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It’s worth remembering Trump lost the over 65 vote.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

I am inundated with messages from federal workers who are feeling frantic, furious and fed up after receiving Musk’s email and reading his threatening X post. The psychological warfare is the point.

submitted 3 hours ago • 102 comments

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 12 hours ago • 37 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 23 hours ago • 615 comments

““We did not elect him,” a man shouted. As the town hall reached its scheduled end, more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled “don’t lie to us””

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Judge largely blocks Trump’s executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs apnews.com/article/dei-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk Sparks Communist Revolution Since Nobody Realized the Federal Government is the Only Employer in Rural Communities

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

They want war crimes. I do not know why the media will not say this. They say they want war crimes. Heggy got his job because he supported war crimes on Fox News. They think it is good to hunt children for sport.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

again: "ICE operates by Vampire Rules" is an objectively true and also funny statement

submitted 1 day ago • 11 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 • 966 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

I cannot wait to tell J.B. Pritzker "you got it, boss" in three years. I was genetically engineered to say that to a guy who looks like he does.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Unironically, these letters are a good example of how we’re ruled by evil men now. It would have cost them nothing to be at least slightly sympathetic. “Hey man, we know this is rough, but we have to tighten our belts and…” They instead deliberately made them as cruel as possible.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

submitted 2 days ago • 584 comments

I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

i gotta say as a jew im not a big fan of the sieg heil coming back into vogue!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

This is really why i cant stand all the savvy cynical boys like Beutler. What they are telling their audiences that they can have—& should want—is a lawless authoritarian that just only does the good stuff & that Dems are chumps for thinking that upholding the value of the law is good in & of itself

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Imagine if a wealthy benefactor wanted to establish a Species Discovery Institute. For just $4k a month, you could feed a taxonomist AND give them time to describe new species…

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most field biologists at least a few years in are sitting on dozens of cool discoveries and undescribed species, and it totally tears us up inside every day. we don't generally get paid to write about them and our jobs make us tired for nearly no money. it's like if your hobby was more working

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.

submitted 1 day ago • 806 comments

Look people. Democrat? Republican? It doesn't matter. No one wants their wealth plundered by nazis. Push your members of Congress to impeach these motherfuckers and throw them prison.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

submitted 2 days ago • 5047 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

One of my best friends and coworkers was told he’s most likely going to be laid off tomorrow because he’s a probationary employee He’s only probationary because he’s a veteran hire and they have a 2 yr rather than 1 yr period He’s the highest performing person here This is so fucking stupid

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

Fear, bravery, action, and cowardice are all contagious and I am not seeing the kind of contagion I'd like at the moment

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This was just 233 days ago:

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

You don't have the luxury of dying early. If your not playing the long game have the decency to sacrifice your grim doom-saying ass on the alter of revolution in a fun, flirty way. Otherwise shut the fuck up with your "we're cooked" shit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3427 comments

Yeah. I literally don’t give a fuck anymore. If they jail the opposition, the opposition member is ontologically good until such time we can be said to possess a stable and free society.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

They’re going prosecute AOC and when they do, I don’t wane to hear a damn negative word about her on here whether you think she’s too far to the center or too far left. Normal politics are now cancelled until further notice.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

CDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices meeting, scheduled for next week, has been "postponed."

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Trump take egg, Elon fire everyone in charge of more egg

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The thing about Trump is that he's dead serious about basically everything he suggests and is limited mostly by competence of his staff, which is unpredictable. Is the US going to actually try to annex Canada? probably not. Is trump serious about doing it? yes and it has to be treated that way

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Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

"The people drawn to work in humanitarian assistance are the polar opposite of Musk." Will people like that, and the people who rely on them, be able to look up to America after this?

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 3 days ago • 569 comments

I already had low expectations for American civil society, but I have to admit being surprised by the sheer number of people and institutions who seem to have decided to sit out the next 4 years in the hopes that fascism blows over. They're going to regret not having done more when it was easier.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

wrote a bit about a big problem I think we all need to reckon with sooner rather than later www.idiotbox.site/p/the-master...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments