Sam Stein

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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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.

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

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

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.

It's wildly unappreciated how insanely rushed this GOP megabill is. They're making major health care policy changes through private negotiations over two weekend days with no hearings, expert analysis, or public insight.

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How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours

There’s a reason Republicans are in such a rush to get Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through Congress.

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

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 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.

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

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."

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.

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

"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

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.

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.

NEW -- We're far past the point of the actual policy mattering to the big beautiful bill. But the Medicaid work requirements so central to the deal have, in fact, been tried in states before. And it's failed miserably, writes

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The GOP’s Big Medicaid Idea Was Tried Before—And Failed Badly

Arkansas and Georgia tried work requirements, and the results were not pretty.

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: Nine months ago, Elon Musk's nascent, DOGE effort killed off a beloved pediatric cancer initiative in the govt funding fight. I circled back to see where those bills now stood. What I discovered was less scandalous but no less depressing.

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Elon Musk Torpedoed a Beloved Pediatric Cancer Bill. It’s Yet to Recover.

Sometimes, a good piece of legislation fails to become a law for one simple, stupid reason: congressional inertia.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell sent me these pics of what happened to him on Jan. 6 as well as the injuries he endured that day

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?

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.

NEW: In an email obtained by The Bulwark, the acting Social Security administrator made clear they're going to outsource-privatize operations. The expectation is it will be the call centers that seniors depend on.

w/ @cheetah.bsky.social

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Elon Is Coming for Your Social Security

Plus: Don’t call it a “State of the Union” speech.