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Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

If you back into a spot at the grocery, how do you load your stuff?

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

First ever halftime show by a Pulitzer Prize winner?

TFW you accidentally forget to refill your coffee before the next meeting

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

I feel like Beyonce has a ska record in her

The problem with 🎶 listening to Missy Elliot 🎶 is that the songs keep playing 🎶 even after you stop 🎶

Right now I’m wondering if it’s possible to live on Costco purchases alone.

Trump is reportedly going to sign a piece of paper later today declaring that the federal government of the United States defines me as a woman. If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.

LOL, the ATO process for a government owned app that collects personal data is going to be quite something

Does anyone unironically hang fizzy dice from their rear view mirror?

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this

I’m still bitter there was no actual Trent Crimm book at the end of Ted Lasso

Feeling cute, might eat later

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Here’s my low bar on presidential qualifications beyond the typical measures: At least once you must have changed a diaper, folded laundry, filed your own taxes, cooked a meal for your family, put off a purchase due to low funds, scrubbed a toilet, waited at a doctor’s office for a loved one.

I feel like there should be a face-eating leopard emoji; we’re going to need it a lot.

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You know it doesn't necessarily have to "get worse before it gets better." That's just some shit people told you often enough and long enought that you uncritically took it for true. We could just work to be better.