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Rollins won confirmation as the Secretary of Agriculture 72-28, meaning a lot of Dems voted for her. Now she’s doing this shit.

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

• Put the nuclear codes on a post-it stuck to the side of my monitor

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“A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts have hung an upside-down American flag thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.”

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Me when some drugged up crybaby billionaire thinks not responding to a single mass email is cause for removal. 🪶

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Hi! It’s us. 👋 Your friendly, neighborhood “tremendous losers,” delivering mail to 169 million delivery points nationwide, in every kind of weather, funded by postage stamps and sales — not taxpayer dollars. Anyway, see you on our routes tomorrow! 📫

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This looks like a good idea. It turns out it wasn't initiated by HCR, so I've deleted her name from the image. I guess whoever thought it up is shy. I plan to do this, even though I can't spend any money anyway until I feel that my Social Security is safe.

submitted 4 hours ago • 29 comments

Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 9 hours ago • 304 comments

This is more than a "cap" on the National Institutes of Health. This is an attack on future research for cancer and heart disease. This is an attack on vaccine development. This is an attack on medical experts, scientists, students, and teachers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 14 hours ago • 19 comments

The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

submitted 12 hours ago • 264 comments

Proud to stand with the LGBTQ+ community as an ally in the fight.

submitted 11 hours ago • 100 comments

Bernie Sanders Fighting Oligarchy Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 21 www.youtube.com/live/dRonB7G...

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Time to print out my Weingarten Rights card designed specifically for the the Pilled, updated for federal employees. Private sector on the left, public sector on the right, which I just threw together on my phone. More info: nffe.org/members-cent...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Lies, lies, and more lies. The patterns are familiar, but still astonishing. Hard to know how to break through this. www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/p...

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We talked to employees across the federal government about how they are resisting Musk and Trump. One of the funnier stories is from USDS, where some workers keep putting up a sign that reads "HATE HAS NO HOME HERE" after it's being taken down over night. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1738 comments

Billionaires like Elon Musk are working overtime to raise taxes & costs for working families. Meanwhile, Musk’s company, Tesla, avoided almost all federal income tax on nearly $11 billion of U.S. income over 3 years.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is gaining access to sensitive personal information through the Department of Education, including Social Security numbers, tax returns, and more. An unelected billionaire has no right to exploit confidential information.

submitted 15 hours ago • 26 comments

"Only 34% approve of what Musk is doing Only 26% are OK with him shutting down govt programs And a whopping 63% don’t like Musk’s marauders gaining access to federal government databases containing Social Security, Medicare and tax information" www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

My mom helped run a Social Security field office for most of my childhood. The population that these locations serve is overwhelmingly disabled, elderly, poor or some combination thereof. That’s who they’re looking to deny services and resources.

submitted 14 hours ago • 42 comments

"Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner." wapo.st/41qBKwR

submitted 17 hours ago • 50 comments

I talked to the only Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigator in Alabama, who was terminated in DOGE cuts, for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

I don’t normally engage with propagandised fools but when I do, I try to out-propaganda them because they are genuinely so silly.

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Oh FFS, New York Times, this isn't to "root out diversity initiatives", it's just plain firing people, including the highest ranking officers, who ain't white guys.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2406 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 1 day ago • 2823 comments

AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I hope it goes without saying that this goes doubly for purged military officers

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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New York Times asking "also" to do some heavy lifting there...

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🚨🚨 Oh, that went well: Russia used the first round of talks with the US over ending the war in Ukraine to demand the withdrawal of Nato forces from the alliance’s eastern flank, suggesting Trump admin could acquiesce to seal a peace deal according to Romanian government.🧵 www.ft.com/content/ac1d...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Don't let the bluster and bravado create its own truth. We're seeing over-reach which will have such complex and widespread blowback and consequences, here, there, and everywhere, that the incompetents at the top will be overwhelmed and eventually brought low, as they should be.

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Don't be wowed or depressed by the bluster. It's not going well with the people.

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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Always stand up to a bully

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Self-portrait of Bolognese anatomist, lecturer, and wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774) dissecting a human brain, 1755 (Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Università di Bologna) #earlymodern #18thc

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#FrescoFriday A female figure swathed in pink gracefully flying away. From atrium of Villa Arianna, Campania, 1st C. In the Museo Arqueológico de Stabiae Libero D'Orsi, Castellamare.

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If there's one thing to call about for the next several days, it's this: early next week the house will be voting on a budget resolution that decimates Medicaid. This is an immediate life-and-death issue for so many, and the GOP House majority is razor-thin. Call early and often. And pass it on.

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A guide to various resources for tracking what Trump-Musk are up to. choosedemocracy.us/tracking-tra...

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