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Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
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Oh my. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Who could have guessed that the former leader of the Proud Boys—convicted of sedition because of January 6th—would, after Trump pardoned him, start to harass the hero cops of January 6th? Who could ever have guessed it? (This went down at the Principles First conference in D.C.)

This is the first movement from Sen. Fetterman, please fill out immediately if you have been impacted. Please circulate Penn, Pitt, PSU, Temple etc @cbartman.bsky.social

There are employees who work a 4x10 schedule with regular days off (RDO) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and others with Sunday, Monday, Tuesday who will not get this email or have the opportunity to respond during working hours. There are others who do not access .gov email b/c they don't use computers.

Multiple reports of drivers doing spontaneous sieg heil salutes at protesters today, including in one case from someone I know personally. What is being normalized is monstrous and dangerous; every day we step closer to the abyss

1. I did the work of an employee you fired. 2. I did the work of a 2nd employee you fired. 3. I did the work of a 3rd employee you fired. 4. I did the work of a 4th employee you fired. 5. I did the work of a 5th employee you fired.

NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The Musk emails asking federal employees to explain their tasks are have already been sent. One described it to me as "a trap." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/military-p...

I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

All across the country, civil servants who worked in the federal government for a public good are risking their jobs to pushback against the Trump Administration. Here are some of their stories.

One caution about federal employees sharing Musk's emails. He has claimed that he has embedded watermarks in such emails to find leakers. (Though this probably won't work for more than a few thousand employees). theintercept.com/2022/12/15/e...

Going to start doing RETVRN posting for basic government functioning. Going “this is what they took from you” and it’s a childhood vaccine schedule and pasteurized milk without any manure in it.

Interesting dilemma for anyone working in classified jobs. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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.

Community Notes was a figleaf to cover the conversion of X into a disinformation machine. Now even that figleaf will be removed.

This is the use of US power to serve Musk's interests

Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.

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.

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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Judges need to stop acting like these are good faith actors engaged in normal personnel practices. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/military-p...

"Having loyalist lawyers in place will make it much harder for military officers to resist Trump’s orders."

Man he really called it

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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"What, are they gonna have to start doing Nazi salutes in public for the media to call them what they are???" -me, a naive baby

Anyone justifying national Democrats' current strategy to you is committing massive, possibly world historic political malpractice, including the elected officials themselves.

1/ Town halls continue to go badly for GOP congresspeople, an ongoing thread: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Pc7F6y/

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Remarkable stuff in the texts between Musk and St. Clair in the exhibits to her paternity position. He’s really into making babies!

Removing Judge Advocates General who would uphold the rule of law in the military - so dangerous

I wrote angry about the purging of the US military. saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...

"In every state, every congressional district, and more than 95 percent of counties in the United States, public charities receive government grants. Without these grants, most nonprofits would be unable to cover their expenses." Should not be a partisan issue. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Firing General Brown and Admiral Franchetti is not a complete surprise to civmil watchers, but pulling this guy from retirement for chairman definitely is It’s a strong signal that promotion to top positions will require complete ideological conformity from here on out