slammed the door on them and brought DOGErs in to pee on the rugs?
President Trump has fired heads of offices and agencies tasked, since Watergate, with protecting federal workers and whistleblowers. Scott Pelley reports on what’s happening to independent watchdogs.
Attribution: Trump, Musk drive the bullDOGEr by John Cole, Tennessee | Lookout, TennesseeLookout.com
What Do Firings of DoD and VA Inspectors General Mean for Military Whistleblowers? | Military.com
That 60 Minutes report was so telling about what Trump/DOGE are really doing — seizing absolute power, not saving money.
New York Times video team also did a good job on this. NYT: “President Trump has sworn to root out corruption within the government, yet one of his first acts was to fire over a dozen independent watchdogs who did exactly that. We spoke to seven of them”
craig, thanks for adding the NYT version. much better, tougher and to the point.
blowing off the whistle-blowers, blowing up the CFPB, curtailing press access and dismantling the FBI all hint to an open season for looting the nation’s treasury and trust throughout the country.
in other news
BBC Musk and Rubio spar with Polish minister over Ukraine’s use of Starlink
Now it’s fascist-captured law firms…
Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fear-of-trump-has-elite-law-firms-in-retreat-6f251dec?st=n6q2Lf
Across the network, CBS is not letting Dodo’s shit get by unchallenged. ✔️
Made an 18 second promo for my cooking channel..
https://shorturl.at/CdBQ0
Tesla stock plummetting
Two takes on Social Security: Are they gumming up the works so folks will be OKish with privatizing it, or are they just looting it?
today’s meme…
The people are speaking
https://www.newsweek.com/mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrest-palestinian-petition-2042067
“Columbia University, which recently published a new protocol on its plans to cooperate with ICE, has targeted Khalil for his Palestinian identity and outspoken activism on multiple occasions over the last 17 months,” the petition reads.
“Khalil completed his graduate studies at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in December 2024.”
“At about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, plainclothes officers reportedly approached Mahmoud Khalil and his wife, who is eight months pregnant and a U.S. citizen, at their home in a university-owned building.”
“The agents informed the couple that the State Department had revoked Khalil’s student visa, which they cited as the reason for his detention. Khalil, a green card holder and lawful permanent resident, was reportedly told by officers that his permanent resident status was also being revoked. His lawyer confirmed the exchange to Newsweek.”
“According to ICE’s inmate locator website, Khalil is in LaSalle Detention Center in Louisiana.”
“In an interview with the Associated Press last week, Khalil stated he faced “around 13 allegations,” many related to social media posts he claimed no involvement in. These allegations, stemming from Columbia’s newly established Office of Institutional Equity, accuse him of organizing events linked to support for Palestinians. One of the allegations specifically involves accusations of promoting Hamas’ October 7 attack.”
“Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-driven “Catch and Revoke” initiative to cancel the visas of foreign nationals suspected of supporting Hamas or other designated terrorist organizations, according to senior State Department officials who spoke with Axios.”
“Last night ICE agents wrongfully arrested Mahmoud Khalil, claiming his student visa was revoked – even though Mahmoud is legal permanent resident (green card) and not in the U.S. on a student visa. Confronted with that fact, the ICE agents detained him anyway. Overnight we filed a habeas corpus petition on Mahmoud’s behalf challenging the validity of his arrest and detention. Currently, we do not know Mahmoud’s precise whereabouts. Initially, we were informed this morning that he had been transferred to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. However, when his wife – a U.S. citizen who is eight months’ pregnant and was threatened with arrest as well by the ICE agents last night – tried to visit him there today, she was told he is not detained there. We have subsequently received reports that Mahmoud may be transferred as far away as Louisiana.”
Looks like tRUMPutin will be “disappearing”
folks just like they did back in the USSR. Russia did reboot which included poison and defenestration. Guess the US is going old school.
If Joe hadn’t produced such a great economy, it wouldn’t be lower now. It’s all Joe’s fault.
Trump Recession
“Joe Rogan Claims Elon Musk Knew Donald Trump Won ‘4 Hours’ Prior To Official Results Through His App”
“As per, the UFC commentator, he was getting different figures whenever he checked for updates and as it turns out, Musk had a special app which fed him precise numbers of votes ahead of time.”
