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One part science, one part dog person, 80% sarcasm by volume. I don’t represent anyone but me, opinions are my own, etc, etc
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It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

Social media gives US Senators a voice in the process.

📣 ATTENTION CDC AND FEDS 📣 We want to use this platform to amplify stories about what federal workers do, why they do it, and how firings affect that work and the American people. Please DM your stories to us on bluesky or signal (altcdc.99). Stories will be kept anonymous. #SeeCDC #fedstrong

After firing federal workers at the CDC, some 180 of them have received emails begging them to come back to work. "Read this e-mail immediately" was the subject line according to the AP. So much government efficiency going on. What a joke.

None of them were brave enough to actually stand with him when it matters so honestly save this bullshit

So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.

Hi all, has anyone run across any places that offer something like a one off virtual event for maybe 1000 people? Zoom requires a 1 yr subscription + add on, so ... no. (Asking for a friend.)

This is the reason other news outlets need to put their foot down more. They need to show the leverage they have. At the end of the day, Trunp doesn't want to only communicate through Newsmax, OANN, and Breitbart.

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

Just remember kids, whenever the Democrats have power, the things you want can't happen because the Republicans will block it. But when the Republicans have power, the Democrats cannot stop anything and are helpless. These are facts.

I will not lie; it makes me very happy inside when a Hill insider begs people to stop retweeting me.

It took The Lancet, a premiere medical journal, 12 years to remove Wakefield’s fraudulent paper alleging that MMR vaccine causes autism. The damage from that one paper is incalculable. RFK Jr. is going to promote studies like this to the American people as fact. We’re going to lose a ton of ground.

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

Accidentally fired the guys running the nuclear program. Accidentally fired experienced air traffic controllers. Accidentlly fired the people trying to contain the bird flu.... Accidentally fired...

Oh. So he’s just in charge of everything now. Personally. That seems normal and not like the coup I’ve been apparently imagining. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

So it basically took a month for the U.S. to go from guardian of the western world to the guy you wouldn’t trust to cat-sit Impressive

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Three people have frozen to death this week in my area due to lack of resources for the homeless. A two year old and nine year old in Detroit, and a woman in Kalamazoo.

Favorite paragraph from this:

Oh good, I don’t even need a new post. Re:the FAA bsky.app/profile/proc...

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

The employee is Gavin Kliger. He’s been named by multiple large news orgs. Not sure why NBC won’t.

On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

As a 40-year registered Democratic voter, I think I should re-register as a Republican, because even though the Republicans want me to lose my income, suffer, and die, at least all that feels like they're interested in me.

q: when the president is threatening to use the military on civilian protests to solidify himself as an autocrat do you: a) cancel the protests b) remain completely silent c) fight like hell against the tyrant a & b are unequivocally the wrong answers but are also the democrats' strategy to date

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Did you know that if you saved $100,000 a day every day from the birth of Jesus to today, you still wouldn't have 1/5th of Elon Musk's net worth? Does Elon Musk perform labor that is worth way over $100,000/day for 2000+ years? Or is something seriously wrong here?

"Oh no! If I say something mean, Trump will have no choice but to declare martial law!! He will have to mobilize the entire federal government that hates his guts and force him to rough up all his supporters!!! A clear victory for him!!!!!" -A very serious person

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

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the admirable impulse to be tolerant of people who are different in ultimately trivial ways ('weirdos') was co-opted into "Don't make fun of me even though I'm sympathetic to Nazi segregationists."

It sounds to me like lots of people have decided that the only way to fight Trump is to not fight him. Which is objectively fucking stupid.

Got word that several NIH employees in a group working on cancer clinical trials got terminated via email this evening. “The [cancer research] trials will literally not be able to function without us.” Trump and Musk are killing cancer research. 🧪

Just fire anyone whose job we don’t understand. What’s the worst that can happen - a moron and his traitor tots

I kiss my daughter on the head as I walk out the door in my 26th year of public service. "Dada's got a big meeting today with the Shadow Secretary of State, a 19 year old named 14SkibidiGroyper88, kiddo. Study hard and do well in school so you can have a job like Dada someday."

And they should have done this two weeks ago, and the Democrats should have been shouting from the rooftops for it to happen

I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.