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Just a reminder that the neither the U.S. Digital Service (which has been converted into DOGE) nor OPM has any legal authority to direct every single federal government employee to give them a job summary. Literally no such authority at all.

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Completely nuts.

submitted 8 hours ago • 86 comments

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” she said.

submitted 7 hours ago • 199 comments

The DOGE gang that can't shoot straight: If this is true, it means that not only have the DOGEbros sent an email with a demand of questionable legality to all executive branch workers, but they have sent it to judicial branch employees who are constitutionally beyond their reach.

submitted 1 hour ago • 17 comments

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 1 hour ago • 215 comments

This is 100% like something you'd see in our annual Information Assurance training -- see as in you fail if you say you would reply to this email.

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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 1 hour ago • 55 comments

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 18 hours ago • 324 comments

"BETRAYED. First Zelensky, soon us? The radical turning away of the USA from its allies." Today's cover of the German Der Spiegel.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Pennsylvania — more federal workers regretting their votes this time ones that work in the limestone mine offices that preserve records Elon lied about repeatedly

submitted 1 hour ago • 130 comments

General CQ Brown is a patriot and hero. Firing him makes America less safe, but it will help bring about a Golden Age. For Putin.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1009 comments

Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.

submitted 3 hours ago • 48 comments

Waiting for one brave Democrat to stand up and say, "Mr. President, give egg back."

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A large Ukrainian protest is taking place right now at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC On the posters: "Ukraine is not for sale", "Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine", "Stop the aggressor by force!" 🖼️: Ostap Yarysh

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

egg gone slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

The answer is yes, Trump Take Egg. www.etsy.com/listing/1862...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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 3 hours ago • 1149 comments

DANCE FOR ME, PEASANTS! DANCE!

submitted 3 hours ago • 266 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 5 hours ago • 248 comments

Thought your Social Security was safe?

submitted 4 hours ago • 75 comments

a very confused Trump still thinks that people who make political asylum claims by definition come from insane asylums

submitted 3 hours ago • 280 comments

I know it’s been treated as a sideshow but Musk’s insane breeding fetish, the high likelihood that his actual number of children is far, far higher than known, and the fact he has effectively abandoned almost all of them is actually one of the most damning things people can learn about the man

submitted 9 hours ago • 57 comments

So far we have this, the Ukraine minerals extortion, the killing of CA high speed rail, the forced order of 400,000 cybertrucks for the military and many more scams. The world's biggest welfare queen took over the government and is eating good.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

they are telling us they are intentionally burning the economy to the ground, never seen anything like it

submitted 22 hours ago • 104 comments

Washington evangelical pastor & chaplain, David Franklin, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for recording himself sexually abusing a 4 year old girl & possessing child sexual abuse material. www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/c...

submitted 6 hours ago • 358 comments

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 22 comments

Does holding a security clearance gives the govt the right to piss test you at any time? If it does, next dem admin should unironically spring surprise inspections on every VC with a clearance. Tons of them will pop hot, yank their clearances, make them liabilities to their firms.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 141 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 12 hours ago • 112 comments

Even MAGA had to think it’s pretty weird that their big strongman with Rocky’s photoshopped body sat in a fugue state as a four year old told him to shut up.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

“This is America and we don’t have kings” is an easy message and we should all be saying it, but it’s also easy to add on “especially not kings who hand our entire treasury over to drug addled rich Nazi fucks.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

Hey democrats, you know ‘democratic messaging’ doesn’t just include politicians, right? If you are constantly bashing democrats then the message YOU are sending is that democrats are bad.

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

x.com/JimmySecUK/s...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump was willing to stand up there for a few minutes to pretend to care about black history, but hugging the guy was a deal breaker.

submitted 10 hours ago • 512 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 109 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 8 hours ago • 138 comments

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

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The next Luigi won’t be using a 3D printed ghost gun. Even oligarch bodyguards aren’t prepared to counter this. “Russian police are investigating the 1st ever homicide case [outside a war zone] in which the murder weapon was an FPV drone. Such drones are easy to make and even easier to acquire...“