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Public opinion is swinging strongly against Musk's wrecking ball operation The latest WaPo poll shows that only 37% of Americans think it should be easier to fire longtime federal workers

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📢 “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

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“Elon Musk is not trying to go after efficiency, he is trying to gut everything that is good in America, for his own private profit” - AOC at the thousand-strong Save Our Services rally in NYC 🔥🔥🔥

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AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

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"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices

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Today is a good day to remember that without federal workers none of us could ever get Social Security or Medicare #SaveOurServices

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Federal workers are the canary in the coal mine Musk’s attacks aren’t just a threat to federal employees and their unions. They pose an unparalleled danger to every single American My latest in The Nation

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Musk is toast, it's just a matter of time

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Here are some reasons for optimism about organized labor's ability to defeat Trumpism www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/l...

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From a tactical standpoint, I actually think it was stupid for Trump to let Musk focus all the administration's initial fire on demonizing federal workers and federal services It's not MAGA's most salient wedge issue, & DOGE is likely about to receive widespread popular pushback

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My new book comes out today! You can buy it anywhere! Hope it helps inspire (and strategically guide) you and your co-workers and your unions to build worker power at scale to defeat the billionaires and Trumpism!

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Was great talking with @ericblanc.bsky.social and the organizers of the Philadelphia Whole Foods Union about how to win power back from billionaires Union Power Special – The Workers Scaring Jeff Bezos & Winning Under Trump youtu.be/QOUZ50pOqLs

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BILLIONAIRES ARE THE PROBLEM, NOT FEDERAL WORKERS

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The U.S. population has grown by 57% in the last 50 years, but the federal workforce has only increased by 6%. That means fewer workers handling more services, while billionaires scream for cuts. This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about sabotage. Fight back: go.savepublicservices.com

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🏛️ Federal workers are fighting to protect every person in America from the biggest theft in history by unelected billionaire Elon Musk. 🆘 FUN’s Save Our Services national Day of Action is coming to NYC on Wed, 2/19. ➡️ Join us: bit.ly/SOSactionNYC #SaveOurServices

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Elon Musk—an unelected billionaire—is seizing private IRS taxpayer data while purging federal workers who hold corporations accountable. He’s raiding our government and handing it over to the ultra-rich to act with total impunity.

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Federal workers with @msnbc.com describe Musk and DOGE's theft from the American people. "We're losing the ability to protect people in their day-to-day lives. We're losing the capacity to hold people accountable when they harm people." -@FedWorkersUtd #SaveOurServices

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AFGE, the main federal workers' union, has grown as much in the last 5 weeks as in the whole previous year Sometimes "the boss is the best organizer"

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"Organized labor could be Trump’s kryptonite. But it remains to be seen whether unions can rise to the challenge of Trumpism. For the sake of our democracy, our livelihoods, and our planet, let’s hope they do." My latest in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Wonder why Musk is so interested in taking over the federal government

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Glad to see the NYT is finally starting to cover federal workers' resistance and the Feb 19 day of action

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Co-sign this whole thread. The attack on federal workers is an attack on all of us and the very idea of public goods.

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Musk is lying about us federal workers We're not the ones screwing over the American people, he is

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An important thread about the importance of standing with federal workers as they resist an all out assault on their rights (and all of our rights) as union members.

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Musk’s attacks on federal workers pose an existential threat to the whole labor movement, all workers, and the broad Left It’s alarming that most people don’t yet understand the stakes 🧵

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Feb 19 / SOS / Save Our Services. This organizing is critical and this action is a concrete way we can all show our support for public workers and public goods. Participate and pass it on.

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📢 Federal workers keep our nation running! On Feb 19, join the #SaveOurServices Day of Action: ✅ Take a photo showing how your work benefits the public — or, if you're a community member, how you benefit from federal services 📸 ✅ Post with #SaveOurServices ✅ Wear red, white &/or blue 🇺🇸

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new episode out today! we are joined by Eric Blanc (@ericblanc.bsky.social) to talk about new forms of effective labor organizing in the post-industrial landscape, unions and political power, and the world we want to build 💝 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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📚🔥 We Are the Union by @ericblanc.bsky.social is out now—and it features The NewsGuild! This book dives into the worker-to-worker organizing model that wins! RSVP here to join us for the book talk with the author and Guild members: 📅 Feb 25th @ 6PM ET 📍 actionnetwork.org/events/we-ar...

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"Community Health Centers Are Closing Amid Funding Confusion" This should be the headline of every newspaper — and of anti-Trump messaging www.newsweek.com/community-he...

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🚨 BREAKING: The @aflcio.org, EPI, and four major unions have filed an injunction against DOGE and the Trump-appointed Acting Sec of Labor. They’re seeking a temporary restraining order to keep Musk’s minions out of the DOL’s data. More at @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/elon...

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One thing Musk's power grab suggests is that IT systems are the central chokepoint in contemporary capitalism — and that tech workers have potentially huge disruptive leverage, in both the federal government and within corporate America

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