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Javier Milei, the President of Argentina, delivered a special address at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026:

President Milei began by proclaiming that “Machiavelli is dead,” and in general championed free-​enterprise capitalism as not only the most productive economic system but also the only morally just one. He structured his speech around themes of justice, efficiency, and ethics, arguing that capitalism aligns with natural law, Judeo-​Christian values, Greek philosophy, and Roman law. Milei drew on economists like Adam Smith, Murray Rothbard, Thomas Sowell, Israel Kirzner, Hans-​Herman Hoppe and Jesús Huerta de Soto to support his points, emphasizing that free markets foster entrepreneurial creativity, dynamic efficiency through innovation and coordination, and increasing returns without government intervention. He rejected the idea of market failures justifying regulation, claiming interventions violate property rights and the non-​aggression principle, leading to lower growth and injustice.

He also referenced the Bible, according to The Jerusalem Post, in an article titled “Milei says Bible shows ‘where woke-​ism leads’ in Davos, urges return to Judeo-​Christian roots”:

In the closing section of his speech, Milei referenced Moses’s confrontation with Pharaoh and the final three plagues described in Parshat Bo: locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn.

The Argentinian President cast Pharaoh as “the symbol of the oppressive power of the state,” and argued that the sequence of plagues illustrated how societies slide from economic ruin to moral confusion and, ultimately, collapse when they deny freedom.

In comparison, U.S. President Donald Trump boasted about America’s “fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in history” under his second term, citing 5.4% Q4 growth, core inflation at 1.6%, 52 stock market highs adding $9 trillion in value, over $18 trillion in secured investments, and lifting 1.2 million off food stamps. He attributed this to policies like massive tax cuts (no taxes on tips, overtime, or Social Security for seniors; 100% expensing), slashing regulations at a 129:1 ratio, firing 270,000 federal bureaucrats, cutting the deficit by 27%, and imposing tariffs that reduced the trade deficit by 77% without inflation. Trump criticized Biden-​era “stagflation” and Europe’s “Green New Scam” as a hoax, praising U.S. record energy production (oil, gas, nuclear) that dropped gasoline below $2.50 per gallon and positioned America to lead in AI.

Both leaders’ appearances underscored pro-​capitalist stances, with Milei hailing Trump’s U.S. as a “beacon of light,” echoing Trump’s MAGA with “Make Argentina Great Again” rhetoric, aligning on deregulation, free markets, and socialism critiques. But Milei’s speech was, on the whole, an example of politic ideological libertarianism, while Trump’s was far more about deal-​making and nationalism. 

The attitude of Somalian refugees to their United States hosts does not usually, these days, seem like one of gratitude. But then, we cannot expect them to be thrilled with the federales (ICE, actually) arresting, systematically, those Somalians in the country illegally.

Most are legal, considering the mountains moved by politicians to bring them here (starting with the Refugee Act of 1980), but taking sides has largely been a matter of taking sides against, well, “the U.S. ‘god-​damned’ States.” A colorful phrasing by Representative to the United States Congress, Ilhan Omar (D‑Minn.)

Of course, much of this is about the fraud — about which the Duck​.ai search assistant urges caution:

The Somali-​American community, particularly in Minnesota, has expressed fear and frustration over recent fraud accusations, feeling that the allegations have led to increased xenophobia and discrimination against them. Community leaders urge individuals to conduct their own research rather than rely on social media narratives that generalize the actions of a few to the entire community.

Consider these bullet points courtesy of Reuters:

• Immigration raids prompt volunteers to share leaflets, accompany elders in Somali community
• Trump invokes fraud scandal to send immigration agents to Minnesota
• Some Somali Americans say they fear immigration raids are bid to suppress future voter turnout

A jaded person might say that these reactions are odd, but human. There is nothing shocking about a refugee crackdown after uncovering what has been reported to be billions of welfare fraud within a refugee community: Many Somali-​American immigrants “feared they were being singled out, a worry that revived memories of the state surveillance and arbitrary authority they thought they had left behind when they resettled in the United States.”

This latter point must be at least somewhat dissonant to the meme-​obsessed from a decade ago, where Somalia was said to be anarchic, not state-​totalitarian. It shows that Somalians have had to weather all sorts of changes. Now, within the U.S., too. 

