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On today’s episode of Good on Paper, I explore whether liberals can actually find any common ground with DOGE and whether Pahlka ... see his resume. Demsas: Wow. Pahlka: Oh, and one more ...

In politics, compromising with one’s ideological opponents is like walking a tightrope while both your allies and foes jeer at you. Democrats, now the out-group facing a Republican trifecta, will have ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has announced her own Department of Government Efficiency, or "DOGE," effort. Cutting government is popular. Waste, fraud, abuse! But it’s hard to actually do and not that ...

The DOGE claims the previous regime spent $6.9n studying ‘smart toilets’ that recognize the user’s ‘anal print’. It invested $118,000 to study if a metal replica robot of Marvel Comics villain Thanos ...

A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” has temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system. The judge’s order ...

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