@bukiwilliams.bsky.social
Knew him when I was in college and nobody liked him then either.
January 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
In a letter to Acting Attorney General James McHenry, House Democrats Jamie Raskin and Gerald Connolly demanded an explanation and a list of all DOJ employees who were fired or reassigned by the Trump administration reut.rs/4hw3qFW
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I don’t care if I tank my career at this point, there’s a lot of bad actors in the legal academy carrying water for constitutional depravity under the guise of history done well. Your bullshit is not the law. It’s moral bankruptcy with a future citation.
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
GOP arsonist sets fire to the whole country.
Dem firefighters organize to -- guess what -- fight the fire.
Online commenters with books and brands to sell: I would prefer the firefighters to make performative gestures like I do to lend me legitimacy.
Dem firefighters organize to -- guess what -- fight the fire.
Online commenters with books and brands to sell: I would prefer the firefighters to make performative gestures like I do to lend me legitimacy.
January 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
(WSJ) - Kohl’s is cutting roughly 10% of its corporate workforce, two weeks after installing a new chief executive.
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Exclusive | Kohl’s Cuts 10% of Its Corporate Workforce
The reductions come two weeks after the new CEO takes the reins at the retailer.
www.wsj.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
(AXIOS) - The White House will issue a memo Tuesday afternoon offering to pay federal workers who don't want to return to the office through Sept. 30, as long as they resign by Feb. 6, an administration official tells Axios.
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Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers, source says
It's an acceleration of Trump's already unprecedented purge of the federal workforce.
www.axios.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Who is Russell Vought?
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains....We want to put them in trauma.”
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains....We want to put them in trauma.”
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
🚨NEW: The Capitol rioters that received pardons from President Donald Trump have expressed no remorse for their actions, and have promised revenge: “It’s my turn to go on offense.”
The Capitol Rioters Have No Regrets, and Promise to Seek Revenge
The Capitol rioters that received pardons from President Donald Trump have expressed no remorse for their actions, and have promised revenge: “It’s my turn to go on offense.”
www.radicalreports.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
FCC chair says landlords can force bulk internet service on residents
FCC chair says landlords can force bulk internet service on residents
Apartment dwellers would need to pay for bulk internet even if they don’t want it.
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January 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
NEW: OPM — the US govt's HR department — is now being run exclusively by Big Tech lackies, mostly from Elon Musk companies. Reporting directly to the chief of staff is a kid who just graduated high school & was recently a camp counsellor before interning at Neuralink.
From @telliotter.bsky.social:
From @telliotter.bsky.social:
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Trump sows chaos in federal workforce then says “resign within a week and I’ll give you 7 months severance.” Don’t fall for it! Trump told innumerable contractors he’d pay—then stiffed them. He has no authority to promise severance pay. Wait him out!
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apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months' pay in effort to shrink size of government
The Trump administration says it will begin subjecting all federal employees to “enhanced standards of suitability and conduct” and is warning of future downsizing.
apnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Back in August, when @propublica.org and @documented.net obtained these training videos, this is what Leavitt had to say about Trump and Project 2025:
“As our campaign leadership and President Trump have repeatedly stated, Agenda 47 is the only official policy agenda from our campaign.”
“As our campaign leadership and President Trump have repeatedly stated, Agenda 47 is the only official policy agenda from our campaign.”
January 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Not a great sign when Wired says it won't name at least two fo the people Musk has installed to run the Office of Personnel Management because they may be minors www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”
January 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”
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1/ Virtually all of this activity is happening before there are Senate confirmed leaders in place in executive branch agencies, including at DOJ, HHS, and other places where major transformation is underway. That's unusual. New cabinet secretaries like to take a look at and understand...
January 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
1/ Virtually all of this activity is happening before there are Senate confirmed leaders in place in executive branch agencies, including at DOJ, HHS, and other places where major transformation is underway. That's unusual. New cabinet secretaries like to take a look at and understand...
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SCOOP: RFK Jr. secretly recorded his second wife during their bitter divorce fight and in one conversation acknowledged he was "polygamous" and blamed her for that. One recording might have violated state law—in a messy saga that ended with her suicide.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. secretly recorded second wife during divorce and acknowledged being “polygamous”
One recording might have violated state law. It was part of a messy saga that ended with her suicide.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
SCOOP: RFK Jr. secretly recorded his second wife during their bitter divorce fight and in one conversation acknowledged he was "polygamous" and blamed her for that. One recording might have violated state law—in a messy saga that ended with her suicide.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Nothing screams “constitutional crisis” like taking a week off in your district, vs coming to dc and making lots of noise and showing some fight
January 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nothing screams “constitutional crisis” like taking a week off in your district, vs coming to dc and making lots of noise and showing some fight
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PROP - PR Over Policy.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
PROP - PR Over Policy.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
Don't confuse them.
He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.
Dems need to be strategic.
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If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.
November 21, 2024 at 7:25 PM
If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.
THIS
👇This is why I've quit my job, and this is what America needs to learn from Hungary's experience.
"There need to be news channels and media outlets for getting messages across to non-metropolitan areas dominated by far-right news sources."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
👇This is why I've quit my job, and this is what America needs to learn from Hungary's experience.
"There need to be news channels and media outlets for getting messages across to non-metropolitan areas dominated by far-right news sources."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
www.politico.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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And far less conspiracy crap
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November 24, 2024 at 1:16 AM
And far less conspiracy crap
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HAARETZ: “The Israeli government imposes sanctions on Haaretz, cuts all ties…”
An Israeli paper highly critical of the Netanyahu government is being punished.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
An Israeli paper highly critical of the Netanyahu government is being punished.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
November 25, 2024 at 12:41 AM
HAARETZ: “The Israeli government imposes sanctions on Haaretz, cuts all ties…”
An Israeli paper highly critical of the Netanyahu government is being punished.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
An Israeli paper highly critical of the Netanyahu government is being punished.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...