The Reuters article focuses on Kowsar Mohamad, who states that his people, now understandably alarmed by raids and demands for identification, had “just believed the Constitution was going to protect us from this level of interrogation.”

One thing the article does not mention is that the community and its current activists did not think to police their own against illegality, whether that of illegal entry or mass fraud.

In early January, Paul Jacob discussed the Maduro capture story, noting its unconstitutionality and the likely political irrelevance of that unconstitutionality. 

What has happened since then?

Well, a lot; or not much at all — depending on how you look at it!

• The capture and removal of the dictator led to an interim government, prisoner releases (hundreds since December, including at least 56 political prisoners and some U.S. citizens recently), and U.S. demands for further releases. [New York Times]
• The U.S. Senate (with Vice President J.D. Vance’s tie-​breaking vote on January 14) blocked a resolution requiring congressional approval for further military actions in Venezuela. [CNN]
• A Department of Justice memo affirming the president’s constitutional authority for the operation. [Times Op. cit.]
• Opposition leader María Corina Machado met President Trump at the White House around January 16, presenting her Nobel Peace Prize medal to the American leader. [The Guardian]

“President Donald Trump on Jan. 15 released his administration’s new health care affordability plan, which aims,” says The Epoch Times, “to lower prices through marketplace reforms that include price negotiation, increased competition, and greater price transparency.”

The White House has provided an announcement and a fact sheet as well as a PDF of the plan itself. It’s called The Great Health Care Plan, and the White House urges Congress to make it a key piece of legislation, to make up for the lapse in the failing ObamaCare scheme. Touted features include:

• Codifying the Trump Administration’s Most-​Favored-​Nation deals to match U.S. prices with those in other countries, expanding access to over-​the-​counter drugs to boost competition and reduce doctor visit costs, and building on prior actions like affordable insulin and voluntary negotiations. Goal: reduce drug prices.
• Redirecting taxpayer subsidies from insurance companies directly to eligible Americans to choose their own plans, funding a cost-​sharing reduction program that saves taxpayers at least $36 billion and cuts Obamacare premiums by over 10%, and ending kickbacks from pharmacy benefit managers to brokerage middlemen. Goal: Reducing insurance premiums.
• Establishing a “Plain English” standard, requiring clear, jargon-​free publication of rates, coverage comparisons, revenue breakdowns (e.g., claims paid vs. overhead/​profits), claim rejection rates, and average wait times for care. Goal: Holding insurance companies accountable.
• Mandating healthcare providers and insurers that accept Medicare or Medicaid to post prices and fees prominently in their facilities. Goal: Maximizing price transparency.

As of September, Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon write, “more than half of all US imports (by value) were subject to one or more special tariff measures (i.e., classified in Chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States) and to the associated bureaucracy.”

Though there has been legal action against Donald Trump’s diktat-approach to tariff policy, the Cato authors don’t put much hope in these challenges. “Regardless of what the Supreme Court does with Trump’s ‘emergency’ tariffs, moreover, US tariff red tape will likely grow more this year, burdening US companies and the economy in the process.”

And growing red tape is a drag on economic growth. It is a prime strangler of growth.

But there is more than one challenge to Trump’s tariff mania. They’re not all equally feckless, are they?

The Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in the Learning Resources Inc. et al. v. Trump case could significantly reduce the complexity of the US tariff system if the Court invalidates the Trump administration’s IEEPA tariffs. Such reprieve, however, would likely be temporary because the Trump administration has pledged to replicate the IEEPA regime through other executive tariff authorities, including through both Sections 232 and 301 measures, and previously unused statutes such as Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1934 and Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. (Though, such authorities arguably have more built-​in procedural and/​​or substantive checks than IEEPA does.) This system, in fact, might be even more complex than what we have right now.

It will therefore remain the case that a true reduction in tariff red tape will only be accomplished through congressional action to revise various US trade laws and reclaim the legislative branch’s constitutional authority over tariffs.

This needless complexity all comes back to Congress, which could fix it, but chooses not to. A familiar problem.

