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Some of them are starting to step up, even in small ways: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-sen-brian-schatz-puts-hold-trumps-state-department-nominees-rcna190470

And there goes another one: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/bessent-pauses-cfpb-litigation-new-rules-as-he-takes-the-reins Might as well get your popcorn ready for when he gets to Social Security and Medicare.

And speaking of using the ability to write checks to usurp Congress: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/musk-says-doge-halting-treasury-payments-to-us-contractors/ar-AA1yibZc Since embed didn't work, tl;dr is Musk is stopping payments to some existing US contractors. (Of course I bet SpaceX...

Just saw this, looks like USAID was created by Congressional legislation, so the President technically can't shutter it. https://www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-president-dissolve-usaid-by-executive-order/ On the other hand, what's the difference if all employees are fired/on permanent leave...

Titan Star Convoy preorder is back up on Pulse for anyone who missed it the first time, but it's marked "Low Stock" so I don't know for how much longer.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/stock-market-today-live-updates.html The Stock markets started to drop from the tariffs, then went back up again after Mexico announced they were paused for a month. Apparently Canada doesn't matter to the Dow, or they at least don't think he's serious...

Like I keep reminding my dad(who basically said "That'll get challenged in the courts" about the Canada tariffs), going through the courts takes time, and is far slower than the rate they can do these things, and doesn't stop the immediate effects. Everything they're doing is basically going to...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/114043

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113940292740491577 Next question: was it extablished by executive order or congressional legislature recently? If the latter, this is definitely illegal. If the former, then it's only illegal until trump pens yet another EO revoking the original EO. Not...

The checks and balances between legislative, executive, and judicial houses, as designed, all assume those houses would never all be controlled by the same people at once. And none of them were ever designed to be fast. Also...

I actually had screenshots from a base of mine that used to have lighting issues so I can almost 1:1 show the improved base lighting: Old: New:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/369 And here's the bill to eliminate the federal Department of Education

My next comm was actually inspired by one of my favorite streamer's phrases(borrowed from an old song): Luck be a lady That inspired this little piece from https://www.furaffinity.net/user/nitrods/ of Jasmine at the Fortune's Wheel casino in Sigil racking up some wins at their dice tables.

https://infosec.exchange/@ozdreaming/113924781631554059 https://infosec.exchange/@ozdreaming/113924798688558122 https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/el/le/yr25ltr0131.asp

https://newrepublic.com/post/190983/top-treasury-official-quit-elon-musk-fight-payment-system https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

https://infosec.exchange/@Fringedcrow/113924419459600009

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/792 Dumbest bill I've heard of, but at least it's not something actively malicious.

Mastodon posts do embed, but it embeds like a normal webpage preview rather than like how Twitter posts do. That one might be trickier to detect for also, given the multitude of instance names out there(rather than just having to check for twitter.com or bsky.app in the URL), but it would be...

Nothing really new here, but interesting to see the perspective of someone who knew him personally before he became really well known: