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Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done Six people describe what they were doing to benefit public health, safety and the environment www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

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Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

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The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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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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Last week: Correspondent @stevanzetti.bsky.social identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media, and courtroom observation.

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The Pentagon announced that it plans to ultimately fire five to eight percent of the military’s approximately 950,000 civilian employees, with an initial tranche of 5,400 probationary workers who don’t have “mission-critical” roles expected to be terminated next week.

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The US Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the insurance giant UnitedHealthcare for its Medicare billing practices.

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Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training

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"As we navigate the sheer quantity of hate and unconstitutional extremism found within these orders, it’s essential we not let this blitzkrieg distract or deter us." - Keith Thirion

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Idiocracy was a documentary

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2 fucking headlines right next to each other

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This is a 4 year old article (Jan 2021). It's worth your time.

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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

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busted af

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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The next Bond movie will be titled "Time to Die Mister Bond, Handcrafted Artisanal Film Movie for Men – Perfecf Christmas Gift and Funny Realistic Spy Gag, Harmless Entertainment Prank for Kids and Adults, Realistic Vanilla Scent 7.9 Ounce Motion Picture (Pack of 1)"

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

submitted 7 days ago • 582 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

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Collaborators fired at USDA. Program officers fired at NSF. Study sections suspended indefinitely at NIH (also firings). It's impossible to just keep your head down and do the work, as the work and the people are vanishing in front of us. 🧪

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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have repeatedly affirmed Musk’s leadership of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But according to a new court filing from the White House, the administrator of DOGE isn’t Elon Musk after all. Who is? No one knows.

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“For the last 50 to 75 years, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine, at some point, were seeded by NIH funding." - John Tuthill, who runs a neuroscience lab at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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reposting with gift link:

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Read this and share the hell out of it.

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The biggest line item on the site of Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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The USDA's announcement comes while the Department of Energy is scrambling to find the federal workers who oversee our nuclear weapons stockpile who THEY accidentally fired. Imagine how many people Trump/Musk fired who they're not gonna realize they needed until the body count starts climbing.

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excuse me what

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Union Square rally.

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Some who were fired were working on a classified early warning radar system to detect incoming cruise missiles, funded in part by the DoD--one of several programs that the FAA’s National Defense Program manages that provides longer-range detection around the country’s borders.

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Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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Roses are redde Lightsabers glowe Carbon-freeze chamber "I love thee," "I knowe"

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Doing great 👍

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Since launching in 2000, Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry have helped proffer more than 1.5 million pounds of venison to people in need, whether it be through fresh ground meat or a jerky product.

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The Trump administration laid off half of its Epidemic Intelligence Service, otherwise known as the “Disease Detectives.” The lay off affected 1,260 staff, reported NBC News’s Lewis Kamb.

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US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers

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So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

submitted 8 days ago • 1271 comments

Zelensky received a standing ovation as he began speaking in Munich. “The time has come—European armed forces must be created.” A stark contrast to yesterday’s lecture on democracy.

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In 2021 textile artist Emma Dyer documented her year in embroidery #WomensArt

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Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

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JFC. "The Associated Press continues to ignore the lawful geographic name change of the Gulf of America,” White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich said in a post on social media platform X on Friday.

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