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Pro Bono Counsel/ex Food & Cocktail Writer leading not-really-secret double life in NYC. Taking it one day at a time.
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I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired. Let’s start with Elon Musk.

An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

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Elon Musk has no authority to send emails to federal workers asking them to justify their jobs (days after he wields a chainsaw on a stage...hello?) He has no authority to fire or threaten anyone. Call your reps and tell them Elon Musk must be fired. 202-224-3121

This, this, a thousand times this.

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

Van Hollen: "There's no Article 4 in the Constitution that gives Elon Musk that authority, and the way he's been 'delegated' this authority is illegal, and the actions he's taking are illegal, and we need to shut down this illegal operation."

I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT

US Army choir said REVOLUTION

Spotted by Washington Square Park. #YayMaine #IYKYK

“We’ll see you in court.” Gov. Janet Mills is a badass for this.

Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

Love this!

Trump and Musk "accidentally" fired government officials who were working to contain the bird flu—now they're scrambling to rehire them. A complete and total shitshow.

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.

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We are in an information war and so far, Trump & Musk are winning. We urgently need a credible, loud, daily counter narrative. The Democrats can & should take the lead using the same playbook as the blue state Governors' covid briefings. My latest ⤵️ 1/🧵 open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

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

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

DOGE team now firing the people who cut the checks to make sure your Medicare and Obamacare is current www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are mass firing veterans. apnews.com/live/trump-p...

So, they are - illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress - burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah - reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system - putting backdoors into Treasury This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.

Agreed.

She is spot on.

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

Trump & Musk are trying to fire 100,000+ civil servants right now - including over 1,000 VA employees. Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more. Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Wow. When FedSoc members are quitting, there are some big issues.

New Yorkers: tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in this year's mayoral primary — don’t count on others to get rid of the corrupt & compromised collaborator Eric Adams, who's mayor because 79% of eligible NYers failed to turn out last time. Do your part, dammit: vote.nyc/page/registe...

Donald Trump illegally fired 19 inspectors general. The law requires notice to Congress and a case-by-case justification. It is not optional. Congress must convene a bipartisan hearing to examine these unlawful acts and how they can be remedied. Immediately.

Trump claimed that DOGE has uncovered billions in “fraud, waste, and abuse.” However, no evidence has been provided, and all public fraud claims from both Elon Musk and Trump have been debunked as false.

We’re done here. Right?

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

If you wish to vote in New York City's mayoral Dem primary in JUNE (=the election that'll pretty much decide the next mayor), you must be registered as a Democrat *BY FRIDAY.* An insanely early deadline bound to leave people vote out. At least make sure you're not one of them if you're interested!

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So what happens when they don't follow court orders? Because I believe that's what's coming...

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

Even though this is a month old, we really didn't need a whistleblower to know this. Anybody who experienced Twitter before it became X could see the platform transform in 2024. I had to block right wing accounts multiple times because he would unblock them & put them on my feed again.

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

Too many people didn't appreciate just how wonderful, how glorious, it was that the daily news cycle during Biden's presidency was boring as fuck.