Notices by Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)

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MSNBC: Some U.S. Agency for International Development and State Dept. career employees are concerned information in their personal devices may be being monitored.

The employees received pop-ups in the last few days warning them that info on their personal phones or laptops could be tracked.

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"The Federal Reserve has told Wall Street banks that they won't need to submit data for climate stress tests, according to people familiar with the matter.

It's the latest blow to climate finance in the US, as #Trump takes a sledge hammer to green policies embraced by Joe Biden" #ClimateCrisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-06/fed-tells-banks-they-won-t-need-to-do-climate-stress-tests?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_content=business

And yet she persisted

“Ellen Weintraub, the chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, said on Thursday that Trump had moved to fire her. But she said in an interview that she did not see the president’s move as legally valid.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/federal-election-commission-weintraub-trump.html

😳“Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the CDC but then abruptly vanished.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/cdc-bird-flu-cats-people.html

Oy. 🤦🏻♀️

“Casey #DeSantis considers running for #Florida governor amid push from top donors

The wife of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has long been rumored as a potential 2026 candidate, but the prospect is inching closer to reality.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/casey-desantis-considers-running-florida-governor-push-top-donors-rcna191075

Un f’ingbelievable. We’re so screwed.

Via Kyle Griffin:

The Senate just confirmed one of the architects of #Project2025, Russell Vought, to be Trump's OMB Director.

ALL Republicans voted in favor.

ALL Democrats voted against.

Via the brilliant Ann Telnaes

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77d6f6d8-d796-4170-af7c-98e89de2dbfa_1800x1637.jpeg

Via Anna Bower:

One thing about Marko Elez resigning is that he’s the guy who supposedly did all the work with the Treasury payment system. Tom Krause has access, too, but in a supervisory role.

And w/ Elez gone, judge’s order would prohibit hiring a new DOGE-aligned “special government employee” to access system.

Another one?

“ #Texas authorities arrested a #Jan6 rioter recently pardoned by #Trump on Thursday for online solicitation of a minor.

The Harris County district attorney’s office said it took Andrew Taake into custody Thursday morning for the May 2016 charges...”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5131524-pardoned-january-6-rioter-minor-solicitation-charges/

*blink*

Via Harry Dunn (👈🏼hero):

With all due respect to armed security guards (they are extremely important and valuable to securing buildings) I don't see them having ANY AUTHORITY to impede a member of congress. They don't even have arrest authority.

Sen. Ed Markey:

We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.

Musk’s Nazi kids are hacking away.

“DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers

"Tesla.Sexy LLC controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market." https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/

Keep ’em coming

“A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Office of Personnel Management's deadline for federal employees to accept the #Trump administration's "deferred resignation" offer.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-temporarily-blocks-implementation-deferred-resignation-program/

#ProLifeMyAss

Sadistic, power hungry fools!

Breaking News: The #Trump administration is laying off nearly the entire staff of #USAID, people with knowledge of the plans said.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/06/us/president-trump-news#usaid-job-cuts?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

2/ "Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont."

No Michigan yet.

No Pennsylvania yet.

Keep ’em coming

“Letitia James of New York and 11 other state attorneys general said that they would sue over a cost-cutting initiative that had given young aides to Elon #Musk broad access to the federal government’s most fundamental computer systems.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/nyregion/letitia-james-doge-suit.html

You are KIDDING me.

Via Brad Moss:

The level of hatred of their own gender ….

Justin Baragona:

Fox News [sic] host Dagen McDowell claims that Elon #Musk's DOGE boys having "read-only" access to the government's data and payment systems is "the equivalent of when the boyfriend picks up the girlfriend's phone just to look at it and see what’s in it and the chick freaks out."

The mayor of #Tulsa announced this week that he supports “significant elements” of a measure that would provide #reparations for the families of Black people killed or left homeless by the 1921 race massacre.
- The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/tulsa-reparations-race-massacre/

Via S Ifill:

These are the ppl they have handling most confid'l info Amer's share w govt & deciding who works, who doesn’t, which programs survive, which don’t

Musk shares those views. This=takeover of our govt. We need to stop this NOW

"Staffer for DOGE [sic] whose access to Treasury paymt syst was apprved by fed judge has links to deleted soc-media acct that advoc for racism & eugenics

25-yr-old employee resigned after WSJ asked WH abt his connection to the acct"
https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

Christo-fascist oligarchy

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Via Rupar:

#Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast announces that he's signing an order directing AG Pam Bondi to head a task force "to eradicate anti-Christian bias"

2/ "GREAT: Start by ensuring that ICE goons don't invade churches.

And move onto making sure the Feds pay their bills to Christian refugee services."

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lhjun2cpes2q