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Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 4 hours ago • 102 comments

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...

submitted 1 day ago • 470 comments

Ok. Defense, AirPower, Space Force, etc. folks. Can anyone translate this for me? It sounds like the Mitchell Institute has too much warrior ethos for Space Force. Is there something else going on? How is this aligned with Sec. Hegseth’s DoD?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“Recommendation: The CIA Director should emphasize…renewing emphasis on recruiting diversity among operations officers so they can blend more easily in foreign cities.” - The 9/11 Commission

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Saturday Feb. 22, at 2:00 pm here in D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial, there's a rally for Ukraine, organized by United Help Ukraine, Razom for Ukraine, and others. Trump may have switched sides. America needn't. unitedhelpukraine.org/events/3-yea...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Truly never ceases to amaze that the first (!) Trump impeachment has fallen down a memory hole so deep that we can watch a bigger shakedown of *the same Ukrainian president* in real time without it coming up (guilty of this as I didn't mention in my own post yesterday).

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

There are now more of you following me here than I had at peak on Twitter. Signs and wonders. I guess I'm some kind of microcelebrity. A Q&A thread was always popular to entertain the masses on twitter, so let's try one here. Nothing that will get me doxed or cost me a job.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks *and* the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

submitted 4 days ago • 255 comments

Even if POTUS had the intellectual capacity and all the relevant information on Elon Musk’s business dealings he quite literally would not have the time in the day to assess potential conflicts of interest w/o relying on divine gnosis.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The Kremlin reiterated its demands that Ukraine cede add'l territory in eastern & southern Ukraine to Russia and disband the Ukrainian military in the future while continuing to message that the Kremlin is unwilling to make territorial concessions itself in any future peace negotiations.🧵(1/7)

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Currently unplanned outages at all 3 TVA nuclear sites. Over 3.5 GWe offline during significant cold snap coming through the Valley. #NukeSky

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Big Kitty (Clark Williams) on Mr. Elon Musk. "...rich people are not a kind, but a condition of people. And since their greed just might destroy all life on earth and everything beautiful you ever loved or hoped or dreamed of, well, I think it’s quite OK to have a little fun … 'at their expense.'"

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This “revelation” is heavy on the details of value extracted from Ukraine and very light on the details of new U.S. commitments. What is the carrot here? Just a continuation of the too-late, too-little trickle of military hardware with timid limits on their effective use? Boots on the ground?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 2289 comments

The biggest tell of all the DOGE financial accusations is that after all the bluster and screaming of “illegal” over and over, they’ll claim victory and no one will get charged with anything because they would have to have actual evidence to do that. Maybe 1-2 show trials for otherwise minor issues.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"They won't do that, because why would they, right? The government does not fund TVA at all. There's no reason for DOGE to be interested in TVA other than the philosophical notion that we should all be as efficient as possible, which we completely agree with." Lyash doth protest too much.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

TWO HUNDRED CHARACTERS??

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

No Munich 2.0. No Minsk 3.0. Ukraine deserves lasting peace. russia deserves a strategic defeat and accountability.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments