karlafisk.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

We deserve a thread of these. I bet you can guess mine

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

If I had to respond to an email as a federal employee asking me what I did at work last week, I'd make sure to list all the duties I had to absorb because of mass illegal firings, followed by a description of what the EPA's Walter Peck did in Ghostbusters.

submitted 18 hours ago • 695 comments

Front page of today’s NY Post

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 15 hours ago • 183 comments

blavity.com/don-lemon-cn... “I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots and insurrectionists and election-deniers, and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth, people who are fighting for what’s right, people who are biding by the Constitution, Con’t …..

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

AFGE sent this message to federal employees tonight re: OPM's email, saying the union "strongly believes this email was sent illegitimately" and providing sample language for people to use to talk to their supervisors about how to respond.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm in ! Tell me how.

submitted 1 day ago • 1348 comments

🎯🧵 by @drseanmullen.bsky.social on Twitter: "Historically, paradigm shifts occur not simply because evidence accumulates but because anomalies reach a critical mass where denial becomes untenable. For many, acknowledging the truth is not about facts alone..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/18932...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Top Military Leader callously & unnecessarily FIRED! All for the installation of another loyalist. We are in GRAVE DANGER!

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

I owe any sanity I have at this point to @hcrichardson.bsky.social If you’re not following, it’s time to start.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

submitted 1 day ago • 569 comments

there are so many things happening right now to federal employees that are illegal under current employment laws

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

They’re coming for your retirement so Elon Musk can keep playing with rockets.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

The polar bear in my daughter’s climate change project has broken my heart

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

They love disabled people in “inspirational” stories, until we ask for healthcare, jobs, and rights.

submitted 21 hours ago • 20 comments

Cuomo is evil! Check out NYC Mayoral candidates like @bradlander.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social @zellnor.bsky.social @blakefornyc.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Them: How long are you going to do this (wear masks and take precautions to avoid COVID)? Me: Well let me ask you, How many infections do you think your body can take?

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

submitted 22 hours ago • 88 comments

This deranged post must be read in concert with new Daily Beast and Yahoo News reports that Trump is a Kremlin agent ("Krasnov") and Hegseth speeding up a political purge of the military. What you are seeing here is fear from Trump and Musk; they need to get to martial law fast.

submitted 19 hours ago • 118 comments

Kennedy is just a shameless grifter.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 1 day ago • 138 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 22 hours ago • 433 comments

Black officers were also not permitted to refer to themselves as policemen, but rather as patrolmen. To read the full story about how Miami’s Black police officers had to follow a different set of rules, click the link ⤵️

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 562 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 735 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 19 hours ago • 98 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 4029 comments

Not the primary culprit, but it’s also supremely & mortifyingly embarrassing for administrators of the Carter library to agree to cancel events like this. What’ll happen if they don’t? They test bluff? a presidential library is shut down by the White House, which has its own political opportunity?

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

My peace deal for Ukraine is Putin can have Trump. And Ukraine gets Ukraine.

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 1 day ago • 1363 comments

A real struggle right now is thinking that the people in charge just want the US to be the us with more white guys in charge when in truth they want to destroy democracy

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

submitted 1 day ago • 233 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 1 day ago • 2053 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

The 'find out' phase is here.

submitted 1 day ago • 677 comments

Washington evangelical pastor & chaplain, David Franklin, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for recording himself sexually abusing a 4 year old girl & possessing child sexual abuse material. www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/c...

submitted 23 hours ago • 428 comments

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

submitted 1 day ago • 972 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 1 day ago • 1465 comments

He nails it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1510 comments

"After the war they tried to persuade public health officials to take the threat of airborne infection seriously. But infectious disease experts, fighting against outbreaks and preparing for emergence of new diseases mostly ignored them, even when it meant accepting basic mistakes about physics."

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

So rather than Washington under Biden nationalizing Starlink, we have Starlink under Musk privatizing Washington.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Anti-DEI is an attack on civil rights by segregationists. Most white "allies" are completely silent while segregationists attack Black people and our civil rights. These silent "allies" without a shred of shame or self-awareness, fully expect Black voters to make sacrifices to save them at midterms

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

When volcanos spew lava what they're saying in the Volcanic language is "FEED ME BILLIONAIRES"

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

Fact: Medicaid is the primary insurance for nearly HALF of all pregnant people. Slashes to Medicaid can only mean worse maternal outcomes. Don’t let them convince you otherwise .

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Hegseth's tattoos got a lot of attention, but of course he denied they were racist. What probably should have gotten more attention: He belongs to a church that teaches slavery was the pinnacle of race relations. dougwilsonbelieves.com/beliefs/sout...

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 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 22 hours ago • 200 comments