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“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump https://www.propublica.org/article/recording-reveals-leland-dudek-thoughts-trump-doge-social-security

Is Ukraine a country?

yeah but Russia's proxy in this war is.....Russia. This is like saying the American Revolution was a proxy war between France and England, and the colonists were simply subjected to geopolitical forces that have been mounting over a long period of time

@TomasM is it a "proxy war" ? Seems the Ukrainians really do object to the Russian attempt at subjugating them.

“…In an interview with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk says that social security is "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time" and announced that he intends to destroy it utterly, starting with mass layoffs of its personnel. The remarks attract negligible attention in mainstream media.…”

From Emptywheel.net https://www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-item/doge-debunking/ Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US to buy condoms...

I hear rumblings that Senators are actually afraid of MAGA violence