Also all-​too-​familiar is fundamental confusion about tariffs. For some reason, Americans don’t think of tariffs as taxes. But tariffs are just another form of taxation, of course, no matter what is popularly believed. And can anything show how far from the Reagan Revolution the Trumpian movement is than seeing Republicans rally around an enthusiastic taxer?

Is it the worst initialism ever? “Operation Parris — Post-​Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening — will focus first on Minnesota’s 5,600 refugees who have not yet been given lawful status,” explains The Epoch Times in a Friday article.

“The operation will conduct thorough background checks, reinterview applicants for green cards, and explore merit reviews of the current refugee claims,” the article by Savannah Hulsey Pointer continues. 

What’s at stake are billions in fraud. “Last month, a federal prosecutor suggested that more than half of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds supporting 14 programs in Minnesota since 2018 may have been stolen.”

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is expanding the scope of investigation into subsidies to individuals and families, saying “on Jan. 6 that California would be the next target.… The president alleged on social media that the Golden State could have more fraud than Minnesota.”

And in Congress, at Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the subject, Rep. Brandon Gill (R‑TX) grilled Democrats’ witness Brendan Ballou, former Special Counsel at the DOJ, beginning with the ideologically based challenge, “does large-​scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?” The answer was “yes,” but further questions and answers didn’t make Mr. Ballou look so good. It’s mainly been shared for yucks.

The Minnesota fraud story did not just emerge in the last few weeks or months. It appears that before it became a predominantly Somali story it was dominated by one white woman.

Concerns about fraud in the federal child nutrition programs (tied to Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit sponsoring meal reimbursements for daycares and other sites) began emerging in late 2020, with formal flags and audits in early 2021. It became public knowledge through FBI raids in January 2022.

Aimee Bock, founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, was indicted in September 2022; her trial occurred in early 2025, resulting in a guilty verdict on March 19. She’s awaiting sentencing as of January 2026, with recent asset forfeitures approved in December 2025.

(Notice that this was what civil asset forfeiture was originslly designed for: to confiscate goods used in crimes from convicted criminals. Not grabbing property from people not convicted of anything, as has been happening in these United States for far too long.)

Ms. Bock’s fraud scheme, often called the Minnesota daycare scandal due to involvement of daycares and child nutrition funds misused during COVID-​19 (totaling about $250 million in fraud as counted up from court judgments). It’s described as one of the largest pandemic-​era fraud cases in the U.S., involving fake meal claims, shell companies, and kickbacks. Over 90 people have been charged across related schemes, with dozens convicted.

Here is a timeline of developments in the story:

• 2015 – 2016: Aimee Bock and Kara Lomen form Partners in Quality Care (later Partners in Nutrition) and Feeding Our Future as nonprofits to distribute federal Child Nutrition Program funds (administered by the USDA via states) to smaller organizations, daycares, and programs feeding underprivileged children.
• 2018: Bock and Lomen part ways amid disputes; Bock takes full control of Feeding Our Future, expanding it as a sponsor for meal reimbursements.
• March 2020: COVID-​19 pandemic leads to USDA relaxing rules for child nutrition funds, allowing easier reimbursements without on-​site verifications. Feeding Our Future’s vendors (including daycares and restaurants) rapidly increase, claiming millions in federal aid distributed through the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE).
• July 2020: MDE expresses concerns to Feeding Our Future about its explosive growth in vendors and meal claims (e.g., Safari Restaurant claiming 5,000 meals/​day).
• October 2020: Lomen (now at Partners in Nutrition) sends a letter to MDE alleging a “fraud ring” involving child care centers and sponsors. MDE escalates concerns to USDA.
• November 2020: Feeding Our Future sues MDE for delaying vendor applications, claiming discrimination against sites serving children of color.
• December 2020: MDE denies several Feeding Our Future vendor applications amid fraud suspicions. By year’s end, Feeding Our Future receives $43 million in federal funds.
• March 2021: Feeding Our Future reports extreme meal counts (e.g., Safari Restaurant claiming 185,903 meals for March, netting $1 million). MDE pauses funding to 26 associated nonprofits, citing “serious deficiencies” by Bock and board president Benjamin Stayberg.
• April 2021: A state judge rules MDE acted too hastily; funding resumes. MDE, still suspecting fraud, refers the case to the FBI.
• May 2021: FBI officially begins its investigation into potential fraud in the programs.
• December 2021: Feeding Our Future receives $198 million in federal funds for the year amid ongoing concerns.
• January 2022: FBI raids 15+ properties, including Feeding Our Future’s office and Bock’s home. Search warrants allege misuse of funds for luxury items and properties. The case goes public.
• February 2022: Feeding Our Future begins dissolving as an organization. Political figures return donations from implicated individuals.
• April – May 2022: First arrests occur (e.g., for passport fraud to flee). State Senate hearings probe MDE’s oversight.
• September 2022: Federal prosecutors indict 48 suspects, including Aimee Bock, in a $250 million fraud scheme involving fake attendance rosters, shell companies, and laundered funds. Bock is charged with wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.
• 2023 – 2024: Multiple trials and pleas for co-​defendants are held, with over 60 convictions or guilty pleas across the scheme. Bock’s case proceeds to trial amid delays.
• March 19, 2025: After a five-​week trial, a federal jury convicts Aimee Bock on all seven counts (including wire fraud and conspiracy). Co-​defendant Salim Said is also convicted. Bock is jailed pending sentencing, cited as a flight risk.
• December 30, 2025: A federal judge approves preliminary forfeiture of $5.2 million in assets from Bock (including $3.7 million in cash/​banks, a Porsche, and luxury items), with final order at sentencing.
• January 2026 (Ongoing): Broader Minnesota fraud probes continue, with 92 charged and 62 convicted across related schemes. Bock’s sentencing is pending; no date set.

