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Judge orders Trump admin to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Judge orders Trump admin to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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You can't make this sh!t up.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Awkwarddddd...👀🍿

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"Our quest for efficiency will not stop at the mass production of unread emails. I intend to mandate an endless variety of pointless, performative gruntwork that is somehow humiliating, even though it will never be witnessed by another human being."

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"For years, the federal government hired people for all the wrong reasons. It filtered candidates based on integrity, experience, and diversity of perspective. The new administration is replacing this approach with a better, fairer system: hiring whoever yells the loudest."

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Whoever puts this on their list of five things they did this week should get the employee of the year award

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I just feel like you shouldn’t already know a president’s entire cabinet from podcasts that sell rhino pills

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Keep ‘em coming Via Kyle Cheney: NEW: A federal judge has barred DOGE [sic] from accessing personal info of government employees and student loan recipients, a significant new restriction on the #Musk group's access to sensitive government databases. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Homan: "The police commission of Boston -- you said you doubled down on not helping the law enforcement office of ICE. I'm coming to Boston. I'm bringing hell with me."

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My five accomplishments last week. I wasn’t convicted of fraud. I wasn’t convicted of sexual assault. I didn’t declare myself King. I didn’t defy court orders. I didn’t encourage a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol resulting in several deaths.

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oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

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Answer up white people. Your dream came true.

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If President Musk needs into the IRS files to find and eliminate tax fraud, why did they just fire 6700 IRS employees?

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Elon Musk has 13 kids, all conceived via IVF, he's the only dad in the world who's also a virgin

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 9 days ago • 1927 comments

A dictatorship that kills people from democracies if they say something inconvenient hosting another dictatorship that does the same and a country run by a wannabe dictator who wants people jailed for saying anything inconvenient gathered to decide the fate of a democracy that wasn’t even invited?

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JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of Cathy Harris atop the Merit Systems Protection Board, ruling that Trump's decision to fire her exceeded his authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

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Side bar rant: please stop calling The Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institute, Cato Institute, etc “Think Tanks”. They are lobby support organizations. The Rand Corporation is a think tank.

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Please share widely from attorney Daniel Rosenthal at DC based law firm James and Hoffman (www.jamhoff.com): We are currently exploring filing class or group claims on behalf of the probationary employees affected by these mass terminations.

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Google no longer allows comments on their capitulation to Trump. We should get people to just pick random places on Google, select the three dots, then comment on the Gulf of Mexico thang.

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The best messaging is to state what everyone knows to be the truth in the simplest and clearest way possible. So it’s hard to imagine more effective messaging than this.

submitted 15 days ago • 587 comments

Well that’s good news

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The case was not dismissed on its merits. It was dismissed because the judge said the plaintiffs did not have standing. Expect the case to be refiled by a few Federal employees.

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MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

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👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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“Musk called the federal bureaucracy the "unelected" fourth branch of government and said it must be held accountable.” Funny, I don’t recall voting for Musk.

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In other news, The Google kisses the ring and on Google Maps, you can now see the Gulf of America. Apple Maps still has the real name.

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obeying in advance won’t save you from a coup that is entirely about putting one man and his handpicked cronies in charge of everything — it’ll just make sure you go down in history as a dipshit

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Once again Susan Collins clutches her pearls in shock at Trump’s actions.

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Baseball season finally! #RedSox

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More of this, America.

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Is the Trump admin's buyout offer to federal employees legal? www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Funny ... True ...

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