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The Trump admin has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new EO on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 17 days ago • 568 comments

This is incredible! John Lithgow shares 20 lessons on tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social. Please take a moment, and share this widely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

submitted 28 days ago • 231 comments

Stripping collective bargaining and union rights from workers across the federal government is the very definition of union busting — and a blatant attempt to silence us. We will fight this outrageous attack on our members with every fiber of our collective being.

submitted 32 days ago • 48 comments

“Should we bend over here, or do you want a more private space, or perhaps we should do it at a large rally….”

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 35 days ago • 329 comments

Restructured my afternoon and took advantage of the good condition

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

submitted 38 days ago • 3490 comments

This threatens to upend decades of progress and hard-won reforms that strive to protect our nation’s most vulnerable students from neglect and discrimination.

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments

This is crazy! Who believes this shit? Does he even believe what’s he’s saying? Is this intentionally meant to be inline with Musk’s statements that Americans are living too long and collecting SS for too long? It’s total gaslighting.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This is ridiculous. Unfortunately, for Trump, it seems on-brand. :(

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

submitted 41 days ago • 256 comments

Three Wins Today (March 12, 2025) 1. Guantánamo Bay has been cleared out again. We don’t know why, but I’m sure it has something to do with backlash. 2. Tim Walz is headed out on a town hall tour in Red district! He is starting in Zach Nunn’s district in Iowa 1/2

submitted 47 days ago • 196 comments

Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.

submitted 47 days ago • 118 comments

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

submitted 48 days ago • 1286 comments

So.. I told my students about Mahmoud Khalil at the end of class today and assured them that in case I disappear, I will leave plans for their class with the department head. I, too, am a green card holder. I, too, publicly oppose the genocide in Palestine. I, too, fear disappearance. 1/n

submitted 48 days ago • 13 comments

The Tahoe basin is going to have some problems… :( www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/ar...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration has ordered firings and buyouts at the federal agency that operates water infrastructure in California. Managers of water agencies in the Central Valley warn this could jeopardize the agency’s ability to manage dams and deliver water. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

submitted 56 days ago • 728 comments

Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 58 days ago • 18 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 57 days ago • 2046 comments

"We had funding that was appropriated by Congress to do prescribed burning to reduce fuels ahead of the fire season, and those monies were seized and we were given directives not to do any prescribed burning” 🌎 www.kgun9.com/news/communi...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 59 days ago • 3176 comments

Major update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend: 🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 59 days ago • 119 comments

Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired. www.noaa.gov/external-aff...

submitted 59 days ago • 17 comments