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The government is using face-scanning apps to check if random people on the street are citizens. And they say you cannot refuse.
Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:
Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:
Lessons from Trump’s “war” on Chicago
ICE and Border Patrol agents terrorized the city, and locals fought back.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The government is using face-scanning apps to check if random people on the street are citizens. And they say you cannot refuse.
Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:
Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:
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There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
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A reporter asked if Trump would order the removal of trans flags in DC. Trump says he wouldn't oppose it but says he could get around lawsuits by arguing it incites violence.
The reporter follows up by asking if he would label trans people as a domestic terror threat to ban the trans flag.
The reporter follows up by asking if he would label trans people as a domestic terror threat to ban the trans flag.
September 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A reporter asked if Trump would order the removal of trans flags in DC. Trump says he wouldn't oppose it but says he could get around lawsuits by arguing it incites violence.
The reporter follows up by asking if he would label trans people as a domestic terror threat to ban the trans flag.
The reporter follows up by asking if he would label trans people as a domestic terror threat to ban the trans flag.
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Analysts were instructed to flag the names of prominent perpetrators from the Epstein files because “we don’t want to take anyone by surprise.” My latest: open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
EXCLUSIVE: The Universe of Those with Access to the Epstein Files Keeps Expanding
According to new sources, photos and testimony of the survivors of the Epstein/Maxwell sex trafficking ring were available to even more people in the government than previously thought.
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Analysts were instructed to flag the names of prominent perpetrators from the Epstein files because “we don’t want to take anyone by surprise.” My latest: open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Hey corporate media, do your damn jobs.
~ Everyone
~ Everyone
June 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hey corporate media, do your damn jobs.
~ Everyone
~ Everyone
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You know the assignment
June 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
You know the assignment
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Beyond parody.
May 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Beyond parody.
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While I appreciate the "lock him up" and "impeach him" sentiments (and I'm with you), if Mueller, Garland, and impeachment taught us anything, its that 1) SCOTUS is corrupt and 2) We have to do this ourselves. As I've been saying for nearly 8 years: it's up to us. Always has been.
May 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
While I appreciate the "lock him up" and "impeach him" sentiments (and I'm with you), if Mueller, Garland, and impeachment taught us anything, its that 1) SCOTUS is corrupt and 2) We have to do this ourselves. As I've been saying for nearly 8 years: it's up to us. Always has been.
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This piece of shit budget bill is literally a gun held to the head of every single one of us. There's a lot more in there than just Medicaid and Medicare. And they're rushing it through like thieves in the night. Because the greedy rich need more, and they're taking it from us.
May 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This piece of shit budget bill is literally a gun held to the head of every single one of us. There's a lot more in there than just Medicaid and Medicare. And they're rushing it through like thieves in the night. Because the greedy rich need more, and they're taking it from us.
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I pledge to vote against any incumbent representative that votes for cuts to Social Security or Medicare
REPOST in large numbers to spread the word
📞 your representatives to inform them about your pledge
With the GOP Reconciliation Bill moving through the House, it's time to apply maximum pressure
REPOST in large numbers to spread the word
📞 your representatives to inform them about your pledge
With the GOP Reconciliation Bill moving through the House, it's time to apply maximum pressure
May 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I pledge to vote against any incumbent representative that votes for cuts to Social Security or Medicare
REPOST in large numbers to spread the word
📞 your representatives to inform them about your pledge
With the GOP Reconciliation Bill moving through the House, it's time to apply maximum pressure
REPOST in large numbers to spread the word
📞 your representatives to inform them about your pledge
With the GOP Reconciliation Bill moving through the House, it's time to apply maximum pressure
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We need more of this energy:
May 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
We need more of this energy:
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This is HUGE.
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is HUGE.
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
May 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
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This is no accident. It’s a coordinated attack on science, safety, and the truth—just in time for hurricane season…
hartmannreport.com/p/gutting-th...
hartmannreport.com/p/gutting-th...
Gutting the Weather Watchers: When Tyrants Rewrite the Forecast
This is no accident. It’s a coordinated attack on science, safety, and the truth—just in time for hurricane season…
hartmannreport.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is no accident. It’s a coordinated attack on science, safety, and the truth—just in time for hurricane season…
hartmannreport.com/p/gutting-th...
hartmannreport.com/p/gutting-th...
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Those on the high court often exercise caution in their choice of words. That is why it was striking when she used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win.
Justice Sotomayor’s Message to Lawyers: Stand Up, Fight and Win
In an era when judges are often assessed by their commitment to democracy, Justice Sonia Sotomayor stands as a stalwart in the pro-democracy camp.
www.democracydocket.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Those on the high court often exercise caution in their choice of words. That is why it was striking when she used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win.
