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I can tell all these people with zero fear of infectious diseases didn't grow up reading American Girl books, because when Kirsten's friend Marta died of cholera, 7-year-old me was devastated.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Exactly this. A lot of cops live in their own bubble, don't talk or interact a lot with "civilians" except through the lens of their work, and marinate in the hostile us-them dynamic in a way National Guard troops are unlikely to have done. (Radley literally wrote the book on warrior cop culture.)

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I don’t know who needs to hear this but just in case… Aaron Sibarium can literally never be trusted with any of his reporting. Story after story about the evils of woke proves to be bullshit after the slightest examination. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Don't know if there are that many AUSAs on here, but I know a LOT of prosecutors offices that are hiring and would love to have the experience of an ethical federal prosecutor on their team.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

sob yay trains ... @rwu-org.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Well, shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Wow, we've really made it

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Not to belabor the obvious, but if I were advising a contractor I would wait for the official direction from the contracting officer so I don't get sued for breach. YMMV, though.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

New, from me: The Trump administration is already making it easier for partisan political appointees to fire career civil servants. A new policy will also allow them to politicize who is hired into the civil service. The spoils system returns! 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

This has not broken through to mainstream discussions, but the House budget bill seeks to save money by penalizing civil servants for not giving up their civil service protections during the most politicized administration in 140 years. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

The drink cloaca is objectively better though. It's the only one I can get stuff like cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper or A&W cream soda from.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"Dad, why don't grown-ups have fun underwear?" is a kid question to which there isn't a good answer. Why DON'T we have fun underwear?

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

The true import of this ruling, beyond the First Amendment rights of civil servants, is the recognition that the president has so undermined the statutory scheme covering public employees that they may soon be allowed to go straight to federal court—and not a labor board—to vindicate their rights.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's like number 18,241 on the priority list of bad things this administration is doing to civil servants and agencies, but every time I read official statements that are worded like this, I physically and viscerally cringe. This is not what Congress meant in the Plain Language Act, I'm just saying.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Well, that's bullshit.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is really good and very much worth reading to understand how Trump is trying to eliminate civil service protections. I'd add: the provision in the reconciliation bill that imposes a 5% retirement surcharge on new hires who want civil service protections is a further move in the same direction.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

I think people running government agencies should have some expertise in the agencies they have been hired to run

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

GAO is tasked with and has been investigating whether OMB broke spending law (it did). Trump’s OMB claims it hasn’t done anything illegal (it has) and now says it is going to limit its cooperation with GAO because it claims the requests are “voluminous, burdensome, and inappropriately invasive.”

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Who wants to hear the story of what happened when I needed to make a phone call to an SSA field office last week? I had a fairly complex and nuanced question I wanted to ask about internal agency procedures so I needed to speak to someone relatively senior with experience and expertise. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk’s DOGE crusade promised $2 trillion in savings and a war on bureaucracy. What it delivered: firings, questionable math, and a federal workforce in turmoil. A GovExec commentary breaks it down. buff.ly/77PQcqW #ElonMusk #federaljobs #DOGE

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I'm strongly considering burial at sea (www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Support-Serv...), though with my luck my remains would be cast off from the U.S.S. Greenland, named in honor of the 52nd state, or the U.S.S. Hegseth.