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Elon’s evil munchkins sent this ridiculous email out to all 2 million or so Federal employees demanding they reply by midnight Monday. If you want to let them know what you did last week I’m bet they’d love to hear from you at [email protected]! I can’t wait to tell them about my norovirus symptoms!

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

If you see this, share a skeleton. I only have a skull though.

Not the primary culprit, but it’s also supremely & mortifyingly embarrassing for administrators of the Carter library to agree to cancel events like this. What’ll happen if they don’t? They test bluff? a presidential library is shut down by the White House, which has its own political opportunity?

And due to ruling last year, every presidential order is an official act that can never be unlawful according to scotus.

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

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.

ABC: 'Trump administration fires workers at NIH's Alzheimer's research center, including incoming director' "It's just jaw-dropping," an upper-level CARD employee told ABC News of Van Keuren-Jensen's firing abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

This points out the absolute urgency for every democracy loving nation to remove starlink from the equation. Musk will use any influence he has as a cudgel against democracy. His influence must be neutralized. Starlink must become obsolete.

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

OH COME ON

This is not anarchism, this is selfishness. Mutual aid is about those who have in the community giving to those who do not have. It's not that the giver must benefit. That's capitalism. Mutual aid as laid out by our ideology is about supporting all. @tichatnwa.bsky.social @161bklyn.bsky.social

Trump did the Tom Hanks SNL skit they were all mad at

If someone says, I need $500 to pay my rent. And you give that because they're in need. That's mutual aid. And if you were expecting something back you weren't practiving mutual aid. The survival of the community is the benefit all receive in mutual aid. You don't just look for what you can gain.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Although it's rare, the wolves occasionally perform camera tech work.

From @goangelo.bsky.social in 2020

On a lighter note, I’ve really been enjoying FINSPAN, the ichthyological sequel to everyone’s favorite avian board game. Fun mechanics and, most important, a great selection of marine fish. Can’t wait for the freshwater expansion!

“The truth is clear: the president is using the blunt instruments of the criminal legal system to punish and isolate vulnerable people, while simultaneously trying to avoid legal oversight and flout the protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.” Read the full op-ed here ⤵️

"We're taking the tools we use to study everything from gravity to soap bubbles and applying them to knitting. And, remarkably, it works." #knitting #science phys.org/news/2025-02...

Remarkable stuff in the texts between Musk and St. Clair in the exhibits to her paternity position. He’s really into making babies!

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

Evil, evil men

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

The Homeland Security secretary said tonight that Trump told her to film ads that “thank me for closing the border.” DHS has budgeted up to $200 million for its anti-immigration ad campaign. w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It takes a lot of land, a lot of work and community to successfully garden and feed a family. It also requires good luck with weather and animals

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

Trump's illegal NIH cuts mean cancer researchers would be laid off, sick kids going without treatment, and more. These cuts would be DEVASTATING for lifesaving research. Some Republicans have said they agree—but they just blocked my amendment to reverse Trump's NIH cuts anyway.

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

I don’t know why this is hard for folks to understand. The layoffs aren’t just about probationary employees. They are going beyond that. It won’t stop. It’s all about making agencies non-functional.

Yes, fired because he is Black, but also because he’s less likely to ok using the military to crush domestic protests.

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.