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Wow! We knew that Williams & Connelly are the heroes. What we now know the names of the cowards. The law firm Quinn Emanuel tops the list. Shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

submitted 9 hours ago • 94 comments

If you, or someone you know, was a part of the first group of federal employees that were unlawfully fired by the Trump administration - your deadline to appeal to the MSPB is this Friday, March 14. Go to civilservicestrong.org to learn more. #CivilServiceStrong

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Democrats are demanding answers about how DOGE is using AI inside the federal government. Members of the House Oversight Committee today sent dozens of requests to federal agencies about their use of AI software—and how Elon Musk could benefit. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 16 hours ago • 25 comments

Trying to train my immune system to attack my enemies instead.

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

Shuttering the Department of Education will impact fundamental programs that help our students succeed. In Texas, this means betraying:

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

The cover-up… USAID officials were ordered to destroy classified documents, raising concerns about compliance with federal law. An internal email sent to remaining bureau leaders at the agency’s Washington headquarters provided guidance on “clearing our classified safes and personnel documents.”

submitted 1 day ago • 625 comments

If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.

submitted 19 hours ago • 643 comments

🏢 Return to Work Update On March 17, all employees outside of a bargaining unit but within 50 miles of an HHS facility will return to office It's going to to be a shitshow. At CDC, employees have been told to go to other campuses if there's no parking. Even if their labs are location-specific...

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

Always good when the authoritarian leader decrees who is and is not Jewish.

submitted 15 hours ago • 254 comments

🚨 Trump just ordered the closure of all of the EPA's environmental justice offices and terminated the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Trump and Musk are further punishing communities who have suffered the most from pollution to maximize Big Oil and corporate profits. The cruelty is the point.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Again - Republicans control Congress and the White House. If their appropriations bill fails, Rosa DeLauro and Patty Murray have a short-term, CLEAN CR to give us time to do the appropriations bills. Don’t be fooled by Republicans pointing fingers; they just can’t govern.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

The Republican majority invited a DeVos-backed organization to a recent @democrats-edworkforce.house.gov Committee hearing to tout the benefits of school voucher programs.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

The House GOP CR gives RFK Jr. exactly what Trump promised: a free pass to commandeer hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and set them on fire, relitigating disproven theories about autism and sowing distrust about vaccines amid a measles outbreak that is killing children.

submitted 9 hours ago • 44 comments

Inside Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent: Obscure Laws, ICE Agents and Fear President Trump is clamping down broadly on dissent using the tools of the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

submitted 9 hours ago • 811 comments

We need to make more calls to reach voters in FL-1 and turn them out on April 1 for @gayforcongress.bsky.social. Join us at an upcoming phone bank:

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Sen. Kaine: Donald Trump, in six weeks, has fired more veterans than any president in the history of the United States

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

This budget shows exactly who Trump cares about.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

he said it

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

🚨Phone banking alert 🚨 Help @wisdems.bsky.social make calls to key voters from now until the state Supreme Court elections on April 1. Sign up today.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Maybe the government contracts funding the world’s wealthiest man are the “fraud and abuse” we should eliminate.

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This is Trump’s economy.

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

Congratulations, David! We’re building up Democratic power state by state.

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

Rep. Larson rips into Elon Musk over wanting to privatize Social Security.

submitted 10 hours ago • 46 comments

NEW: Unions representing career diplomats and federal workers filed an emergency motion against the Trump administration to prevent officials at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from violating federal law by destroying classified records.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

💉U.S. MEASLES UPDATE There are 222 cases of measles (Jan 1 - March 6) in 12 jurisdictions, coming from 3 defined measles outbreaks: 1. Texas and New Mexico; 2. Georgia; 3. New Jersey. There were 285 cases in all of 2024. It's only March. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

submitted 16 hours ago • 23 comments

WIRED wins the March Sidney Award (@sidneyhillman.bsky.social) for the coverage of DOGE’s assault on the federal government. As Global Editorial Director @katie-drummond.bsky.social says: "We're going to cover this story, relentlessly, for as long as we need to."

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

"DOGE" employees may face criminal exposure for violating laws about financial conflicts of interest. @raskin.house.gov @frost.house.gov @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social @repdangoldman.bsky.social @repescobar.bsky.social & I are investigating enforcement of those laws: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 16 hours ago • 71 comments

FBI telling Citibank to freeze accounts of Habitat for Humanity, the United Way, and the State of NY Dept of Taxation, among a few dozen others.

submitted 16 hours ago • 173 comments

DO NOT let them get away with being cowards. The CR gives DOGE cover to further dismantle our government. If Dems can't stand strong against this, then they've surrendered all credibility. Call (202) 224-3121 and tell BOTH your senators to vote NO on CLOTURE.

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

The President is all over the map on major parts of his trade agenda. Markets are sliding and prices are soaring. The whiplash is making people's heads spin and portfolios spiral. Hurting small businesses – and hitting American families right in the pocketbook.

submitted 17 hours ago • 260 comments

In his first seven weeks, Trump’s implementation of Project 2025 and his lawless takeover of our government is more harmful than anything we’ve ever seen. If the Senate passes this GOP non-CR, it is handing over even more power to Trump/Musk. The time to take a stand is NOW.

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

Schumer on Senate floor: "Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path" "Because of that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified" on the month-long CR

submitted 13 hours ago • 81 comments

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submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

submitted 19 hours ago • 61 comments

The ADA was won after a series of battles. This was one of them. 🖤🖤🖤

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

submitted 18 hours ago • 156 comments

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What federal workers say about DOGE, job cuts and feelings of betrayal www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/w...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Just to be clear, a big reason @altssa.altgov.info and I are here is because it's painfully obvious to employees that SSA is being sabotaged. They want it to break so they can kill it and blame us. We need all your help to spread the word far and wide so these people can't escape responsibility.

submitted 14 hours ago • 76 comments

Musk and Trump are running critical government programs into the ground just like their businesses. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

I will not vote to weaken my power to fight for WA state. I will not vote to turn YOUR taxpayer dollars into Trump & Elon's personal slush funds. I will vote NO. We should pass my short term CR, avoid a shutdown, and do our jobs.

submitted 16 hours ago • 426 comments

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

submitted 16 hours ago • 332 comments

Elon Musk is pushing to end phone services at Social Security, which 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits.

submitted 16 hours ago • 433 comments

Democrats want to immediately pass a clean, four-week CR. Let's prevent a shutdown and finish writing bipartisan bills that keep our government working for the American people—and ensure our constituents have a voice in this process. We should get this done immediately.

submitted 11 hours ago • 101 comments