arktoi.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

What’s wasteful is ordering feds to explain their jobs instead of letting them DO their jobs.

submitted 4 hours ago • 273 comments

I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

submitted 3 hours ago • 99 comments

This is not normal! As if federal employees didn’t already feel threatened enough—sure, let the brown shirts have guns; that’ll certainly boost compliance.

submitted 3 hours ago • 84 comments

submitted 3 hours ago • 468 comments

On a Saturday too? Wow — well, here’s a summary of what Republicans voted to do this week: - Defund Medicaid - Defund Medicare - Not to protect IVF funding - Not to protect food assistance

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Over 1,000 people showed up in Framingham to make clear that we’re fired up and ready to fight back against every terrible policy Donald Trump and Elon Musk throw at us. 📸 John Walker

submitted 3 hours ago • 115 comments

If I had to respond to an email as a federal employee asking me what I did at work last week, I'd make sure to list all the duties I had to absorb because of mass illegal firings, followed by a description of what the EPA's Walter Peck did in Ghostbusters.

submitted 4 hours ago • 529 comments

There’s a crucial election coming up in a battleground state: The liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is at risk. Elon Musk is not only determined to infiltrate every level of the federal government, he’s coming after our local elections, too. We’re not going to let him get away with it.

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

NEW: The email went out about 30 minutes ago.

submitted 5 hours ago • 721 comments

Elon Musk instructed federal workers to respond to an email summarizing their weekly accomplishments, a tactic he previously used to downsize staff at X. “Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what you accomplished this week and CC your manager,” the message stated.

submitted 4 hours ago • 398 comments

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 4 hours ago • 409 comments

Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

submitted 6 hours ago • 152 comments

Democratic and Republican members of Congress were heckled and booed at recent town halls. Bernie Sanders went to a red state and was cheered by an overflow crowd. My latest on what this could mean for the opposition movement. quartzevelyn.substack.com/p/notes-on-t...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

What ?!?

submitted 5 hours ago • 645 comments

Trump: "We even got rid of people like Pete Buttigieg, who did the worst job of anybody in the history of transportation. What a bunch of losers."

submitted 6 hours ago • 313 comments

The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

submitted 7 hours ago • 101 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 7 hours ago • 525 comments

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

JFC. Federal workers, we see you and will continue to fight for you. I've been a little behind for obvious reasons, but I'm working on call scripts and will drop them this afternoon.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

If you have a: - Credit card - Checking account - Savings account - Mortgage - Car loan - Student loan - Venmo account The fight to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is your fight.

submitted 6 hours ago • 68 comments

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 6 hours ago • 169 comments

Odd how the turns have tabled… Trump reversed course and admitted that Russia did, in fact, invade Ukraine. International news sources and independent media have stepped up to keep Americans informed.

submitted 6 hours ago • 133 comments

Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.

submitted 6 hours ago • 267 comments

In 2020, the military was adamant about refusing to get involved in the election. That's why Trump hates General Mark Milley so much. Now, Trump is transforming the military into one that will back him up in 2029. We need to figure out how to prepare for that eventuality.