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Sorry, the job of a newspaper opinion section is still to publish a broad-based variety of voices, ideally from respected individuals with different viewpoints. Looks like the Washington Post is shoving off that responsibility on “the Internet”.

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Oh, I do hope so

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“The Trump Admin is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled, partisan henchmen. It’s unacceptable and conservatives need to say so.” 👇

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Something to treasure during the last days of winter: the beautiful quiet, just snow and peace.

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In case you were wondering what an attempt to dismantle freedom of the press looks like, it's this.

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Oh yes they do know the answer to that.

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I’ll never forget this song and her amazing voice. 😢

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We need some accountability here. Who are the administrators within the NSF who did this and under what instructions? I believe federal FOIA regulations would applied to general communications leading up to this action if not to individual personnel decisions.

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NEW: A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do administration and elected officials keep relying on it?

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What a piece of shit Elon Musk is.

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They were playing grunge on the sound system at the gym this morning. 😊🎶 Great music!

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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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Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you king. Killing your brother and marrying his wife only to be haunted by his ghost and poisoned by his son before you manage to kill him with the poisoned blade and no one is left but some bloke named Horatio is how you become king

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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In other avian flu developments, tests at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have confirmed the H5N1 strain in rats for the first time, as the agency acknowledged that it was reversing recent layoffs of employees working on the avian flu response.

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Kitty Shepherd, contemporary British ceramic slipware artist #WomensArt

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Five cats in one photograph.

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Good lord. 😔😔

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12 degrees F outside 🥶🥶

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The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees with the Federal Aviation Administration over the weekend, just weeks after a fatal crash in Washington, D.C., exposed understaffing at the agency.

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments

Do what she says! Retired administrative law and employment attorney here.

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I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

submitted 11 days ago • 6489 comments

I disagree. You don’t cede the field.

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When you want to weed a garden you identify the weeds (gotta know which are real weeds for this part), and then pull them. You don’t just scythe down 50% of it to the ground, leave the rest alone, and call it good. 🧵 1/3

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When you want to weed a garden you identify the weeds (gotta know which are real weeds for this part), and then pull them. You don’t just scythe down 50% of it to the ground, leave the rest alone, and call it good. 🧵 1/3

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Because this isn’t how you reduce waste in government. This is just destruction.

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I disagree. You don’t cede the field.

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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 12 days ago • 545 comments

Courage

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MAGA is playing hardball. Democrats and Independents need to as well. I want to see Democrats, Independents, and any remaining honorable Republicans FIGHTING BACK.

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Your oligarchy, ladies and gentlemen

submitted 12 days ago • 163 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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It didn’t end well for the people who drank Jim Jones’s Kool-Aid.

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Three top federal prosecutors resigned from their positions on Thursday after refusing an order from the Department of Justice to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, multiple outlets reported.

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Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

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Even though most Americans don’t like some of the Supreme Court’s highest-profile recent decisions, a new poll found that a vast majority believe presidents must still honor them.

submitted 14 days ago • 87 comments

EVERYONE: you had one job DEMOCRATS: and with your donation of $5 today, we can start to consider doing that one job

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Yeah it’s always everybody else’s fault, not Trump’s. 🙄🙄 The judges are doing their proper jobs, and the American people thank them for it.

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What a crummy headline. 🙄

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[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

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Wow, there’s a shocker. How about ALL of the things he says are incorrect?

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The most sober, respected, you could fairly say establishment normie academic experts are saying it as loudly and plainly as they can: the Constitution is collapsing right now unlike anything in American history.

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