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Elon Musk has a pathological fixation on certain movies and scenes from movies, and one of them is the "So what do you actually do here?" scene from Office Space. He thinks that scene reflects a social reality where a vast majority of people who work for any organization are dead weight.

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This is going to devastate science for years.

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The Republican coalition is going to come out of this utterly fractured.

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This is a lesson in the value of litigation (which @chrisgeidner.bsky.social laid out). One of the FIRST lawsuits filed against OPM (by @nationalsecuritylaw.org) argued that OPM had not done the proper Privacy Impact Asssessment. So they did this. Now it'll fuck up the exploitation of this email.

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Correct

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The reality of litigation challenging the Trump administration is that it isn’t all going to win. That’s OK. I explain at Law Dork:

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POV: You're 16, believe being in advanced placement math class means you're a once in a generation genius, and have just discovered Reddit.

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

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Today and every day

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An Opus Dei priest converted me to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here's who I think the next Pope should be.

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2 PhD students recently met at a conference & Trump's slashing of research & science bound them With only 3 other scientists they started a movement that's growing around the country On March 7 in Washington DC, and state capitals, "Stand Up for Science" will take place All details below & bravo!

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this has been a frustrating thing about this — i'm just a rando with a tiny website and a social media account, doing this for free on my weekend, but all of these folks are out there and they want to tell their stories, they want these stories heard. i'm not NBC, i'm a shitposter

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This is the way.

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“Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without insisting upon a Great Man interpretation that actual historians rejected ages ago?”

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With Elon’s “tell us what you accomplished last week or you’re fired” emails: I can confirm that he didn’t limit himself to the executive branch. He sent them to employees of the judicial branch as well.

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I have two* college-educated white women in my immediate family and they're both reliable Democratic voters. *Mrs CJ and girl child

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remember how i told you yesterday that i've talked with people who are volcanically angry? boy, do i have a story for you coming on monday.

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waves at @jodiegriffin.bsky.social (which I also did earlier from I-81 but I wasn't able to note it at the time)

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It would be a shame if we all flooded musk’s email ⬇️ [email protected] This is the email address musk is asking federal workers to email detailing their tasks during the week 🚨 you know what to do 🚨

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If you see this, do it. name: CJ pronouns: he/him height: 5'11" sexuality: straight sign: Scorpio piercings/tats: none color: navy blue drink: coffee, water, beer food: always animal: none at present

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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I just bought 5 boxes of cookies from a really sweet trans girl named Isobel in western Pennsylvania. Why don’t you join me in helping out a smile on the faces of these hardworking young ladies and theydies! They deserve our love and support!

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Soon may the Murderbot come It's saving humans (they're really dumb) One day when the killing is done We'll sit and watch T.V.

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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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By replacing a black 4-star general with a white 3-star general, we are finally bringing meritocracy back to the Department of Defense. by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump

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FWIW, when I was in rural MAGA country over the holidays, two Trump-supporting relatives separetly mentioned to me, unsolicited, that they were quite nervous that Trump would mess up the Postal Service. They take their mail seriously in rural America, for good reason.

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Monday would be a good day for someone to sue Trump DOE for canceling $600 million in teacher training grants. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Interesting. Politico Nightly just out now has a piece which is directionally identical albeit perhaps tonally different from my piece this morning about the beginning of the anti-Elon backlash www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Elon may not know this yet, but he's toast.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Cowards

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Attention all college/university administrators and general counsel: here, legal analysis grounding current diversity programs firmly in federal law, demonstrating the illegality of executive orders to the contrary. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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The joy of being a big tent coalition party

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after hearing from several of you last night, i think i have a general structure for this. it's subject to change based on feedback, but if you're a current, fired, or currently-being-litigated federal worker, i want to hear from you. here are the details.

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I've had several ppl respond to posts about median voter sentiment recently saying "they're not paying attention to anything," but both polling & official data indicates theyre still paying attention to the same stuff as before: prices, econ news, & the broad strokes of gov action--& theyre souring.

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Here's @bluestein.bsky.social's uncensored thread of the town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), in which an unhappy audience pushes back against DOGE cuts: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18927...

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all your calls are working, i can't remember a senator ever apologizing for a confirmation vote

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I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

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