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I’m in beautiful, snowy downtown McCall for a protest planned in support of fired federal workers, especially Forest Service folks who are an important part of the local community. Follow here for how things go. My instinct says a decent crowd is likely.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This is a must-listen On the Media episode. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

You can use 5calls.org to call your members of Congress. It’s free and easy to use as many times as you’d like. The more the better. FLOOD THE LINES!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

While I wait for the email that tells me whether I’ve been fired or spared, here’s a thread of things I’ve had the privilege of working on, experiencing, and accomplishing in my 10 months as a federal employee at the Storm Prediction Center. 1/?

submitted 7 days ago • 110 comments

Very Important! I asked A.I. to compare the political events in the U.S. to events in history that led to the end of world democracies. Then I asked it to predict our future. proudnavyveteran.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/a... Same report on Substack: proudnavyveteran.substack.com/p/asking-ai-...

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Management of the Army’s X account clearly changed around 2 PM ET on Friday. For the last month, content was standard fare. But a series of posts made clear someone new was managing the account. It began with the renaming of Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg. Bizarrely, Elon Musk was tagged directly. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 55 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 7 days ago • 600 comments

In their statement, the former U.S. attorneys sharply criticized the Justice Department’s intention to investigate Ms. Sassoon and some of the career prosecutors who served alongside her. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: The Army on Friday eliminated earlier medical-record privacy protections it said applied to trans troops & paused any "medical procedures." The Army did so going into a long weekend and right before a hearing is to begin Tuesday morning in a challenge to Trump's anti-trans military EO.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

BREAKING: The U.S. Justice Department files a motion seeking to dismiss the charges against Eric Adams, the New York City mayor, in S.D.N.Y. without prejudice. The three lawyers whose names are on the filing all just entered appearances in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

Removes much that deals with foreign disinformation. And other important topics. This is deliberate state self-destruction under the pretext of removing DEI.

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments

Can the courts save us? My latest, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1309 comments

This story is bananas. "A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20 ... They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort."

submitted 21 days ago • 218 comments

Dem leaders need to start holding national security press conferences explaining to Americans how Elon and Trump are dismantling agencies and seeking sensitive information on federal workers and all Americans. What Elon and co are doing will endanger everything from flying to attacks in U.S.

submitted 21 days ago • 128 comments

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-c...

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset www.404media.co/archivists-w...

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 21 days ago • 135 comments

The Trump Regime scrubbing health care data from federal websites is going to directly kill seriously chronically ill and acutely ill children and adults across the United States. Doctors rely on this information to make life and death treatment decisions. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

If Elon Musk's goons are downloading all this data (including non-public, protected data) that they are deleting from federal websites -- which is likely the case!!! -- then we are actually witnessing a heist job in broad daylight

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

submitted 22 days ago • 126 comments

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

submitted 22 days ago • 231 comments

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

submitted 23 days ago • 252 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 23 days ago • 1273 comments

But chaos will be permanent www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 52 comments

Chris Murphy on why Dems must fight Trump harder: “This has been a red-alert moment for weeks—now no one can deny it. For my colleagues that didn’t want to cry wolf, the wolf is literally chomping at our leg right now.” Talked to Murphy for this new piece on Dems: newrepublic.com/article/1908...

submitted 24 days ago • 64 comments

The Trump admin is testing what kinds of dictatorship it can get away with, like the velociraptors testing electric fences in Jurassic Park. See also @lilymasonphd.bsky.social @thomaszimmer.bsky.social discussion on @isthisdemocracypod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

submitted 24 days ago • 608 comments

Y'all. @unitedwedream.org is actively recruiting people to do Know Your Rights trainings, and so are many of the local immigrant advocacy groups near you. You can help make a difference!

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments