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Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

you love to see it www.pressherald.com/2025/02/21/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Everyone has experienced change for the sake of change. I really hope we didn’t jump the shark in the first month.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 248 comments

Incompetent arrogance has me irked.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

NSF fired 168 yesterday. Today its staff directory page says this:

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Remember Joe the Plumber? It was a gimmick but it got McCain tons of airtime. (Then it turned out that Joe didn’t have a plumbing license, thus completing the circle.)

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

We are indeed in an "emergency." But it can't be solved with fossil fuels, since it's caused by fossil fuels. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Maybe they are still upset we shut down the PMRC

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 6 days ago • 861 comments

Why are we playing chicken with our friends?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"We need to take a step back and realize that the GOP has become an authoritarian political party. It's either on board with authoritarianism or completely willing to tolerate it." On the pod, Steve Levitsky is highly Illuminating on our slide into autocracy: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 5 days ago • 71 comments

They will decide which strains next winter’s flu shot should target. “For now, the WHO doesn’t know if U.S. government representatives will show up. Whether they do so could have an impact on the composition, & ultimately the effectiveness, of flu vaccines throughout the Northern Hemisphere &beyond”

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

The Pentagon is yanking books on immigration, psychology, and LGBTQ+ topics from military base schools—robbing 67,000 military kids of the education they deserve. This isn’t protecting families. It’s forcing ignorance. Military families deserve better. MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 12 days ago • 83 comments

“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

submitted 12 days ago • 172 comments

Today’s song of the day. youtu.be/eKd_iNZeqS8?...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"The people drawn to work in humanitarian assistance are the polar opposite of Musk." Will people like that, and the people who rely on them, be able to look up to America after this?

submitted 13 days ago • 39 comments

👀 DOJ acknowledges making two significant errors during a court hearing last week on efforts to dismantle USAID 1) It said only 500 employees had been placed on leave. Actual number was 2,140. 2) Said only future contracts were stopped. Existing contracts were also stopped.

submitted 13 days ago • 813 comments

This is what Musk actually believes! The idea that white Afrikaners are the true "indigenous" population of much of South Africa and most black South Africans are interlopers who immigrated from other areas of Africa more recently was - and I guess is? - a key tenet of Apartheid ideology.

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

It is not plausible Don does not know.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The world’s richest man appears to be dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies, Charlie Warzel writes. Will it work? theatln.tc/zoCxaorI

submitted 15 days ago • 119 comments

The racism seems gratuitous, and vastly disappointing for what the “United States of America “ has stood for.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

It always is worse.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Guys: The stuff going on at the National Archives is nuts. Much worse than is being reported. Full story here. (Unlocked for everyone today.) www.thebulwark.com/p/the-story-...

submitted 17 days ago • 46 comments

New from me @theconversation.com We're witnessing a celebration of "common sense" among the new admin & their allies. But remember: celebrating common sense and denigrating expertise/evidence IS ideological. And is NOT a reliable path to truth. theconversation.com/how-populist...

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

"The decline of America’s creditworthiness has been a stop-start process every time the debt limit approaches. But now, DOGE will get it done for good because the teenagers tracking the US government’s credit card balance have killed countless Neuralink monkeys."

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

My sincere hope is that the UNITED STATES has more humanitarian compassion globally in the next administration.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

John F. Kennedy’s 1961 executive order establishing USAID.

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

So we now have penal colonies, concentration camps,ethnic cleansing, and an immediate halt to all humanitarian aid globally. Seems like a cruel path to be great.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A society that fears protest has already conceded to oppression. True democracy thrives on civic engagement. When institutions falter, the streets become the voice of the people.

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

If she has a nickname you know you should listen.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"In normal times, I would report insider threats to the appropriate security channels inside the government- but there is no one left for me to report it to." Helpful context on Musk's takeover of Treasury:

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

These people are so crazy. Most Marxists just assume that USAID is a CIA cutout.

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

Great, eh?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

"In January, investors have placed 10 times more bets on US stocks falling than equivalent bets that shares in leading American companies would rise, the investment bank said."

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This is terrifying.

submitted 23 days ago • 525 comments

congratulations everyone who did not do whatever was within their power to stop this madman from being elected

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

“The old liberal order … rested on the presumption … that coöperation was the way to proceed. Trump is saying the exact opposite. Trump is saying that the international order rests on dominance …. It’s an older vision of international relations. … It’s a dangerous vision.”

submitted 24 days ago • 108 comments

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

submitted 25 days ago • 252 comments

It only took 10 days to get to concentration camps.

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

Just remember, Hillary emailed some people.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Homi, Geno, Sui; what -cide is it?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This is what Project 2025 looks like.

submitted 26 days ago • 1254 comments

Breakfast is for the rich.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

submitted 26 days ago • 1738 comments

We are here. It’s what the stupid napoleon did. The one we don’t cover in high school.

submitted 26 days ago • 35 comments

NEW: THREAD: I have the verbiage from the resignation and severance email sent to federal workers using the [email protected] email address. SUBJECT: Fork in the Road "During the first week of his administration, President Trump issued a number of directives concerning the federal workforce. 1/

submitted 26 days ago • 74 comments

State of things from my feed.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Trump is strategically blitzing us with a flood of destructive actions and gleeful abuse. The point is to pummel us into submission. We can’t afford to ignore it but we also have to take care of ourselves, otherwise we can’t fight back. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/theyre-try...

submitted 29 days ago • 46 comments