Sam Stein

NEW: It appears people are signing up Trump's DEI snitch email to, well, everything. Bunch of NGOs said the address appeared on their distros. Other folks say they're sending it porn, the Bee Movie script, and tales of unqualified white employees

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Trump’s DEI Snitch Email Is Being Targeted by Spammers

Various NGOs reported seeing the address added to their email lists. But they don’t think it’s Orwellian. They think it’s a prank.

NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt.

But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later.

Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out.

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He Took Musk’s Resignation Offer. He Was Fired Anyway.

Scott Curtis served in the military and had a leadership role in a critical agency. He says he still was kicked “to the curb” by Trump and Musk.

Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out

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The Speaker of the House, 2nd in line of presidential succession, grovelling with leaders of a fake government entity to get them to not torpedo a government funding bill

Several NIH people have now told me they believe DOGE folks are jumping on their Zoom orientation and high-level calls. They don't put their cameras on and don't ID themselves.

If you have intel on this, i'm at asteinindc.09 on signal

Two parties running at different speeds.

Senate Dems are holding a press conference today to condemn the pardoning of J6ers. That was done a week ago.

Unclear if there is a presser today to go after the OMB's power play to take over all federal grant money.

The breadth of these executive orders makes me wonder if Republicans (or GOP leaning law firms, conservative colleges, GOP states with certain voting laws) can't imagine a future in which Dems regain the White House and just do their version of this stuff. Or maybe they assume no more elections?

The Dem 2026 messaging seems, at this point, pretty damn simple. Donald Trump is running a protection racket for the elites.

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Democrats’ 2026 Rallying Cry Is Staring Them in the Face

Plus: The big difference in where money for the midterms is going so far.

The incoming FBI Director is already issuing legal threats for TV commentary. this is outreagoues and ominous

"If you committed violence on that day [Jan. 6] obviously you shouldn't be pardoned. And there is a little bit of gray area there." -- JD Vance, eight days ago.

Trump pardoned basically all of them tonight

Weird that the Biden administration hasn't used the weather control operations that Marjorie Taylor Greene said it deployed to flood western North Carolina in order to put out the fires in California.

BREAKING: 500 associates and staffers at a top global law firm have written leadership begging it not to settle with Donald Trump

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An Uprising at a Big Law Firm Targeted by Trump

Hundreds of associates at A&O Shearman have openly put their names on a letter pleading with leadership not to settle.

yeah. this is just giving up the game:

1. keep folks only on his site
2. get people to offer their reporting to him for free
3. reward folks who aggregate reporting (and do so w/ minimum crediting).

It's a shitty user experience. It also should incentivize reporters/outlets to move elsewhere

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social

Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free

NEW -- In the span of one month we may just witnessed a generational blow to science in America. The DOGE-induced brain drain has very much begun

my latest at The Bulwark

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The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun

It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.

NEW: Major MAJOR issues being reported in Medicaid portal access. Federal $ that states use to supplement their Medicaid expenses is NO LONGER accessible. Fears mopunting that states will very soon not be able to pay providers, miss payroll, etc... Ironically, red states will be hit hardest.

Does it feel weird to Trump to be serving in Elon Musk's administration?

If you're working in government or the with a group that deals with the government and have been interacting with DOGE or facing federal funding questions, please drop me a line. Email in profile. can send you signal contact if you reach out

The source of the Patel/Grassley report alleging a Chinese plot to steal the election for Biden appears to have gotten intel from a Facebook rumor and had a sub-source who said China was building underground bases in Republican states to disperse COVID

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You’ll Never Believe Where Kash Patel’s Election Fraud Bombshell Came From

Scouring the swamps to smear his predecessor.

If DEI is to blame for the crash (common sense, says Trump) then should we feel any confidence to fly right now? Or did they fix the DEI thing between last night and this morning?

This is definitely a first for me. A SENIOR official in the White House publicly declaring that the president's big announcement from the day prior is kind of a ruse

Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."

They're now cancelling key meetings at the NIH to give the green light for future cancer research

Trump’s Plane Crash Response Is as Cheap as You’d Expect

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Trump’s Plane Crash Response Is as Cheap as You’d Expect

Why would a complete lack of evidence get in the way of a good scapegoat?