Elon Musk has hit a major roadblock in his controversial mission to dismantle US government agencies and scrutinise federal spending via his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In an emergency order overnight, US District Judge Paul A Engelmayer cut off DOGE from accessing personal and financial data stored at the Treasury Department, warning there was a risk of “irreparable harm”.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/irreparable-harm-judge-blocks-elon-musks-doge-from-treasury-data/news-story/e038c795e6fcc776c7aa08f97cb028af

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🇺🇸Water on the cooking oil trick, always a classic!
Who knew dorm life could be so creative? Definitely a step up from the usual setup.

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"Institutions are comprised of people. When meritocracy is sacrificed for woke diversity, an institution rots from within. All we need to do is look at the Pulitzer board to understand why it has faded to farcical irrelevance. The selection committee is commissars all the way down. That explains why they have awarded only lefty social justice reporting for decades and why I’m sure they will give one to a Trump Derangement Substacker soon. MSM “journalists” disgrace their profession because they are trying to impress this group of cringey, out of touch Marxists that would make Pravda’s publishers blush. They will predictably vote blue no matter who.

"How many of them have taken USAID funds?"

https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/pulitzer-prize-committee-propaganda-commissars#:~:text=Institutions%20are%20comprised,taken%20USAID%20funds%3F

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NEW: Former Twitter executive says Musk made her print out code & stand in a line to justify her existence, says it's "insulting" that DOGE 'children' like Big Balls are doing the same in the federal gov.

What's insulting is that haircut.

"Multi-decade federal employees are having to sit in front of a child and explain to a child why they shouldn't be fired. Not only is that demoralizing, it's insulting."

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"Hamilton was celebrated by elites across the political spectrum. This is fitting, for contempt for working-class Americans is a bipartisan affair. In a 2017 column for the New York Times, Bret ­Stephens proposed, “So-called real Americans are screwing up America. Maybe they should leave, so that we can replace them with new and better ones.” In 2017, William Kristol said during a discussion with Charles Murray, “Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don’t you want to get new Americans in? . . . I’m serious.” In 2018, Max Boot wrote in the Washington Post that Trump’s supporters were “grumpy old white people who live in rural areas and lack college degrees.” In another column, he said that he wanted to “keep the hard-working Latin American newcomers” and “deport the contemptible Republican cowards” in Congress who had supported ­Donald Trump. Jennifer Rubin, his colleague at the Post, tweeted her agreement.

"Contempt for Western workers is often justified in economic terms. In 2013, a staffer for Senator Marco Rubio said that America needed more low-skill migrant workers, because “there are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it . . . who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it.” Jeb Bush said in 2013, “Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans. . . . Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.”

https://firstthings.com/immigration-idealism/

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that his country has received less than half of the $177 billion in aid agreed by the US under the Biden regime and that he doesn’t know where the rest of the money has gone.

https://modernity.news/2025/02/03/zelenskyy-says-he-doesnt-know-where-over-100-billion-in-us-aid-has-gone/

The biggest win of the Trump administration.

Paper straws suck.

There is an aspect to the war that is not talked about very much. The Ukrainians don't like to brag about it, the Russians don't like to admit it. It's one of the few asymmetric (para)military capabilities in the arsenal of the Kiev regime that is genuinely worrisome...

We have covered that topic a few times before, but a new, egregious case has just come to light. I am talking about the scam call centers, which have escalated to total blackmail terrorism. Dozens of elderly and teenagers have been scammed & blackmailed through various means by Ukrainian call centers to “donate” their life savings, or commit petty acts of vandalism & arson. There was a particularly large wave of these acts in late December.

You are all aware of how phone scams work. They've become a fact of modern life. And many, many people fall into these traps. The arsenal of scams ranges from the classic "Hey it's the police we need your help" and "it's your grandson, please, I need money for bail" to long-term, complicated blackmail and entrapment schemes.

The Ukraine, and the city of Dnepropetrovsk in particular, have been a gigantic hive of these scam call centers for decades. In peacetime, they were happy to just scam Russian boomers out of money. In wartime, this entire criminal endeavor has been taken over by Ukrainian intelligence. The SBU provides resources, lists of targets, technology, etc to the scammers, and in return they fulfill quotas of certain missions. During last year's Presidential election in Russia, there were a handful of attacks against polling stations. Victims of these Ukrainian scams (usually they first scam people out of money, and then they blackmail them into committing crimes to “get their money back” -- of course, they never do, but desparation makes people behave in very stupid ways) would try to set ballots on fire or pour ink on them, etc.

In late December, a new wave swept Russia, this time it was mostly attacks against banks and ATMs. The perpetrators/victims were mostly the elderly, who are, for obvious reasons, more likely to fall for these tricks.

The young guy in the photo is Pyotr Vetchinkin. He was a first-year student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He became a victim of identity theft through a Ukrainian call center. They took out several loans on his name. They sent out letters to various people in his life claiming he was a member of an extremist organization. They threatened to murder his family. All to blackmail him into committing acts of terrorism.

He did not commit any crime. That's not who he was. He did not give in to the blackmail. But he was overwhelmed by the fear and the shame and the despair.

And on December 21st, he killed himself.

An entire sphere of crime, a criminal enterprise with thousands of employees -- all in the service of psychotic SBU terrorists who, if their own resources aren't enough, also have access to whatever the CIA and MI6 give them. People who speak like us, think like us, grew up on the same media as us, and use that intimate connection to hurt innocent people in the worst way possible.

What's to be done about this?

I believe that every call center that can be identified -- whether it's one of the large operations in Dnepropetrovsk with hundreds of employees or a smaller one run from an apartment -- is a legitimate military target, and deserves a visit by your friendly neighborhood cruise missile. Or ten.

I believe that there needs to be a cost associated with this behavior. Humanitarian concerns need to take a step back, and cities to which call center activity can be tracked should have no electricity.

I believe that this is just another data point among hundreds, among thousands, proving just how depraved our enemy is, and that he has no limits -- no limits AT ALL, and, thus, cannot be reasoned or negotiated with until total submission is achieved. They must cry blood.

"A new secret government order in the U.K. seeks to absolutely destroy that for every Apple user around the world. That’s right: over 2 billion Apple users globally would have their privacy and security obliterated by an undisclosed order from the British government.

"The Washington Post got tipped off by insiders about the order, issued last month, from the office of the Home Secretary. Called a “technical capability notice” and calling on powers afforded to the office by the U.K. Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, the British Government has secretly ordered Apple to “create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud,” according to the Post."

https://www.macworld.com/article/2602513/uk-demands-backdoor-to-apples-encrypted-cloud-storage-putting-everyone-at-risk.html

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