I spent all weekend doomscrolling so you don't have to - here's what you need to know about this weekend's news.
Trump Fires Hundreds of Staff Overseeing Nuclear Weapons and Musk Wants Access to the IRS Database
On January 28th private citizen Elon Musk and Donald Trump's administration laid off between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), but appeared to partly backtrack amid safety concerns.
One source revealed that approximately 325 employees have been dismissed from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which oversees the U.S. nuclear weapons (they know the codes and the stockpile locations)
Elon Musk's fake Department of Government Efficiency is pushing for access to an Internal Revenue Service system that retains the personal tax information of millions of Americans
Earlier this month, DOGE employees demanded access to the Treasury Department's vast federal payment system responsible for managing trillions of dollars in government expenditures.
Bill to ban mRNA vaccines passes out of House committee
A bill to ban the use of mRNA vaccines, including for Covid-19, is on its way to the House floor after passing out of committee in a party-line vote Wednesday.
Sponsored by Rep. Greg Kmetz, R-Miles City, and co-sponsored by Northwest Montana Reps. Tracy Sharp, R-Polson, and Lukas Schubert, R-Kalispell, House Bill 371 would prohibit administering vaccines developed with mRNA, or messenger ribonucleic acid, technology on humans. The bill deems the technology, which was employed to create the Covid-19 vaccines, a hazard.
The House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 12 voted 12-8 to send the bill to the floor.
Supporters had previously testified FALSELY that the vaccines caused more harm than good.
Trump Cabinet Hellscape
Trump's FBI director nominee Kash Patel confirmed thst he thinks USPS shredded ballots
RFK Jr. has already begun massive firings at the CDC
The Trump administration fired nearly half the members of a public health program that works on the front lines of disease outbreaks, only a day after anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) were told on Friday that they were among nearly 1,300 layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Experts from EIS have been dispatched for decades to investigate disease outbreaks in the United States and abroad, including when state health departments have needed help determining the origin of foodborne illnesses.
He also wants to put those on ADHD and anti-depression medications into labor camps
He has falsely stated that SSRIs are more addictive than heroin and contribute to school shootings. Weird, he's only taken one of those and it wasn't Lexapro.
Unrelated, he blames his wife's suicide on antidepressants and not his infidelity (he blamed her for) with over 37 women
Trump Administration Lays Off Hundreds Of FAA Employees Despite Recent Plane Crashes
The Federal Aviation Administration has officially begun the process of laying off hundreds of probationary employees despite recent plane crashes that have impacted areas across the country.
Since Donald Trump took office, the nation has seen plane crashes impact cities across the country including in Scottsdale, Arizona, Noem, Alaska, and of course, Washington, D.C. where just two weeks ago an American Airlines commercial jet collided with a military helicopter killing more than sixty people.
The employees impacted by the layoffs over the weekend are those who help with the installation, maintenance, and inspection of air traffic control communications and computer systems.
More Terrible Things of Note
Elon Musk’s DOGE shared classified U.S. intel on unsecured "DOGE" site
A new internal memo circulating inside the U.S. Agency for International Development warns USAID employees not to communicate with the press about the shocking disruptions in humanitarian assistance that are being caused by the Trump-Musk attack on the agency, which are already producing horrific consequences. The memo said this transgression might be met with “dismissal.”
As deadly storms and catastrophic flooding ravaged Kentucky, Tennessee, and other states Trump posted on his social media platform with 14 separate posts about his trip to the Daytona 500. Nothing about the 8 dead Americans or the massive destruction.
We just sent 2000 pounds of bombs to Israel during a ceasefire
A bunch of low-income families in Huntsville, Alabama had their electric bills raised thanks to a Trump executive order
The US demanded half of Ukraine's mineral resources (they said no)
In a since-deleted Substack post, an engineer working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wrote about his radicalization, noting a key influence was white a supremacist; he also donated money to the white nationalist website VDare, which according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is a hate group
The Substack post, titled “Why I Joined DOGE,” was written by DOGE engineer Gavin Kliger. Kliger has already been in hot water. He also reportedly reposted white nationalist Nick Fuentes disparaging a Black child on his now-private X account.
On the account, Kliger called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a slur and demanded military tribunals and executions of undocumented migrants who commit crimes, according to Rolling Stone
The Border Czar wants to throw AOC in jail for informing people of their rights and whining that "it's been hard to find undocumented immigrants"
Trump's administration denies extension for hurricane relief in Georgia
Nazi and confederate flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags says GOP lawmaker