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Profile pic is my dog; views are my own. Minneapolis now; Midwesterner from birth. Chaotic Good. She/her/hers. Singin’ it with Martha and the Vandellas 🎶“It doesn’t matter what you wear // just as long as you are there.”🎶
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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 4 hours ago • 219 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 221 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 231 comments

Tarkovsky’s Fight Club

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

"Stanley Kubrick's Howard the Duck"

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

David Cronenberg's The Muppets Take Manhattan

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 249 comments

*Slams dictionary shut til Monday*

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

No more students will be offered admission to grad school at Pitt due to the instability of our federal government.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 341 comments

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 293 comments

NEW: The Trump administration has locked Minnesota out of $200 million in federal food and climate grants awarded last summer. Projects breaking ground this year were depending on that money. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

submitted 2 days ago • 410 comments

jesus

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Oh my god I was trying to find this meme and lmao what

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Also and not for nothing, vote by mail

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Trump issued an executive order to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency overseeing San Francisco’s Presidio, a national park site at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge.

submitted 2 days ago • 174 comments

Guys...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

While many of you are likely yelling "GO USA" or "GO CANADA!" I'm yelling "GO literally any elected member of congress and the rule of law, please, anyone or a single check or a solitary balance or—

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 432 comments

Man what the fuck did we do lmao look at this shit

submitted 2 days ago • 332 comments

Anyone who thinks the NYC subways are scary does not ride the NYC subways. Or perhaps hasn't since the 1980s (and even then it wasn't as bad as people claimed).

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

Someone should alert Andrew Ferguson at the FTC since he announced he's so very interested in learning about shadowbanning.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1573 comments

It really fucking burns me that Hoffman, Joplin, Ledger, Belushi, Hendrix, and all those folks die of drug overdoses but this freak keeps on chugging.

submitted 2 days ago • 156 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 2 days ago • 545 comments

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

submitted 5 days ago • 124 comments

I hate these fucking people so much.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

"Maple Grove and Champlin mayors say Brooklyn Park should keep apartments away from their borders. Brooklyn Park’s mayor says that’s 'regional redlining.'"

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Wallace Shawn Emerges As Frontrunner To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond

submitted 2 days ago • 451 comments

I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 475 comments

Our about-to-be next FBI director just called journalism “the most powerful enemy the US has ever seen.”

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.

submitted 3 days ago • 448 comments

fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

submitted 3 days ago • 252 comments

A USAID contracting officer (who for obvious reasons is not disclosing her identity) says a company named after its founder Philip Green almost got its federal contract cancelled because the fools at DOGE thought it had something to do with "green" energy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

This is perhaps not an ideal time for NASA to have redefined its primary mission as "track down and destroy all copies of the movie Hidden Figures".

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1065 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 5 days ago • 451 comments

every time someone buys a hardcover copy of Wild Faith a theocrat gets diarrhea

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

submitted 5 days ago • 251 comments