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This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

submitted 7 hours ago • 234 comments

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

submitted 8 hours ago • 52 comments

BREAKING: As Elon Musk said on X would be happening, I can now report that all federal employees are receiving an email directing them to provide “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week.” It directs them not to send any classified information and is due by 11:59p Monday.

submitted 7 hours ago • 175 comments

Mad king watch - calls for a ban on opposition media, then gets distracted www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 7 hours ago • 53 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 5 hours ago • 67 comments

This. Is. Insane.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1513 comments

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 3 hours ago • 251 comments

Hegseth’s biography is on the left, General Brown’s on the right. Go read these to someone without telling them who they are and then ask them to choose who is better qualified to hold the positions of SECDEF and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

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The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

submitted 12 hours ago • 394 comments

Link to the opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, is disrupting the lives of some trans, nonbinary and intersex people applying for passports.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

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BREAKING: In first ruling on a Trump 2nd-term action, #SCOTUS rebuffs Trump and lets special counsel Hampton Dellinger stay in his post through next week. Justices Gorsuch and Alito dissent. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Something I've now heard from federal worker constituents at several agencies: Musk and Trump's mass firings are clearing out all personnel from FOIA offices and leaving them completely empty, it sounds obviously intentional.

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 160 comments

Despite complete immunity for this, they'll settle and use it to launder money to Tarrio. Lawsuit settlements seem to be the preferred means of bribes now.

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Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 1014 comments

www.businessinsider.com/russia-culti...

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“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

submitted 1 day ago • 258 comments

🚨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.

submitted 1 day ago • 974 comments

BREAKING: SCOTUS, for now, leaves order in place keeping Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger in office. Trump fired him, but Dellinger sued. The government’s request, however, is being kept before the court — on hold for now — since the TRO is set to expire on 2/26.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

JUST IN: Per Congress' directive, the occupant of the position can only be fired for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office."

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Trump just fired the Joint Chief of Staff to install his own puppet. Do you really think he plans on leaving in 2028? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Hegseth is going to fire every woman or Black person in military leadership.

submitted 1 day ago • 199 comments

Racist Nazi Trump. apnews.com/article/trum...

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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court’s first action of the Trump 2.0 era was a punt — preventing Trump from firing a top ethics official for a few more days while proceedings play out in a lower court. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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New — All Department of Defense agencies were sent a video of an agitated Pete Hegseth debunking supposedly fake media stories. Today at least one agency called an “emergency” town hall and forced employees to watch the propaganda. www.dvidshub.net/video/953069...

submitted 1 day ago • 305 comments

Breaking: The Supreme Court has — for now — prevented Trump from firing Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel. A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 26, and the court could act at a later stage.

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Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had his first court appearance since he was arraigned in December on charges including murder as an act of terrorism.

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

Judge orders nationwide preliminary injunction of anti-DEI executive orders. "Plaintiffs’ irreparable harms include widespread chilling of unquestionably protected speech." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague. * preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... * opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Trump has fired the chairman of the joint chiefs, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., five months into a four year term, per WSJ. Brown was the first black officer to serve as chairman of the joint chiefs. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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NEW: A federal judge blocked Trump’s effort to stop funding grants and contracts that have DEI components, saying it is likely viewpoint discrimination and worded so vaguely that it will chill free speech. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

This is huge breaking news. Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chief of Naval Ops, Vice of the Air Force and all three JAG’s of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Watch this breaking news report we did for @votevets.org tonight. This is outragous. www.youtube.com/live/OdOjEdR...

submitted 1 day ago • 169 comments

MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

More: In new statement, Hegseth says CNO Franchetti, USAF Vice Chief Slife, and top JAGS will be replaced >>>

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New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, and full explanations of their chains of command.

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Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 1 day ago • 524 comments

Trump shakes up Pentagon, firing top general, nominating retired three-star www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

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“The State of Maine will not be intimidated by the President’s threats.” www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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Media reports peg Labor Secretary nominee as “Trump’s Pro-Labor Pick.” But at Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s Senate hearing, she: — defended “Right-to-Work” laws — refused to back a minimum wage hike — refused to back paid leave That’s an ANTI-WORKER, ANTI-UNION AGENDA. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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The new chairman of the FTC wants to investigate cENsORsHiP on social platforms and boy do I have a platform for them! www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments