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toutbien.bsky.social
Techish, Retired Military, Dog Person. Mostly trying to find hope.
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someone once had access to thousands of anonymous internal opinions of VA employees… and it was less than 5 percent who complained about woke culture or diversity or the poor white people’s plight in all this “secret plan to elevate” non cis white people on non-merit characteristics.

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From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler #skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

submitted 2 days ago • 194 comments

Honest question. He is the president for a second term. He clearly violates law and has no respect for democracy. Why should we call senators and congress people? Isn’t it obvious the system is beyond broken?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great tool for those taking that "5 things" e-mail to the next level.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.

submitted 5 days ago • 779 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

“So yes, we've experienced a coup, not the old fashioned kind, no tanks or mobs, but an undemocratic and hostile takeover of government. It is cruel, it is petty. It can be brutal. It is at once chaotic and surgical…The question is, will the rule of law hold?”

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 8 days ago • 3341 comments

The rare fireblizznado on its way

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

The leader of the free world conducts the first cabinet meeting of his new term. Also pictured: Donald Trump.

submitted 11 days ago • 97 comments

Nearly 300 of my VA and VHA supporting colleagues were fired today as a result of ugly doge. These people are also largely veterans and milspouses.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army. And yet....16 Democrats just did so

submitted 13 days ago • 650 comments

So Elon definitely just went to Trump and was like, “I’ll use computers to make the government good” and Trump thought “Sure, NERDS = COMPUTERS” and went back to imagining staging an all-white cast of Cats at the Kennedy Center

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

cool people said this place was cool

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment