Schoolhouse Rock but it's me learning about all the activities of government as Trump and Elon destroy them one by one - ThreadSky

michaelhobbes.bsky.social • 13 days ago

Schoolhouse Rock but it's me learning about all the activities of government as Trump and Elon destroy them one by one

Gutted to see the Woodrow Wilson Center included in this. It has been a crucial institution in the production, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge about the history of the U.S. and the world. Its Cold War archives are a priceless teaching and research tool. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...

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viridianlakes.bsky.social•13 days ago

To the tune of Komm, süßer Todd

decmusicology.bsky.social•13 days ago

SPORTS ANNOUNCER: Here comes the civil servant, reporting a problem in their department to the Inspector Gen---Oooooh! And in a last minute upset, the Inspector General has been canned! That one has got to hurt for the Rule of Law, doesn't it, Jim?

JIM: Yeah, they're gonna feel that one.

salahub.bsky.social•13 days ago

Not quite Schoolhouse Rock, but this Insta account is doing the review: https://www.instagram.com/amandasmildtakes?igsh=MTEwbWM5aXEwb2g1dg==

joshuatanzer.bsky.social•13 days ago

I bet you’ve read Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk, which is basically a book about, huh, I wonder what people in random parts of the government do. (If you haven’t, it’s great.) Now we’re living that question every day.

jlgittinger.bsky.social•13 days ago

Exactly this

ghostyspook.bsky.social•13 days ago

My glass half full 😭😭😭 perspective on this would be that people leave that federal government employees do a bunch of serious essential shit and have a lot of skills at it.

But then I hoped Covid would get people wear a mask out when they have a cold too

microflora.cc•13 days ago

📌

a10020073.bsky.social•13 days ago

😢

leap4emily.bsky.social•13 days ago

Pretty depressing to be reading through a list of “obscure” agencies as the NY Times put it, and see the agency that funds many of the grants for your industry (in my case libraries).

willhryan.bsky.social•12 days ago

Not that it helps, but it puts you in good company with those of us watching the wholesale dismantling of American science (via NIH/NSF) be covered as a human interest sidebar about a few plucky nerds losing their dream jobs

tarallol.bsky.social•13 days ago

The question is whether long term this will be good for our cultural respect for institutions or not - if not I guess that means we will have lost, so

chronolynx.bsky.social•13 days ago

otoh this would absolutely piss woodrow wilson off, which is always a worthwhile endeavor

mp-willow.bsky.social•13 days ago

So true. Why would he want to gut Voice of America? Or rather He knows not what the chainsaw #Purges easts?

nochbaya.bsky.social•13 days ago

It was so lit when the U.S. African Development Foundation just locked their doors and refused to interact with those DOGE losers until they just left.

peakingsassy.bsky.social•13 days ago

Trusk=Schoolhouse Paper

voteymcvoteface.bsky.social•13 days ago

I’m just a bill, I’m the only bill, no literally the only bill they fired the rest of us

alliempls.bsky.social•13 days ago

The CDFI fund will result in the loss of credit and development of poorer neighborhoods throughout America which is exactly what they want.

npfi.bsky.social•13 days ago

schoolhouse wreck

bryanquinn1981.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sorry, Schoolhouse Rock went woke when they did “No More Kings”, so it’ll have to be a Veggie Tales written by later Eric Metaxas and Charlie Kirk.

larryjsimon.bsky.social•13 days ago

Who knew we had a Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for labor disputes; an Institute of Museum and Library Services supporting museums, libraries, and archives; a U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness; a Minority Business Development Agency? Fabulous while they lasted.

dscrad.medsky.social•13 days ago

I was thinking the same thing. Gee, we had all these neat, little offices and bureaus doing all kinds of things to help people. Maybe we're not as uncaring as I think we are...

Then the fuckers shut them down.

kathewey.bsky.social•13 days ago

My version of gaylor is wishing Taylor swift is secretly planning on giving away her fortune

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