<p>How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse<br>—</p><p>While investigative journalists immerse themselves in minutiae to identify waste and fraud, Elon Musk’s team has taken a chainsaw approach to spending based on cursory examinations. That might help explain some of their well-publicized stumbles, our editor-in-chief writes.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-government-waste-fraud-approach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/doge-government-waste-fraud-approach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dog</span><span class="invisible">e-government-waste-fraud-approach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#Fraud</a></p>
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<p>When you've lost Joe Rogan...</p><p>Joe Rogan breaks with Trump, calling Venezuelan deportations ‘horrific’<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-joe-rogan-deportations" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-joe-rogan-deportations"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/us-news/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/02/trump-joe-rogan-deportations</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/presidentbystander/" rel="tag">#PresidentBystander</a> <a href="/tags/signalgate/" rel="tag">#Signalgate</a> <a href="/tags/whiskeyleaks/" rel="tag">#WhiskeyLeaks</a> <a href="/tags/endtrump/" rel="tag">#EndTrump</a> <a href="/tags/endmusk/" rel="tag">#EndMusk</a> <a href="/tags/agentkrasnov/" rel="tag">#AgentKrasnov</a> <a href="/tags/republicansownthis/" rel="tag">#RepublicansOwnThis</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/gopkakistocracy/" rel="tag">#GOPKakistocracy</a> <a href="/tags/norepublicanseveragain/" rel="tag">#NoRepublicansEverAgain</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a></p>
<p>A federal Judge Denise Cote in NY rejected the <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin’s effort to dismiss lawsuit alleging <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> directed a massive breach of <a href="/tags/opm/" rel="tag">#OPM</a> data affecting millions of people.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#InfoSec</a> <a href="/tags/nationalsecurity/" rel="tag">#NationalSecurity</a> <br><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.72.0.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.72.0.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.72.0.pdf</span></a></p>
<p>"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."</p><p>— Howard Zinn</p><p><a href="https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.howardzinn.org/collection/</span><span class="invisible">a-marvelous-victory/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/howardzinn/" rel="tag">#HowardZinn</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#Resist</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a></p>
<p>Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.<br>—</p><p>The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-cuts-forest-service-firefighting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-cuts-forest-service-firefighting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-doge-cuts-forest-service-firefighting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/wildfire/" rel="tag">#Wildfire</a> <a href="/tags/forest/" rel="tag">#Forest</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>
<p>Two Months After Trump’s Funding Cuts, a Nonprofit Struggles to Support Refugees and Itself<br>—</p><p>After the Trump administration cut its funding, a Nashville nonprofit is fighting to provide refugees with the support it promised, despite contending with depleted resources, layoffs and disillusionment.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/refugees-funding-cuts-nashville?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/refugees-funding-cuts-nashville?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ref</span><span class="invisible">ugees-funding-cuts-nashville?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/refugees/" rel="tag">#Refugees</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#Nonprofit</a> <a href="/tags/nashville/" rel="tag">#Nashville</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/aid/" rel="tag">#Aid</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin overrode <a href="/tags/socialsecurity/" rel="tag">#SocialSecurity</a> staff to list immigrants as dead<br>
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/politic</span><span class="invisible">s/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/whistleblower/" rel="tag">#Whistleblower</a> details how <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> may have taken sensitive <a href="/tags/nlrb/" rel="tag">#NLRB</a> data</p><p>In the first days of March, a team of advisers from <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>'s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.</p><p>The small, independent federal agency investigates & adjudicates complaints about unfair <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> practices.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#InfoSec</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/nationalsecurity/" rel="tag">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5</span><span class="invisible">355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security</span></a></p>
<p>UPDATE: We've added 11 more names to our DOGE tracker, bringing the total to 77 staffers affiliated with Musk.</p><p>Plus, you can now filter our database by federal agency. Check it out ⤵️ <br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/elon-m</span><span class="invisible">usk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More<br>—</p><p>By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a></p>
