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Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency deleted over 30 different government contracts from its website’s “Wall of Receipts” this week after a New York Times investigation found them to still be active.

The Times found 44 contracts that DOGE had claimed to end, but were still active.

The 44 contracts accounted for some $220 million of federal spending Musk’s team claimed it had saved.

In late April, the Partnership for Public Service (PSP) found that from the $160 billion DOGE had claimed to save the federal government, some additional $130 billion would need to be spent for paid leave, re-hiring mistakenly fired workers, and lost productivity.

Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram after the Department of Homeland Security suggested they may pursue arrests of three Democratic lawmakers who partook in a protest outside of an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Rob Menendez (D-NJ) and LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) all attended the protest.

cross-posted from: http://lemmus.org/post/12872629

http://exocomics.com/

cross-posted from: http://slrpnk.net/post/22132981

cross-posted from: http://lemmy.one/post/27858506

This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.

Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.

This is sad news. Hopefully the comms can migrate to other smaller instances.

Edit: just saw this

as this is a fairly active community we just wanted to let you know that this community is no longer federating with Lemmy.World due to defederation from lemmy.one for lack of moderation.

Our announcement can be found here: http://lemmy.world/post/28173093

We recommend migrating to a community on an instance that is maintained better.

I guess it's been an issue. I think the lemmy.one meant they needed better administration features

http://exocomics.com/

Summary

During a welcome ceremony in Riyadh, Donald Trump, 78, appeared to nod off multiple times while seated next to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Trump was in Saudi Arabia on a four-day Middle East trip aiming to secure major investment deals.

Social media users mocked his apparent drowsiness, drawing comparisons to past criticisms Trump made of Biden. The White House denied he was disengaged.

Trump has previously been accused of dozing off, notably during his 2024 hush money trial, which he denied, claiming he was just “listening intensely.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/thepassportbros/comments/1klrxdo/tales_of_a_passport_bro_from_days_gone_by/