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Canceled KenCen show refunds frees up the budget for more kpop concerts.

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Welp … Eureka Day IS canceled.

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Among many other attacks, this order would end the Presidential Management Fellows program. I was a PMF in 2009. The program provides a faster process way for federal agencies to hire staff with advanced training. Cutting it is not “government efficiency.” It’s gutting the public sector.

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Free services, resources in Fairfax County available to former federal workers amid firings, layoffs - thanks @dcnewsnow.bsky.social! www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

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Fairfax County launches website aimed at helping federal workers who are losing their jobs - thanks WJLA!

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New on the Fairfax County, Va., NewsCenter: Help for residents affected by federal workforce restructuring www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news/help-re... - job leads, networking, career coaching - starting a business - staying active, healthy - financial help - and more

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These notes 😭

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Three-legged dogs can do anything!

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More evidence-framing dynamics: "They’re running the ‘Twitter Files’ playbook against the entire U.S. gov't. The claims are a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories built around idiotic misinterpretations and intentional mischaracterizations of bits of data and out-of-context communications."

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NEW: Marocco has tried shutting down nearly all USAID programs & freezing foreign aid. He’s led the charge to place nearly all USAID staff on administrative leave. Officials said they see the move as retribution against those who opposed his earlier work. By @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy

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‘Resilience’ has been so weaponised by organisations trying to avoid accountability, that it has become utterly useless at best and abusive at worst.

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I’m on month four and three revisions of trying to get a correct out of network reimbursed claim from United Healthcare. And it’s still easier than than two months I have been trying to submit a single claim to Cigna …. 😡

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My next Kennedy Center show is for “Eureka Day” in March. Who thinks it will be canceled?

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He has no idea what is happening in Human world

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If you're trying to keep up with the flurry of USAID lawsuit news, there are now three. Here's an overview from my Substack post yesterday timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/foreign-ai...

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I've been taking a look at recent posts by Russia's ongoing social media campaign, where they've most recently started using deepfaked audio from people like me to push their lies, and there's been a clear uptick in videos making up various allegations about USAID funding.

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Woke up to “Dancing Through Life” looping in my brain so that’s where all the news of the past few weeks has me now.

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"Look what happens when you write a report critical of this administration: They fire you the next day. This chills independent oversight, and that’s exactly what we need right now." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Every contract awarded to Anduril Palantir, SpaceX and Tesla for military equipment will be individually more of a waste and more corrupt than even the most lavish imagined grant to underwater basket weaving Bedouin or whatever the far right says USAID does

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I saved this photo from the Kennedy Center’s “1776” production program. Did this make them mad?

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AMAZING new video please share!!! REPUBLICANS IN THEIR OWN WORDS agreeing that USAID is vital to America's national security. #SaveUSAID #safeforeignaid www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOb...

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The United States has been in a constitutional crisis for decades. We just don’t really talk about it.

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Not for nothing, but the institutions of this economy work because the institutions of this democracy work.

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“We must refuse to be ordered to throw our oaths of office in the trash by an unelected oligarch or his cronies,” the team lead said in a speech to internal staff, referring to Elon Musk who heads the Department of Government Efficiency. www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

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From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts and awards are being terminated en masse – with the procurement team subject to hourly checks on speed of executing terminations. The pace has exceeded the ability to confirm whether lifesaving assistance or any Congressional mandate is affected.

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Feminism ....

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Scenes from the local dog park.

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People are delusional about what happens if Musk and Trump ignore the law, the Constitution, and court orders. Everyone is acting like this is a standoff over USAID and a few other programs, and then we'll go back to politics as normal.

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It’s not hard to know. We are, in fact, on the precipice.

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Thousands of job losses so far outside of government positions, with WaPo identifying layoffs from North Carolina to West Virginia and Texas: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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