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ECP NetHappenings Republican boot-licking cowards

Double Whammy Win for Moscow Today
Hegseth rules out NATO membership for Ukraine and says Europe must be responsible for country’s security.
Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence
Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad shill, Tulsi Gabbard, was just confirmed by Republican Senators to serve as America’s Director for National Intelligence. This is insane.
Congratulations America! Thanks to the boot-licking cowards in the Republican Party, we now have a Russian Asset as Director of National Intelligence. #Resist

Visitor logs will not be released during Trump’s second term, mirroring his policy during his first term. He’ll Hide All His Shady Guests From the Public.

Trump is going to meet the boss. PUTIN INVITED TRUMP TO MOSCOW, TASS REPORTS
President Trump says he and Russia’s Putin agreed to visit each other’s nations and “start negotiations immediately.”

Now the Fogel release makes sense.
Bradley P. Moss There it is: we released a money launderer.
U.S. TO RELEASE RUSSIAN ALEXANDER VINNIK AS PART OF EXCHANGE THAT FREED FOGEL -NYT
President Trump swaps BTC-e operator convicted of money laundering, Alexander Vinnik, in prisoner exchange with Russia.

BREAKING: While targeting federal education contracts, Elon Musk just scored a new deal for more government cash, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
The new “supplemental agreement” adds millions to SpaceX’s already huge $3.9 billion deal. https://www.levernews.com/musk-just-scored-more-government-cash-while-pushing-education-cuts/
$39 million for “exploratory space flight research” to Elon Musk. Can we really afford Mars right now?

When an official revealed that nearly $500 million in food was about to spoil thanks to DOGE, he was fired. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/11/trump-fires-usaid-inspector-general/

Waste.Gov is Literal Garbage
A DOGE-backed site purporting to track government waste displays an empty template advertising a fake architecture firm.

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk’s corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
let’s start with: DEFUNDING SPACEX, DEFUNDING TESLA, DEFUNDING NEURALINK, DEFUNDING STARLINK, and DEFUNDING ANYTHING ELON MUSK GETS FROM TAXPAYERS.

Jason Koebler @jason_koebler
The entire contents of Waste. gov, the website tracking government “waste” are from a default WordPress theme about an imaginary architecture firm.
Musk said yesterday DOGE is “maximally transparent” and all actions are being tracked on website:
Elon Musk’s Waste.gov Is Just a WordPress Theme Placeholder Page

Witness says
In a DOGE subcommittee hearing Rep. Greg Casar says: “They’re trying to shut down the Department of Education, the Department of Labor… We’re not looking into Elon Musk’s $8 million a day. This subcommittee … is looking into your grandmother’s $65 a day.”

NYT DOGE and and Trump have gone after and weakened or even halted enforcement at least 11 federal agencies which have been investigating Musk’s companies. The agencies have at least 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints, or enforcement actions into Musk’s six companies.

When Steve Bannon gets no jail time for stealing millions from donors – while Willie Simmons gets life in prison without parole for stealing $9 – it’s white privilege.

NEW: Treasury is doing a “forensic” investigation into how DOGE/Musk ally Marko Elez was “mistakenly” given access to alter aspects the government’s massive spending database.
The probe is ongoing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/11/musk-ally-mistakenly-power-alter-payments-system-00203714

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when the United States announced a freeze on aid funding.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
“roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable”
Entropy wins
Mix’s passing along of Iron Mountain’s warning hit Hacker News earlier this week, which spurred other tales of faith in the wrong formats. The gist of it: You cannot trust any medium, so you copy important things over and over, into fresh storage. “Optical media rots, magnetic media rots and loses magnetic charge, bearings seize, flash storage loses charge, etc.,” writes user abracadaniel. “Entropy wins, sometimes much faster than you’d expect.”

Apple now lets you move purchases between your 25 years of accounts
Now we can all bring that mandatory U2 album back into our main libraries.

DELETE Kanye West his online storefront got shut down after peddling swastika shirts.

Every privacy policy translated:
‘We’re going to collect everything and share it with everyone, but legally”

Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age

Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 are living with their parents.
“The vanishing 20-something homebuyer” The vanishing young homebuyer: Median first-time homebuyer age jumps from 28 in 1991 to 38 in 2024. The median first-time U.S. homebuyer in 2024 (age 38) has been out of high school for 20 years but is also only 24 years away from the earliest age at which they could receive Social Security benefits (age 62).

In America, we have $4.5 Trillion for tax breaks for the rich, but don’t have $20 billion to end homelessness.

KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT WON’T PROTECT YOU!

If you claim every election you lose is rigged, every judge that rules against you should be removed, and everyone that you disagree with should be investigated and sent to prison…
You are a Fascist. Plain and simple.
That’s not name-calling. That’s truth-telling.

WHY ISN’T RASKIN
CALLING THE MARSHALLS TO ARREST MUSK FOR TRESPASSING!
Raskin: “The wrecking ball of rightwing authoritarianism is swinging right through Congress and coming directly at the freedoms of the press and the people. The self-appointed CEO of this operation is the unelected bureaucrat and aspiring techno-dictator, Elon Musk … ”
WHY ISN’T RASKING SAYING
Yesterday was the greatest display of American weakness, and pure evil, ever seen in the White House. But the media still won’t say the quiet parts.
This regime is not a government, it is a murderous, racist Crusade.
Say it. Or die regretting you didn’t.
WHY ISN’T RASKING SAYING
No one voted for eliminating the Department of Education to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
No one voted for cuts to Social Security so that Tesla can continue to pay $0 in federal taxes.
No one voted for Elon Musk.

Republicans find angry constituents and they can’t control Elon Musk, they better try harder! before it’s too late. 

Patty Murray @PattyMurray
Senate Republicans’ partisan budget resolution would toss programs like SNAP and Medicaid into the woodchipper—all in service of passing tax giveaways for the wealthiest Americans.

“It isn’t an accident that we’re here now”: How the Supreme Court encouraged Trump to defy the law
Trump’s assertions of broad, unchecked executive power are a predictable result of the court’s “immunity” decision

Eight fired inspectors general are suing to get their jobs back, saying Trump’s terminations were illegal. Judge Moss gets the inspector general lawsuit. He’s an Obama appointee who also has lawsuits related to DOGE access to student loan data and to data security of OPM records.

Wow. The US undermines the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (ends the pretence that they don’t want companies to pay bribes) “US companies are harmed by FCPA overenforcement because they are prohibited from engaging in practices common among intl competitors”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-restores-american-competitiveness-and-security-in-fcpa-enforcement/

NY: @Newsday plans to sue Nassau County and @NassauExec
The paper alleged Jan. 28 its reporters were cut from media list in June and it lost county ad business as officials waged what one called “a holy war” in retaliation for critical coverage.

EDUCATION

American primary and secondary education seems to be returning to normal; but according to an analysis from @HarvardCEPR, the average American student is nearly half a grade level behind in math and reading.
Hit by pandemic ‘aftershocks,’ kids fall further behind in reading, still trail pre-COVID peers

DOGE is behind the abrupt cancellation of $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, a Department of Education division responsible for much of what we know about the state of U.S. schools.

‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” – George Orwell, 1984

BITCOIN

Fed Chair Powell says “we don’t want to get in the way of banks serving perfectly legal” Bitcoin and crypto customers. FED CHAIR POWELL SAYS THE FED WON’T BLOCK BANKS FROM SERVING #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO CUSTOMERS BANKS ARE COMING

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