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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

CNN Airs Brutal Reminder Of Trump's Previous Economic Predictions—And They Did Not Age Well He's literally wrong about everything.

Is he ever correct?

Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

#skeletor #jesus

First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 people A person who was hospitalized with measles has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first since the outbreak began late last month.

A person hospitalized with measles in West Texas has died, the first in an outbreak that's infected more than 120 people.

#canada #usa

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

Project 2025 Tracker. If you were curious to see how far along this 'totally not a thing' thing has gone

www.project2025.observer

#project2025 #trump

A teacher in Warrick County is speaking out after Indiana Governor Mike Braun removed Dolly Parton’s “Imagination Library” from the state’s budget. Imagination Library is a book-gifting program for children under 5 in hopes of fostering early literacy. With the pending removal from the state’s budget, the program will have no funding to get books into the hands of families.

Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<<

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Dark Pence is back.

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

There have been MASSIVE protests this week across the country. If you took any videos or photos from the protests, or have seen great videos or photos of them online, post them below! Let's show the world that the pro-democracy community is just getting started!

I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

February 5, 2025 Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial.

February 5, 2025:

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

February 4, 2025 Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez...

February 4, 2025:

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

From the UkraineWarVideoReport community on Reddit: A Russian teacher documented school assemblies, concerts, and graduations during the war—and premiered his film at Sundance Explore this post and more from the UkraineWarVideoReport community

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Russian school teacher made a documentary/videography. AFAIK he is in hiding now. Looks great though.

Translating Law and Code in Government: Algorithmic Decisions and Their Legal Effects in Canada - Mike Zajko, 2024 This article analyzes the translation of law into computer code and the use of automated decision-making systems in government to make legal distinctions. Speci...

New from me (STS, ANT, ST&HV): What happens when the effects of law are mediated through technologies? The use of automated decision-making systems in government to make legal distinctions. Theorizing the shift to “code-driven law”; Canadian government examples journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Creating Chaos at HHS - KFF Health News President Donald Trump was sworn in Monday and by Wednesday had virtually stopped scientific policymaking at the Department of Health and Human Services. While incoming administrations often pause pub...

On this week's #WTHealth podcast: Trump stops science at HHS; on-again, off-again abortion pill court case on again in Texas; plus Rodney Whitlock on reconciliation 101:
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#startrek

Private equity reduces patient care while enriching investors, Senate report finds The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research.

To everyone's surprise, it turns out that attaching a money-sucking machine to a hospital system makes it worse.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

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