This fired USDA employee from Vermont really captures the stakes of not stopping this ongoing government evisceration: We won't have a functioning society. vtdigger.org/2025/02/18/s... - ThreadSky

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social • 3 days ago

This fired USDA employee from Vermont really captures the stakes of not stopping this ongoing government evisceration: We won't have a functioning society.

https://vtdigger.org/2025/02/18/shockwaves-at-vermonts-usda-research-unit-as-half-the-team-is-laid-off/

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laurenk77.bsky.social•3 days ago

We are in a constitutional crisis now! The quicker we understand that, the quicker we can do something about it. We need a community organized and ready to go. If you haven’t already done so, please sign and share today!

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/constitutional-crisis?source=web-share-api-button&utm_source=web_share_api&share=a3bbaefc-c2c7-4390-bb75-ff8b2c5d5198

mbensonster.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-purge-of-the-deep-state-and-the?r=r58mo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

bullbearjeff.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's what fascism looks like.

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm glad to see state and local media continuing to share these stories. People need to know what we're losing.

ritamelindared.bsky.social•3 days ago

living in the dmv right now is a very surreal experience

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social•3 days ago

I can only imagine the economic impacts we're about to see in the next few weeks.

ritamelindared.bsky.social•3 days ago

yeah - me too😞

maireathena.bsky.social•2 days ago

Who benefits by disabling the government, who benefits from the country unraveling?

thryse.com•3 days ago

Right-wingers either explicitly hate the concept of society or desire a white Christian nationalist society.

kbrn83.bsky.social•3 days ago

truth

bisonbison.bsky.social•3 days ago

And we are seemingly there. I don’t know what to do, but we can’t keep going like this. A recession feels imminent. Mass disease. The authoritarianism is already here.

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think from a "society" perspective, things for *most* people are still humming along like normal. But when things start to break, and they will, it will be bad.

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am generally anti-dooming, but this is one area where dooming can serve a purpose. People need to envision a future with massive food borne illness outbreaks, crumbling and collapsing bridges, and rising workplace injuries.

toddrowell.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thing is, we’re teetering on the edge already. I think in a lot of cases we’re saved only by heroic efforts of dedicated folks like the ones Musk is firing. So things are likely to move away from normal slowly at first and then all at once.

bisonbison.bsky.social•3 days ago

One thing we are notoriously bad at is imagining the way things might play out and acting in advance. And that’s harder when there is a constant onslaught of news and authoritarian edicts.

hellolaurel.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wouldn’t it be insane if all of this led to eating less meat and traveling less by air? Then again that would require that humans learn their lesson womp womp.

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social•3 days ago

The key to behavior change around climate change was just destroying society!

hellolaurel.bsky.social•3 days ago

Turns out “save the earth” was as easy as mass extinction 😝

bisonbison.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah, I suppose it feels to most like things are normal, especially for most people, who are low info. It seems like the breaking will start soon. A recession, seemingly, is highly possible. You can’t cut 200K jobs in one month and not see consequences.

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social•3 days ago

I've been talking to friends and I do think the awareness is starting to shift among people. But I think for most, the oh shit moment will be when it starts hitting their finances.

bisonbison.bsky.social•3 days ago

For sure. As it usually does. For me, an extremely plugged in person who has the most privilege (besides not being rich), I’m still unaffected personally, but I could lose my job any day now. The repercussions are coming.

bobcatfree.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is American discourse and democracy! You’re being it!! Thanks
Let’s get it on paper
We need a newspaper not infected by the Coupe.

boover.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unfortunately, it's looking more and more like social and economic collapse is the only thing that will drive these Orcs from power.

multithinker.bsky.social•3 days ago

When academics warn that eliminating government institutions leads to a 'non-functioning society,' maybe—just maybe—we should listen. But, sure, let's keep claiming that cutting public health infrastructure has no impact. Bird flu today, catastrophic collapse tomorrow. #IncompetenceKills

level90.bsky.social•2 days ago

They don't care as long as they remain in control and hold all the levers of power.

wanderingvoron.bsky.social•3 days ago

Our dollars are more powerful than our votes I'm mostly buying from Mercados (no goya brand though that company is big maga)
This app tells you which politicians get the money you give to a company when u buy their products
https://www.goodsuniteus.com/app/?amp=1

leanonymouse.bsky.social•3 days ago

“ living in a non functioning society “
This is really what republicans do
Destroy everything they touch .

reysjones.bsky.social•2 days ago

Truth! Society will break down and then the thugs will be totally in charge.

gregfallis.bsky.social•3 days ago

The problem with the phrase 'a non functioning society' is that it's passive. It's not that society somehow just stopped functioning; it's that MAGA & DOGE are actively breaking it.

funkybat.bsky.social•3 days ago

People need to start using more vivid descriptions that evoke widely-understood imagery. Start talking about “the world turning into Mad Max” or “the end of civilization as we know it.“

Because those are things the average person understands, and they are barely even hyperbole at this point.

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fair, although I think the sentiment this employee is sharing is the key takeaway, even if it wasn't perfectly articulated.

gregfallis.bsky.social•3 days ago

It IS the key takeaway. Which I think is part of the problem. Not to be annoying...and I'll hush after this...but a lot of the folks who are most immediately suffering are saying "This happened to me" without acknowledging "This was deliberately done to me."

gravelinfluencer.bsky.social•3 days ago

All good, I get it! I just think you're holding a fired USDA employee to an unfairly high messaging standard. I'd 100% agree with you if she was a politician, but she's someone who was just fired and was reacting emotionally. It's the job of media to drive home the point you're making in my opinion.

thekrockupdate.bsky.social•3 days ago

They will stop when we make them stop and not before.

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