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Professional, wife, mother, veteran, progressive. Lover of ttrpgs, scifi, fantasy and all things nerd. Hiking in the woods of MD and copper fire painting are the best (but so is painting 3d printed minis)
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Dropping all current research and losing the data and findings forever. Cutting Alzheimer’s research? You have to ask how could anyone support this. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

Andrew Van Damm at the WaPo went looking for the lazy federal workers, he couldn't find them www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

PETE: “What we have to do now is make clear we do want government to work differently and better than it has, but burning it to the ground won’t do that for anyone.”

submitted 2 days ago • 309 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 841 comments

Great. Disabled vet here and I think I blocked the actual VA because some recent change (looking at you DOGE) has their messages coming up as spam. Or maybe it was spam. Who the hell knows. But friends are saying they’re getting the same message, which makes me worry or wasn’t

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

RFK 's plan to make America healthy again? Round up people with mental health conditions in camps: Robert F. Kennedy wants to replace standard psychological care with unpaid labor on "wellness farms"

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

FEDS, ALERT!!! Print all your SF50s or similar for your agency. Make sure you have your EOD date Get at least 1 month of earning statements. Print at least 3 performance evaluations If you can get your drop file.l, and a copy of your OPM file if you can.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Today started bad and has ended worse, with more hell to come tomorrow. Not one but two fellow veterans seriously contemplating ending it all. Trying to decide whether 7:43 is too early to call it a day.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Why would we abandon the prosperous, democratic nations of Europe, our allies for one hundred years, to "partner" with weak, poor Russia, a longtime adversary and dictatorship currently in the middle of an unprovoked invasion of a neighboring state? Treason. It's treason

submitted 4 days ago • 360 comments

Another word for "regulation" is... "consumer protection" "environmental protection" "Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Well, starting today to see what fresh hell is upon us. Feeling hopeless and helpless today. BUT that’s when it’s most important to plug along anyway.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

submitted 5 days ago • 280 comments