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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

CAL ANDERSON 1948-1995 Drawing of Cal’s face. STATE SENATOR CALVIN BRUCE ANDERSON WAS WASHINGTON'S FIRST OPENLY GAY LEGISLATOR. Drawing of Cal swearing in CAL JOINED THE LEGISLATURE IN 1988. HE SPONSORED LEGISLATION TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION AND HATE CRIMES. HE WORKED TO EXTEND THE WA CIVIL RIGHTS LAW TO INCLUDE GAYS AND LESBIANS. IT WASN'T UNTIL 2006 THAT THE LAW WAS AMENDED TO INCLUDE SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY. CAL DIED OF AIDS IN 1995. NEARLY 2,000 PEOPLE ATTENDED HIS FUNERAL. AFTER HIS DEATH, HIS PARTNER DISCOVERED A LARGE PILE OF DEATH THREATS TOWARDS CAL. Drawing of the fountain and landscape at the park. IN 2003, SEATTLE NAMED THE PARK BY THE LINCOLN RESERVOIR CAL ANDERSON PARK. THIS MAY THERE WAS AN ANTI-LGBT+ HATE RALLY AT CAL ANDERSON PARK. WHEN PEOPLE COUNTERPROSTED THIS HATE, THE POLICE PROTECTED THE HATE RALLY AND WERE VIOLENT WITH THE COUNTERPROTESTORS. By Tatiana Gill

My latest comic for @realchangenews.bsky.social - new issue out today! Given the recent police violence towards LGBTQ+ rights protestors in the park named after him, telling Cal Anderson’s story felt imperative. #calanderson #calandersonpark #gayrightsmovement #pride🌈 #seattlehistory

Congratulations!!!

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Start every day with this reality:

EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable

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Screenshot of a post on X by Matt Walsh, responding to a video about a tiny home for homeless people. Walsh writes: "A homeless person will turn this into a horrifying shit and trash filled drug den in about 45 minutes. Homeless people are not homeless because they fell on hard times. They’re homeless because they are completely dysfunctional drug-addled vagrants who have no ability to live in civilized society, and no interest in even trying. It's time for everyone to grow up and start being honest about this issue." Below his post is a video from Mila Joy (@MilaLovesJoe) showing a man opening a tiny home on a city sidewalk, with the caption: "He created a tiny home that could solve homelessness."

Demonizing homeless people isn't some sort of heroic truth-telling.

It's a political tactic meant to divert attention from the poverty wages, unaffordable housing, and engineered neglect that created America's homelessness crisis.

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

“Education” Secretary Linda McMahon writes with the skill of a rabid toddler

The 2 best— er, 3 best things

This whole thread made my day

‘World’s first sperm race’ held in Los Angeles Students in Los Angeles have raised $1.5 million to raise awareness of declining male fertility, through a unique sporting endeavour

Perhaps you caught this televised Sperm Race last week: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Beautiful! Gasp worthy

YES! Same here as of over a year ago now. I don’t even think of it now. Congratulations

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this.

#Texas

Caring for each other, and finding space and support for self care, really is healing.

Although technically the first burn was the British troops;) www.aoc.gov/explore-capi...

Come visit Seattle. We got you covered.

This one saved me from despair and is still my heart.

From dogs to rabbits, NPR readers share how adopting shelter pets impacted them National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

“Rich Rule”

THIS. The law always has been and always will be what we mightily flawed human beings make it. The law is always about power and often NOT about justice.

He and his horrid snark doesn’t matter. You are an inspiration. Congratulations!!

Seeing claims about the judge "hiding" the defendant. Read the complaint, folks (written by DOJ). The guy was literally in the public area where the agents were. I guess he got on an elevator before they could get to him. The complaint says after letting the defendant exit she came back to the bench

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN

This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

New Trump rules for homeless service providers: no help for undocumented people, no funds for orgs that practice “gender ideology.” It’s not about shelter or services, it’s about punishing already marginalized people. Depravity as policy.

Sadly, if he follows the United States’ cruel lead, criminalization will thrive, even though it’s the most expensive and least effective response to homelessness. The compulsion to purge visible homelessness is so strong and growing in popularity