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The new leader seems to have game: https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-friedrich-merz-urges-independence-from-us/live-71700729 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv4n0dg3v3o

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2025/02/21/will-you-get-a-trump-doge-dividend-check-you-may-be-shocked-by-who-doesnt/ Yeah yeah, clickbait headline, but I heard this was being talked about yesterday from a coworker. tl;dr: Musk and Trump are talking about giving out checks like the...

Counterpoint: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-warns-against-authoritarianism-in-address-232454725674

In other words, they're trying to become a video game and licensing company instead of a toy and board game company. TBF, given the play pattern with kids these days, that's probably a smart move. Sounds like any non-collectible toy lines are going to be phased out though, at least in general.

Rather incendiary article, but wanted to show my source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/russia-ukraine-donald-trump-vladimir-putin.html Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/txawf Some potential leaks in what "deals" Trump was trying to make, and there's reference to the New York Times...

https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/19/donald-trump-moves-to-abolish-the-presidio-trust-through-executive-order/ And Trump continues to try to close congressionally-established agencies. This has to be him just trying to flex power for his ego. He HAS Congressional majorities(if slim) and isn't...

One other ACTUAL problem with the earlier executive order I just heard: Political officers. Trump is implementing political officers in all the federal agencies.

Again, text matters and making up stuff that's not in it just because we know what his endgame is playing into what they want. If everything is an emergency, nothing is, and it causes outrage fatigue, which lessens our ability to react appropriately. Same tactic where they submit crap bills to...

https://www.databreachtoday.com/doge-team-wins-legal-battle-retains-access-to-federal-data-a-27549 So no restraining order preventing access while the lawsuit continues, is what I get from this.

Not sure how you're getting that from France questioning Trump blaming Ukraine for the war?

https://www.justsecurity.org/107999/trump-nordic-countries-politics/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-says-it-does-not-understand-why-trump-blames-ukraine-war-2025-02-19/

Well, that explains why they tried to fire every single "probationary" employee, without regard to whether it was an actual probationary employment, or if they jsut got a promotion and said promotion was probationary(not to mention firing half the nuclear stockpile techs)...

In regards to that, a slightly different perspective, with a good reminder: Additionally, I found a lengthier summary (from a WaPo article, I know, but it does give more detail): The article: https://archive.is/5VOi0

From the article. Unless I'm missing something from the actual executive order, this is about regulations not the actual laws. This is NOT him saying he makes all the alws. This is about how the laws get enforced. I think this might have been explained before, but my dad worked for the EPA...

Really stepping to to the courts and Congress and saying "Make me." now isn't he? *edit* Just read the article, it sounds like it's mroe about the regulations to enforce the law than the laws themselves. Good luck to that AG if he's now going to write all teh regulations himself because he's...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/18/congress/chuck-grassley-musk-doge-trump-00204687

Welp, they followed through and actually did have that meeting about Ukraine without Ukraine: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ukraine-ready-carved-up-trump-34700823

I'd wondered what was happening to the previous USDS employees with the DOGE rebranding. Looks like they were still there, but are getting booted gradually: https://federate.social/@jik/114005723895706351

This was from a Cleveland, OH area YMCA Also the FAA stuff is more than just traffic controllers: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charles-spitzer-stadtlander-jd-mpa-9b018b25_urgent-national-security-threat-i-work-activity-7296973991716499456-31eV Make sure your antidepressants are stocked up...

MapQuest released a tool where you can make up names for the Gulf of Mexico: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/