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Trump’s threat of mass firing of roughly 5,000 employees across HHS agencies this week appeared sloppy and haphazard, with Kennedy and other officials backpedaling on multiple occasions after it became clear that firing thousands of workers would imperil critical programs.

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So DOGE's 'wall of receipts' is riddled with errors, falsehoods and distortions. big shock. about what you'd expect from 6 tech bros dragged over from the strip club www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 35 comments

If the media won’t call it a Nazi salute then they’re definitely not going to say that someone was fired because they are Black or a woman. These outlets are complicit.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

> @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/politics/mar...

submitted 21 hours ago • 46 comments

Top Fertilizer Firm Says US Farmers Would Bear Trump Trade Costs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Immigrants in FL make up 47% of workforce in agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting and mining; 38% in construction; and 25% in service jobs. Going after this workforce means higher prices in supermarkets and disrupted supply chains. That’s the reality.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Why aren’t you reporting on Cruz’s and Cornyn’s silence on Trump’s statement on Ukraine and his coziness with Putin? This is frightening. @dallasnews.com

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"[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about...the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy." - @aoc.bsky.social with @fedworkersunited.bsky.social today #SaveOurServices

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

It’s incredible that Trump’s people say the answer to bird flu is supposedly “better biosecurity” while they’re firing the biosecurity people.

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

Why won’t Elon show us the savings from DOGE? What’s he hiding?

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 992 comments

@clayjenkins.bsky.social Is anyone looking this? www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

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State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 4 days ago • 846 comments

Dying in a hideous plane crash because the world’s most racist and unlovable nerds couldn’t handle a 45 minute HR training.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

U.S. aviation safety has always been paramount, as it ensures the protection of millions of passengers and crew members traveling daily. Gutting the FAA & ATC will have dire consequences. Contact your senators, governors and the CEO’s of United, AA and SWA. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Trump has begun firing several hundred FAA employees. Guess who is visiting the FAA command center today to "suggest improvements"? Elon Musk, of course. The billionaire grift continues. https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437

submitted 5 days ago • 372 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

Per @taracopp.bsky.social: “FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67.”

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"Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to three people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency."

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

One nice thing about being a free person, or the operator of a free press, is you don’t have to consult—much less “obey”—a goddam book of presidential proclamations to learn what words, geographic or otherwise, are permissible to use. Any government encroachment on that freedom ought to be fought.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 7 days ago • 1614 comments

Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

To get started, check out our AMA Update YouTube series, which shares info such as the latest news on bird flu, the recent wave of tuberculosis cases in KS, and a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students, & patients. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

We're excited to join the incredible #MedSky community. Thank you to all the dedicated health care professionals working hard out there.

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

In Nigeria toddlers are starving because emergency feeding centers have run out of nutrient-rich paste used to save lives of severely malnourished children Ebola outbreak in Uganda has spread to 3 cities. @nickkristof.bsky.social on consequences of USAID chaos so far www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 8 days ago • 85 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 8 days ago • 6091 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 7 days ago • 137 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1090 comments

Biden: - let's end cancer Trump - let's _double_ cancer

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

It’s very interesting how media outlets like 404 and Wired who do tech and not DC cocktail party circuit slop have covered the Musk angle best because their guiding light isn’t getting a ticket to next weeks book release party in Georgetown

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

horse in the hospital, but the horse has nuclear weapons is the thing

submitted 9 days ago • 144 comments

The complete failure of Republicans in Congress to exercise their power as a check on the executive branch is national disgrace. But the courts are doing their job and may yet protect democracy from Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 242 comments

To be clear, it's not a mistake that grants to train special ed teachers were cancelled. MAGA absolutely considers those to be verboten "DEI," and Silicon Valley considers them contrary to their eugenics project.

submitted 9 days ago • 80 comments

Many of you have asked me about the impacts of the sudden USAID closure on Vietnam. This is one among many of them.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

At this point I genuinely don't think it's hyperbole to say that Elon Musk is functionally in charge of the US government. Perhaps not in specific policy areas - two bills or one on the hill, policy in the mideast. But certainly functional control of the state apparatus.

submitted 10 days ago • 142 comments

A 19-year-old assistant of Elon Musk known online as “Big Balls” is now a senior adviser at the State Department and at the Department of Homeland Security www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 136 comments

“These stories should concern all Americans because they are our family members, neighbors and friends. No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way.” The American Bar Association speaks out. Please read and share. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 11 days ago • 249 comments

JUST IN: Judge Amy Berman Jackson becomes the 5th judge today to block an aspect of Trump's early-term orders, this time the firing of ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger. And night isn't over. yet ...

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

Again if you are at an institution that relies on NIH funding, in a state that either is or isn’t on this lawsuit, I’d love to hear how the next few days shake out. Signal is davelevitan.26, can remain anonymous.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments