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For all federal employees:

Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs.

If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.
February 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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EPA has 8,500 employees in total. Cutting 1,100 probationary employees would be a massive blow.
If all probationary employees are going to be fired (and given what Musk is saying, this sounds more likely) it will kill federal recruiting
www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-emp...
More than 1,100 EPA employees warned of immediate termination
"It's bad. I've been with the agency for over 33 years and I've never seen anything like this," said Marie Owens-Powell, president of the union that represents more than 8,500 EPA employees.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I pray this helps some of you today. We have a duty to Dr. King whose life was taken because he dared demand that this country face itself, to demonstrate that his work & sacrifice was not in vain. Let’s do it together. Please share. And subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Suddenly, Trump doesn’t want to talk so much about the economy. If Trump doesn’t want to talk about it, Democrats can — and should — fill the vacuum.
Opinion | Suddenly Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk so much about the economy
If Trump doesn’t want to talk about the economy, Democrats can fill the vacuum.
www.msnbc.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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NEW: If people like Alexei Navalny "are willing to risk imprisonment, torture, and death to resist an evil empire, there is no excuse for us to back down from standing up for truth and principle" in the United States.
www.thebulwark.com/p/even-in-de...
Even in Death, Navalny Still Threatens the Putin Regime
The opposition leader’s posthumous memoir is a chronicle of a death foretold.
www.thebulwark.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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THIS is Our INSTRUCTION
December 12, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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"Trump will bring a new era of corruption to government, which will largely go unpunished...The worst stuff may be the legal stuff, or what we come to accept as legal, happening out in the open." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...
To break into the unusual circle of influence that surrounds Trump, chief executives are discussing whether to secure an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. They are buying the Trump family’s cryptocurrency token and emailing tips about spending cuts to Vivek Ramaswamy www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
Corporate America Launches Unorthodox Campaign to Gain Trump’s Attention
Companies are looking at scrubbing left-leaning policies from their websites and scoping out appearances on conservative podcasts.
www.wsj.com
November 30, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is a good day to thank undocumented immigrants.
🦃 3/4 of them are essential workers vital to keeping our country running.

They make up:
📌 23% of construction workers
📌 40%–55% of agriculture workers
📌 25% of food preparation & serving workers
📌 8% of healthcare workers
November 28, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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November 28, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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I guess since Trump is appointing everyone who worked on Project 2025 he must’ve just heard about it.
November 23, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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RFK Jr’s vaccine views ‘dangerous’, cousin Caroline Kennedy warns Australian audience
RFK Jr’s vaccine views ‘dangerous’, cousin Caroline Kennedy warns Australian audience
Outgoing US ambassador to Australia discusses Trump’s pick for health secretary, and concedes climate action under president-elect may not be as ‘fast’ The outgoing US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has labelled her cousin Robert F Kennedy…
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November 18, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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With Musk to his left, Trump talks to Yasir Al-Rumanyyan on his right, who runs Saudi Arabia’s $1 trillion Public investment Fund. Man of the people.
November 17, 2024 at 6:52 PM