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nytpitchbot.bsky.social • 15 days ago

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dbcii.bsky.social•14 days ago

I was shocked she wasn’t anonymous!

obscurem.bsky.social•15 days ago

I don't get why you're making fun of this. It's a genuinely good article about a whistleblower detailing DOGE takeover of OPM. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/opm-fork-musk-trump-federal-personnel-management-employee.html?via=rss

nrgooding.bsky.social•14 days ago

Agree this is a great article. But I’m more freaked out then ever!

thejcarbone.bsky.social•14 days ago

Thanks for sharing.

wokeymcwokeface.bsky.social•15 days ago

It’s the headline.

nndrew.bsky.social•15 days ago

It's a good article, it's just reminiscent of this widely panned anonymous editorial:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

nytpitchbot.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s a funny headline. Good article tho

paulmurphyetc.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s a provocative headline. Makes it sound like it was written by Big Balls.

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•14 days ago

I didntvtake it as making fun if it. I took it as, it's so sad that I can't even make this shit up anymore".

At which point smiling for a brief second offers a slight reprieve from that dreadful feeling that has us cheering for the 2032 asteroid to hit.

It was a good article, just surreal.

emilydolhansky.bsky.social•15 days ago

“Ironically, this has been the greatest teambuilding exercise of my career, forging bonds in a way that no ropes course has ever managed.”

✊

lorddalek.bsky.social•14 days ago

Big "Resistance Within The White House" energy there.

imdoctorremulak.bsky.social•14 days ago

nah, man read it

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•14 days ago

No. Just a description if the choas.
The resistance within crap requires people in a position to influence what happens. This was just a staffer person that works there explaining what they're seeing but powerless to do anything.

navinpokala.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s actually a really good article by a longtime civil servant, not a “I’m one of the good, Republicans believe me” we got in Trump 1

july2022.bsky.social•13 days ago

https://youtu.be/jdN847OD-UA

preantediluvian.bsky.social•15 days ago

Ha!

dmccx.bsky.social•14 days ago

“We’re just following orders”

tobysmypup.bsky.social•14 days ago

I don't get it. Is this supposed to be a real story or you just riffing on Slate?

edgeoforever.bsky.social•14 days ago

Goes with this Horsey cartoon

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•14 days ago

$450M worth of food and the world's richest man wants it to rot before feeding starving people.

And the so call christians are silent.

https://www.rawstory.com/30k-tons-of-food-going-to-waste-in-houston-after-trump-halted-aid/

thedanadecker.bsky.social•14 days ago

For those who have read Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, that cartoon resonates.

General Erich Ludendorff ordered the destruction of the medieval castle of Coucy in northern France. Soldiers packed 28 tonnes of dynamite around the base.

hobopoet.bsky.social•14 days ago

The second amendment has been way less cool than it could be.

beauxjangles.bsky.social•14 days ago

Daniel Shays would like a word

dabenner.bsky.social•14 days ago

I'm paywalled but the subhead says it's from a career employee who is also freaked out.

amoeba.gay•14 days ago

free link: https://archive.is/yNwnC

nerdma.bsky.social•14 days ago

I've been afraid to look at Slate's hot takes lest my eyes burn out of their sockets.

mwalkerkane.bsky.social•14 days ago

Analysis | There once was another ragtag group of radical racists, all with "big balls" and all who hated Indians: our Founding Fathers.

alanwolk.com•14 days ago

You called it!

joeunseen.bsky.social•14 days ago

Sure there is a constitutional crisis, executive power grab and an apparent suspension of the rule of law. But if Democrats keep running around screaming DEFCON 5 then nothing is ever DEFCON 5.

By Jared Golden