A whistleblower’s disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data by Jenna McLaughlin

Jenna McLauglin’s story about Elon Musk’s minions ransacking government databases is an incredible feat of reporting. She begins with the information provided by a whistleblower who is one of the National Labor Relations Board’s IT experts and then proceeds to assemble a damning collection of corroborating information and expert analysis. In addition to their own malicious intentions in accessing data they have no business seeing, it’s clear that the representatives of the imaginary agency that falsely claims government efficiency as their mission have allowed international adversaries to vacuum up unimaginable amounts of private, sensitive information on U.S. citizens. At this point, attributable to ineptness or treason or a rancid cocktail of both together, the safe assumption is that the majority of previously protected information held buy the U.S. government is now in the hands of Russia, China, North Korea, and any other foreign actors who relish the idea of the nation’s downfall. This story is published by NPR.

Under Trump, National Security Guardrails Vanish by Helene Cooper and Julian E. Barnes

The aggressive dissolution of everything in the federal government that actually protects people and the overall security of the nation continues at an alarming, reckless pace. Helene Cooper and Julian E. Barnes report on the elimination of employees and entire offices that combat disinformation campaigns mounted by Russia and other bad actors. These are precisely the sort of propaganda efforts that U.S. citizens have proven woefully, embarrassingly susceptible to in the recent years. Of course, those digitally flung lies overwhelmingly benefit the villainous cretins guided the Grand Old Party these days, so that’s reason enough to pull the floodgates right off their hinges. This article is published by The New York Times.

Autistic People Point To Full Lives as Rebuttal To Kennedy’s Dire Claim by Maggie Astor, Azeen Ghorayshi, and Dani Blum

I’m mostly including this New York Times reporting on the wholly justified backlash against recent hateful, ignorant comments by the astoundingly unqualified United States Secretary of Health and Human Services because of the article’s kicker, which is a fantastically satisfying quote attributed to accomplished writer Marianne Eloise. In the interest of thoroughness, I would like to note that Eloise’s own response to her representation in the article, as presented on her Instagram account, is as follows: “spoke to the new york times about the rfk autism thing and gave them loads of imo quite thoughtful and empathetic thoughts on it. anyway here’s what they used” Even so, her perfect, comically barbed commentary remains golden.

GOP photos at El Salvador prison evoke Abu Ghraib—and worse by Marisa Kabas

The Nuremberg Trials probably would have been that much easier had German government figures eagerly taken photos of themselves giving the ol’ thumbs up while standing in front of concentration camps. Marisa Kabas’s piece about the despicable Republicans who have treated a hellish foreign prison as a spot for photo opportunities is published at her own website, The Handbasket.