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eliothiggins.bsky.social • 28 days ago

That'll stop 'em.

“We write to demand that you cease your purge of non-partisan, civil servants, including career professionals and independent government watchdogs." - Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in a letter to President Trump oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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waxmonkey.bsky.social•28 days ago

thats not helpful

potrzebiesystem.bsky.social•28 days ago

If there’s anything these right wing extremists respond to, it’s strongly worded letters

pete1965.bsky.social•28 days ago

I mean, they don't want to upset their King.

rbrauner.bsky.social•28 days ago

There's nothing like a strongly worded letter to stop a coup!

silberbauer.dk•28 days ago

If only the Carthaginians had written a strongly worded letter to the Romans in 146 BC, history could have been different.

jenniferfinger.bsky.social•28 days ago

Hey @rephuffman.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov, what are you doing now to effectively stop the illegal DOGE activities?

kauaihorses.bsky.social•28 days ago

Spelled DOGE, pronounced "dodgy".

spiritualmantis.bsky.social•28 days ago

They keep waving bananas in a gun fight

tomh4.bsky.social•28 days ago

Totally get the frustration, but not sure mocking Dems for being powerless helps point the way toward regaining power.

flaneuse1.bsky.social•28 days ago

Perhaps not, but if it gives them pause as to how they band together in order to fight, rather than a scattergun approach, then perhaps it's not a bad thing.

tomh4.bsky.social•27 days ago

Dems in Congress have fallen back on some atrocious messaging and it's fine to call them out, as long as we say why. But it's not obviously wrong for Oversight Dems to protest a purge, and it doesn't seem fair to ridicule them for not having the power to stop that purge.

flaneuse1.bsky.social•27 days ago

Fair enough. I just hope that the Dems that are working hard behind the scenes to fight the atrocities that are happening now will do it in a very coordinated way.

chadomir.bsky.social•28 days ago

I know it's not much but other than OSINT journalism what's your recommendation/fix?

eliothiggins.bsky.social•28 days ago

Lots here https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3lagtz237at2n

chadomir.bsky.social•28 days ago

The issue is that they don't care about any piece of research/evidence. I like it, because I want to know what's going on.

But for field research I'm in some spicy conservative tech groups but even as """smart""" people they will go to INSANE lengths to deny any evidence, Russian style. What then?

walflour.bsky.social•28 days ago

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