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In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.

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“Elon Musk and his DOGE operatives ran roughshod over our government...& created real-world disasters that impacted 100s of thousands of lives. We need lawmakers who will commit to issuing subpoenas & launching immediate investigations into Musk’s actions...” www.aol.com/articles/adv...

I said we need the Senate Watergate Committee but for DOGE. I’m no Watergate expert (but my dad was at a Pennsylvania diner 😀 when Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of the tapes ), but there was a huge investigatory staff, right? Do that.

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One thing I learned from this excellent book on Watergate—effectively a diary which is very reminiscent of today and has helped me get through all this!—is that Butterfield’s revelation was discovered by investigatory staff, and the revelation was planned. www.amazon.com/Washington-J...

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The diner was called Durkin’s. It is an Irish Catholic area, an old coal town. On Main Street, even, in Archbald, PA.