App? Elon’s not smart enough yo build an app. Did this app count flipped votes?
https://lamag.com/news-and-politics/trump-claims-rigged-election-during-fifa-world-cup-announcement
“During the Oval Office signing event, Trump veered from soccer talk to politics when reflecting on how the United States secured hosting rights during his first administration. “When we made this, it was made during my term, my first term, and it was so sad because I said, can you imagine, I’m not going to be President, and that’s too bad,” Trump said. “And what happened is they rigged the election and I became President, so that was a good thing.”
Something interesting is happening at the twit site, it is having a lot of down time. Considering how bullet proof it was just a few years ago, today is showing that is not longer how it operates. As much as good people do not like or want it, it is still important for many as a source of communication. muskovite does watch and respond on it all the time, so this should be a fun watch today.
https://popcrush.com/elon-musk-son-spacex-whatever-we-want/
“On Tuesday (Feb. 11), Musk, with his and his singer ex Grimes‘ 4-year-old son in tow, appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, where Musk defended DOGE’s federal takeover.
During the meeting, little X was caught on a hot mic seemingly telling Trump to “shut [his] mouth” as well as appearing to declare, “You’re not the president, you need to go away,” between picking his nose near the Resolute desk and interrupting his billionaire daddy.”
“Back on Nov. 5, 2025, Musk was interviewed on right-wing political commentator and conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson’s election night livestream from Mar-a-Lago. During the chat, Musk asked X, “Should we help President Trump [win the election]?” to which the child enthusiastically responded, “Yeah!”
“Straight from the mouth of babes,” Musk replied, proudly. Then, after some gibberish, Musk’s son grabbed his dad’s mic and said, “We’re in SpaceX and we quietly do just whatever we want,” before breaking out into maniacal giggles.”
Elon’s human shield also repeatedly said, “They’ll never know.” Little pitchers have big ears.
Wonder if the kid will spill more when he gets too big to be carted around as Elon’s human shield?
He’s in the treasury, what’s he care about a stupid car company or social media or space stuff…….small potatoes.
Like foreign media pretty much everywhere Israeli press not impressed with Trump circus.. “Hamas leaders must be laughing in disbelief” https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-adam-boehler-trumps-complacent-confused-and-dangerously-naive-hostage-envoy/
Electing a Dumbass has consequences
The entire Cabinet is a Goon Squad.
They are all little puppets with one fat Pinocchio and Putin Puppet master pullings all the strings.
https://southeast.newschannelnebraska.com/story/52504925/nebraska-farmers-network-to-host-meeting-on-land-ownership-and-business-strategies
“Gabe Sanchez, founder of Nebraska Farmers Network, says the organization was created to help keep Nebraska land in the hands of local farmers and ranchers. “We’re sick and tired of the roller coaster ride of good years and bad years in agriculture.”
*Congrats! It’s all bad years from now on!
“And we’re just going to take a different approach—it all starts with the land,” said Sanchez. “We’re seeing out-of-state billionaires, private equity groups, even foreign entities buying up farmland, making it harder for local producers to compete.”
*Like the JD Vance-funded AcreTrader? Again, congrats! They will own most or all of your land. Indentured servitude or sharecropping, call it what you will. FO phase of the FA.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-mark-kelly-ukraine_n_67cf15f2e4b04dd3a4e5893
“Tech billionaire Elon Musk accused Sen. Mark Kelly of betraying his country after the Arizona Democrat visited Ukraine over the weekend and urged the U.S. to stand with Ukrainians against continued Russian aggression.”
“Kelly, a former U.S. Navy combat pilot and astronaut, urged the U.S. not to abandon Ukraine after his third visit to the country since 2023.”
“You are a traitor,” Musk told the senator on Monday.”
OK, when is the military going to get tired of draft dodgers like tRUMPsky and MuskRat, and see that their compatriots are being fired from government jobs, and that all of the benefits promised are drying up…and coup the coupers?
I stand with Ukraine, Canada, and the rest of the free world of which the US is no longer a part.