<p>When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.</p><p>Trump laid off nearly all of them.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-cuts-firefighter-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/fire/" rel="tag">#Fire</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/deaths/" rel="tag">#Deaths</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/hhs/" rel="tag">#HHS</a></p>
<p>The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs.<br>—</p><p>DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations have severely hampered the agency as the nation enters the peak of fire season, with more than 1 million acres burning across 10 Western states.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-staff-fire-season?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-staff-fire-season?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/for</span><span class="invisible">est-service-staff-fire-season?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/wildfires/" rel="tag">#Wildfires</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/forest/" rel="tag">#Forest</a> <a href="/tags/fire/" rel="tag">#Fire</a></p>
<p>"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."</p><p>— Howard Zinn</p><p>Full text: <a href="https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.howardzinn.org/collection/</span><span class="invisible">a-marvelous-victory/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/howardzinn/" rel="tag">#HowardZinn</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#Resist</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a></p>
<p>Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/vet</span><span class="invisible">erans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/veterans/" rel="tag">#Veterans</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a></p>
<p>On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> staffer and college dropout.</p><p>On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.</p><p>This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the <a href="/tags/taliban/" rel="tag">#Taliban</a> took his family. 🧵</p>
<p>“DOGE's actions were taken ‘under the authority of SSA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Aram Moghaddassi’ who said, ‘I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation and I accept all risks associated with this implementation and operation.’”</p><p>( …*business* need?!?)</p><p>1🧵<br><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/mythoughts/" rel="tag">#MyThoughts</a><br>—</p><p>~ <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system~</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/doge-accused-of-copying-entire-social-security-database-to-insecure-cloud-system/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/doge-accused-of-copying-entire-social-security-database-to-insecure-cloud-system/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/08/doge-accused-of-copying-entire-social-security-database-to-insecure-cloud-system/</span></a></p>
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<p>Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ins</span><span class="invisible">ide-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/socialsecurity/" rel="tag">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.</p><p>One of our most-read investigations of 2025: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ins</span><span class="invisible">ide-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/socialsecurity/" rel="tag">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a></p>
<p>Elon Musk was the face of DOGE, but records show that Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, played a key role in guiding DOGE behind the scenes.</p><p>Tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET, head to Reddit to ask our reporter Andy Kroll about Vought’s influence over the Trump presidency: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1o8zj92/im_andy_kroll_a_propublica_reporter_i_just/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1o8zj92/im_andy_kroll_a_propublica_reporter_i_just/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comme</span><span class="invisible">nts/1o8zj92/im_andy_kroll_a_propublica_reporter_i_just/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/russellvought/" rel="tag">#RussellVought</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/whitehouse/" rel="tag">#WhiteHouse</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/reddit/" rel="tag">#Reddit</a></p>
<p>"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."</p><p>— Howard Zinn</p><p>Full text: <a href="https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.howardzinn.org/collection/</span><span class="invisible">a-marvelous-victory/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/howardzinn/" rel="tag">#HowardZinn</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#Resist</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/antifa/" rel="tag">#Antifa</a> <a href="/tags/vote/" rel="tag">#Vote</a></p>
<p>I've been here since the 2022 Great Twitter Exodus, and I've apparently never posted an <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a>, so…<br>I'm a <a href="/tags/genx/" rel="tag">#GenX</a> techie who's lived in <a href="/tags/boston/" rel="tag">#Boston</a> since the late 80's.<br>My 15 minutes of fame were being fired by <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> from <a href="/tags/usds/" rel="tag">#USDS</a> early in 2025 and sounding the alarm in every media outlet that'd listen since nobody else was doing it. I'm not a fan of limelight, so I stopped when others took up the baton.<br>My politics are aggressively progressive and antifascist, and I post about them a lot.<br>(1/2)</p>
<p>To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nuclear/" rel="tag">#Nuclear</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>