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Musk’s directive to federal employees to justify their jobs falls flat as the Office of Personnel Management says it's safe to disregard his message.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

submitted 2 days ago • 301 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 2 days ago • 211 comments

If you're a white dude with some flexibility in your life, get a group of your like-minded bros together & go to these events to act as counterbalance to these "private security forces." Get in their way. Occupy space. Ask for their IDs. Outnumber them. Make their fascism difficult.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 5 days ago • 212 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 5 days ago • 154 comments

some good news

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the US ... shocking.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

“Researchers have found that people who relocate to new places are more open to new experiences, they tend to necessarily be more open to diversity… People who want to move, and can’t, grow more cynical, more pessimistic…” www.vox.com/housing/3996...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

"The best lessons we can find come from other countries that have faced similar power grabs…some lessons can be generalized to provide actionable advice for Democrats, ordinary citizens, civil society and philanthropists, and government employees." www.vox.com/politics/399...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Strong, resilient systems are not efficient systems, and vice versa.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Again if you are at an institution that relies on NIH funding, in a state that either is or isn’t on this lawsuit, I’d love to hear how the next few days shake out. Signal is davelevitan.26, can remain anonymous.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 16 days ago • 490 comments

This is very literally a coup. This is the administration acting as an authoritarian/fascist regime.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

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.

submitted 19 days ago • 2168 comments

The funding freeze has been ordered halted by courts, but the admin is not complying. www.king5.com/article/news...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

This seems ominous www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Hundreds people outside @schumer.senate.gov + Gillibrand’s office to tell them to obstruct, oppose, fight back against the Trump/Musk Coup! Chuck + Kirsten need to ask themselves What Would Mitch Do? (Hint: start w/ NOT voting for any MAGA noms) @indivisible.org @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 27 comments

It's already happening in the bluest of blue states www.thestranger.com/queer/2025/0...

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

35+ Dems plan to hold the Senate floor all night to oppose the confirmation of Musk-Trump funding freeze architect Russ Vought. THIS is how we fight back while in the minority. (via @schatz.bsky.social)

submitted 21 days ago • 390 comments

The main beneficiaries of the Department of Education are disabled kids (IDEA) and working-class and poor Americans (Title I, Pell Grants, work assistance), so of course Trump wants to do away with it.

submitted 21 days ago • 104 comments

Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.

submitted 22 days ago • 127 comments

I remember all those defenses of the American constitutional order that boiled down to “yes it’s difficult to do things but that prevents radical change and ensures stability”. Welp.

submitted 22 days ago • 23 comments

THIS RIGHT HERE! Entire empires have been brought down by this!

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 22 days ago • 2834 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order forcibly to detransition trans women inmates and transfer them to men's prisons, citing the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

submitted 22 days ago • 52 comments

THIS is what we want to hear from all #HouseDemocrats! Congressman Sean Casten says he'll use all his power to to address the MAGA power grab. Other reps must join him!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This is the way. Keep the message simple: Elon has his grubby hands all over your money

submitted 22 days ago • 65 comments

Scene at Treasury

submitted 22 days ago • 315 comments

I don't know if this is literally true. But it helps to clarify some arguments that @mcopelov.bsky.social and I are pulling together about the political economy of crypto and state power. If tech billionaires are massively overleveraged on two products that nobody wants, only the state can save them

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

“The last several days we’ve witnessed an authoritarian takeover of our federal government by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They have set their sights on a full purge of anyone in government that doesn’t bend the knee and follow their orders.” - Sen. @wyden.senate.gov

submitted 22 days ago • 122 comments

BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the plans tell NBC News.

submitted 22 days ago • 532 comments

The Democrats have finally arrived at the performative bullshit party the Republicans have been raging at for years. There's no reason to pass a cheeky-trolling law (which won't pass) to outlaw something already illegal. This party has no idea how to oppose the authoritarian power grab in progress.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

submitted 22 days ago • 221 comments

I think it's important to remember that nothing DOGE is doing is legal but that isn't preventing them from doing it.

submitted 22 days ago • 81 comments

The first congressperson who gets arrested trying to stop Elon Musk is the 2028 front-runner.

submitted 23 days ago • 23 comments

This is what “do something” looks like

submitted 22 days ago • 65 comments

A nationwide protest at each state capital is being organized for Wednesday, it seems: www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 23 days ago • 2483 comments

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 23 days ago • 207 comments