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~How the Senate’s proposed Medicaid cuts could deepen the rural hospital crisis~

#USA #USgov #Medicaid #healthcare #RuralHealth #GOP #trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/senates-proposed-medicaid-cuts-deepen-rural-hospital-crisis-rcna213448

I read that Republicans are thinking about increasing the debt limit by $5 trillion.

I suppose they would need enough to cover the debt increase when not actually bringing in meaningful revenue or balancing the budget 😐

#USA #GOP #USGov #USeconomy #USdebt #trump #MyThoughts

House Policy Bill Would Add $3.4 Trillion to Debt, Swamping Economic Gains The updated findings from the Congressional Budget Office amounted to the latest dour report card for the president's signature legislation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/house-bill-federal-debt.html

17 June 2025 at 1607 MST

In response to a #Trump order, the Veterans Administration (#VA )has changed its bylaws & erased rules prohibiting discrimination based on ‘national origin,’ ‘politics,’ & ‘marital status’.

It also got rid of rules against staffing discrimination based on “national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, membership in a union, or affiliation with a ‘lawful political party’.”

The VA has called the changes a ‘formality’.

#USA #USGov #USpol #VeteransAffairs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/va-doctors-can-refuse-to-treat-democrats-after-donald-trump-order/

VA Doctors Can Refuse to Treat Dems After Trump Order
RECIPE FOR DISASTER L
Janna Brancolini
Published Jun. 16 2025 11:14AM EDT

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/mn-suspects-chilling-hit-list-named-70-targets-including-amy-klobuchar-ilhan-omar-abortion-providers/

MN Suspect Vance Boelter’s Chilling ‘Hit List’ Named 70 ‘Targets’ – Including Amy Klobuchar, Ilhan Omar, Abortion Providers

#Boelter #minnesota #MN #MAGA #assassin #conservative #terrorism #gop #terror #gqp #republican #violence #rightwing #extremism #christian #nationalist #natc #nazi #fascist #trump #supporter #network #fringe #religion #christianity #abortion #vance #hitlist #uspol #women #healthcare #politics #uspolitics #gov #usgov #congress #representative #house #senate

So the newest illegal bullshit in government activity
The US patent office just added a bunch of (probably illegal) non-union job postings with loyalty questions.

#USpol #USPatent #USgov

As Stephen Miller (of #Trump admin) calls for 3,000 arrests a day, the #USA is getting short on domestic detention space & looking to send immigrants to its notorious Guantanamo prison in Cuba.

“Some 800 Europeans — including one Austrian, 100 Romanians & 170 Russians — are being considered” for transfer…

~”The message is to shock, horrify & upset people,” said one State Dept. official familiar w/ the plan.

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#USgov #StephenMiller #immigration #deportation #ICE
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/trump-plans-migrants-guantanamo-bay-00396673

Image of a U.S. military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, showing security features like barbed wire and a watchtower. A military officer is walking near the entrance of Camp VI, and a sign indicates the camp's designation.

POLITICO
EXCLUSIVE
Trump team plans to send thousands of migrants to Guantanamo starting as soon as this week
The use of the facility would send another signal of deterrence amid immigration crackdown.

Image caption: A military officer walks from the entrance to Camp VI at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" on June 25, 2013, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The facility is now being used to house undocumented immigrants. | Joe

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/trump-plans-migrants-guantanamo-bay-00396673

Accessed: 12 June 2025 at 0243 PST

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Okay— so make that 50% of the new vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) is anti-vaccine in some way.

MIT management professor (yes— a management professor on the #CDC’s “expert” vaccine evaluation panel) Retsef Levi “called for Covid-19 #vaccines to be withdrawn from the market in a 2023 video.”

Also, #rfkjr said “the new panel would review not just new #vaccine recommendations, but existing ones as well.”

#USA #Trump #USGov #PublicHealth #health #healthcare #ACIP

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/rfk-jr-names-eight-vaccine-panel-replacements-including-covid-shot-skeptics-9a7d2d54

Is that 19-year-old hacker nicknamed “Big Balls” who is connected to Musk’s companies sill in the US gov’t with #DOGE ?

Yes— in fact, amid all the firings of career civil servants, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine and two fellow DOGE-ians landed permanent positions with sweet salaries and “access to the inner workings of critical government agencies.”

#USA #USGov #trump #privacy #ThanksTruml

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-balls-other-musk-doge-191526195.html

Some of Musk’s top DOGE lieutenants connected to his companies were hired for full-time roles drawing large salaries. Among them: Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, Luke Farritor, and Ethan Shaotran, who have had unprecedented access to the inner workings of critical government agencies.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-balls-other-musk-doge-191526195.html

Accessed: 9 June 2025 at 1430 MST

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The SCOTUS ruling letting DOGE access sensitive Social Security data comes after a US district judge ruled that DOGE could have unfettered access to US Treasury systems.

#USA #USGov #trump #musk #DOGE

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-allows-doge-access-sensitive-treasury-payment-systems/story?id=122261449

That checks in this kakistocracy.

#USA #USGov

~ Acting head of FEMA said he wasn't aware U.S. has a hurricane season, sources say ~

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-head-wasnt-aware-hurricane-season/

no Dr. Oz.

You prove you matter.

...in fact, hows about the #USGov prove to #thepeople IT matters....after all that IS what its supposed2do.....

#USGov confirms #FEDS did detain govt employee and deputy US Marshal in #Tucson #ICE Raids seekimg to deport illegal immigrants...

oops #brownshits decided he was brown!

https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_2573f016-3596-4f32-93f7-7e99b6459675.html

(cont.)

One thing I will say:

Musk legitimately seems to be against Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” and seems to be trying to influence Trump about it.

