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Endless cycle of disengaging from Online because The Internet is too depressing, then going back Online because The Real World is too depressing.

submitted 32 minutes ago • 3 comments

I ALREADY REPORT ON WHAT I WORK ON. TO MY BOSS! You do not have to do the “he has a point, but…”

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Health care is a basic human right. If Congress makes cuts to Medicaid, rural hospitals will close, jobs will be lost and our families will be forced to drive hours for a regular appointment. That ain’t right and you deserve better.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

On top of all the bullshit going on, they’ve got dickie v calling the Kentucky game???

submitted 2 days ago • 0 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 2 days ago • 104 comments

After the U.S. Senate passed an inhumane budget package, AFSCME members should call their House members to save public services. www.afscme.org/blog/time-to...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 3 days ago • 2501 comments

"When you ride TESLA, you ride with Hitler. Join Public Transportation Today!" Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Federal employee union members have been fighting back as agency after agency has been hit by Elon Musk’s DOGE — a private unaccountable entity which has been demanding access to all government records while spreading wild lies about waste and fraud.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 5 days ago • 230 comments

Is anyone on storygraph? I nuked my goodreads account and only have a few friends on storygraph now 😭

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Someone tell Democrats being the party of labor isn't a title they get to claim just because Republicans have also been vehemently anti-union. Let's see some concrete action. Thousands of union Fed workers are getting fed into the DOGE wood chipper. What y'all got for them? Another memo?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Scored a great Eddie Bauer fleece and some Pyrex at a thrift store today and my friend got a really nice wool overcoat, thrifting is great

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 9 days ago • 382 comments

We see the work you do. We stand with you. 💚✊

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

submitted 14 days ago • 161 comments

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

submitted 16 days ago • 356 comments

Seeing a lot of folks reposting this but getting the context wrong: Gillibrand is saying that the GOP Senators are falling in line because of death threats; not the Dems, and not her. From the NPR transcript: www.wnyc.org/story/call-y...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Coupla British monarchs

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We will never stop fighting to protect public service workers. If you’re in the D.C. area, join us & AFGE on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 12 p.m. on Capitol Hill to #GetOrganized and make our voices heard!

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Astronaut: Houston…uh…..have a problem Capcom: Who does? Mission Control engineer: you’re fired Flight director: [points] both people here no more work

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

you might feel moved when visiting the Betsy Ross museum, but don’t get carried away! They won’t even let museum employees do this activity

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

📢 Hey hey, ho ho, Elon Musk has got to go! 📢 We're making it loud and clear—KEEP DOGE out of DOL! Our freedoms are not for sale. Say it with us: Unelected billionaires have no place in the Department of Labor. #DOGEoutofDOL

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

BILLIONAIRES OUT, WORKERS IN! We’re out at the Department of Labor showing Elon Musk’s DOGE that the labor movement will stand up to any attack on our workplace rights.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

See now I’m starting to think that these people want a machine to summarize things for them because when a human does it, the human uses words like “no” and “that would hurt people” and “that’s illegal.”

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 21 days ago • 1698 comments

BREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 21 days ago • 213 comments

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

submitted 21 days ago • 2171 comments

Democrats should unironically copy Tea Party 2010 wave where they obliterated establishment republicans in primaries. The old guard has failed, time to replace it with someone who knows what to do.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 23 days ago • 240 comments

Tariffs, white nationalist patriarchy, robber barons, colonialism, brain worms, unregulated casino capitalism, dying early from tainted food and water, etc etc. Been there done that! Welcome back losers

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

It seems like an unelected, non-Senate-confirmed billionaire who recently gave a Nazi salute onstage is directing private citizens in a takeover of U.S. federal workers' personal information? Is this okay with everyone? What am I missing

submitted 24 days ago • 123 comments

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

submitted 25 days ago • 54 comments

I often come back to that ~2017 headline “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people”

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!

submitted 25 days ago • 111 comments

If you know a federal worker, give them a hug. Nobody goes into the public service to get rich. They do the essential work of the people. And right now they are under assault by collection of failsons and white Apartheid babies and their bootlicking cronies.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

What’s seen as bloat or bureaucracy is the undocumented processes, workarounds and institutional memory that make government function. It exists in human brains. Once lost it can’t be replaced. You can get contractors and let consultancies and agencies collect rent. Won’t fix anything. Or AI. Sure.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

A bunch of federal employees saying they are gonna hold the line is fuckin raw ✊🏽

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 27 days ago • 1031 comments

There’s a new show on Hulu called Paradise where James Marsden plays the president, who is a progressive from Kentucky and who’s code name is Wildcat and the code for the president getting shot is Christian Laettner lmaooooo

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

submitted 29 days ago • 1714 comments