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Tillis is up for reelection in NC next year.

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🌈💫Did you know that government jobs used to be awarded through a patronage/spoils system? This changed in 1895 when Teddy Roosevelt implemented merit-based civil service positions.

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

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1/This chain links to documents and repositories bearing witness to impacts of USAID stop work orders, contract terminations and staff reductions. Some relate to litigation. Most come from aid, advocacy & development industry organizations or beneficiaries that have a stake in the terminated work.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

ah yes, bring back the Dickensian workhouses

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

From our beloved #altGov: 🌈💫Did you know that government jobs used to be awarded through a patronage/ spoils system? This changed in 1895 when Teddy Roosevelt implemented merit-based civil service positions.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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We are looking for a postdoc in #EvolutionarySystemsBiology. Exciting science, amazing team, wonderful city! landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca/research-opp... #evolution #synbio #systemsbiology #genomics

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Can’t help but be reminded of the words of Russell Vought, now head of OMB: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected because they are increasingly viewed as villains. We want to put them in trauma.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 340 comments

The understaffed Social Security Administration faces further cuts and office closures at the same time as retiring Baby Boomers have caused a surge in the number of people receiving benefits. https://propub.li/4ia5PX5

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“Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular.” — Timothy Snyder

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2033 comments

I’m positive you all saw the video from Coeur d’Alene, where a woman was pulled out of her seat and arrested by men who claimed to be sheriff deputies, but were not in uniform. I need the men to do something: When you see a woman being abused, step in. Step up. Get in the way. Put your body to use.

submitted 8 hours ago • 492 comments

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

submitted 10 hours ago • 563 comments

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

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Message from Meidas Founder…MAGA IS TERRIFIED open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Not a great time for citizens who have chosen to serve their country by working in government, when the current leaders have nothing but contempt for your very existence. I have an idea, run for office against a Republican who is enabling it - which is all of them.

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An #NIH-funded research team has developed an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer. Results from the clinical trial were published this week in Nature. #pancreas #cancer #mRNA #vaccine #medsky #science #medicine #bluesky

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This is who Trump is firing (thread 3 of 3): (1/?) I previously made a post about the firing of the Commandant of the USCG, but it feels relevant now to discuss her qualifications and career as well. Adm. Linda Fagan graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1985, and has served for 40 years.

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Look and see the human cost. It’s real and it’s painful. youtu.be/tkM8mW6UNVE?...

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A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants. #IDsky #Medsky #Episky www.science.org/content/arti...

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Friends of Bill W - These are trying times. Please stay the course & don't let Trump/Musk's chaos and cruelty rob you of your progress. Work the program. Practice healthy self care. Be mindful & reach out to your support when you need it. You got this.

submitted 19 hours ago • 22 comments

I would say that this is gaining traction. Krasnov is now the president of the USA. www.kyivpost.com/post/47630

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Deep. Water Horizon Ten Years On www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...

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submitted 18 hours ago • 219 comments

Non-elected President, Senator and Representative, His Majesty Elon Musk sent an email to all fed employees asking them to respond with what they did last week, stating failure to reply by a deadline will be taken as a resignation. Here is a statement from the AFGE President in response.

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Instead of focusing on America’s national security, this man is treating America like a reality show. Firing QUALIFIED military leaders! Playing with our national security! This isn’t a game. crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Three cheers for this 5-page letter from ~92 Congressional Dems demanding answers about IES & ed research ht: @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

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This is who Trump is firing (thread 2 of 3): (1/?) Adm. Lisa Franchetti entered the Navy in 1985. She was designated a Surface Warfare Officer in 1989, and has nearly 20 years of operational and at-sea experience. She has commanded the USS Ross, two Carrier Strike Groups, and a Destroyer Squadron.

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Elon’s mass harassment email to all federal employees underscores the importance of having unions to represent workers against abusive management.

submitted 23 hours ago • 471 comments

NEW: The email went out about 30 minutes ago.

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Elon doesn't seem to understand how the federal government works.

submitted 22 hours ago • 274 comments

Email doesn’t list that you’ll be fired if you don’t respond. Elon’s Twitter post suggests that it will be taken as a resignation. Very low likelihood this holds up.

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At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

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Amen to that.

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Destroying the CDC team researching Lyme disease. Disbanding the HHS Long COVID council. Cutting Medicaid. How is any of this cost-saving? This is not about efficiency. It’s about funding tax breaks for billionaires while costing Americans their health. www.9news.com/article/news...

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

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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.

submitted 1 day ago • 2066 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.

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KNOX NEWS LTE: “Trump has exceeded all expectations in corruption & incoherence. Where are our elected leaders? — @RepTimBurchett yells on tv about how his father fought in WW2, why is he so enthusiastic about giving unilateral concessions to a dictator?” www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

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