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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

submitted 56 minutes ago • 29 comments

Nate Silver has to believe that Nate Silver and people like Nate Silver are geniuses who deserve everything they got because otherwise he’s just one of a couple hundred guys who did some interesting stuff with baseball statistics and then claimed he was a data genius so could cover all fields.

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

You know deleting the CFPB is a bad call when even the banks we regulate are worried about the regulatory chaos it might cause. Let us get back to work for American consumers! #CFPBLockout #HandsOffCFPB

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Judiciary employees and likely federal judges all got the "what did you do last week" email.

submitted 1 hour ago • 62 comments

For the record, the idea of the entire federal workforce flooding an OPM email inbox with their weekly task reports is insurmountable stupid.

submitted 1 hour ago • 42 comments

Pretty sure it means “We’re breaking contracts, illegally freezing payments. If anyone complains, we’ll point to this, and when we get sued, we’ll show it to a judge, who should laugh it out of court, but by then you’ll be out of work and burdened by legal fees, and we’ll ignore rulings anyway.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

submitted 1 hour ago • 150 comments

So Mad King Elon posted this about two hours ago and I've now seen one of the actual emails. Not going to mention the agency my source works out. But suffice it to say it's entirely shuttered. So everyone there was forced to stop working more than a week ago. The actual email is one is that in ...

submitted 1 hour ago • 99 comments

the federal government represented in court that this man is not in charge of anything official

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 3 hours ago • 58 comments

submitted 3 hours ago • 24 comments

Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

submitted 2 hours ago • 129 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

The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

submitted 3 hours ago • 106 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 5 hours ago • 299 comments

When this movie was first released, I thought this bit was a little too on the nose. I’ve come to appreciate it a lot more ever since.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Hakeem, please try calling your elected rep and talking to him to voice your concerns. Maybe he can help!

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

A federal judge has extended the order keeping Elon Musk's DOGE out of Treasury Department payment systems, ruling that the Trump admin's process for granting access to the sensitive data was so flawed and haphazard that it was likely illegal.

submitted 1 hour ago • 27 comments

Love how he just concedes this as a matter of fact, like he's a passive observer

submitted 2 hours ago • 12 comments

What ?!?

submitted 1 hour ago • 465 comments

Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.

submitted 2 hours ago • 40 comments

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 3 hours ago • 401 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1035 comments

This is 100%. Almost everything in the constitution is general or implied. The document literally says there's going to be a post office and congress is in charge of setting it up, deciding what it's rules are.

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 4 hours ago • 177 comments

Fantastic piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social of the resegregation of America under Trump.

submitted 4 hours ago • 20 comments

“Now that you’ve unfairly called us Nazis I have no choice but to do a Sieg Heil” is really where we’re going with this. Do not relent. The public is not on their side. “It was an accident” is not the same thing as “I’m doing it intentionally but ironically.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 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

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 3 hours ago • 250 comments

DOGE's "savings" is like saying, "I've saved hundreds of dollars by never changing the oil or replacing the brakes in my old car."

submitted 8 hours ago • 22 comments

Back on my Bullshit the Supreme Court Enabled Beat, co-presidents Musk and Trump edition ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Musk has 100 kids +/- a few dozen. lots of NDAs. It's only a matter of time before this comes out, this has been persistent and well sourced gossip for awhile

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

I'm shocked. Let me find my shocked face. It's around here some where. www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

“Once the military is deeply into partisan politics, it simply will be hard to take it out of partisan politics”

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 23 comments

RFK Jr. cannot be trusted to oversee or interpret legit scientific research.

submitted 9 hours ago • 105 comments

Wait now the right wing influencer woman filed a paternity suit against Elon??? pagesix.com/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 3 hours ago • 48 comments

Elon Musk fancies himself some kind of maverick technologist superhero. But he’s no Tony Stark. He’s PHONY Stark. He’s the one the Avengers defeat at the end of the movie.

submitted 4 hours ago • 359 comments

ROME (AP) — Vatican says Pope Francis in critical condition, suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis in the morning.

submitted 5 hours ago • 81 comments

another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 4 hours ago • 729 comments