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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

submitted 2 days ago • 3484 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 2 days ago • 3313 comments

A reminder for these times.

submitted 2 days ago • 676 comments

These are factual & legal lies Trump staff are saying. He never declassified docs & would have been convicted had case gone to trial. Of course, now as president he can do with them as he wishes. We've #FOIA'd them, incl govt summaries to make sure ppl know the damage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 99 comments

There’s a fake transcript of the Oval Office meeting today going around. Here’s a real one. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/28/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 234 comments

Sure, Elon’s speaking at length at a cabinet meeting, but no, he’s not acting as a principal officer of the United States under Art. II, §2, cl. 2 of the Constitution because he’s just a lowly employee like the guy who gets Trump his Coca-Colas

submitted 5 days ago • 574 comments

In a week that feels chaotic and damaging, it’s important to uplift wins when we get them. And boy did we get them yesterday. I discuss three big court victories, backed up by pissed off judges looking to enforce them, in my write-up: https://buff.ly/4kelFlo

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 6 days ago • 1238 comments

LISTEN.

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"An independent federal oversight agency has deemed at least some of President Trump’s mass firings of probationary period employees unlawful, creating a pathway for those employees to regain their jobs."

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

Governor Josh Shapiro just defeated Donald Trump in court — unfreezing $2.1 billion in federal funding.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Setting the record straight. Per Heather Long, economic reporter for the Washington Post: “Federal workers aren't lazy. Quite the opposite. Federal workers put in more hours a week than anyone except military and self-employed. Federal workers take fewer days off than almost any other workers.”

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: Office of Special Counsel Finds Many DOGE Firings Unlawful with Major Implications for the Future of the DOGE Purge and Potential Jeopardy for Those Who Executed DOGE's Orders talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-d...

submitted 7 days ago • 452 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 9 days ago • 2235 comments

What’s interesting about the response to the email: at the FBI, Patel, a hard-right Trump appointee and ally of Bannon, said no dice. Same at State but response came from Tibor Nagy, a moderate Trump appointee who was a career diplomat. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

This should not remotely surprise anyone. Arab countries, including the UAE, which has been the warmest toward Israel, are united in rejecting Trump's Riviera plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Pro-Israel wishful thinking & anti-Abraham Accords doomsday thinking have obscured this reality.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Artwork by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart

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During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

Unlike the Naval Academy Board, the Kennedy Center isn’t an arm of the executive branch. Its board has fixed terms, not presidential whim. According to @normornstein.bsky.social, there’s a strong case to fight back.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 11 days ago • 860 comments

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the UAE today, where he met w/ its president & foreign minister. This is today's top headline in Abu Dhabi's government-controlled English newspaper. It's not surprising: UAE has, in Ar & Eng, opposed Riviera displacement plan since news of it first broke. 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

🚨BREAKING: In 4-3 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses lower court decision and DISMISSES voter suppression lawsuit. A big victory for our clients the WI Alliance for Retired Americans and voting rights in Wisconsin. Another stinging loss for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

submitted 13 days ago • 1007 comments

🚨🏛️𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖🏛️🚨 SAVE OUR SERVICES – STOP MUSK While a billionaire ransacks our public services, the Federal Unionists Network is standing up and fighting back to say: • NO cuts to vital services! • NO mass layoffs! • END the funding freeze! Join FUN and allies at an action near you: bit.ly/SOSaction

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Thread

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🚨🚨Musk’s DOGE hacks are not only going after American’s tax info per @washingtonpost.com now looking to get into social sec related info 👀 “The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash” over “attempts to access sensitive government records.”

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

The extreme MAGA Republican budget will close hospitals, shut down nursing homes and deprive children of healthcare. There are 215 Democrats in the House who actually want to love and cherish Medicaid, not destroy it. We only need three House Republicans to join us.

submitted 15 days ago • 1314 comments

A lot is happening in US science. Bluesky is the best place to stay up the rolling political crisis in America that is crushing US science. It's also a good place to learn what we all can do. We have a starter pack for this. Please send your colleagues here too. 🧪 go.bsky.app/2K6jTi5

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE EXTENDS TEMPORARY BLOCK ON ELON MUSK'S DOGE FROM ACCESSING TREASURY DEPARTMENT PAYMENT SYSTEMS - COURT HEARING

submitted 17 days ago • 52 comments

Fairyland lustre octagonal bowl by Daisy Makeig-Jones, pioneering UK pottery designer for Wedgwood #WomensArt

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 21 days ago • 74 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 22 days ago • 527 comments

A reminder to DOGE.👇 "It is long settled that courts possess inherent authority to initiate contempt proceedings for disobedience to their orders, authority which necessarily encompasses the ability to appoint a private attorney to prosecute the contempt." -Young v. U.S. ex rel. Vuitton (1987).

submitted 22 days ago • 292 comments

Trust me, bro.

submitted 23 days ago • 3250 comments

What you mean is they are fucking lies. Hundreds of them. — Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts apnews.com/article/usai...

submitted 23 days ago • 98 comments

For our non-CDC friends "the juice is worth the squeeze" is an idiosyncratic phrase often repeated at CDC for unknown reasons. We are now repurposing it for the fight. Keep up the pressure! #juiceisworththesqueeze #CDC #publichealth #resistance

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

Making sure there’s a gift link out there: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

Listen.

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

US judges put a pause on Musk and Trump's ongoing crime spree. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing Treasury Department records. Meanwhile, Judge Carl Nichols has issued a temporary injunction preventing Musk and Trump from firing USAID employees.

submitted 23 days ago • 129 comments

Trump and the GOP are counting on Democrats to play by the old rules while they bulldoze democracy. But the real power of the Senate isn’t just in votes — it’s in procedural warfare: indivisible.org/resource/how...

submitted 24 days ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: In case brought by Democracy Forward and @publiccitizen.bsky.social federal court will block Trump Admin's attempt to place 2200 #USAID employees on leave. This is a big win for our clients AFSA & AFGE and the rule of law. More details to follow.

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

Friday reminder that it’s essential to carve out joy this weekend. It’s a marathon. Hydrate your soul.

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols - a Trump appointee - announced he will pause Trump’s effort to gut USAID. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

submitted 24 days ago • 197 comments

sharing a recent interview about #bridgingdifferences, and many of the social, psychological, and emotional processes involved when people from different groups come together for #intergroupcontact 🙏 theansweriscommunity.substack.com/p/linda-trop...

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🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

Every Republican in the Senate just voted to confirm Russell Vought. We’re going to hold them accountable for every piece of the Project 2025 agenda he implements and all the harm it causes to the families they’re supposed to represent.

submitted 25 days ago • 277 comments

Good news! "A federal judge paused the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer to federal workers until at least Monday. Federal workers had just hours left to decide whether to accept an offer to resign from their positions now while retaining pay and benefits through September."

submitted 25 days ago • 107 comments

Federal folks at risk of layoffs and resignations - confirm your coverage eligibility post-termination with your insurance company. Fill prescriptions, etc. in case you lose benefits. Get your info from a trusted source. Beware of a DOGEy-looking site with sketchy fine print:

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 25 days ago • 146 comments

For those keeping track at home, Dems held the floor all night and are still going strong this morning.

submitted 25 days ago • 137 comments