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Multiple probationary IRS employees in Richmond received news Thursday afternoon that their jobs were being eliminated as part of broader federal workforce cuts. The exact number of affected employees is unconfirmed, sources indicate probationary workers across several departments were impacted.

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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The Interior Department announced this morning that it is firing 2,300 probationary employees across the department, per the Center for Western Priorities.

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“Mass terminations of probationary workers also swept through the National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency within the Energy Department that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons.” www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

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NEW: approximately 330 National Cancer Institute probationary employees will be fired this afternoon. That’s a bit less than 10% of its entire staff.

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NEW: Trump administration tells federal agencies to fire probationary employees www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

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Governor Hochul must remove Mayor Adams. SDNY US Attorney Danielle Sassoon’s claim - that Adams offered to assist w/ immigration enforcement only if DoJ dismissed his indictment - is a clear quid pro quo. She must stop him from selling out NYC to save himself.

submitted 14 days ago • 83 comments

As the gutting of the federal workforce continues, including federal lawyers, one way state bars can help is providing waivers or provisional licensing for attorneys that will mostly be barred in DC.

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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

submitted 16 days ago • 2574 comments

So interesting…

submitted 16 days ago • 70 comments

Call to action: US national protest on Monday February 17 at your State Capitol or White House. Spread far and wide. End Impunity End Oligarchy End Autogenocide #3E #USprotests #eyesontheoval

submitted 20 days ago • 163 comments

BREAKING: CFPB probationary employees just received a termination notice without the pertinent information filled out. Click to see all of it.

submitted 16 days ago • 717 comments

Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

submitted 17 days ago • 674 comments

🚨Measles mounts in an undervaccinated Texas county. Hospitalizations & 9 cases. Many more expected. This may be the first big outbreak of 2025 but probably not the last, with vaccine misinformation espoused at the highest levels of government. My latest: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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We've updated our snowfall map, but made only small tweaks, slightly bumping up totals in our southern areas from 4-7" to 4-8." Based on all of data we've seen, we're holding the line on general ideas that guided first version of this map yesterday. The latest on the storm can be found at cwg.live

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📗 🌊 ⚖️ Last year, the Environmental Law Institute hosted an event on the potential for marine carbon dioxide removal to help mitigate climate change, and the legal challenges the research faces. This discussion was turned into a short article in the Environmental Law Reporter: https://buff.ly/3Cz8nz3

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New — CFPB employees received an ominous email from Russell Vought a few minutes ago. “Employees should stand down from performing any work task.” Full text:

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In Germany over 200,000 protestors in Munich gathered against the Musk backed far-right / neo-Nazi AfD ahead of the German election. Thousands chanted "Save Democracy" and "Oppose Nazis" #3E

submitted 19 days ago • 252 comments

omg y'all. If you buy a digital product and you cannot download it and store it to your own devices permanently you are RENTING, you do not OWN it.

submitted 19 days ago • 50 comments

Mood #film #cinema #Caturday #SundayVibes #FilmSky 📽️🍁🎬🐆

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LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

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From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

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Congress was denied entry to both the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury, where Musk staffers blocked the doors. Along with its appropriations responsibilities, Congress holds oversight authority over federal agencies. Blocking congressional access to these agencies is illegal.

submitted 19 days ago • 581 comments

Best line of the week came from @therapyjeff.bsky.social “Are you raw-dogging the apocalypse with zero emotional protection?” Yes, Jeff. Yes, I am. Decades of therapy in the 🚽. 🫠🥹

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Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi

submitted 20 days ago • 68 comments

Now under Trump, the NIH says it is cutting ~$9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's diseases. “I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014. This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous. #resist

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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 1679 comments

The vibe atm in the United states

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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Every headline that does not say “illegal” or “unconstitutional” is a failure to convey to the public the stakes of what is going on.

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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

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“In my career, I’ve never heard of a hundred thousand eggs being stolen."

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Think about the greatest movies ever made: Citizen Kane - Republican Shawshank Redemption - Republican Warden The Godfather - Republican Schindler's List - Nazis Raiders of the Lost Ark - Nazis Jaws - Republican Mayor Pulp Fiction - Zed, Republican Casablanca - Nazis Pattern?

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On January 8th, 2021, Kevin Plantan sat in a rental car at a park in Hanover, Virginia, after driving almost 15 hours for his monthly visitation with his daughter. A car appeared, but it wasn’t his ex-wife. It was a sherriff. /Thread

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Erasure, from threads… 💔

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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

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