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41. The DOGE guys showed up with gun-toting FBI agents. The Institute called DC police.

Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:11 PM

Mar 2025

But when the DC police showed up, instead of protecting the Institute staff from the trespassing DOGE group and FBI agents, the DC Police turned around and kicked out the Institute's staff from their own building and let DOGE in to do whatever they wanted in secrecy, without Institute staff even being able to observe.

The above is what Rachel Maddow reported on her show tonight.

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US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building [View all] highplainsdem Mar 2025 OP

Some of those mfr's are going to get shot. paleotn Mar 2025 #1

Musk's kid hackers are stealing info for China. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #2

why haven't their lawyers gone to court for a TRO? hlthe2b Mar 2025 #3

Ohhh, wish they could have *tossed them out*!!! 😬 electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #4

All members of DOGE should be prosecuted for criminal trespassing sakabatou Mar 2025 #5

Can they charge them by state law for breaking and entering? Baitball Blogger Mar 2025 #6

Washington DC is a city Wicked Blue Mar 2025 #7

This administration is not interested in peace IronLionZion Mar 2025 #8

This is criminal. FFS, these people need to be prosecuted... if only the DOJ wasn't run by the LymphocyteLover Mar 2025 #9

GOOD GOOD GOOD orangecrush Mar 2025 #10

Police let them SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #13

Well fuck orangecrush Mar 2025 #44

Rachel has done a story about this on her show tonight radical noodle Mar 2025 #11

The police let them?! SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #12

NOT Entirely sure.... bc verybusy day, and feeling sleepy....I THOT I heard her say ... electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #16

Rachel Maddow said on her show that DC Police let them AND kicked out Institute staff!! SunSeeker Mar 2025 #17

Maybe the DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #21

Ohhh yeah, I think I remember some vid of DC LOE opening a door for some insurectionists electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #24

Have you ever noticed DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #38

Ohhhh, boy. Woah! And does it feel surreal as in .... electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #39

Fauci and his crowd of DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #40

For what drumphf did he has blood on his hands for all his misinformation, trying to lessen PPE to Blue States etc for.. electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #43

Actually DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #46

I wouldn't be surprised. electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #47

Yikes, TY (sorta) for confirmation 😞 🤬 electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #22

Yes, they let them, and Rachel said it -- people with guns let DOGERS break and enter a building that's not even a ancianita Mar 2025 #18

Whats next? Library of Congress? GAO? SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #23

Very good questions, and exactly the ones she's raising. ancianita Mar 2025 #27

I wonder if states can offer their national guards to protect the agencies SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #28

They not federal agencies. Not federal. One is an independent agency, the other is a foundation in its own building. ancianita Mar 2025 #32

Ah right. I think i was thinking protect all of the federal agencies... SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #34

I hear ya; you're not alone; everyone's worn out. Thing is, this is even worse BECAUSE these are not federal. ancianita Mar 2025 #35

I just dontbhave the brain power to comprehend and process just how bad everything is all at once... SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #48

Understood. Right now, no one can know everything about this. The main thing is to keep informed but stay calm. ancianita Mar 2025 #52

Somewhere DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #26

That's the way things used to work. But this is the non-state site of Axis of Evil people. ancianita Mar 2025 #29

Either way DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #36

Super illegal SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #30

The DOGE guys showed up with gun-toting FBI agents. The Institute called DC police. SunSeeker Mar 2025 #41

TY. Horrible! electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #45

And then changed the locks Bayard Mar 2025 #49

I'm sure this behavior won't evolve into breaking into individual homes. jalan48 Mar 2025 #14

Or individual businesses SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #15

That sure seems to be coming down slightlv Mar 2025 #19

Thinking it might be time to organize some militias to protect the rest of our agencies. SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #25

Regretfully DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #31

... SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #33

I suspect that the day after the election DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #37

A major downside to bluesky and our media... SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2025 #20

Who is authorizing this sh*t?! LaRaven Mar 2025 #42

So is it a government agency or not? HereForTheParty Mar 2025 #50

How about this.... Blue Owl Mar 2025 #51

Wait, wait -- the story just got even crazier. Peep this from Josh Marshall of TPM. Efilroft Sul Mar 2025 #53

Every gov't agency in Washington needs to change their locks immediately FakeNoose Mar 2025 #54