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annamerlan.bsky.social
Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to [email protected] or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
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At least one federal workers union, NTEU, is advising members not to respond to the email. People at intelligence agencies have been told the same since NDAs cover a lot of their work and they actually can’t chat with Elon and his 19-year-old friends about what they’re up to

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Musk has tweeted 57 times since decreeing that fed employees must answer an email about what they did this week, and that it will be “taken as a resignation” if they don’t reply. If you want to pretend your tweets are legally binding announcements, you probably shouldn’t also have logorrhea

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

“Just a few weeks ago, in early February, Musk told St Clair that the two ‘have a legion of kids to make.’” www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashl...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Hearing multiple reports that members of the current ACIP were fired. I hate it when my predictions come true. bsky.app/profile/dave...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Elon Musk is finally living his ultimate fantasy of everyone having to pretend he's funny and cool

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Ah okay upon two seconds of inspection and some feedback from people smarter than me: it’s because this story is a bit breathless and the claims in the press release have not been backed up with evidence as yet www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This is so exciting, and it's also so funny that our national response to this is basically "not NOW, new state of matter, we have a lot going on" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

It sounds like 2025 Hochul is running against 2024 Hochul

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Lmaoooooo SHOW ME THE LIE FOLKS

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I'm hearing probationary employees are now getting laid off at the IRS. Another department that's likely to be left short-staffed in the coming months; good thing there isn't some massive deadline most Americans will be facing that will specifically require the IRS to be-- what's that? Oh

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Hard to think about how Dr. Phil could cap off an already humiliating career, but by Jove, he's done it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

NEW: Trump cabinet officials have embraced Jack Posobiec, the far-right conspiracy theory-peddler (Pizzagate!) who co-wrote a book last year demonizing liberals as "unhumans" & praising fascist dictators—Spain's Franco & Chile's Pinochet—as role models for MAGA. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 110 comments

National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning in Zoom call. This included workers who had completed a 1-yr requisite probation and shouldn't have been included in termination but were suddenly told recently that the 1-yr should have been 2-yrs, revoking their permanent status.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

This was so good and informative

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Why won’t my little hydroponic seeds sprout? The seeds are a bit old but I didn’t think that was how… seeds work. In these trying times I just want some fresh mint

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Love to realize how much, uh, trivia I’ve absorbed about RFK Jr. in the last ten years and how unfortunately relevant it all is right now

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Here’s a FUN conversation with @annamerlan.bsky.social about RFK jizzle podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP w/ @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social for @motherjones.com : A DOGE worker wrote in a recently deleted Substack post that he was radicalized by reading a writer who has denied the Holocaust, boosted 9/11 conspiracy theories, & platformed anti-Black racism. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments