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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1202 comments

This is what electeds need to do every time!

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 241 comments

It does not matter if your shitty start-up fails. The VC culture expects most of them to do so. It does matter if you mess up the federal government because its a lot harder to repair what has been broken rather than, y'know, not break it in the first place.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

Republicans are feeling the heat and trying to squirm away from Musk's unpopular cuts. Don't let them.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

I wonder what would happen if @wyden.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov asked GAO to investigate whether DOGE's "receipts" claiming savings amounts to fraud. Honestly, it's the only fraud found so far. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

An important detail that I think gets lost in the madness: Federal workers are categorized as "probationary" when they get promoted. So experts who've worked in government for 10, 20, 30 years are getting indiscriminately cut in the DOGE purge because they got promoted, not because they're new.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Still hard to believe that the Supreme Court blessing to break laws didn't dissuade people at all from voting for a seasoned lawbreaker.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

MAGA Republicans are saying the "SAVE Act" will make elections more safe. It's ACTUALLY a voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions of American citizens. Military members, rural voters, and millions of married women could be ineligible to vote. Pay attention!

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Veteran's Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 Text Crisis Line: Text "HOME" to 741741 CG SUPRT (Coast Guard Crisis Line): 855-247-8778 US National Crisis Line: dial 988 You are not alone - please reach out.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

1/ Very bad look for the business side of the Washington Post: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

In case you still believe that Usha Vance is a victim here, she happily accepted a seat on the Kennedy Center board. In Handmaid’s Tale, the Wives enjoy their places of status right up until they lose a finger. Under his eye.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 8 days ago • 597 comments

I didn’t know I needed SwearSky in my life yet here we are.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Pete is here! 💙

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

submitted 17 days ago • 250 comments

Google has removed its Responsible AI Principles. This is actually a pretty big deal.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

This thread will be stories of how people hold the line--continue to behave responsibly and ethically.

submitted 29 days ago • 69 comments

I remember the Hamilton Project from the old Twitter days!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A good TikTok alternative can’t come soon enough!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 18 days ago • 926 comments

Roger Goodell, on the NFL’s DEI policies moving forward: “We’re not in this because it’s a trend. It’s about attracting the best talents.” “I think we’ll continue those efforts.”

submitted 18 days ago • 314 comments

Mass protests in Indiana as hundreds stepped up to stand against tyranny. The demonstrations were sparked after Trump collaborator Gov. Braun signing an executive order, directing law enforcement to aid ICE ethnic cleansing operations. #3E #USprotests #ICE "Who's the criminal? Donald Trump!"

submitted 19 days ago • 191 comments

Trump and Musk's actions can overwhelm the reader. Important not to forget basic facts. If Musk illegally accessed federal employee records and tax and social security information and transferred them to a private device, he is vulnerable to prosecution and a multidecade sentence in federal prison.

submitted 19 days ago • 128 comments

The word for this is "coup."

submitted 20 days ago • 159 comments

As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression. www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

Okay: • Unclench your jaw. • Breathe deeply. • Detach and observe. • Decide on action. We don’t have the power to stop most of what is happening, but we can still act. We can support mutual aid efforts and welfare and advocacy orgs. We can organize. We can contact elected officials (202-224-3121).

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

submitted 21 days ago • 57 comments

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

submitted 21 days ago • 166 comments

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

submitted 21 days ago • 1780 comments

Let’s be clear. The President literally got up and put an air traffic controller in the cross-hairs of MAGA, implying incompetency and DEI hire when an investigation hasn’t even begun. Then disparaged Biden, Obama & Buttigieg. All with zero proof. He’s void of morality.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Trump wants to distract you from the fact that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator last week. Don’t let him.

submitted 22 days ago • 623 comments