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I'm so sorry, Julianne Moore & LeUyen Pham 💔 Thank you for FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY. For writing, for illustrating a book for the kids with freckles, for the adults with freckles. A story insisting it's okay to be different. Your differences make you YOU 💛 pen.org/julianne-moo...

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BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2498 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

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— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 1 day ago • 1123 comments

This is really something

submitted 1 day ago • 1761 comments

The Senate just voted, 51-49, to confirm conspiracy theorist and election denier Kash Patel to be FBI Director. ALL Democrats and two Republicans — Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski — voted NO. 51 Republicans voted YES.

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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WIRED: “The director of data science and engineering for USDS—which Musk rebranded as DOGE— resigned… ‘I do not believe DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS’… even DOGE employees don’t know who is legally running it…” 🤷🏻 www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.

submitted 2 days ago • 208 comments

The reason GDPR and other EU data laws are so strong is because the Nazis weaponized data against vulnerable populations leading up to and during the Holocaust. Decentralization is really fucking important. So is access control.

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 6 days ago • 345 comments

Half my coworkers got fired yesterday, including a PhD level person who was running a large project, which was the first of its kind. We are losing an entire generation of bright scientists.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Remember how they said they were going after criminals? That was funny.

submitted 7 days ago • 351 comments

Know your rights. I'm aware #FBI and #DOJ officials and litigators etc are following this account for updates and analysis. I can't recommend highly enough this careful expert analysis by my (brilliant) colleague @rickhills.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

Like watergate on angel dust

submitted 8 days ago • 351 comments

This is a very heavy day for us. To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again. To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up. Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war. We will win it. This is our country. #RISEUP

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

When you think of roses on #ValentinesDay remember workers like Maria who work long hard hours growing the rose bushes that provide these beautiful blooms. Maria works at Star Roses under a UFW contract that provides great benefits. Thanks & Happy Valentine's Day Maria #WeFeedYou

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

What is a more powerful political statement? Issa Rae canceling a sold out show at the Kennedy Center or Kendrick Lamar getting 430 million streams of his Super Bowl performance? Our black excellence is valuable and ours to control. I liked both performances

submitted 8 days ago • 146 comments

BREAKING: A new SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Confirmed at Italian Mink Farm Authorities Culled 900 Minks in Secret.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Good job, Trump voters! You really picked a stable genius to lead us to lower prices.

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Some agencies are starting to terminate probationary employees. Many law firms are considering legal action on a class or group basis. If you have been terminated, please see link below with contact information for legal representation. federalworkerrights.com/2025/02/13/m...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I think attitudes towards government employees are a bit like attitudes towards race and religion and sexuality. Plenty of people are unregenerate bigots in the abstract but have That One Black Friend who They Don’t Think of As Black. There are exceptions in the particular, unreconciled. /1

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.

submitted 8 days ago • 608 comments

Yes, we let a rich idiot nobody elected destroy the entire government, but it was that or make rich people pay taxes so that poor people could go to the doctor

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 8 days ago • 488 comments

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

submitted 8 days ago • 1035 comments

What is it about watching a 4-year-old tell a 78-year-old with the maturity of a 2-year-old to "shut up and go away" that is SO deeply satisfying?

submitted 9 days ago • 1308 comments

Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

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#RECALL: Setsmart Recalls LoGest Climbing Ropes. The climbing ropes can weaken and break, posing a fall hazard. CONTACT: email at [email protected] or www.LoGestRopeRecall.com Full recall: cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The state of things 😠

submitted 10 days ago • 152 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 10 days ago • 1185 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 10 days ago • 991 comments

Elon claims that DOGE is the most transparent organization in history. 96 hours ago he said journalists should be jailed for releasing the names of his team inside the US Treasury.

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Is there anyone out there that is mapping any delayed or cancelled federal payments ? Would be really interesting to see which towns and cities are going to be hit

submitted 11 days ago • 2277 comments

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

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This made my stomach churn. 🤮 open.substack.com/pub/elonmusk...

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Trump just said that Ukraine "maybe Russian someday." I think it would be very smart for every European leader to publicly condemn that statement immediately and prepare sanctions against Trump and everyone in his cabinet, as well as Elon. Including shutting down Tesla factory in Germany.

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