To check up on all this, consult The Sahan Journal timeline for pre-​2022 details.

So who is Aimee Bock? A 2022 Star Tribune article noting that Bock filed for bankruptcy with her ex-​husband in 2013 suggests she was previously married and divorced before the Feeding Our Future scandal emerged. Her ex’s name is not mentioned in any reports.

Ms. Bock is described as white/​Caucasian in appearance and background. Reporting on the scandal frequently contrasts her with the majority of co-​defendants, who were members of Minnesota’s Somali-​American community (many first- or second-​generation immigrants). Bock herself accused state agencies of discrimination against Somali-​owned sites in pre-​indictment statements. 

Aimee Bock earned a Bachelor of Science in elementary education from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2003. Public records and biographies list her residences in various Minnesota locations, including Duluth, Rochester, Burnsville, Cottage Grove, Rosemount, and Apple Valley.

She built her entire professional career in Minnesota, starting in early childhood education roles (e.g., daycare instructor, center director) and founding Feeding Our Future there in 2016.

As of 2025 reports she is 44- or 45-​years old is consistently described as Minnesota-​based, with at least 20 – 25 years of residence in the state.

Revelations of subsidized daycare fraud in Minnesota have come in waves. The latest, biggest came with the Nick Shirley video, covered here on Wednesday. Reactions to it have been all over the map.

Tarl E. Warwick, aka Styxhexenhammer666, declared the revelations just “the tip of the iceberg” and demonstrated as accounting fact, not fancy, while hordes of daycare workers on TikTok said the reporting by the “untrained” “mama’s boy” Mr. Shirley was completely without merit. Reinforcing anti-​Shirley reaction, X user @slimebeasts expressed scorn with some actual back-up:

For those with short attention spans or little time to sit down and watch something — I went ahead and ended Nick Shirley’s credibility in under 10 minutes, showing dishonesty in his Minnesota Somali Fraud video. 

@slimebeasts’ X post, linking to a YouTube critique (December 28, 2024).

The memes attacking Mr. Shirley run the gamut, but this is a good example:

Overall, the “mama’s boy” label seems tied to his mother’s role in his videos (she appears in some and is a right-​wing influencer herself). Criticisms of him being “untrained” focus on his background in pranks and satire rather than journalism, and claims he got the story wrong emphasize that state inspections found no fraud in many centers.

