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I'm digging down details on a few stories, but I'm very interested in hearing from any federal employees or contractors: * who are just seeing DOGE folks coming into your agencies now * about what has happened in the wake of a DOGE bomb: rehires, canceled programs, big changes, etc. Signal: crg.32

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Republicans think gutting the government is just firing ‘Washington bureaucrats.’ But look: this is a small-town paper in New Hampshire, reporting on local forest workers suddenly out of a job for zero reason. These are real people. This is going to backfire, badly.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

replacing our next town hall toolkit with a video of this guy 🫡😭

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

THEY DO NOT WANT TO FIX GOVERNMENT; THEY WANT TO BREAK IT AND MAKE IT UNFIXABLE.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

Trump campaigned on making IVF free for everyone, either by having the government pay for it directly or forcing insurance companies to cover the full cost. The executive order he signed today doesn't do that. In fact, it doesn't make any policy changes. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Money and markets, y'all. It's your superpower.

submitted 3 days ago • 322 comments

Hundreds of former US Attorneys have signed an open letter showing solidarity with current DOJ staff. "You have responded to ethical challenges of a type no public servant should ever be forced to confront with principle and conviction." www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Today's task Remind your Republican Reps and Senators that once Musk gets IRS data he has their personal and banking information too. He can then use that against them. In NJ call Kean, Van Drew & Smith.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

submitted 5 days ago • 605 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 728 comments

if you work for the IRS, i’d like to chat. message me on signal at marisakabas.04

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

Gavin Kliger posted on substack two days ago that he joined DOGE because he was inspired by a nazi. Now he has access to some of the most sensitive taxpayer data at the IRS.

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

The employee is Gavin Kliger. He’s been named by multiple large news orgs. Not sure why NBC won’t.

submitted 5 days ago • 77 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 7 days ago • 382 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 8 days ago • 834 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 8 days ago • 439 comments

Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.

submitted 8 days ago • 100 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1781 comments

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

submitted 9 days ago • 481 comments

WATCH THIS CASE!!!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

I'm so friggin exhausted. All I can say is as long as RFK Jr. is running public health, learn his office phone number and blow up his phone at every mistake. Not pushing back meanings people will literally die. Learn who is your state's health commissioner and be ready to bug the hell out of them.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If a “Democrat” like Dean Phillips says anything remotely like ‘actually Elon is on to something’ at this point just turn them off. It’s been 3 weeks. If you’re too fucking stupid to see this isn’t about saving money, fighting corruption, or preventing fraud then you are clearly compromised.

submitted 9 days ago • 191 comments

So the plan is to defund Medicaid and build hotels in Gaza to pay for armored Tesla cybertrucks to run down immigrants and put them on planes that will crash because the magnets are too weak?

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

Thanks to the federal workers who have reached out; you’ve helped me understand some amount of what’s going on, in addition to providing me with important reportable material. If something is going on that the public needs to know about, reach out. My email and Signal are in my bio.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

submitted 11 days ago • 1141 comments

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ILLEGALLY FIRED FEMA OFFICIALS AFTER ELON MUSK TOLD LIES ABOUT THEM. jfc it's not that hard!

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 1573 comments

lawyers: your bat signal has been activated

submitted 12 days ago • 65 comments

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

submitted 12 days ago • 18406 comments

DC folks: Elizabeth Warren, Indivisible, the CFPB union and others rallying outside the CFPB building TODAY at 4:15

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

The CFPB union has just sued Russell Vought over shuttering the agency

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 13 days ago • 3221 comments

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

US weather forecasters were banned from collaborating with international scientists before and it did not end well: www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

New from me: The deferred resignation offer expires on Monday. An open letter from a federal employee as they decide their future, plus thoughts and insights about the damage being done from other public servants. Please read, and share. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-forced...

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

Trump administration solves problem that it created.

submitted 14 days ago • 557 comments

I said what I said. www.thewrap.com/chris-hayes-...

submitted 14 days ago • 848 comments

what we’re seeing is that the courts are willing to rule against the government on certain things but there’s no one to actually enforce it.

submitted 13 days ago • 80 comments

❗#USAID Temporary Restraining Order issued: "All USAID employees currently on administrative leave shall be reinstated until [Feb 14] ... no additional employees shall be placed on administrative leave before that date. No USAID employees shall be evacuated from their host countries"

submitted 14 days ago • 51 comments

Breaking: A federal judge just issued an emergency order prohibiting Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans at the Treasury Dept. — noting the potential for irreparable harm.  The conditions are in place until another judge hears arguments on Feb. 14.

submitted 14 days ago • 104 comments