I’m Just Passing This Whole Thing On

JD Vance Goes to Bat for 25-Year-Old 'Kid' Elon Musk Staffer Who Resigned Over Racist Tweets: 'Bring Him Back'

…The Wall Street Journal published a story on Thursday about Marko Elez, a "key DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Department's central-payments system" and resigned "after he was linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics."

Even if they stopped—full stop, right now,—the damage is already done and it will take years and years to fix.

I guess we know why Musk was so angry about his team's identity being shared. – Alex Cole

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force – the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.

Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form. ~Angry Staffer

Trump Cancels News Subscriptions For Executive Branch

President Donald Trump ordered on Thursday that the federal government end all paid news subscriptions for employees and agency offices across the executive branch.

According to an email obtained by Axios, the White House told the General Services Administration to terminate "every single media contract" paid for by the federal government.

Ironic how Marco Rubio's parents fled a fascist dictator in Cuba – only to have little Marco serve a fascist dictator in America. ~ anyonewantchips

The first stage of Trump's Gaza plan should be him personally clearing the place of unexploded munitions. – Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

I want to live in boring times. Give me mundane. Give me trivial. – John Collins

They're Trying To Kill Us, Plain & Simple

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put more than 160 workers who tackle pollution in overburdened communities on leave.

The employees were part of the agency's Office of Environmental Justice, which sought to help people in areas with significant levels of pollution — including minority neighborhoods.

There isn't anti-Christian bias in America, there's anti-Jesus bias in American Evangelical Christianity. – John Pavlovich

Rock The Voter News

Q: If the US cuts off foreign aid, who will be there to get involved with all of those countries?

A: China.

Schatz Takes Direct Shots At Derelict Democrats
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) had some pointed remarks for Democratic strategists who have been advising the party's elected officials to pick their battles carefully against President Donald Trump…"I'm not going to let some pundit dictate whether or not I exercise my obligations as a member of the Article I branch," Schatz said. "David Axelrod, James Carville. I mean, those guys have not been in the trenches legislatively or electorally in a full generation. And there's a cottage industry out there of Democratic strategists. But in order to be a Democratic strategist, you actually have to do politics currently and not just podcast about it."

Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops. – Josh Marshall

USAID purchases over $2b of American soy and grain products annually.

Red State farmers are deep into FAFO.

Business/Tech News

Musk says he's spending $40M of his own money on five, 30 second Super Bowl ads, revealing government waste that his DOGE hackers have supposedly found. ~ Molly Ploofkins