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Refugee from the bad place 😏. Old, slow, mediocre rec pickleball player, #gh is my valium. Living each day as decent a human being as I can 🤷‍♀️ Dabbler in all, master of none 😁
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submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 18 hours ago • 417 comments

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submitted 19 hours ago • 313 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1811 comments

Now I know I quantum leaped to a higher timeline. 🤣👇 The infamous FO tweet followed by *really* thoughtful comments and ownership of choices made. 😲 And, they reposted one of @realalexcole.bsky.social 's posts to-boot. Might the winds be changing? 😊

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I like it, think I'll use it. Krasnov it is 🤣

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Even #AI agrees 😆😆😆

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 985 comments

Government isn’t a business.

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

From @amyklobuchar.com

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This fired FAA employee was working on an FAA missile defense program when he was fired on Friday. Him being scared, scares me. #DemVoice1 #DemsUnited #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue

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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

WTG Dark Justin! 😎

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Where the hell has this Trudeau been for the past few years!? guy announces he's stepping down and then decides he's going to go on his greatest hits tour and the rest of Canada is now "woah wait bud, don't go just yet". Like seriously at this point I'd vote for him again.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Day 32 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Aye yai yai carumba Lucy! 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In case you’re not sure how it’s going down here, America.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Sláva Ukrayíni!

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

In bad place news... 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#leopardsatemyface February 19, 2025 👇 www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAt...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm calling it. NOW is when the scheisse hits the fan.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 3 days ago • 568 comments

Maybe... bear with me.... Silicon Valley's "best and brightest" are far less efficient than the government professionals they are displacing without rhyme or reason????

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

The mass firings of federal workers will create service gaps that are unacceptable to most Americans. Musk, Trump, and the GOP will replace public services with lucrative contracts to their cronies in private industry. Those will likely cost more and be less effective than than the current system.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

How was this contract awarded??!

submitted 5 days ago • 761 comments

MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

submitted 4 days ago • 776 comments

BREAKING: Denise Cheung, head of the criminal division in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, resigned after refusing a Justice Department order to freeze $20 billion in climate funds. In her resignation letter, she revealed that Trump officials had pressured her to launch a baseless criminal probe

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 3105 comments

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

submitted 4 days ago • 1261 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1263 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 628 comments

#floriduh #floridaman

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What a coincidence that: 1. Trump announces the creation of a Sovereign Wealth Fund. 2. He wants 50% of Ukraine’s minerals. 3. Tried to have Z transfer it into a ‘Reconstruction Develop Fund’. 4. Head of Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund is part of the delegation meeting with Rubio in Saudi Arabia.

submitted 5 days ago • 297 comments