Note: The original link didn’t work for some reason. For clarity, this is from The Verge and this is one of their quotes in the article:

On March 17th, the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency broke into the nonprofit, congressionally funded US Institute for Peace, according to court documents filed by the USIP’s board of directors. By allegedly threatening to “cancel every federal contract” of a private security firm that had worked with USIP until a day earlier, they convinced it to let them into the building — where, told by institute staff they were trespassing, the fired security firm headed for the USIP gun safe. That’s when the USIP called the cops. The DC police arrived to escort DOGE into the building. USIP head of security Colin O’Brien, along with two of USIP’s lawyers, was detained.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/656704/elon-musk-doge-100-days-recap-list

  • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    SCOTUS gave trump blanket immunity for all crimes committed while he is president. In any case, he has already defied the courts with impunity. Cops and military are overwhelmingly Trump supporters, and most of them know so little about the constitution that any pledges to uphold it are meaningless. Your next election will be engineered to have one outcome: victory for Trump. Americans need to realize that there are no longer any legal methods to resist.

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      I think you can replace lives with money here. They don’t fear for their lives because they’re over confident in themselves. That’s probably why the healthcare CEO was such a shock to them.

      Has the healthcare industry changed their ways because of that guy being killed? I don’t think so. Go after their money? Then we got ourselves a stew.

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      2 days ago

      Uhhhh, it’s a link to that article. I took one of her sentences and made it the headline. So no.

      Edit: Dude, you’re right, the link doesn’t work. I’ll fix that.

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          Thanks for understanding. I would never steal other people’s work knowingly, but I could see how that looked that way. I’ve posted in the wrong community very confidently, but this is the first time not linking the actual site. Yikes on my part.