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Monday, March 03, 2025

On February 26, President Trump issued an executive order expanding the power of the United States DOGE Service (DOGE), the government initiative controlled by Elon Musk.

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There's no point to Donald's behavior beyond destruction for destruction's sake.

There is hardly and American who has not been hit hard by cancer of Alzheimer's. directly or indirectly.

He is making everyone suffer. To include those who will come to defend this behavior.

Madness.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-03 11:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Burn It All Down.
--Republicans

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-03 05:59 PM | Reply

Stupid is as stupid does:

Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much:

A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls "Woke."

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like "female" and "diversify." A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls "woke."

www.propublica.org

#3 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-03 06:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Source: Popular Disinformation"

"I am a progressive, and you'll find my outlook reflected in Popular Information's reporting"

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-04 05:22 PM | Reply

4 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Got cancer much?

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-04 06:38 PM | Reply

We have got to speak lies to his truth!
~IYKYK

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-04 07:14 PM | Reply


Burn It All Down.
--Republicans

#2 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

I keep seeing this, but what is ALL, be specific? This is just like any other company controlling its spending when times are tough.

So explain to me how Google is "burning it all down" with similar policies?

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-04 07:16 PM | Reply

- just like any other company

This isn't a company, it's a Government. It's creators and benificiares aren't stockholders and Board, but is We the People, not some Authoritarian Corporate Board.

Cutting investment in social programs for the People to continue wholly unnecessary (because Trickle Down doesn't, never has) tax cuts for people and corporations who don't need them to survive, as do the People they want to get rid of.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-04 07:26 PM | Reply

More from the cited article ...

... On February 26, President Trump issued an executive order expanding the power of the United States DOGE Service (DOGE), the government initiative controlled by Elon Musk. The purpose of the order is to limit any spending not specifically approved by one of Musk's associates working for DOGE.

One provision of the February 26 executive order that has received little attention is a 30-day freeze of all government credit cards. The credit card freeze has brought critical research, including research about cures and treatments for cancer and Alzheimer's, to a halt, according to an NIH source with direct knowledge.

The credit card freeze allows for "operations or other critical services as determined by the Agency Head, and subject to such additional individualized or categorical exceptions as the Agency Head, in consultation with the agency's DOGE Team Lead, deems appropriate."

But, according to the NIH source, there has been no categorical exception for the intramural research being done on NIH's Bethesda campus and other locations. The result is that most of this scientific research has stopped. ...


#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-04 07:32 PM | Reply

@#9 ... But, according to the NIH source, there has been no categorical exception for the intramural research being done on NIH's Bethesda campus and other locations. The result is that most of this scientific research has stopped. ...

Like the time when Mr Musk was in the Oval Office and said that DOGE made a mistake about ceasing Ebola funding, but quickly corrected the mistake by restoring the funding. Even though he did not seem to restore the funding.

Or USAID funding being restored to deliver food to starving/dying children. But the food was delivered only to docks and distant warehouses. The actual delivery of the food to those starving/dying children was still ceased, resulting in the food rotting on the docks and in the warehouses.


Like that?

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-04 07:36 PM | Reply

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