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.@AFGENational has its members’ backs. We stand with them. This is an appalling, illegal abuse of power by a billionaire who gets $$ of federal largesse. A billionaire who doesn’t need federal services. Should Presidents try to make things more efficient? Yes. This is not that. It’s evisceration

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The only entity from the campaign promising to privatize public services was Project 2025 and Trump said he wasn't affiliated with it. You cannot claim a mandate to do something you lied saying that you wouldn't do it

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Letter from congress that is incredibly alarming. Looks like #DOGE got access to #nasa and they use the word ominous. democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

i am mystified by the influence of noah smith, among the most ignorant and incurious people i have ever seen on the internet. just a total dummy.

submitted 1 hour ago • 124 comments

I led the DOJ working group that crafted 2012 regulations to implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act. One provision: Bureau of Prisons must make individualized assessments on transgender prisoner housing assignments. This was the rule during the first Trump term! The cruelty is the point.

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They hate non-Tesla EVs. This will give Musk a monopoly on both charging stations & EVs

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

The thing about this is that it's exactly what they were afraid society, "the left", would do to them after jan 6th but that was too uncouth to go after funders and organizers of family separation and jan 6th.

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Ten years into this national nightmare, the New York Times finally gets the guts to call Trump a liar

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 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 20 hours ago • 47 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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Ukraine's telecom operators, including Kyivstar and Vodafone, primarily use 4G tech from Chinese suppliers, especially ZTE. Since the invasion, policymakers have worried about the risks posed by this equipment. But in the end, it was Starlink that was weaponized against Ukraine.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 17 hours ago • 926 comments

The thing here is this is like a gold mine of info to train his large language model that he wants to take over federal jobs with. Not in actually accomplishing anything but in mimicking the language of someone accomplishing things. Rven jf a relatively small number of 3 million people do respond.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

He’s really picking the wrong city to fuck with this time. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1188 comments

With Elon’s “tell us what you accomplished last week or you’re fired” emails: I can confirm that he didn’t limit himself to the executive branch. He sent them to employees of the judicial branch as well.

submitted 17 hours ago • 155 comments

FOIA world cup. I'm going to FOIA the opm foia logs and award a gold medal for the first foia that was sent in today.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 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 19 hours ago • 147 comments

FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

submitted 18 hours ago • 187 comments

In case anyone has any doubt whose idea this is, Musk sent similar emails to employees shortly after buying Twitter www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-ex...

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 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 21 hours ago • 1966 comments

This doesn't really count all the money not collected because they fired irs agents, downturn of commerce from planes crashing and vacations being cancelled at national parks.

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 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 21 hours ago • 57 comments

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

submitted 21 hours ago • 534 comments

I've created a fool proof system to save humanity by thwarting AI from ever becoming "AGI". We need a group of heroes who manage small but vital repos for server infrastructure to make frequent updates with random breaking changes that they explain themselves badly as usual in update docs.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Seems bad

submitted 23 hours ago • 44 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 22 hours ago • 102 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 22 hours ago • 248 comments

Donald Trump has told Kristi Noem to spend $200 million of public funds on ads thanking him for "securing the border," North Korea-style www.semafor.com/article/02/1... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 23 hours ago • 43 comments

Fantastic video/transcript of the conversation between the indispensable @anandwrites.bsky.social and @anatosaurus.bsky.social 'So what do we say? We say: “This is a government of the bullies for the billionaires.” He is coming for your freedom. He is coming for your privacy.'

submitted 1 day ago • 7 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 1 day ago • 204 comments

Why we launched #TeslaTakedown on Bluesky. Musk + Zuck = Muck

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

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Multiculturalism is amazing. Having chilaquiles for breakfast from a place within a mile of my house in Iowa.

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The Trump administration is openly racist and in flagrant violation of the law and the Constitution. And that means farmers don't get paid to grow good food for children.

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Meet German billionaire Mathias Döpfner, CEO of publishing giant Axel Springer - owner of Politico, Die Welt and Bilt. He personally lobbied the European Commission against a law meant to strengthen the editorial independence of European media, according to documents obtained by Follow the Money.

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The story here is really incredible. The DOGE boys go into an agency and fire half the staff without even knowing what the agency does. Yeah, that is really damn efficient.

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The occasional #MurdochJournal editorial or NYPost front page disagreeing with Trump is a smokescreen. Murdoch is devoted to the crowning of Trump as the dictator-king he created. This does not echo the Founders. It shouts fascism. #FührerFluffing

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1/The relatively sudden loss of US funding is jeopardising the future of fact-checkers, independent media and a whole host of other efforts to protect information integrity. New(ish) from @jeffstone.bsky.social and me

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed,” said Amy Paris, who had been working to help reform the US organ transplantation network. “That is the scariest thing in the world.” New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Exactly. The root here isn't that bigots have some philosophical concern which compels them to care about what appears on someone else's government ID. Rather, the purpose is practical and malicious: to force trans people to disclose it—and, often, to explain it—every time they show ID.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Beyond betrayal.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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