Pray tell, how can one be a traitor to one’s country when that country has been hijacked by a traitor posing as a naturalized citizen❓
Trump and Elon probably calculate they can make a Bitcoin fortune in a recession, especially if they dethrone the dollar.
https://www.10news.com/like-a-horror-movie-german-tourist-detained-by-ice-says-she-spent-week-in-solitary-confinement
“Like a horror movie’: German tourist detained by ICE says she spent week in solitary confinementGerman consulate working to get tattoo artist released”
“A German tourist is fighting to get released from an immigration detention center after she was denied entry at the San Diego border and taken into custody by ICE last month.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained the German tattoo artist after she tried to enter San Diego on January 25th from Tijuana with her American best friend. The two were traveling with tattoo equipment.
“I’m like, can you send her to Mexico? They’re like, no, she has no legal residency. We’re going to deport her to Germany. She’s going to call you in three to five days,” said Nikita Lofving, who lives in Los Angeles and was walking across the border with Brösche.
As the two presented for inspection, Lofving said a customs officer flagged an issue with Brösche, who was entering the U.S. with the ESTA visa waiver program.
Finally, after two hours, I get a call from Jessica … saying, ‘Hey, they’re accusing me of working the last time I came on my ESTA and they’re going to deport me to Germany.”’
Brösche told Team 10 she spent days detained in a cell at the San Diego border before being taken into custody by ICE. The agency then brought her to the Otay Mesa Detention Center where she’s now been for over a month.
She said she spent eight brutal days in solitary confinement in the facility. “It was horrible. Like it’s really horrible,” she told Team 10 Investigative Reporter Austin Grabish, in a phone interview.”
Lofving tried to get help from the German consulate in Los Angeles and said she felt hopeless as her friend sat in isolation without a blanket or pillow.
“She says it was like a horror movie. They were screaming in all different rooms. After nine days, she said she went so insane that she started punching the walls and then she’s got blood on her knuckles,” Lofving said.
Staff at the private detention facility then brought in a psychologist, Lofving said.
“This psychologist tries to prescribe her anti-psychotic medicine. She refuses the medicine. “She says, ‘I don’t want medicine. I just want to either get deported and go home, or just not be in a room alone because this is not cool.’”
ICE will even go after after a blonde tourist. Do not come to the US. It’s not safe here!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus
“US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms”
“Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia”
“The group also pointed to the administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, and the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to control media access to presidential briefings, among others.”
“Civicus described Trump’s actions since taking office as an “unparalleled attack on the rule of law” not seen “since the days of McCarthyism in the twentieth century”, stating that these moves erode the checks and balances essential to democracy.
“Restrictive executive orders, unjustifiable institutional cutbacks, and intimidation tactics through threatening pronouncements by senior officials in the administration are creating an atmosphere to chill democratic dissent, a cherished American ideal,” Tiwana said.”
Bid,
Elon’s little hackers did it I’d be willing to bet.
Dodo doesn’t care about the U.S. stock market. His money is invested in Putin.
And vice versa.
Dodo won’t be the first king to throw over the veterans who are no longer fit to fight.
Dodo is President in Name Only. PINO.
Dodo talks out his ass.
Doing Cold Pan Salmon tonight..
So, Musk was asking the Anonymous hackers how he could be a part of their group…and they’ve been hacking X all day? LoL!
So is there a DODO EO that exempts from indiscriminate firings VA folks who treat bone spurs?
I sent your you tube to another lazy man who never admits he’s lazy.*
*not really “lazy,” just too busy with other stuff to close drawers and shut off lights.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-congress-political-violence?
Maybe the Repugz are scared, but I doubt it. After all, Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Bernie, Mark Kelly, Elizabeth Warren, and others have had the steel to speak out against tRUMPutin.
No, I think they were promised something, especially the Repug Senators who dined at the Kremlin SW in early Feb.
Perhaps a carrot and a stick, but if they don’t stand up and defend the US, their word and oath means nothing. Will tRUMPutin give them everlasting power or a never-ending supply of magic beans? Nope. Hell roll them just like everyone else he’s ever encountered.
