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Boston doesn’t listen to kings.

submitted 52 minutes ago • 12 comments

We’re receiving word that General Services Administration leadership are firing more people tonight. Our dedicated colleagues should be eating dinner with their families or putting their kids to bed, not having their lives upended. The public will suffer, too. We stand with all of you.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Hallway Track 011: The DOGE shitshow Now with @waldo.net, Angie Quirarte, @sarahschacht.bsky.social, @emilytav.bsky.socialP, and @rebeccawilliams.info verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the goal is to make it so unpleasant to work for government that nobody will do it unless they have no other choice. These requirements will keep getting dumber and more arbitrary because that's their purpose.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Found two elderly white people in my city (in a R+26 district in Texas) protesting on our busiest street corner

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Going to the Daily Harvest settlement meeting in NYC today. It’s been three years since the start of being poisoned (2 months of that!). I think I’ll be the only victim there. Picked this outfit.

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People don't realize enough that "only that one really old guy knows cobol" is functionally equivalent to "only phylis knows how to change that form" or "suraj is the only one who can change that spreadsheet"

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Seattle, USA. Thank you, my friends there. Thank you, America. Thank you, good people

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I've trained a hundreds (maybe a couple thousand?) people on advocacy techniques. When I see protests of 2025, I get this gut feeling. We're protesting in a way that doesn't work as well anymore. That begs the question, well, what would work? I picture protest getting personal. Closer to us.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Just landed. It seems the post 9/11 clapping after a safe landing is making a comeback.

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I think we could all use a good timeline-cleanser. Huge congrats to Brynna Casey, a junior at Scarborough High School, for winning this year’s Congressional Art Competition for ME-01! Her piece, “Manifested Confliction,” is absolutely stunning. I can’t wait to see it up close in the Capitol.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Hello! I used my esoteric knowledge gleaned from my DC years to write about how Congress could EASILY defund DOGE: www.techpolicy.press/how-congress...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

I’m quietly meditating… yet there are 2 chilling thoughts keep haunting me— 📌1. Measles is not just highly infectious with R0 of 12-18, but it has a long 2 WEEK INCUBATION period—ie Texas outbreak could be in the HUNDREDS or more already, and we are seeing just the early tip of iceberg.

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

Elder Millennials, Xenials—when we were kids and “Jennifer died of measles,” on Oregon Trail, we knew it was bad. But it was a historic scenario.We learned the risks of the past. But here we are as adults, & RFK says it’s not unusual for a child to die of measles. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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My Roman Empire is thinking about all the high level, US Government employees who were fired and are now very vulnerable to becoming paid informants to other governments. The security crisis the firings have caused may have decades of impact.

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Two dairy workers in Michigan may have transmitted bird flu to their pet cats last May, suggests a new study published on Thursday by the CDC. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Unsurprisingly DOGE has gutted the Office of Personnel Management’s privacy team and also fired staff who process FOIA requests- another step toward dismantling systems for government accountability + transparency https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/politics/opm-privacy-team-fired/index.html

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I taught the first certificate program to Congressional staff ever allowed by House and Senate Ethics. It was in 2023. In class reviews and homework, some congressional staff questioned the use of the terms “civil society” and “open government,” genuinely not knowing the terms.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a lot of contributing factors to the increasing rate of airplane accidents. One that seems poorly examined: how multiple Covid infections are reducing IQ and how acute infections create “drunk drivers.” Over 40% of Covid infections are asymptomatic yet still create cognitive impairments.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I'm seeing folks wonder are we now in a constitutional crisis. The crisis was whether to impeach Trump. The result was the culmination of many years of not holding any president to account. We are now post-crisis in the imperial presidency. The big Q: is whether congress fights back.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Update: We've revamped our Civic AI table of contents page (https://buff.ly/4jI3mVu) to better organize this booming section of the Field Guide, and created a homepage slider pointing to it.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

@kairyssdal.bsky.social small business owner here. 👋 The tariffs and potential destruction of the Inflation Reduction Act are already shaping my business decisions & spending. Gotta buy a heat pump and AC unit today. 😅 Commercial mortgage rates have been…uncertain. Chaos hits hard on Main Street.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

To family and friends in the federal government: To download your entire eOPF in one go: Click "My eOPF" tab on the sidebar Click "My eOPF Print Folder" tab at the top Check "Select All" Click one of the two print buttons. Click "My eOPF Print Status" tab at the top. 1 of 3

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment