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This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

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NEW: DOGE operatives appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF, software the DoD developed more than two decades ago, which can be used to assist in the mass firings of federal workers. @makenakelly.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

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More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”

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"The US took nearly a century to craft its rich scientific ecosystem; if the unraveling that has taken place over the past month continues, Americans will feel the effects for decades to come." www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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NEW: A federal judge gave the Trump administration about 36 hours to pay out hundreds millions of dollars for work performed by foreign aid contractors — and is demanding details about potential defiance of his orders. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Truly incredible state of affairs we’ve got going on rn

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When I called, I cited the coverage in my district from this Georgetown dataset: ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/12/04/m... (And then I broke down. Because I can't believe our values have sunk so low as to threaten this program that protects vulnerable populations for the sake of rich people tax cuts.)

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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.

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Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1

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😡 F'ing ridiculous. After updating its FAQ yesterday, NSF refused to directly answer a simple question: "Will the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) continue to award fellowships in 2025?" GRFPs are a lifeline that support 2,000+ graduate students/year. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “You’re Fired!” #NewYorkerCovers Read the full issue: nyer.cm/zPvnD2r

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Hickenlooper and Bennet are pissing off their Colorado constituents.

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“according to a federal court filing Monday” So did he actually though?

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NEW memo from OPM acting director Chuck Ezell saying that fed employees should respond to the 5 bullets email by the 11:59pm deadline tonight unless they had an excused absence today. Absolute madness. Full text:

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Is Fyre Festival 2 Trump’s Katrina?

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Well we all know that the morally depraved invertebrates in the Senate would just confirm him if necessary

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A group of passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight, led by a passenger on the PA, broke into song and sang Lee Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’

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The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

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Would be AMAZING if literally any of the emergency response agencies in this city stopped relying on the fascist site and started posting these things here Not that this situation affects me, but I realized something was up when I went for a walk and noticed a helicopter flying in circles 🙃

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As the Republican National Committee was gearing up for its convention last year, it was dealing with a serious security breach of its internal communications by hackers with ties to the Chinese government. RNC and Trump campaign officials decided NOT to alert the FBI. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Surely with some sort of sentiment analysis included to gauge whether or not you love MAGA destroying lives

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If all ~50,000 employees at the Department of Commerce spent an half an hour writing bullets points, that's (at $20 an hour) $500,000 the US public is never getting back

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Your regular reminder McConnell could have taken care of this in January 2021

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NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

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The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, just demolished Donald Trump in the Oval Office while supporting Ukraine, wanting Russia to pay, and fact checking Donald during their meeting. 🍿

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Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

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The Trump administration cites a survey that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do administration and elected officials keep relying on it? @sengelberg.bsky.social ‬⁩ takes a closer look.

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Most on this site know that federal workers are good people who work hard. But it's striking to see the data. Federal workers put in more hours a week than anyone except military and self-employed. Federal workers take fewer days off than almost any others www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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If you’re a federal worker and you feel it prudent to respond to the Musk/Trump demand for an accounting of your work last week, this tool could be quite helpful.

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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BP is ditching its renewables target to return to a focus on fossil fuels, Reuters reports www.reuters.com/business/ene... This shouldn't come as a surprise -- the oil giant has a pattern of touting climate pledges while making other plans behind the scenes. www.exxonknews.org/p/four-years...

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New: The CIA is conducting a damage assessment to determine potential damage from an unclassified email sent to the White House identifying for possible layoffs some officers by first name & last initial that could have exposed under cover agency roles. www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

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Here is an easy thing you can do today to support trans people and fight authoritarianism: 👇

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BREAKING: A federal judge has just blocked the Department of Education and OPM from sharing sensitive data with DOGE. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Fortunately for teens, there are still many opportunities to get involved in the federal government 🙃

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Text of an email that got sent..

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As DOGE pushes to fire more federal employees, this map might be helpful as a way to see how many jobs we're talking about in each Congressional district (I'll share the percentage of all jobs in the district below). 🧵

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We need to make our people whole. “I was already hurting with the thought that my dreams to work for the USFS would end soon. But I at least had the comfort of financial security. However, while I was being fired today I was told probationary employees were not going to be allowed in the program.”

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The Deputy Director of the FBI

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When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

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