Meanwhile, the story expands beyond Minnesota borders. Peter St. Onge (@stonge) synopsizes the scope, saying that for every three Somalians in the country there is one day care center. A flurry of posting about Somalian activity in Washington State uncovered quite a colorful mess of apparent fraud, one claim showing how two Somalian sisters set up day care centers in each of their homes — their daycare being confined to servicing each other’s children! The number of taxpayer-​funded Somalian daycare centers in Washington State surprised many Washingtonians:

This sort of thing is not limited to just a few states, apparently. And in one case in Arizona, a “Learing Center” echo was identified:

Amidst many accusations and counter-​accusations, the most astounding was made against Somalia’s ambassador to the UN, Abukar Dahir Osman, saying he is also a daycare administrator in Ohio. That is not true. Technically. Osman lived and worked in Ohio for many years before returning to a Somali diplomatic role. His pre-​diplomatic career included a position as managing director/​statutory agent for Progressive Health Care Services Inc., a Cincinnati-​based home healthcare company, which overlapped with the start of his UN role in 2019. He also worked as a supervisor in the Adult Medicaid Unit at the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services (2007 – 2012).

In case you are wondering, it is not uncommon for foreign countries to tap their diaspora members to high diplomatic posts, including UN roles. For smaller or developing nations, it’s a practical way, the rationale runs, to staff missions with skilled professionals who might not be available domestically.

But it is also worth mentioning that home health care, which Abukar Dahir Osman was associated with, while distinct from daycare, has also been implicated in the scams that have so far focused on subsidized daycare.

If this is all legit, it appears that America has been importing a whole lot of social workers from Somalia! 

And wherever this story eventually ends up at, it will remain the case that the U.S. brought in people from a distant land who went on various forms of welfare and who have then found work (most are unemployed) in those government and contracting agencies providing various forms of “welfare” services. 

The legal framework under which they arrived was the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), established by the Refugee Act of 1980. The Somalians are not, on the whole, illegal aliens. Though they started as a trickle in the 1980s and ’90s, under the Bush and Obama Administrations of the aughts and teens it ballooned. You might say. But caution: this was part of broader increases in overall refugee ceilings (from ~70,000 – 80,000 annually early on, to 85,000 in FY2016 and planned 110,000 for FY2017) due to global crises. Peaks occurred in later years (e.g., ~9,000 in 2016), but this built on prior decades’ flows — not a sudden new initiative from, say, the Obama Administration.

While the migrant story goes way back, this fraud story itself goes back, too; it’s not just a recent phenomenon. But more on that later.

It’s been over a month since this site’s last update on the most fascinating astronomical event of the year, 3I/​ATLAS. The general run of astronomers and astronomical organizations keep insisting on calling the cosmic interloper a “comet,” but it is so very different from all previous solar system comets that the term seems stretched. 

It’s odd how strict on nomenclature — developing and enforcing a discipline-​wide definition — astronomers were when they demoted Pluto from “planet” to “dwarf planet,” in 2006, but now give so much latitude to “comet” when the current object displays so many anomalies.

How many anomalies?

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has documented up to 15 anomalies for the interstellar object 3I/​ATLAS (also known as C/​2024 S1), based on his recent writings and interviews where he compiles and expands on peculiarities in its composition, behavior, trajectory, and other traits that deviate from typical comets.

Some sources reference 14, but his most comprehensive recent list hits 15.

The most recent anomaly he highlighted is the alignment of 3I/ATLAS’s axis (center of rotation) with its persistent sunward direction. Comets tumble in a random, “bad-​punt football” fashion; 3I/​ATLAS entered our observational ambit headed for a flyby, but (we discovered later) with its rotational axis always pointing at the Sun — and then when nearest the Sun, it smoothly flipped, with the other pole also pointing within 8 degrees to the solar system’s gravitational center. 

And all the while there was an “anti-​tail” pointing out of its solar-​side pole, tightly focused like a urine stream, not a sneeze — comet tails point away from the Sun, and usually resemble sneezes!

This is all very odd. The anti-​tail is nudging the trajectory outward from the Sun, bringing the object closer to Jupiter than initial calculations indicated. Why?

Well, if it is an artificial object, Loeb suggests a rationale: “If 3I/​ATLAS is technological in origin, it might have fine-​tuned its trajectory with the help of thrusters so as to arrive at Jupiter’s Hill radius. In that case, the multiple jets observed around 3I/​ATLAS in its post-​perihelion images … might have been used for the slight orbit correction needed to result in min{D}=H.”

