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making stuff + doin stuff

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🚨MUST-WATCH: “Something very fishy is happening.”

@MrGlobal2025 does a deep dive on Strategic Storage Partners, the shady Denver-based self-storage real estate company Trump’s Denver-based Secretary of Energy just awarded $1.4 BILLION to manage our strategic petroleum reserve🤔

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Donald Trump has given the management of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Strategic Storage Partners, LLC, a little-known company whose "headquarters" is registered to this $1.6 million house in Franktown, Colorado.

And the government is paying them $1.4 billion.

Seems super shady.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_sun]

SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say

Musk allies wanted access to the system responsible for disbursing trillions in fed payments annually as part of DOGE

Treasury career staff saw request as highly unusual

David A. Lebryk, viewed internally as consummate nonpolitical civil servant, expected to exit after joining Treasury in 1989. Last week, he was acting treasury secretary.

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https://t.co/osw3wN4Taz

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials https://t.co/JFULq4cGzt

[David Gilbert @daithaigilbert]

Incredible scoop from my colleague Tori Elliot, who found out that Musk is installing his lackeys in the highest positions at the Office of Public Management — including a former Neuralink intern who graduated from high school in 2024

https://t.co/QLFbW1y5wN

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

WATCH: To better understand Democratic frustrations surrounding how business is conducted in Tennessee's GOP supermajority House, watch this segment from our award-winning Revealed investigation - long before #TheTennesseeThree made national news. (Please like and share.) 1/2

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

This is an incredible work of local news journalism from @NC5PhilWilliams. Republicans are abandoning democracy.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Many progressives are not paying enough attention to what is happening with Cop City in Atlanta. The level of state violence against local people organizing to protect an essential forest from becoming a training center for militarized cops is escalating.

[Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA @GRDecter]

The US just quadrupled its military presence in Taiwan.

An international conflict is brewing and the world’s most critical technology is at stake.

Here’s what you should know 🧵

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Lamar Johnson, who had been serving a life sentence for nearly 30 years, was set free after judge ruled he was innocent

Prosecutors had no physical evidence, relied heavily on one witness, & paid that witness $4K in “witness compensation” before the trial https://t.co/ZRjkNzsxRT

[Juliet Riddell @juliet_riddell]

Do you know what your child is doing online? Are we doing enough to protect them? I’ve made this mini drama because I don’t know the answer to these questions and we urgently need to. ‘Capture’ - who’s looking after the children? https://t.co/iQ8zPxpmpd

[Florida Freedom to Read Project @FLFreedomRead]

Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

[Avery Tomasco @averytomascowx]

10 vehicle pile up in south Austin on Ben White blvd, one pronounced deceased on scene.

Heartbreaking, and preventable. Please, stay off of the roads. This is a very dangerous morning in Central Texas #atxwx #txwx

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20

[Segregation_by_Design @SegByDesign]

Construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway required the forcible displacement of tens of thousands of people across the two boroughs. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut a nearly 15-mile gash through some of the most densely populated neighborhoods on the planet.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop.

Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing.

His crime—asking police for help.

[Erik Richardson @erik4america]

Killing off public schools & privatizing them is already estimated to be $47.9 billion industry. Bigger than online sports betting. The cannabis industry won’t hit that til 2030. It’s already 3x the size of check cashing / payday loan industry – and just as predatory. (1/4)

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

oh wow i wonder who the dobbs leaker could be https://t.co/MFUBAQP3k8

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

"Jesse Benton, 44, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for a different campaign finance crime, months before he was indicted again on six counts related to facilitating an illegal foreign campaign donation. He was found guilty Thursday on all six counts."
https://t.co/lK7wlfUwWr

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Two Harvard professors published an academic article calling for 500,000 more armed cops, who they say will arrest 7.8 million more people per year. The article reveals alarming flaws in elite academia at a time of rising fascism. This is one of my most important posts.