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This is a wild, WILD situation. The President is at least allowing, licensing these emails though clearly not directing them. Meanwhile parts of the uniformed military are directing civilians within DOD to ignore them. Same at State and according to Dilanian FBI. But DOJ is saying do what the ...

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Trump trying to muscle Zelensky with the same outrageously corrupt protection-racketeer’s demand as in the 2019 call that brought about his first impeachment: I would like you to do us a favor www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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Somehow I missed that Peter Weller, aka Robocop, completed his doctorate in Italian Renaissance Art History in 2014, and now has a scholarly book on his PhD subject coming out! www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Are you a recently terminated federal employee? @raskin.house.gov and @vanhollen.senate.gov will be at this virtual community meeting of the Montgomery County Council on Tuesday at 7pm. (Zoom link on council website.)

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"I gave blood, sweat and tears to this country for 20 years to continue service to the federal government, doing what I was trained to do by them," he says. "I kind of feel like I was just thrown out like a piece of trash."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I suppose Elon could sacrifice the two hours of sleep he gets each night to read emails, which would have a devastating impact on his health. So I highly encourage it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Pretty much out of hope for anything

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

I prefer the movie version

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 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 14 hours ago • 1768 comments

I might convert for someone named Pope Pizza Baller

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Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

submitted 18 hours ago • 260 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

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Proud to be a member of @aaup.bsky.social !

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Let this be a lesson to the world: never appoint one of the zombies from Return of the Living Dead to run your health and human services department

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Free website

submitted 21 hours ago • 40 comments

very Ben Affleck smoking in quiet horror lack of words euromaidanpress.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Random hello to @docfreeride.bsky.social, since we haven't talked in a long time!

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Imagine the surprise of a member of Congress just now figuring out what Town Hall meetings were for

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Oh my god, Eric Adams is going to accidentally free Luigi. Amazing.

submitted 19 hours ago • 53 comments

Now I'm picturing the rise of criminal egg cartels, where they threaten their rivals by egging their houses.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

submitted 18 hours ago • 27 comments

Good to see the power of the people is still alive. We the people govern ourselves in a democracy.

submitted 18 hours ago • 50 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 129 comments

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

If Luigi walks because of David Zaslav and Eric Adams I will laugh so hard I will probably have a stroke and die.

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

Yeah, pretty sure my default state in life is loneliness and depression and it's too late for anything to change that

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Under her command, the US Navy met its recruiting goals last year. The Army did not. She made being in the Navy more tolerable, based on experience of more than 20 years of her career at sea. People wanted to join Navy, to the point they had to deny people because the training slots were filled.

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JUST IN: “A federal judge in Maryland on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI as called for in executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

So close now

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Whenever I think that things can’t get worse, they do

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Words fail.

submitted 2 days ago • 1463 comments

this is not where you want to be in the opening stages of your project to bludgeon the American population into submission so you can destroy their government

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

As someone who’s worked in the aid sector, feels like we should have been talking more about how hostile Americans apparently are to the concept of foreign aid

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

This thread is glorious.

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He’s Black. 👀 #Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff on Fri, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.” apnews.com/article/trum...