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Imagine being an Article III judge and you get this email on a Saturday night lol

submitted 13 minutes ago • 28 comments

JUST IN: Judge Ali responds to Trump admin request to clarify his order blocking blanket freeze of foreign-aid funding, calls his directive "unambiguous" and no obstacle to specific actions related to waste, fraud or abuse. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 32 minutes ago • 3 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 5 hours ago • 135 comments

Who could have guessed that the former leader of the Proud Boys—convicted of sedition because of January 6th—would, after Trump pardoned him, start to harass the hero cops of January 6th? Who could ever have guessed it? (This went down at the Principles First conference in D.C.)

submitted 1 hour ago • 16 comments

I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

This is 100% like something you'd see in our annual Information Assurance training -- see as in you fail if you say you would reply to this email.

submitted 47 minutes ago • 3 comments

Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

submitted 6 hours ago • 157 comments

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

submitted 58 minutes ago • 29 comments

The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

submitted 45 minutes ago • 14 comments

This seems like a phisher's dream. Announcing that a government email is about to go out and that recipients are required to respond to it seems like the kind of thing cybercriminals would love to spoof in order to infect workers or trick them into revealing their login credentials.

submitted 1 hour ago • 34 comments

Assuming the OPM email is as before: 1. It is unencrypted and unauthenticated 2. Asks you to send "what you did for your job, specifically?" info in plain text, unauthenticated reply with no confirmation where it went An agency might use as a test of who falls for phishing attempts

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

Five bullet points? I have at least eight here

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Is it good when you're a company and the kind of people you sell your product to are willing to stand out in the cold to protest your shithead fascist CEO

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

Imagine asking people what they did this week after telling them to stop working

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

submitted 1 hour ago • 204 comments

www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Many people are saying that they’ve never seen federal spending as tremendously efficient and not wasteful as it is today.

submitted 1 hour ago • 23 comments

AZ AG Kris Mayes: This is a coup by Trump against our Constitution, because they are violating not only the separation of powers but also the court orders We have federal judges saying to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “Stop this now,” and yet we believe they are violating those orders.

submitted 1 hour ago • 70 comments

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

submitted 2 hours ago • 52 comments

Trump infamously said of COVID, "if we stop testing, we'll have fewer cases." This is going to be their approach to data with everything. If they don't track maternal and infant outcomes, they can lie and say nothing bad is happening as a direct result of anti-abortion policies.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Cc Judge Chutkan

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If there’s one thing that screams ‘efficiency’ it’s having to recapitulate your weekly tasks to someone who doesn’t understand them at all

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

Not a charge anyone should deploy lightly, but what the ADL is doing right now is kapo shit

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

#TeslaTakedown U Village Seattle

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Oh, FFS, this is nuts. Beyond legallity, love to see how this works for DOD/Intel people who only have classified email working on TS and above stuff. Or say, wildland fire fighters or prison guards? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 hours ago • 29 comments

Costa Rica human rights ombudsman on US deportation flight yesterday: "We observed a significant number of deportees, babies in arms, children, women, elderly people, issuing calls for help, especially to be able to inform their families of their whereabouts, showing and expressing their distress."

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Glad to see our politicians don't care about Jessica's Law. The thing about these license plates is that we can easily find who you are. So, Executive Councilor Stephen - you're a fuck.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Two weeks from now the crew of a nuclear submarine are going to see this email and the subsequent one firing them all.

submitted 2 hours ago • 34 comments

He's gonna do the "mine" thing again, just like he did with all the classified documents he stole. He's gonna take the gold bars and stack them up around the toilets at Mar-a-Lago. "I'm the president. I'm allowed. They're mine."

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m not a Dr. But I stand by the rest of this.

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

Not trying to alarm people but just noting that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among their other important functions, is also one of the small number of people explicitly designated for translating Presidential nuclear strike orders into reality. www.doctrine.af.mil/Portals/61/d...

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

GOV. MILLS: “.. Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. .. “.. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you?” www.pressherald.com/2025/02/21/r...

submitted 3 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump on stage now talking about autism in babies and that “somethin’s wrong,” and that “ Bobby’s gonna find it,” as in RFK Jr is gonna get to the bottom of it, I…. What do you even say

submitted 3 hours ago • 38 comments

The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

submitted 3 hours ago • 207 comments

another move straight out of the abusive dad playbook: he's willing to "have a discussion" and "hear out your concerns" but if you start to get heated and especially if you name what he did wrong, you're out of line and he'll grandstand about how nice he was to even listen

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

That sub-headline is HORRIBLE. It automatically accepts the idea that a Black man got his job bc of a diversity program, not bc of … I don’t know … talent. Hiring a Black man is not automatically “diversity,” @nytimes.com. This headline is a bracing acceptance of a racist narrative.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I wrote angry about the purging of the US military. saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

This is a must-read. Very accessible and clear explanation of how and why Trump's military purge is so bad, and how it may impact some plausible future scenarios, such as domestic military deployments against protestors and even interstate and state/fed conflicts.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

From an expert: "Last night was the worst night in US civil-military relations since the Civil War." Loyalty purges of the military are very, very bad.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 285 comments

NEW: Abortion providers brace for violence after Trump limits clinic protections. "It’s signaling to people who oppose abortion that they can take the law into their own hands and there won’t be consequences for that.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Important for understanding implications of the Defense Department purge. Who will be their replacements? Recall this report from December: "Prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon" were asked "whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen."

submitted 7 hours ago • 38 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 19 hours ago • 809 comments

Pathetic. I'm seeing way too much of "Welp, I guess we just have to figure out how to deal with things," and far too little of "Dammit, we have to draw the line here." Living to fight another day only works if you actually end up in the fight.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments