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With Elon’s “tell us what you accomplished last week or you’re fired” emails: I can confirm that he didn’t limit himself to the executive branch. He sent them to employees of the judicial branch as well.

submitted 12 hours ago • 154 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 11 hours ago • 74 comments

If I had to respond to an email as a federal employee asking me what I did at work last week, I'd make sure to list all the duties I had to absorb because of mass illegal firings, followed by a description of what the EPA's Walter Peck did in Ghostbusters.

submitted 13 hours ago • 632 comments

Reminder that DeJoy's billionaire family are the largest shareholders of FedEx. He spent his entire term trying to destroy the USPS to increase market capacity for FedEx & to make the US govt reliant on FedEx instead of USPS. That's what the headline should be. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Per @scaramucci.bsky.social: “He just fired the Joint Chief of Staff. Wants to install a puppet. For those who think that he is contemplating leaving, they don’t understand what happened on January 6.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 73 comments

The Joint Chiefs don't change with a new president. Supposed to be impartial, nonpartisan. Until now. Trump fired the Chair, Gen. Charles Brown (because he's Black), Navy chief Lisa Franchetti (for being a woman), and the 3 top Army, Navy, and Air Force lawyers (because they say follow the law).

submitted 23 hours ago • 30 comments

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1220 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2017 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 660 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1994 comments

Has there ever been a president so committed to not only stopping but actually reversing technological, scientific, and medical progress that ultimately benefits everyone living in the United States of America? How does this retrograde decision save taxpayer money or increase efficiency?

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 22 hours ago • 1376 comments

Young mice seemingly attempt to revive an anaesthetised cage mate by grooming and biting it and will even pull aside the tongue to clear its airway. buff.ly/4kcb7Da

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Republican Reps. getting harsh receptions in town halls could get them to follow the Constitution, asserting Congress’s power of the purse against the White House’s illegal firings and cuts, but will probably get Republicans to stop doing town halls.

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

From United Humanists on FB

submitted 1 day ago • 821 comments

Brown had to go - he was serving his country while black.

submitted 1 day ago • 607 comments

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 1 day ago • 799 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 572 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 22 hours ago • 58 comments

Very basic question: DOGE is made up a few dozen people most of whom aren't drawing salaries. What could $40 million be going toward? Could it be data storage outside government servers? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-co...

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

So who is the dictator Donald Fredovych? #DonaldTrump #Politics #UkrainianView

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump is gamno yebane who repetitively tries to rewrite Ukrainian history in the Public's eye. In the previous statements, he stated that it was only russians who took part in ww2. #UkrainianView

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I’m old enough to remember (2 days ago) when Hegseth alluded to the fact that General Brown of 40 years of Service, would be safe from cuts as Joints COS and shook the man’s hand. The same gentleman that Shitler FIRED the same day.. This admin is a total abomination to humanity. Fucking maga..

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

On 22 February 1943, three young Germans, members of the White Rose Society -- Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst -- were guillotined by the Nazis for distributing leaflets speaking out against the crimes of the Third Reich. Their bravery, and their cause, will not be forgotten.

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 21 hours ago • 148 comments

Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 23 hours ago • 54 comments

Today for @bloomberg.com, I have a review of the Palantir CEO's new book "The Technological Republic," which is both tedious and creepy. Karp wrote his dissertation on Adorno's critique of jargon, seemingly to reverse engineer it? www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

it is not great to me that the entire right is adopting a trolling approach to the Hitler salute

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

This is the right approach with Trump. He is a bully, and like all bullies, he is a coward. He only hits people who fold. Hit back and he moves to weaker targets. And if we all stand up, his narcissism will self-destruct on himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

If you're naked on the front porch and the neighbors can't see you, it's rural. If you're naked and the neighbors call the cops, it's suburban. If you're naked and the neighbors ignore you, it's urban. If you're naked on the front porch and your neighbor is also naked, it's Florida.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

Imagine my surprise when Babymama #4 showed up looking for her loot from the Ketamine King.

submitted 22 hours ago • 358 comments

Trump again proves he is focused on all the wrong things. These firings put his chaotic, short-sighted decision making norms on full display. Weakening our country by gutting the Pentagon only further demonstrates that he doesn’t put our national security first. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled--MIT Technology Review Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come. www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 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 • 480 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

Reflections on the Moon and meaning. (From Everything we know about the Moon begins on Earth, 2019)

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

🚨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.

submitted 1 day ago • 979 comments

US stops sharing flu data with WHO amidst one of its worst flu seasons www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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