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The lawsuits that come out of this clusterfuck if they do start terminating civil servants for their responses or nonresponses are going to consume DOJ’s personnel for the rest of time

How funny would it be if everyone got this tee and wears it in Sac?! Just sayin…we’d all rather be at the Oakland Coliseum! 🏟️: lastdivebar.com/search?q=rat...

Dear Mr. Musk, What we found out is that each one of us is 1. a brain 2. and an athlete 3. and a basket case 4. a princess 5. and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

It is almost impossible to explain the sheer insanity of Elon Musk apparently having the capability to email the entire federal government evidently without getting approval from anyone—and, apparently, against the wishes of most Cabinet departments.

Yep, baseball is back to normal.

Shortly after hanging the banner, the group sent out a statement: “The purpose of this exercise of free speech is to disrupt without violence and draw attention to the fact that public lands in the United States are under attack,” it reads.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Things I did last week: 1. Never gave you up 2. Never let you down 3. Never ran around and deserted you 4. Never made you cry 5. Never said goodbye (Bonus: Never told a lie and hurt you.)

Rocket scientists, ecologists, climate scientists, AI experts, chemists and other highly skilled workers have been affected. "The door is revolving pretty quickly at NASA right now," one current space agency worker said. "They are losing people with tremendous amounts of experience." 😞💔

When I went to Harvard, a 1400 SAT was borderline for acceptance, and those people were often recruited athletes or rich legacies. Elon is only a few years older than me. This isn’t the flex he thinks it is.

Want to make a cake but eggs are expensive or unavailable? Here's my grandmother's Depression-era recipe for an eggless cake. Yes, I've made it and it's good. I usually add a 1/2 cup of chopped pecans and cut the raisins back to 1/2 cup. That "GP" is my note for "Grandma Peebles."

Being obsessed with IQ is also a good sign of a fundamental failure to understand quantifiability. (Reified concepts aren’t “things.”)

Within minutes of Trump’s guy Witkoff absolving Russia of blame for attacking Ukraine, Russian’s state-controlled international media outlet RT picks it up.

@ruthkapelus.bsky.social, we need you to save us!

Over 75,000 have signed to revoke Musk’s Canadian citizenship. Canadian friends please sign! 🇨🇦 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

This needs to be hammered home. Mars missions are *not* happening any time soon. Some of the necessary science and tech is almost entirely aspirational. As long as going to Mars is more about clickbait than hard work, it will remain science *FICTION*. 🚀

Ruining lives while you pretend to care about the debt then turning around and pushing to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on a literal ego trip

Note, it's true that Vought has gotten the trauma he wants. But bureaucrats are NOT being perceived as the villain here.

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Fired Yosemite workers unfurl distress signal. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

Oshkosh, you know what to do in 2026. 🗳️

Why Pitchers have Trust Issues. 🫤

Why Hitters have Trust Issues. 🤣

Twice as much funding goes to diseases that disproportionally affect men compared to those that mainly impact women. So … no?

1. Why, if you control OPM and have all the job details, do you need me to tell you what I do? 2. When did feeding your AI system become part of my job? 3. This is just another Fork email to intimate. You can't send Fork emails anymore, so this is the next latest crazy.

When you visit the parks enjoy your time and you see the rangers smiling and helping. Just remember that they probably didn't sleep the night before and that they probably spent the evening crying. We've also been secretly training bears to use tasers so if you're an asshole...

If someone wanted to train a new government AI, those email responses would be great input for an LLM…

Could make a really great joke about federal employees responding to the five bullets email by responding with a list of calibers, but I would never be that gauche

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Definitely sounds like an AI phishing expedition.

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‼️CAUTION! DON’T LOG IN TO CHECK IF IT IS NOT YOUR SCHEDULED TIME TO WORK. Word is Federal Employees are getting an email from some douche to report in each week’s activity or you are resigning by not responding. They will use this op to look for insiders. Wait until Monday. #resistsafe

Grimes and the other lady should just tweet “failure to respond to your child’s mother will be taken as your waiving your parental rights.”

There are employees who work a 4x10 schedule with regular days off (RDO) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and others with Sunday, Monday, Tuesday who will not get this email or have the opportunity to respond during working hours. There are others who do not access .gov email b/c they don't use computers.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.