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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1696 comments

“The President and AG’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees [in the executive branch].” Fork off, fascists. There are legal orders and illegal orders, and just because some two-bit autocrat says all orders are legal doesn’t make it so.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Not the primary culprit, but it’s also supremely & mortifyingly embarrassing for administrators of the Carter library to agree to cancel events like this. What’ll happen if they don’t? They test bluff? a presidential library is shut down by the White House, which has its own political opportunity?

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

submitted 11 hours ago • 85 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1087 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

This week's #teslatakedown sign

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

one reason it's extremely bad that all these institutions (schools, nonprofits, companies) are rushing to comply with Trump by becoming more racist, homophobic, and bigoted is that once you embrace bigotry out of cowardice, you have a huge incentive to convince yourself that bigotry is righteous. 1

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

submitted 2 days ago • 793 comments

Tax billionaires into oblivion to repair the damage being done right now. Every fired government employee did more for the public good than Musk will ever do.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

A strong call for higher education institutions to do everything they can to defend themselves against people who have pledged to destroy them.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“ICE stopped releasing a daily arrests number in early February — which may be because the agency would rather nobody kept count.” This is a general strategy: to eliminate reporting & release of government data so as to suppress bad news & eliminate accountability. www.economist.com/united-state...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ouch www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

which is exactly what russell vought described that they'd do

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

The University of Pennsylvania, built on the democratic ideals of Ben Franklin, once a focus of debate and protest from Vietnam to Gaza, is trashing its legacy with bended-knee compliance to its worst alumni, Trump and Musk My new column on how far Penn has fallen www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

The locksmith for Yosemite National Park, whose apprenticed under his now-retired predecessor for 4 years, says he was fired by Musk three weeks out from the end of his probationary period. www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

hey, are you doomscrolling? fuck yeah, refresh that shit, i bet there are new posts by now

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 845 comments

“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies. With 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and two independents in the Senate, such a push is numerically possible, though politically difficult.“

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

What's being described here is the status quo Internet with search engines. The promise of the LLMs as marketed is precisely that you don't actually have to learn or know anything as AI will provide you with answers you no longer have to search for or synthesize yourself.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

submitted 5 days ago • 218 comments

The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.

submitted 5 days ago • 295 comments

Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.

submitted 6 days ago • 153 comments

i doubt it changed much in the election but choosing walz for vp because he came out swinging while biden was still on the ticket and then having him go kumbaya in the debates shows why we need to line democratic strategists up and counsel whispers in my ear uh make them justify themselves

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

Pretty much agree with this

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

The university that declares “We are not throwing trans kids under the bus, we are not ending diversity and inclusiveness efforts, and we are not opening our doors to ICE agents” would not only be uniquely heroic but would be doing some strong branding work on the cheap.

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

So yeah, even after a bunch of accidents that highlighted FAA staffing shortages they still went ahead and fired FAA staff. They don't know what they are doing.

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

submitted 7 days ago • 333 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 317 comments

Trump & Musk gutted the Dept of Energy because they're totally ignorant & don't even know the DOE manages our nuclear weapons systems. Now they want to hire back critical engineers, but can't reach them because the fired workers were cut off from their gov't e-mail. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

The fact that I might very well lose my job in the next four years because Chad’s dad, who is assistant VP of project management for the regional branch office, doesn’t like the way I teach the seventeenth century, is fucking demoralizing.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1089 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

submitted 9 days ago • 186 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

New: An Americorps grantee (someone who runs a valuable government-funded social program) has sent me a copy of "Executive Order Compliance Instructions" that Americorps sent out yesterday ordering all grantees to certify that their programs don't "promote DEI activities." (thread)

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

They will privatize the air you breathe if you let them.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Firing a quarter of the federal workforce will save one percent of the federal budget.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

OK, but really, who here HASN'T accidentally fired your nuclear weapons specialists because you didn't know they worked on, uh, nuclear weapons? It's a common, relatable mistake! They're just like us! It's definitely NOT a sign of unpardonable incompetence and/or deliberate sabotage.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments