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submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

If you’re unsure what to do, ask your supervisors. Otherwise, don’t respond. Musk et al have zero legal authority to demand this and dish out consequences for non-compliance.

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

Siri, play a video that accurately depicts what it's like to work in Trump's DOGE led government.

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

When I need motivation to continue resisting, I tap into my reserve of old-fashioned anger. This does it for me. They openly planned to traumatize us well before the election. They are now in control of the US government and I am fucking pissed off. Are you? www.govexec.com/management/2...

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Completely nuts.

submitted 10 hours ago • 89 comments

Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Yeah, these federal workers actually understand what they do for us and how devastating these cuts are for us. It'd be great if the media could explain that clearly instead of taking Elon Musk's word that he's magically produced "savings" that come with no downside.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

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submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Reuters reporting that the U.S. has threatened Ukraine with the “imminent” shutoff of Starlink access unless the country agrees to handover control of rare earth minerals to the United States. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 32 comments

He nails it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1286 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2379 comments

x.com/bluestein/st... Fed worker salary is 4% of fed budget Keeping feds is LESS expensive than firing/rehiring and losing services Probationary workers are not "duplicitous" They're setting up the argument "we had to cut medicaid cause we didn't fire enough feds" Why doesn't Elon do more with less

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Here’s how many billions Elon Musk’s companies are making from U.S. taxpayers

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

The harms this administration has done to people around the globe are staggering. Food to treat severely malnourished kids in Nigeria is languishing in warehouses. The last option for women in Afghanistan to get a university education is suspended. And so much more. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

This is code for cuts to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. This is a war on Medicare.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

When the sitting president of the United States posts from his official White House account referring to himself as a king, we have to speak up, even if it feels like screaming into the void. But more importantly still, we all have to get out in protests in numbers that the media cannot ignore

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

1/2 I can tell you as former Congressional staff - doing this matters. We took info from calls, emails and letters. Organized them by topic(s) to gain a sense of peoples’ concerns -

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Let's see how the intrepid Elon inspired team at DOGE - the folks who are currently examining your tax records - are doing! Today they put up their their idea of "open data" which they call a "Wall of Receipts". And look here - two cancelled DEIA contracts for $9,999,999. Wow, they saved $20M! 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Why would the framers give Congress the power to budget if they meant for the President to do whatever tf he wants? It’s really that simple.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Fed folks: Check your LES. Something hinky is happening in several departments.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The Director of ICE stated on TV yesterday that AOC is the "dumbest person in Congress." He bills himself as a cop who upholds the law, yet his statement is in itself against the law. High ranking officials cannot advocate for or against a political candidate of any party in an official capacity.

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

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...

submitted 5 days ago • 104 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2289 comments

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 289 comments

This post should motivate local governments. Economic pain is going to start showing really soon. Take care of yourselves, save, and be ready. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

For scientists standing up for @noaa.gov : secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Why is the richest man in the world cutting cancer research?

submitted 6 days ago • 1057 comments

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

submitted 7 days ago • 300 comments

Mental health treatments should be guided by science, not misinformation. With 13% of American adults relying on SSRIs to manage depression and anxiety, the new HHS Secretary’s unscientific claims about these medications are cause for outrage 🧪 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Let’s march. Let’s act. Monday, at your state capital. Thank you!!! #Resist #Rebel @50501movement.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

👏NOBODY 👏IS 👏IMMUNE 👏TO 👏THE 👏IMPACTS 👏OF 👏THIS 👏CLOWN-SHOW 👏SHITSTORM 👏ADMINISTRATION Every citizen. Every worker. Every receiver of any federal benefits. Every taxpayer (citizen or not). Every tourist. Every veteran. Every retiree. Every child. Every family. Every human.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

What a day. The executive branch is crippling the government that you depend upon for your health & safety. Its infrastructure of scientists, inspectors, attorneys, doctors & so many more are being sidelined with pink slips, leaving our NatSec in grave jeopardy.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

INCOMPETENCE OF NUCLEAR PROPORTIONS Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile. Now, they are rushing to rescind their terminations.

submitted 8 days ago • 756 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

submitted 7 days ago • 669 comments

The Department of Education is too small for a label.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

I Used to Run the N.I.H. Here’s What Worries Me. “members of the executive and legislative branches have long seen themselves as caretakers of a precious commodity — the nation’s scientific and technological communities. Today is very different.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 8 days ago • 136 comments