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I don’t know what Elon thinks but OPM isn’t some kind of super-agency that has authority over all other federal departments and agencies. If you don’t work for OPM, they don’t have any particular authority to tell you to do anything.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

This email came out at 5:00 pm on a Saturday. Federal workers could be owed hundreds of thousands of hours of comp time for this.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I mean, notwithstanding everything else, imposing an idiotic, non value-adding administrative task on 2 million plus federal workers is a massive, massive waste of taxpayer resources.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Once again, I would like to thank Merrick Garland for his years of feckless dithering which have now brought us to the brink. If any of us survive, history will remember.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Well I’m sure there’s no nefarious intent behind this unprecedented, unconstitutional little move…

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. has many very real health crises that warrant serious attention by our government public health leaders. This is not one of them.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I mean what do I know, but I liked it better when we had DEI but planes weren’t crashing all the time.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

They’re pro-flu.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

LOL literal Bond villain shit

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine how Republicans would have reacted if Obama had tweeted in 2013 that he was now above the law… That’s what elected Democrats should be doing right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t think people have internalized how stupid it’s gonna to be now that we’re gonna rename mountains and shit every four years or so.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Welp, that article ruined my night: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I expected this administration to be many things but “pro-cancer” is surprising even to me.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Fox & Castle is the NBA’s best pub name and nobody is coming close

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

You guys it’s a Champagnie Super Nova

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Spending $40 million out of your own pocket to attack a humanitarian organization is, in a word… Weird.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Nice of the federal judge to let me keep my job through the weekend…

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

In a world of Destroyers, be a Builder

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Oops!

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

It’s any administration’s prerogative to shift policies and priorities. But this thing where they punish and then fire employees for simply doing their job during the previous administration is wrongheaded, cruel, and probably illegal.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Tired: Doomscrolling on Twitter Wired: Doomscrolling on LinkedIn

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Folks…

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 18 days ago • 1757 comments

Yes yes, wars for colonial conquest in this part of the world often go very well.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Hang on, can we go back to “Several United States Senators were inexplicably denied entry to the lobby area of a federal building on a Monday afternoon…”

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Sounds like something Putin and Xi would say…

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Who are these DOGE personnel? Are they government employees? What are their names? What level of security clearance do they have? Are they complying with federal privacy regulations? Who is providing oversight?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t mean to sound Pollyanna-ish, but I don’t think it’s great for the country that all federal government payments are now controlled by an unelected foreigner.

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