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Good morning, Feds! Another week ahead. Just remember, when asked what you did last week, let fElon know that you: 1. Held 2. The 3. Line 4. Didn't 5. Resign

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I never posted an update here, but I have buttons, magnets, and square stickers up now. Lots of folks don't have yards or cars who may want to support federal workers. Elon/Trump's attacks have continued this week. Thousands have lost their jobs. Still, hold the line. etsy.com/shop/FedUpStudio

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Trump and Elon are attacking our federal workers — the public servants that keep our government running, get payments to those that need them, and make sure our country functions. We are selling yard signs and bumper stickers showing support for federal employees at www.etsy.com/shop/FedUpStudio

submitted 21 days ago • 29 comments

Rep. Nick Begich (R-Alaska) told constituents that there was nothing he could do to stop DOGE layoffs affecting people in his state. Says said he found out about budget cuts impacting Alaska "on Twitter" and "had no idea these things were going on" in advance. popular.info/p/freshman-c...

submitted 17 hours ago • 518 comments

Idk if there is state out there that could have such outsized impact from cuts and lapsing ACA subsidies other than Alaska.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Just for a heads up on these Dodge checks!! Low income households will NOT receive checks!! The people who need it the most will not get anything. They continue to tell us we are nothing!! “with lower-income Americans not qualifying for the return.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 84 comments

Join us in solidarity—fly your American flag upside down, the traditional signal of distress and extreme emergency.

submitted 12 hours ago • 343 comments

I'm guessing Musk's respone to this would be "Cut health insurance for poor people, sacked anyone investigating my own companies, took my kid to a press conference and waved a chainsaw around like a deranged fuckwit."

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Friends! Here’s a snapshot of our Sunday. There is one house left standing on Kitty Street (my house), and Ron and Cleo were both interested in it. I was having cuddles with Mum so happy to let them have it. Meanwhile, Percy and Baby Dog we’re having a cuddle on the Big Bed (full video on X / Insta)

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The NYT is inventing experimental euphemisms for "racist" like Edison in the lab in 1877

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So, here's what will happen: Republican members of Congress will stop holding town halls and all these angry old people will reelect them anyway. www.ajc.com/politics/mcc...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

History teaches us that when governments begin persecuting a vulnerable minority group while simultaneously making it harder for members of that group to escape persecution by fleeing abroad... it doesn't end well for anyone. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

House Republicans are preparing a budget package that calls for $2 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That’s TRILLION. With a T.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Everyone, please read this thread and share. Musk is closing down Social Security offices and it is not being reported. You have to go to the DOGE website to find it. Here are all the details: www.rawstory.com/anxiety-moun...

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Howard Lutnick, Trump’s billionaire buddy turned commerce secretary, has confirmed that the administration was simply lying to MAGA supporters about not touching Social Security and Medicare. newrepublic.com/post/191740/...

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So is everyone just screaming "They better keep their hands off my Social Security!" gonna stop it from happening or nah?

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Amazing information on Social Security & its safeguards & self-audits. REAL INFORMATION, not made-up fake news. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

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'Nightmare for all of us': Anxiety mounts as DOGE troops circle Social Security www.rawstory.com/anxiety-moun...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I would rather have air traffic controllers, Park Rangers, Cancer Research and Social Security than a $5000 check from DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I think it’s not helpful to repeat claims that the administration is working on eliminating “DEIA” as though it’s some kind of corporate strategy; just say explicitly that they’re trying to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and explain how.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 1 day ago • 1010 comments

The broad institutional refusal to apply laws or even mildly regulate this man’s companies doesn’t just result in $130,000 cars held together with Elmer’s glue and magnets, it has materially led to the end of democracy in America.

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

The party which uses banned Nazi slogans and a leader of which calls for a “180 turn” in how Germany remembers the Nazis.

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

Couple things: 1) incredibly dismissive to label @mehdirhasan.bsky.social an influencer when he is a journalist with his own media co 2) important to note Murphy's modern voice in the Senate gerontocracy. But AOC has BEEN doing this, particularly on IG live and she is mentioned exactly nowhere

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

Thoughts and prayers to the Republican senators who voted to confirm Kash Patel who will later be under a weaponized investigation by him within the next 4 years.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Now every nation in the world can see that if they come to rely on Starlink, it will be weaponized against them to extort their country's resources in their times of greatest need. The oligarchy is not smart. There is no long game. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

1. Finished a bag of tortilla chips and a jar of salsa AT THE SAME TIME 2. Committed no felonies 3. Chose a Netflix movie in 6 minutes flat 4. Was not served process papers 5. Did not scream audibly

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A new Missouri bill would create a registry of pregnant women "at risk for seeking an abortion." If that wasn’t bad enough, the bill would also give people interested in adopting access to this registry of pregnant women. More in the newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/missouri-b...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

This AND there are 7 people in my home who rely on me maintaining functional mental health. I have pretty bad anxiety and that's not easy at the best of times. I do what I can, and then I work, or crochet, or ... constant agonizing to the detriment of daily life is not useful.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

Hold on. Have they considered if a 20-year-old cybercriminal says "but Elon says you have to!" Surely that carries the force of law, right?

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

The U.S. made a deadly error when we collectively permitted Elon Musk to grow this powerful while constantly declining to enforce the law on him.

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

Gotta admit I'm impressed with whatever editor at freaking Bloomberg decided to ask @lioneltrolling.bsky.social to honestly review some airport bookstand trash from one of the feted VC elite. That's the kind of decision that actually brings in subscribers instead of repelling them.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

None. Absolutely none.

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Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

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Count me in.

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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

more convinced than ever that project here is to kill trans people. not just force people back into the closet or deny them medical care, but to literally kill them.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

One more way our criminal "justice" system is broken: sticking literal children with debt to pay for things like public defenders and court fees. Naturally this practice disproportionately harms kids without family support and resources. How many other states still do this? 😡

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Very interesting that there was a big DC police presence in my neighborhood tonight, due — according to the folks on the street — to the fact that there were protesters outside a DOGE party. When I asked if there had been threats, I got a “there’s always a concern.”

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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming. Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

As a public defender, yes, absolutely this.

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I spoke to @godfrey.bsky.social about how Mayor Ken Sim's plan to build market rental housing on public land while banning the building of any new supportive housing indicates not only is he building a city only for the rich but a govt as well. www.thebind.ca/p/what-ken-s...

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Batman villain Emil Bove is Donald Trump’s hatchet man in the Department of Justice. The great @lizdye.bsky.social unpicks his past and his ruthless knifing of former colleagues. Move over Scarecrow and Riddler. It’s the hour of The Apostate! airmail.news/issues/2025-...

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