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THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: EEOC admin judge Karen Ortiz resisted an order to hand over all LGBT cases for “review” and told colleagues to resist too. She knows she’ll likely to be fired. “I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning

submitted 3 days ago • 2560 comments

Your outie documented five things they accomplished in the past week.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

Don't do this.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Bill Bramhall, @nydailynews.com

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

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 8 days ago • 1004 comments

“People try to hack in every day.” Leaders of SC courts, DMV warn what could happen if ‘ancient’ technology isn’t upgraded scdailygazette.com/2025/02/19/s... by @jmholdman.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving. That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.

submitted 9 days ago • 276 comments

I'm watching news in discrete batches only, with a primary focus on things I can do stuff about and things that directly affect me, not trying to be more than broadly informed about everything else, and aggressively and ruthlessly forcing myself to take large chunks of time for personal activities.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Holy Hell

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 14 days ago • 147 comments

I have the worst fucking senator.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

submitted 14 days ago • 480 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 17 days ago • 402 comments

Trump’s tax agenda outlined by the White House today will add at least $5 trillion to the debt, potentially much more. Per new analysis by nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-...

submitted 20 days ago • 94 comments

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 24 days ago • 213 comments