There are a lot of ifs here, of course, and Loeb himself says the bets are still favoring “natural object.” But the object is so weird that we know little of its nature. We may understand more of the whats of the object, after several months of observations, but few of its whys. Calling it a comet seems less justified than demoting Pluto. And finding excuses not to investigate this fascinating traveler is, as Loeb argues, the exact wrong lesson to draw.

But if you are looking for an informed mainstream view, consult Vladimir Putin, who insists on calling 3I/​ATLAS a comet: “Our scientists are aware of what is happening. Moreover, this is a comet from another star, so it behaves differently from comets of our galactic [sic] origin. It has a different shell and as it approaches closer to the Sun, slightly different processes occur on its surface, including in the field tail of this rocket. Things look different there, but it’s quite large. I think somewhere between 2 to 6 kilometers. Look, the moon is 400,000 kilometers away from us. And the object you are talking about is hundreds of millions of kilometers away. I don’t think it poses any threat to us. We’ll let it go to Jupiter. And at the beginning of next year, the comet will leave the solar system.”

On Thursday, a provocative post from X user @CremieuxRecueil included a graph showing U.S. federal workforce numbers declining from a peak of around 3.05 million in late 2024 to below 2.75 million by late 2025, with the drop accelerating after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025.

Elon Musk replied to it on the 19th, with “The matrix was reprogrammed,” amplifying its reach.

Musk’s somewhat cryptic comment seems to attribute the decline to DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency, an advisory body led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, which focused on reducing federal spending and bureaucracy through recommendations like hiring freezes, agency reorganizations, and mass layoffs.

Is there any truth to it? Did DOGE do something substantive? 

Based on official U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data and reporting from government oversight sources, yes. This precipitous downward slope on the graph represents the largest peacetime reduction in federal employment on record, totaling over 270,000 jobs cut since January 2025.

That is roughly a 9 percent drop from peak levels.

Still, critics note it hasn’t yet translated to significant budget savings.

DOGE’s role does receive credit in many accounts, as its recommendations influenced executive actions like Trump’s Day One hiring freeze (with exceptions for essential roles) and agency-​specific layoffs. But remember, DOGE itself is an unofficial advisory panel without direct authority — its charter expires in mid-​2026, and since Elon left, it has not been quite as active as at its peak.

Federal employment had grown from about 2.85 million in 2021 to over three million by 2024 under the Biden administration, driven by hiring in areas like healthcare, infrastructure, and regulatory enforcement. The reversal in 2025 aligns with Trump’s executive orders and DOGE proposals to eliminate redundancies and non-​essential positions.

As of mid-​2025, over 58,500 confirmed layoffs, 76,000 voluntary buyouts, and 149,000 planned reductions were tracked across 27 agencies, including significant cuts at the IRS, EPA, and Department of Education.

While not a formal department, DOGE’s public campaigns and embedded “team leads” in agencies have driven reorganizations, such as consolidating offices and purging unprotected roles.

Cato Institute hailed it as effective for workforce reduction, but outlets like The Washington Times pointed out that federal spending hasn’t decreased accordingly, calling the savings goal of $2 trillion “unmet.”

Why “unmet”? Well, factors like entitlement programs and debt servicing aren’t just going to go away of themselves, and DOGE limited itself to “waste-​fraud-​abuse” elements in the Social Security system.

References:

• BLS CES Highlights for November 2025 (PDF): Direct monthly data on government employment drops.
• Cato Institute Analysis (December 18, 2025): Details the 9% decline and historical context.
• Fortune (December 16, 2025): Covers the October/​November drops tied to DOGE.
• New York Post Opinion (December 19, 2025): Discusses cumulative 270,000+ reduction.
• Reuters Exclusive (November 24, 2025): Explains hiring freeze and DOGE’s advisory role.
• “2025 Federal Mass Layoffs” (Wikipedia): Tracks confirmed and planned cuts.
• “How the DOGE Do,” Common Sense FYI (February 15, 2025): Covers the way of DOGE’s creation.
• “Elon’s Out,” Common Sense by Paul Jacob (May 30, 2025): The politics of DOGE’s transition to its latter days.