Dems need to step the eff up, too, or stand aside and let Jasmine, AOC, and the few others take the lead.
Decorum is no more.
Decorum is now a weapon against democracy, which is why MAGAt Mike Johnson said Congress members needed to observe decorum.
Ivy, I’m assuming that’s Mr. Ivy. I would never get anything sent to lazy people who deny (rather than profess) their laziness. I wear it as a badge of honor.
My family member became a citizen today. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The stock market is more sociology and less economics. Both are “soft science.”
https://www.newsweek.com/marco-rubios-stature-rising-he-tackles-war-ukraine-canada-relations-2042539
“…Rubio told reporters that the talks with Ukrainian officials were intended to establish the country’s willingness to strike a peace deal.
“We want to listen to see how far they’re willing to go, and compare that to what the Russians want, and then see how far apart we truly are,” Rubio said.
What a wrongheaded headline. Rubio is just another effing cuck who sold his soul to tRUMP. Fifth in line to Orange Adolf’s kingdom of sh/t.
Congrats to your family member, Ivy.
Right now, tRUMPutin is employing soft fascism to see how far they can go.
Rooting for the Anonymous group to handle Elon and his DOGE hackers (why is a 19-year old advising the State Department, and more importantly, why is nobody stopping him?), and tell all media (all media, so it can’t be hidden or distorted) what malware/spyware has been installed in our servers.
Rooting for Canada, the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, Western Europe, South Korea, and Japan yo band together and out maneuver tRUMPutin.
Rooting for anyone who decides that upholding their oath to the US Constitution is the most important thing they can do now.
Rooting for lightening or Luigis or LDL cholesterol.
Thanks, BID. We are proud and relieved. Were worried when the first test time got cancelled for Jimmy’s funeral and the reschedule was after inauguration. But it’s done now. All good.
My gift to them was this, Amazon, of course, China, no doubt. They loved it.
Pogeaux, I think it may go back to a childhood psychology thing that’s best for me to refrain from in-depth analysis.
The only problem with crypto currency is the Crypto Keeper.
https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-amplifies-no-lgbtq-symbol-using-nazi-era-imagery-in-military-ad-post
“Trump posted an article to his Truth Social account this weekend featuring a deeply troubling image: a pink triangle—the Nazi-era symbol used to identify and persecute gay men in concentration camps—covered with a red prohibited sign.”
”Historically, the LGBTQ+ rights movement reclaimed the pink triangle as a symbol of resistance, pride, and remembrance.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-green-card-columbia-university/story?id=119616144
“Judge blocks removal of Palestinian activist who was detained at Columbia University”
“Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Columbia University over the weekend, despite having a green card, his attorney told ABC News, sparking an outcry from civil rights groups. His attorneys subsequently filed a habeas corpus petition challenging his arrest.”
“ICE agents arrested Khalil — a leader in the Manhattan university’s encampment movement — on Saturday night, claiming that his student visa had been revoked, his attorney, Amy Greer, said in a statement to ABC News.”
“Greer also hinted that some of the administration’s comments about Khalil, including President Trump’s social media posts, may be used by Khalil’s legal team to argue for his release.”
“President Donald Trump claimed Khalil was a “Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student” and said this is the “first arrest of many to come” in a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday. “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again,” he added.
I’m much more concerned about the “radical foreigner” raiding our data in an attempt to raid our coffers of every last dime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/rodrigo-duterte-arrest-manila-former-philippines-president-war-on-drugs-ntwnfb
“The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been taken into custody after the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest for his so-called “war on drugs”.
“Since his election, between 12,000 and 30,000 civilians are estimated to have been killed in connection with anti-drugs operations, according to data cited by the ICC. Most of the victims were men from poor, urban areas, shot dead in the streets by police officers or unidentified assailants.”
“The ICC’s investigation into the anti-drugs killings covers alleged crimes committed from November 2011 to June 2016, including a wave of extrajudicial killings in Davao City, where Duterte was previously mayor, as well as across the country during his presidency up until 16 March 16 2019, when the Philippines withdrew from the court.”
The thing about uppances is that they do come eventually.
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