conditioning you to be accepting of the insane shit they’re doing now so you’ll accept the more insane shit they do later.

Humans have always built on each other’s stories. Unfortunately, copyright law as it exists today undermines that tradition. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/copyright-civil-liberties-nightmare
Copyright is a Civil Liberties Nightmare

If you’ve got lawyers and a copyright, the law gives you tremendous power to silence speech you don’t like. Copyright’s statutory damages can be as high as $150,000 per work infringed, even if no actual harm is done. This makes it far too dangerous to rely on the limitations and exceptions to fair...

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