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Stephen Miller serves a deranged authoritarian who thinks he is all powerful and can do whatever he wants. He is wrong. Our job as lawyers is to stand up to him and defeat him in court.
I, for one, will never bow down or seek a deal with Trump. I will stand tall and fight.
I, for one, will never bow down or seek a deal with Trump. I will stand tall and fight.
May 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Stephen Miller serves a deranged authoritarian who thinks he is all powerful and can do whatever he wants. He is wrong. Our job as lawyers is to stand up to him and defeat him in court.
I, for one, will never bow down or seek a deal with Trump. I will stand tall and fight.
I, for one, will never bow down or seek a deal with Trump. I will stand tall and fight.
Don't know the name of the artist, but this person is brilliant.
May 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Don't know the name of the artist, but this person is brilliant.
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🚨 We want to get this flyer out to DOL employees who have been RIFed but many of them are on administrative leave instead of in the building. If you know any feds who need this info, please share it with them!
Important info on what to do after receiving a RIF notice (alt text included) ⬇️⬇️
Important info on what to do after receiving a RIF notice (alt text included) ⬇️⬇️
![YOU HAVE RIGHTS!
What Federal Employees Should Know about Reductions in Force (RIFs)
Your Rights
Generally speaking, for non-SES, executive-branch employees, your agency must:
● Provide 60 day’ advance notice of a RIF (though that can be reduced to 30 days based
on “not reasonably foreseeable circumstances.”) 5 C.F.R. § 351.801.
● For any bargaining-unit employees, provide the union with at least 60 days’ notice of any
RIFs, and more if a collective-bargaining agreement requires it
● Set a “competitive area” defining the organizational unit being cut and a “competitive
level” defining the types of jobs being cut; RIFs must target positions, not people.
● Make a “retention list” that ranks workers based on their tenure, veterans preference,
length of service, performance, and other criteria to decide who is terminated.
● Provide these rights to probationary employees as well as non-probationary employees.
● Provide severance pay: 1 week of pay for years of civilian service, 2 weeks for years >
10, plus an increase if you’re over 40
● Allow employees whose functions are transferred to a different competitive area to
transfer to those jobs
What To Do
● Before RIF Notice: Organize your coworkers, discuss strategies with them, keep your
union informed, download your eOPF folder, and consider what allies you can gather to
fight on your and your coworkers’ behalf.
● When you get a RIF Notice:
○ Ask the person who sent you the RIF notice and your HR representative in
writing for the retention register and check it thoroughly. Here is sample language
that you can use:
■ “Hi, my name is [NAME]. I just received a Reduction in Force notice,
dated [DATE]. Please send me the retention register that the Department
of Labor has compiled that applies to my competitive area and
competitive level immediately, along with any other information to which I
am entitled under 5 C.F.R. Section 351.505.
○ If they don’t give the retention register to you, FOIA it …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j7ih5hnishq4ccdmqmb4ot7o/bafkreignwj2v5zstyj6zmlo6lxpklzrirs56txl6qgza5raizhkgyjx5iu@jpeg)
![date of [DATE YOU RECEIVED RIF NOTICE] and an effective date of[DATE NOTICE SAYS RIF IS EFFECTIVE]. In particular, I would like to
receive any retention registers compiled for the Reduction in Force for which I received the attached notice. Please provide this information as soon as possible. For bargaining unit employees, file grievances over any failure to inform the union, lack of notice, placing employees on administrative leave without cause, or mistakes in the retention register.
● After RIF Notice: Challenge errors before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)
or via union grievance. Continue to come to work if they have RIF’d you unlawfully.
Stay in touch with your colleagues.
Additional Resources
● Reductions in Force (RIFs): An Overview (QR code below)
● Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network (QR code below)
● How to Seek Compensation for Mental Health Conditions caused or aggravated by a
Federal Employer - CFPB Union (QR code below)
YOU ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH!
As long as you speak in your personal capacity about a matter of public concern and your
speech does not interfere with your job, you can generally say what you want. Click the last QR
code above for a presentation explaining federal employee free speech rights.
● Your union representatives](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j7ih5hnishq4ccdmqmb4ot7o/bafkreihhy4m6oxpikownyvu5mo2bxgvxx6gyx2iuxsuih4qwbipiriltii@jpeg)
May 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
🚨 We want to get this flyer out to DOL employees who have been RIFed but many of them are on administrative leave instead of in the building. If you know any feds who need this info, please share it with them!
Important info on what to do after receiving a RIF notice (alt text included) ⬇️⬇️
Important info on what to do after receiving a RIF notice (alt text included) ⬇️⬇️
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