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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 122 comments

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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5 things I did last week Musk 1. Successfully asked you to rehire 300 nuclear & avian flu workers you “accidentally” fired 2. Pressed you to pay attention to rising household costs 3. Stood up for vets 4. Fought against your tax cuts for the rich 5. Stood with 🇺🇦 instead of🇷🇺

submitted 9 hours ago • 131 comments

Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

submitted 13 hours ago • 791 comments

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 15 hours ago • 525 comments

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

submitted 14 hours ago • 812 comments

Don't lose this in all the noise. Trump abandoned Americans in hostile areas for no other reason than doing their jobs. Now they have 30 days to move countries and find new homes, jobs, schools. Go to @altusaid.bsky.social and read the stories. Then call your reps. This betrayal cannot be tolerated

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Minnesota is leading the way on combatting climate change, and we’re creating clean energy jobs in the process. www.startribune.com/xcel-says-it...

submitted 16 hours ago • 254 comments

Elon Musk instructed federal workers to respond to an email summarizing their weekly accomplishments, a tactic he previously used to downsize staff at X. “Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what you accomplished this week and CC your manager,” the message stated.

submitted 15 hours ago • 442 comments

Elon just sent us all an email demanding a 5-bullet progress report by EOD Monday. FEDS please hold for Altgov guidance. Meanwhile, help us draft our report: 1. Held convos without pronouns 2. Practiced Roman salute 3. Checked genitals in bathroom 4. Burned all books 5. Threw out all spoons

submitted 15 hours ago • 80 comments

His brain is cooked

submitted 16 hours ago • 106 comments

Love to see it!

submitted 22 hours ago • 436 comments

Elon Musk and DOGE discover performance management, something that we in #iopsych have been studying for 100 years. What a disaster to have these fools making personnel decisions.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

He's going to ask Grok to summarize it and decide who to fire

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

This is not normal! As if federal employees didn’t already feel threatened enough—sure, let the brown shirts have guns; that’ll certainly boost compliance.

submitted 14 hours ago • 111 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1861 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

submitted 103 days ago • 4686 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 20 hours ago • 195 comments

If he gets a mistrial because Adams and the NYPD couldn't say no to a camera

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

Slashing NIH funding is a direct attack on life-saving research happening in Minnesota and across the country. The Trump administration's proposed cuts would jeopardize breakthroughs in cancer, heart disease, PTSD treatment, and more. We must continue to fight back.

submitted 20 hours ago • 46 comments

does anyone have any good infographic type resources about how to help a friend who has been triggered (especially if they genuinely have PTSD)?

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 1231 comments

The Decentralised Workforce The rise of freelancers, creators, and one-person empires - how digital platforms are reshaping work and wealth creation workforcefuturist.substack.com/p/the-decent...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

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“DOGE has targeted a shocking sweep of basic government services with an unprecedented level of slash-and-burn nihilism. There’s no considered plan, just careless mass destruction — and Musk’s desire to control everything, whatever the risks.” www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Here come the “town hall no-show’s”. #Wisconsin wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

There's been so much going on I haven't had a chance to cover it but Musk's DOGE connecting so many government systems to the open internet is so insanely disastrous.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Have you ever struggled to quantify the benefit of federal funding for research on a local level? ☀️ Here's a great resource for that 👉 www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... Focuses on the NIH, & gives you state-level information about awards funded, economic activity & jobs supported!

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

submitted 22 hours ago • 90 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1091 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 740 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 574 comments

Idiocracy was a documentary

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submitted 1 day ago • 26 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 1 day ago • 2411 comments

This seems like as good a time as any to say that I AM ALL FOR POLITICAL SPEECHES at the Oscars this year! A lot of them! Loud and long! deadline.com/2025/02/no-o...

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 1 day ago • 2288 comments

The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

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Mikey Madison & Ayo Edibiri stun in new photo.

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[willem dafoe unprompted] now, this cookie monster. [toothy smile] what a creature, what a lust. it consumes him. [crosses legs] he’s really a tragic figure.

submitted 41 days ago • 87 comments

Troubling: Congresspeople say they are NOT hearing from academics, or university administrators. PLEASE SPEAK UP! Oppose these budget cuts to research, health, student loans! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/... Tell others to do the same!

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