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You're a Federal Employee in Northern Virginia and it's 3:35 pm on Saturday afternoon. You're in line at Costco checking out when your phone buzzes and you get this email. WWYD?

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Gen. C.Q. Brown was at the U.S.-Mexico border when he was fired. Gen. Brown was fired as he was evaluating the military’s role in supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB). Fired as he was tending to one of Trump’s top priorities — border security.

submitted 14 hours ago • 91 comments

donald trump literally turned the federal workforce over to elon musk and let him run it into the ground like he did with twitter

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

oh

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Thanks for the love! Tiny correction: I didn’t create the phrase “the leopards ate my face” writer Adrian Bott did in 2015. I just wrote a song inspired by his already viral tweet. Buuuut I did design a bunch of leopards merch just in time for your holiday shopping 👀 shop.franchesca.net 🐆

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

DOGE staffer Marko Elez, who had to resign from Treasury, is now at Social Security Administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

how courageous. keep showing up at the town halls, y'all. ✊🏾

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I don't qwhite understand it

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The folly of NPM strikes again. “Had UK governments of past decades maintained the capabilities of the armed forces, the overall cost would most likely have been lower than the amount the nation will now have to invest to obtain the same level of defence”. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/why-the-brit...

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Quite something to watch Americans in positions of power trying to get to grips with extremely basic principles of good privacy practice and data handling, which are the fundamentals I used to cover in the first few slides for conference audiences here. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

trump doesn't care b/c he's not leaving

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To get a sense of some of the specific types of grant research being affected at universities by the anti-DEI McCarythism here is excellent student reporting with details…

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Real-time exit, voice, or loyalty from a (now former) federal employee, share widely Thank you for writing this, Ethan (but I'm so sorry & pissed this happened)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

You can now call Steve Bannon a Bloated Nazi Boozebag & not get sued.

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Firing the first Black USAF officer who became the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff during (checks notes) Black History Month is wild

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I wish trump had just been honest and told everyone the obvious, that he fired gen. brown b/c he's black. i hope the good general can retire knowing he can't be scapegoated for Taiwan 2027 now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

what a racist commander in chief

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hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

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BREAKING: Federal judge extends the restraining order on NIH capping indirect costs to 15% www.statnews.com/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Governments are supposed to protect their people and tell the truth.

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I have never doubted for one second that Trump is a rapist. The way he talks about Ukraine really confirms it. Ukraine sure as fuck wasn’t asking to be invaded.

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One cat is hungry, one cat is a liar. You may ask one question.

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My mother is 75 and she told me it’s worse now than it was back then. My grandmother said the same. She said “at least back then, you knew where you could go. Where you couldn’t go. The lines were drawn. It was out in the open.”

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

🎵We're in the middle of a HOSTILE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER™️ so I went into the kitchen and got to work And if you say "Wait a minute, who is gonna stop this coup mess?" I don't know, but I made mushroom rice stew for the office (office office office)🎵

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I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

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I just mentioned this in my undergrad class on Monday. Students eyes lit up because they realized the current mass censorship of ideas of Black freedom had roots and precedents going back centuries.

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The Musk destruction of the federal government has many direct effects (all bad) but it also has indirect effects (also all bad), such as powerful corporations changing their behavior to reflect the new regulatory regime (kiss Trump/Musk ass, you’ll be fine, no matter what laws you break).

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

If Putin thought Dems were the way to go, then he, Elon and Trump woulda gone Left -- but the mission would be the same. Destroy and dismantle America and let oligarchs and Putin (and Xi) divide the spoils. It was never about ideology. It was about the coup and the heist. Ideology was the vehicle.

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STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear. New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year. fvcurrent.com/p/border-tra...

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

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New—IRS probationary employees have started getting an email asking them to return to the office tomorrow with all of their government-issued equipment, per agency source. Separate OPM termination email to come. Managers also received talking points for how to deal with terminations, which include:

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