Musk also has the upper hand despite Trump’s “threatening” comments about pulling Musk’s government contracts—

as evidenced by the fact that Trump hasn’t called Musk any “nicknames”
(has he?).

#USPol #USGov #musk #trump

Interesting tidbit:

Did you know that Palantir was founded in 2003 and partially funded by Q-Tel, the U.S. CIA’s (not-for-profit) venture capital firm?

#USA #USGov #thiel #palantir #karp

~ Alex Karp (the head of Palantir) Has Money and Power. So What Does He Want? ~
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.html

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

Palantir was founded in 2003 by a gang of five, including Karp and his old Stanford Law School classmate Peter Thiel (now the company's chairman). It was backed, in part, by nearly $2 million from In-Q-Tel, the C.I.A.'s venture capital arm.
"Saving lives and on occasion taking lives is super interesting," Mr. Karp told me.
He described what his company does as
"the finding of hidden things" - sifting through mountains of data to perceive patterns, including patterns of suspicious or aberrant behavior.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.html

Accessed: 5 June 2025 at 1340 PST

~ Some D.H.S. officials exchanged emails with #DOGE officials in February about merging some Social Security information with records kept by immigration officials…

Palantir representatives have also held talks with the Social Security Administration and the Department of Education to use the company's technology to organize the agencies' data, according to two Palantir employees and officials in those agencies.

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#USA #USgov #trump #privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Image caption: Palantir has talked with the Social Security Administration about using the company's technology to organize the agency's data. Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

The goal of uniting data on Americans has been quietly discussed by Palantir engineers, employees said, adding that they were worried about collecting so much sensitive information in one place.
The company's security practices are only as good as the people using them, they said. They characterized some
DOGE employees as sloppy on security, such as not following protocols in how personal devices were used.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Accessed: 5 June 2025 at 1342 MST

Ms. Xia said Palantir employees were increasingly worried about reputational damage to the company because of its work with the Trump administration.
There is growing debate within the company about its federal contracts, she said.
"Current employees are discussing the implications of their work and raising questions internally," she said, adding that some employees have left after disagreements over the company's work with the Trump administration.
Last week, a Palantir strategist, Brianna Katherine Martin, posted on LinkedIn that she was departing the company because of its expanded work with ICE.
"For most of my time here, I found the way that Palantir grappled with the weight of our capabilities to be refreshing, transparent and conscionable," she wrote. "This has changed for me over the past few months. For me, this is a red line I won't redraw."
Alexandra Berzon, Hamed Aleaziz and Tara Siegel
Bernard contributed reporting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Accessed: 5 June 2025 at 1342 MST

Trump wants to consolidate information about Americans that is spread across government agencies, raising concerns that he might “compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.”

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#USA #USgov #trump #privacy #musk #DOGE #palantir

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.
Mr. Trump has not publicly talked about the effort since. But behind the scenes, officials have quietly put technological building blocks into place to enable his plan. In particular, they have turned to one company: Palantir, the data analysis and technology firm.
The Trump administration has expanded
Palantir's work across the federal government in recent months. The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Mr. Trump took office, according to public records, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon.
(This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the company last week, which has not been spent.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Accessed: 5 June 2025 at 1342 MST

Representatives of Palantir are also speaking to at least two other agencies - the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service - about buying its technology, according to six government officials and Palantir employees with knowledge of the discussions.
The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including D.H.S. and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data, paves the way for Mr. Trump to easily merge information from different agencies, the government officials said.
Creating detailed portraits of Americans based on government data is not just a pipe dream. The Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases, including their bank account numbers, the amount of their student debt, their medical claims and any disability status.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Accessed: 5 June 2025 at 1342 MST

Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics, Democratic lawmakers and critics have said. Privacy advocates, student unions and labor rights organizations have filed lawsuits to block data access, questioning whether the government could weaponize people's personal information.
POLICE
Image: Migrants apprehended by U.S. agents in November.
President Trump could potentially use government data to police immigrants. Paul Ratje for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Accessed: 5 June 2025 at 1342 MST

Palantir's selection as a chief vendor for the project was driven by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, according to the government officials. At least three DOGE members formerly worked at Palantir, while two others had worked at companies funded by Peter Thiel, an investor and a founder of Palantir.
Some current and former Palantir employees have been unnerved by the work. The company risks becoming the face of Mr. Trump's political agenda, four employees said, and could be vulnerable if data on Americans is breached or hacked. Several tried to distance the company from the efforts, saying any decisions about a merged database of personal information rest with Mr. Trump and not the firm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Accessed: 5 June 2025 at 1342 MST

~ Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans ~

compile data on Americans

compile data on Americans
…

This should alarm EVERYONE, no matter what their political leaning.

#USA #USGov #privacy #security #CyberSecurity #trump #musk #DOGE #palantir #thiel #karp

Also note: MUSK’s DOGE prompted Palantir as Trump’s choice

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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
Alex Karp, a co-founder and the chief executive of Palantir, at a forum in Washington in April. The Trump administration has expanded Palantir's work across the federal government. Caroline Gutman for The New York Times
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir's work with the government, spreading the company's technology — which could easily merge data on Americans - throughout agencies.
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By Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik
Sheera Frenkel reported from Washington and San Francisco, and Aaron Krolik from New York.
May 30, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Accessed: 5 June 2025 at 1342 MST

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Summary:

1) Is the server gone? Would we know? What is to prevent that from happening (again)?

2) There is no longer conflict of interest concerns now that #Musk does not have an official government position. But his people and his AI are still there, giving him access and influence.

#USA #USGov #musk #DOGE #grok #AI

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The same article, but from Reuters (the original source).

#USA #USGov #DOGE #musk #AI #grok

~ Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns ~

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musks-doge-expanding-his-grok-ai-us-government-raising-conflict-concerns-2025-05-23/

#USGov

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