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Budding storm chaser, long time wx nerd. Not a professional met, just autistic. Also a huge Star Wars nerd. Queer. He/him. #Wx Mesonet technician, storm spotter, BSci in CompSci. Views my own, not employers, etc.
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‼️CAUTION! DON’T LOG IN TO CHECK IF IT IS NOT YOUR SCHEDULED TIME TO WORK. Word is Federal Employees are getting an email from some douche to report in each week’s activity or you are resigning by not responding. They will use this op to look for insiders. Wait until Monday. #resistsafe

Do NOT respond until you receive direction from NWSEO.

Here we go

Here’s what I did - made a map - played some red dead redemption - got gas for my car - put my kid to bed each night - worked on a flood website for NCEI. What? They didn’t specify time periods, just what I did this last week

Georgia Republican state legislator files bill to protect ratepayers from rate hikes due to data centers. Bill supported by consumer advocates and environmental groups, but opposed by the monopoly utility and the data centers themselves: georgiarecorder.com/2025/02/10/s...

NEW Here is the full email that Musk/OPM is sending to 2 million federal employees. Subject line: What did you do last week? Musk claimed on X that failure to reply would be considered a resignation, but that is not mentioned in the email.

Keep up the visible association of #TSLA with Nazi Musk. No one of good conscience should go near a Tesla product. #TeslaTakedown

This is the stupidest thing ever. And on a Saturday. Give me a break. It’s intentional sabotage at this point.

NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

We are not living in normal times.

Unlawfully and disgracefully.

Oh my god, Eric Adams is going to accidentally free Luigi. Amazing.

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

Friday night added to the list of horrific moves that consolidate power under 47. Which is putting it mildly. Tom has an important viewpoint in the essay below. House is on fire, y'all.

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

You are right. But it's 2025. Talking about it as if it will happen is how politics works. It also forces right wing media to talk about it and if there is enough Dem proposed legislation, Trump and Elon have to respond to the Dems rather than vice versa

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Tomorrow will be yet another rough day for federal workers. Likely NOAA's turn. Here is an emotional support moose.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

NYC is suing the Trump Administration for helping themselves to $80 million from NYC's bank account. Notably, they describe that the money was removed without following any of the required processes and that the "noncompliance" letter later sent by FEMA did not identify www.nyc.gov/office-of-th...

And fired illegally and for no reason. Enough anger out there and on here to run a fusion power plant.

A federal judge blocked Trump's sweeping executive order ending government support for DEI programs

A country that Allies with dictatorships Engages in rank corruption Destroys its civil service Ignores its own constitution Sends migrants to dangerous camps in other countries Undermines the rights of its citizens based on their demographics Defunds independent research Yeah.

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

No kings. No oligarchs. No Elon.

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

So I made blini for the first time. I thought the event this was for (international food showcase, basically, at my workplace) was today, but it's next week. I needed the practice anyway tbh! But now I have blini :D

Teen Vogue has done great work-- support them in their bid to be able to work from home/flexibly by signing.

The snow that missed D.C.... can be seen from space on the Eastern Shore, and in southeast VA and northeast NC. The National Weather Service in Wakefield, Va., posted this satellite image this morning. More on this, and the weekend forecast at cwg.live

FEMA has taken down its websites related to the Community Disaster Resilience Zones, which are mandated by Congress and part of the decision-making process for major federal grants like the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program:

Looked this up. Spot anything about the publication date?

In February 2015, this massive ice arch stood at the Castner Glacier terminus, a partially collapsed glacier cave remnant. The view from the west side perfectly framed White Princess in the distance. Later that summer, the arch came down completely. #Alaska #Glacier #Photography #Hiking

Nazi punks fuck off for sure but I'd love for nazis who like other types of music and ones who don't like music at all to also fuck off

My calls to senators have gone to voicemail no matter which office (local or DC) I'm contacting, even during business hours. I have no idea whether those messages are ever heard, let alone shared. I'm still calling. But I'm losing the will to keep that up.

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

AMS being the best.

Staff of NSF’s Human-Environment & Geographical Sciences program terminated. Anti-intellectual vengeance against geographers. And, perhaps, against Tim Walz, high school geography teacher & advocate, in particular.

This is a picture that I took in August 2019 of an impressive looking thunderstorm, taken from the RidgeGate Light Rail Station at the south side of Lone Tree, Colorado. I would guess this thunderstorm was somewhere near Elizabeth, Colorado.

The thing is that's fine because they want to destroy higher education. They want it very limited and only for rich people.

I used @5calls.org to call Rep Troy Balderson and Senators Husted & Bernie Moreno today I asked them if we could count on them to protect Medicaid All 3 offices replied "I can't say" "I CAN'T SAY?! AKFKM? This is one of the most urgent matters of the day FFS! #OHpol #Ohio

where are all the newspaper columnists calling for the cops to violently crack down on CPAC like they do on college kids? go bust some heads and ruin some lives for these scumbags like you do for kids protesting the killing of innocents?