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The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.

Correct. It’s the antithesis of America. You might say he’s the anti-president.

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

You are seen. You are loved.

New toon: rapid unscheduled disassembly www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

this is really fucking bad. what the fuck.

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water

When we said Trump 2 was a win for white cishet male supremacy, this is what we meant.

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Clothes are called body groceries from now on.

This is the very stuff of dystopia novels that all of us with half a brain tried to warn about. Sickens my stomach.

vaccines are truly one of the greatest achievements in all of human history. makes me legitimately very sad for all the people who will be needlessly harmed.

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

All that matters anymore is action.

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?

vitality is more attractive than despair. to me, that is the clearest political lesson from the last decade and if you ignore it or pretend that it isn’t true, your movement will fail

Watergate and J6 are like jaunty chortles compared to what’s happening right now.

I’m angry. Righteous, justified anger. So many of us tried to warn. To educate. I tried. But here we are.

Jesus Christ!

this is exactly what i’m getting at when i see these people have no understanding of civil society. they do not seem to conceptualize other people as having agency whatsoever.

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

I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS. I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.

The code may change but the Klan remains the same

Here’s how we’d cover this if it were elsewhere: Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices February 1, 2025: WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup . . . www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

I didn't write this but one of my colleagues did and you should read it www.wonkette.com/p/an-open-le...

I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you *were* going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data

It's like America clicked on a porn spam ad, caught a virus, got rid of it, and then clicked on the same damn porn ad again.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

turns out running the government like twitter costs hundreds of dead bodies within 10 days