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This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 6 days ago • 2927 comments

From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

submitted 6 days ago • 291 comments

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

submitted 7 days ago • 853 comments

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 7 days ago • 1910 comments

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

submitted 7 days ago • 669 comments

Treason.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

submitted 8 days ago • 781 comments

Bernie Sanders: "For Mr. Musk and his fellow oligarchs, the needs, the concerns, the pain, the ideas, and dreams of ordinary people are simply an impediment to what they the oligarchs are entitled to. And that is really what they believe -- they are entitled to all the wealth and power they have."

submitted 11 days ago • 174 comments

OMB's Russell Vought wants to slash funding for NIH, which helped develop a "miracle drug" for cystic fibrosis that his daughter received. “We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's wife wrote in a 2021 post. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 327 comments

Now why would Trump fire election security experts? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 10 days ago • 400 comments

Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad? We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.

submitted 13 days ago • 936 comments

Newberg SD 29J Statement Explaining the Audit and Ending Fund Balance for 23/24. The entire text is attached:

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

UPDATE: My colleagues and I were locked out of the Dept. of Education and denied a meeting with Acting Secretary Carter.

submitted 15 days ago • 1204 comments

Woo woo woo! So, we’re talking about saving taxpayers’ money, Congress? Federal employee compensation costs $271 billion—so even if you fired all of us, that’s all you’d save.

submitted 15 days ago • 68 comments

President Trump announces he’s taking control of the Kennedy Center, firing multiple trustees and the chairman (billionaire philanthropist David Rubinstein). The new “amazing chairman” is himself.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Trump, Vance, and Musk are pushing to rehire a staffer who resigned after being called out for a social media account with a history of racist posts. “To err is human, to forgive divine,” Elon Musk said in defense of the move. No—it’s not err; it’s racism. No excuses.

submitted 14 days ago • 270 comments

FACT: USAID funded projects in 120 countries - fighting epidemics, educating children, providing clean water, supporting life saving work. Now nurses laid off, clinics closed in 25 countries where 2/3 of all child deaths occur. All because of Trump’s inflated ego.

submitted 14 days ago • 295 comments

(AP) — CBS’ “60 Minutes” posted online Wednesday the unedited transcripts of its October interview with Kamala Harris that sparked a lawsuit by Donald Trump, saying that they proved its broadcast was not “doctored or deceitful.” apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Trying to get information about protests today. I’m starting to freak out because the mainstream media has NOTHING Anyone know anything? I’m worried about these capital protests.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I just checked my newsfeed. NOTHING on protests. Anyone got anything, especially from the east coast.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

NY Times - The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing employees hired in the past two years, part of the Elon Musk-led effort to drastically shrink the federal work force.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

An Open Letter To The Majority Of Congressional Democrats. Congress needs to act using any and all power they have! open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I did it today and I will do it every day that Elon Musk is breaking the law. Join me. It’s incredibly wast to use! 5calls.org

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

SH*T!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is a Putin puppet. Musk is ruling us all.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A White House official says President Trump will take steps later this month to fulfill a campaign promise to defund the Department of Education. - Reuters' Jeff Mason

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 19 days ago • 2485 comments

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

submitted 19 days ago • 2230 comments

People are getting up off the mat.

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New ‘Fork in the Road’ FAQ: “Any government shutdown could potentially affect an employee’s pay regardless of whether he or she has accepted the deferred resignation offer.“ www.opm.gov/fork/faq

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

How an independent journalist and Bluesky broke major news this past week: apnews.com/article/inde...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

US Senate Democrats on Monday afternoon “to sound the alarm” that Elon Musk and his DoGE team were reportedly granted access to the federal government’s central payments system, which handles nearly $6 trillion and the vast majority of all federal disbursements.

submitted 19 days ago • 232 comments

CBS - USAID staffers instructed to stay out of the agency's Washington headquarters today.

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Data download day! www.axios.com/2025/01/31/h...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The preliminary FAA report was just issued on the DC crash. Cause-staffing issues for DCA control tower willfully understaffed. Any bets that it will be changed by the WH by Monday was due to DEI? The Investgators will be either fired or resigned for refusing to alter the report.

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.” THIS HAS TO STOP.

submitted 20 days ago • 1259 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 20 days ago • 4032 comments