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I had a video hang with long time colleagues the other night. One by one, good people are leaving the federal service, voluntarily or not. The American people will ultimately be the ones who lose. My latest at thepamphletrice.substack.com/p/calamities

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FFS

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I kind of want to go

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“So the re-elected president instituted mass tariffs which led to a trade war. Then came the worldwide economic collapse, riots, starvation, pandemics, border incursions and genocide all because some people were mad that Riley Gaines tied for fifth at a swim meet. Now who wants a rat drumstick?”

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DHS insiders say Trump’s Homeland Security agenda is now a single issue. “The vibe is: How to use DHS to go after migrants, immigrants. That is the vibe, that is the only vibe. ... It’s wild — it’s as if the rest of the department doesn’t exist.”

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It's the Gulf of Mexico! I will call it the Gulf of Mexico till the day I die. Even if I end up one day a crazy old lady, still calling Zimbabwe Rhodesia or Sri Lanka Ceylon. I will never call it anything other than the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone say it with me!

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all of this has already come to feel like normalcy. It feels as if it can't go on like this. It feels as if it was never any other way. My latest on Substack thepamphletrice.substack.com/p/on-normalcy

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Holy shit! Check out how angry the crowd is at Republican Rep. Keith Self’s town hall in Wylie, Texas today. That’s another huge angry crowd in a deep red district!

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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Between the "5 things" e-mail and Trump and Vance's disgraceful performance at the Zelensky press conference on Friday, I'm not sure I can continue to be a part of this regime. It's not an easy point to reach after nearly two decades of federal service.

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Someone alert DOGE!

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Sadly I did forget and found myself in desperate need of gas today. But I did at least deprive Bezos of some revenue by canceling both my Audible and WaPo subscriptions. WaPo was tough, ya'll. It's my local paper. But damn.

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Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

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This. Trump's affinity for Russia and Putin is very real, and our collective decision to treat it as a non-scandal is itself scandalous. As was today's press conference. SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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I'm in!

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NEW: Federal government employees are sending me ideas for how to respond to Musk's OPM "Five Bullets" email. My latest: #Emails2DOGE www.muellershewrote.com/p/federal-wo...

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OPMs email servers trying to hold back all the external troll emails they’re getting in response to DOGE.

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It's a shame that not all agencies are taking this approach.

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With each of these instances, this country is weaker. Regardless of the severity of the impact on each individual, we have all lost.

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The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

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Succinct, to the point, and perfectly captures the latest dilemma federal employees face. For me, I’m on leave so I have a respite (I hope).

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Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

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Federal employees are damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don't with the latest from Musk and the Dogebags. My latest, visceral reaction to tonight's developments:

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I haven't gotten it yet but options for responding: 1) Don't 2) Smartass list of how I'm abiding by the EOs 3) Hyperbolic claims of heroism So many choices!

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Accurate

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My list shall start with "I ensured that no performance goal in my division contained any reference to DEI."

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To be a fed right now is to know someone who's been unjustly fired, and to know that you might be next. My latest Substack describes the mood.

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I launched a Substack today! My first post is up, explaining why I'm starting the Substack and describing the moral conundrums and existential dread that come with being a fed at this moment in our national collapse into autocracy. open.substack.com/pub/thepamph...

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