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How many child cancer researchers did they fire to pay for this?

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

The Justice Department is investigating a New York sheriff for declining to detain someone on behalf of ICE. It's not clear what the DOJ could charge him with. “There is no such crime as failing to help ICE do its job," one legal expert said. nysfocus.com/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 21 hours ago • 36 comments

Completely nuts.

submitted 7 hours ago • 84 comments

A profile of Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, & whom current Defense Secretary and former Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth fired tonight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 81 comments

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.

submitted 10 hours ago • 568 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 8 hours ago • 235 comments

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 285 comments

No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

submitted 7 hours ago • 236 comments

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 2 hours ago • 123 comments

New Yorkers 👇

submitted 7 minutes ago • 0 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 18 hours ago • 38 comments

To no one’s surprise, this is utter chaos. If you took the deferred resignation option and then got fired anyway, contact your supervisor. The deferred resignation program is still incredibly sus, but even a few months of pay and benefits is better than none apple.news/ArlQkOKCdQrO...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 21 hours ago • 114 comments

Oh, FFS, this is nuts. Beyond legallity, love to see how this works for DOD/Intel people who only have classified email working on TS and above stuff. Or say, wildland fire fighters or prison guards? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 hours ago • 29 comments

My latest op-ed in the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

Assuming the OPM email is as before: 1. It is unencrypted and unauthenticated 2. Asks you to send "what you did for your job, specifically?" info in plain text, unauthenticated reply with no confirmation where it went An agency might use as a test of who falls for phishing attempts

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

This seems like a phisher's dream. Announcing that a government email is about to go out and that recipients are required to respond to it seems like the kind of thing cybercriminals would love to spoof in order to infect workers or trick them into revealing their login credentials.

submitted 1 hour ago • 34 comments

This is 100% like something you'd see in our annual Information Assurance training -- see as in you fail if you say you would reply to this email.

submitted 44 minutes ago • 2 comments

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 3 hours ago • 401 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 1 day ago • 1277 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 9 hours ago • 1117 comments

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 8 hours ago • 71 comments

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We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1659 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 7 hours ago • 490 comments

On the one side, I do not love being a Jew in a country now ruled by explicit Nazis. On the other hand, this is all amazing ad footage for the Dems in 2026.

submitted 5 hours ago • 62 comments

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 5 hours ago • 275 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1663 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1035 comments

Political interference in military leadership—especially dismissing generals and admirals based on ideological loyalty rather than competence—has repeatedly led to disastrous consequences. We are not exempt. NEW from @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-purge...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

For those wanting facts versus mal-information from govt officials: Truman relieved MacArthur after he disobeyed several orders, 1 which almost led to World War III w/ China. Obama accepted McChrystal’s resignation when he took responsibility for disrespecting the president’s team to the press.

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 327 comments

From an expert: "Last night was the worst night in US civil-military relations since the Civil War." Loyalty purges of the military are very, very bad.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

GOOD! More angry white people! (and don't miss "That's illegal as hell!" at the end when he talks about ending birthright citizenship!)

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

I think it’s important to note that the people showing up for these are kind of average regular folks. They’re just… your neighbors. But with a sign lol. That allows for the creation of a powerful social norm that encourages broader participation and allows us to see it as the normal thing one does.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 5 hours ago • 938 comments

Please, please read @fpwellman.bsky.social on the firing of the military’s top JAG commanders - the lawyers who determine what is or what is not an illegal order. America, red alert. NOW. 🚨

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

“We rely on public employees every day, usually not noticing how they” improve our lives, Donald Moynihan writes. “The costs of dismantling agencies … and demeaning the idea of public service will still be counted long after Trump has departed the scene.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

submitted 20 hours ago • 132 comments

Democrats who want to run for office should start holding town halls. Call them community meetings if you don't want to call them town halls. Ppl are scared & angry & need to be w/ other ppl. We need to do this ourselves. Start Cat Lady Lunches in your community for ppl to gather & discuss.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments