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Pam Bondi is a pure evil, lying POS, like Karoline Leavitt and the rest of all those sycophants .
“America is safer because he is gone,” she said. “Maryland is safer because he is gone. And that woman that he is married to and that child he had with her, they are safer tonight because he is out of our country and sitting in El Salvador where he belongs.”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/pam-bondi-says-deported-mans-family-is-safer-tonight-because-he-is-out-of-our-country-wifes-pleas-be-damned/
#AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador
#Trump #Musk #GOP #fascism
Mediaite · Pam Bondi Says Deported Man’s Family Is ‘Safer Tonight Because He Is Out of Our Country’ ...
Chesterton Fence: Don’t Destroy What You Don’t Understand!
Whistleblower describes #DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog -
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/whistleblower_nlrb_doge/ "Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim" #musk
The Register · Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog
Time to start tracking a new hashtag #LawlessnessInAmerica
More on #DOGE’s #Fraud & #Destruction
"Musk has reduced the claims abt what DOGE is saving fr $1-2tril to $150bil. NYT reports he’s still getting the numbers wrong thru things like accounting errors & cancelling contracts tt don’t exist. What a fraud fr start to finish.. #Justice Dept is fighting vigorously to shield DOGE fr hv'g to divulge tt info, despite #Trump & #Musk’s repeated assurances abt #transparency"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/more-on-doges-fraud-and-destruction.html
naked capitalism · More on DOGE's Fraud and Destruction | naked capitalismAn update on DOGE's rampage through government operations.
When it comes to quality and safety, Elon Musk puts the ‘least’ in ‘Tesla’.
"Most modern cars have some kind of internet connection, but Tesla goes much further. By design, its cars receive "over-the-air" updates, including updates that are adverse to drivers' interests. For example, if you stop paying the monthly subscription fee that entitles you to use your battery's whole charge, Tesla will send a wireless internet command to your car to restrict your driving to only half of your battery's charge.
This means that your Tesla is designed to follow instructions that you don't want it to follow, and, by design, those instructions can fundamentally alter your car's operating characteristics. For example, if you miss a payment on your Tesla, it can lock its doors and immobilize itself, then, when the repo man arrives, it will honk its horn, flash its lights, back out of its parking spot, and unlock itself so that it can be driven away:
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Some of the ways that your Tesla can be wirelessly downgraded (like disabling your battery) are disclosed at the time of purchase. Others (like locking you out and summoning a repo man) are secret. But whether disclosed or secret, both kinds of downgrade depend on the genuinely bizarre idea that a computer that you own, that is in your possession, can be relied upon to follow orders from the internet even when you don't want it to. This is weird enough when we're talking about a set-top box that won't let you record a TV show – but when we're talking about a computer that you put your body into and race down the road at 80mph inside of, it's frankly terrifying."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite
pluralistic.netPluralistic: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs (15 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Jamez Re!nertI wonder if Musk's DOGE's real purpose is to steal peoples identities so he can fabricate future election results? #Elon #Musk #DOGE #MockElections #Elections #Democracy
"The DDS had struggled in recent years to stay at full strength, buffeted by what employees said was political infighting, hiring freezes, travel restrictions and an increasing number of bureaucratic layers. A watchdog audit released in May 2024 also found that former DDS directors had granted unauthorized waivers for certain tech tools. But every employee interviewed said they wouldn’t have left if it wasn’t for DOGE.
One former senior Pentagon official, who asked not to be named because of possible retaliation, described DOGE’s wider incursion into the Defense Department as damaging and unproductive
“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said.
At the DDS, “The best way to put it, I think, is either we die quickly or we die slowly,” Hay said."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
Musk targeted a flurry of money in late March to support Republican members of Congress who endorsed legislation to impeach judges or restrict their power, new filings revealed, bolstering his own push to punish judges who rule against the Trump administration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/16/elon-musk-campaign-donations-judges-impeach/
The Washington Post · Elon Musk focuses donations on GOP lawmakers targeting judges
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s, state news agency TASS reported.
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CET @georgetakei Like with the last election people treat this as two equal options
"Both sides have their experts"
"Both sides have corrupt politicians"
Seeing what we have seen with the #PresidentialElection2024, the #SecondTrumpAdministration, the #TradeWar2025/ #TrumpTariffs, and #DOGE, people just don't realize that, unlike in the past, there's only one real option and then there's doom. That's beyond comparison, yet they try
Man, Greg Olear can write
"The Old Guard had four full years to root out the traitors and failed to do so...a Delaware speed-trap on the I-95 to tyranny...Merrick Garland preserved his precious “norms” at the expense of the American experiment"
READ! https://www.blueamp.co/p/field-notes-from-the-second-american #news #us #politics #press #media #writing #ai #usa #america #tech #musk #trump #tv #video #podcast #tariffs #russia #stockmarket #donaldtrump #ukraine #elonmusk #europe #canada #eu
Blue Amp · Field Notes from the Second American Revolution
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@arstechnica Sorry, we are a little busy at the moment trying *not* to fund #musk or the rest of #maga and the techbro cabal.
(their ilk is apparently highly interested in the moon's far side though... 
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It's unclear why #DOGE would need #access to #NLRB files that contain personally identifiable #information to complete its *mission* of improving *efficiency*, outside of employment records for potential reductions in force. The agency publishes publicly available annual performance & accountability reports & budget justifications that former NLRB members told #NPR would likely be sufficient in looking for ways to cut costs.
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"The representatives have requested information about agency operations but asked us to remove any personally identifiable information from documents we provide," the email reads. "Consistent with the President's Executive Order & applicable laws, the Agency will comply with #DOGE's requests for access & information."