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American immigrant in Europe. Former academic writing instructor at a small liberal arts college in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Now living in France 🇫🇷
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Really appreciate how this looks like his signature

The point is is to traumatize the employees to the point where they quit in mass it was laid out in project 2025 and this is exactly how voght and others outlined the trauma. The federal government is waging a terror campaign against its own employees to try and complete the state capture.

Recent polling indicates that Russians are increasingly supportive of Russia continuing the war in Ukraine until it achieves complete Ukrainian capitulation but are simultaneously starting to feel the economic toll of the three years of Russia's war... 🧵(1/6) isw.pub/UkrWar022425

Are we the baddies? Yep, 'fraid so.

Tis fine. From: www.instagram.com/p/DF_mmlVutJ...

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

The University Of Cincinnati is replacing all of it's restroom signs with ones that designate use to only biological sex.

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

The American far right is too fascist for the French far right. Bardella, the president of the RN, Marine le Pen's party, has cancelled, at the last minute, his appearance at CPAC after Steve Bannon's "geste nazi."

Pepsi or Coke? Coke please.

Le dessin du jour, par Soulcié

Listen for it. Fash flash with an American Christian twist.

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

Top notch investigative reporting here.

Trump is a new spin on the old Manchurian candidate genre since he said he was at least half traitor on the campaign trail and Republican voters were like, "Works for me!" A bit fuzzier with low-info voters. But for MAGA this is who they wanted.

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. 🧵⬇️

A model for the rest of Europe!

Completely true.

Public comment genuinely matters. Courts will overturn rules based on an administration not responding to substantive comments.

When the dismantlists talk about "trimming the fat" or "bloated" whatever relating to the federal government, remind them that there have been about the same number of federal employees since the 1960s. Meanwhile US population has increased by ~70% and GDP has increased 29-fold.

A thing that everyone should do RIGHT NOW is download your Social Security statements. What you've paid in, what you're owed. www.ssa.gov/myaccount/st...

It’s hard to communicate the crisis that’s unfolding and the dangers ahead because a lot of superficial things won’t change. The Netflix will still turn on. Your sports teams will play. You’ll see movies. But the things that make liberal democratic life uniquely stable, secure, & vibrant will decay.

Dumb and armed--a dangerous combination.

I cannot stress how an overwhelming number of Americans would be outraged by this if they knew it was happening. So tell them. You low information voter friends. Your Trump-ish relatives. Tell them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

chat, is this good?

Attributed to Napoleon, who ended democracy in French, this quote was also used by Anders Breivik, the far-right anti-immigrant terrorist who murdered 77 people

I'll have to agree that we need new levels of explicitness and variety. 🤬

Word

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

The US healthcare system is no longer safe. Without a strong CDC we can’t control new pathogen outbreaks in our hospitals or benchmark infection rates to prevent surgical infections or pneumonias There is no “private” solution that can make it safe Every hospital CEO should be speaking up

While the Washington, D.C., area is known for its concentration of government workers, the reality is that America’s 2.3 million federal employees are scattered across the country www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This isn’t just large scale pandemics like COVID, these folks are the ones who figure out the source of salmonella infected baby formula so that it can be pulled off the shelves.

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees | Science | AAAS brought to you by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

we’re doomed

1/As Trump and Vance remarks make clear, Europe has to wake up and act to protect itself in a much more dangerous world. It cannot depend on US guarantees. But it is also in a much stronger position than it thinks. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

Denmark's Defense Intelligence Service assessed that Russia may have the capabilities to launch a full-scale war against NATO in the next 5 years, which is consistent w/ ISW's assessments about Russian efforts to restructure and prepare its military and society for a future conflict w/ NATO. (1/3)

Elon Musk is now officially the highest paid bureaucrat in the federal government. Congratulations, Elon!

Since I wrote this, things have only got worse. Trump's efforts to coerce Gazans to leave & Jordan & Egypt to take them in wd be deeply destabilising, & his suggestion that Ukrainians "may be Russian some day" flies in the face of 11 years of UA resistance. Europe can't ignore the harm he's doing.

I didn’t change my name when I got married for some very practical reasons but I never thought “so I can keep voting” would be among them

Just got this press release. Beyond dystopian.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO. Not for me. It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO