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Nathan "Protect Our Freedoms" HJ
@nathanhj.bsky.social
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I help organizers find their people, build digital communities, and turn regular people into leaders. SciFi enthusiast, dad of 2, Major League Soccer nerd. Central NJ Fmr: Greenpeace USA, Climate Advocacy Lab, CPD, and ACORN, among others.
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erininthemorning.com
They are charging a sitting congresswoman with a crime for performing her lawfully required oversight of ICE.

This is an incredibly undemocratic step that should make people painfully aware of where we are at.
replamonica.bsky.social Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · May 20
My statement on the charges filed against me:
May 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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smellyelon.bsky.social
⚡️ The time is now - May Resistance Movement All May 2025:
we demand accountability from these tyrants
Protests in every major city - Find yours
🎯 antimagaclub.com/find
� Be there or be square

@bcfontt.bsky.social @nathanhj.bsky.social @lindsayannphillips.bsky.social
Anti-MAGA Protests Hub
Defy the dictatorship circus — join “No Kings” on June 14 and reclaim the flag from Trump’s parade of ego. Rise up for real democracy — no thrones, no crowns, no kings.
antimagaclub.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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deptofworkers.bsky.social
The @deptofworkers.bsky.social is working people’s own made-up government department to shine a light on everything Elon and the billionaires do to hurt working people.

Follow along as we fight for the working people who make our country run and the programs working people rely on.
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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lilohstainton.bsky.social
Right here in #Newark #NJ
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jan 24
Workplace raids have begun—none of these people were rapists or criminals.

Even if you’re not a US citizen, you still have due process in this country. 3 workers in Newark were taken into custody by ICE w/out a warrant. One, a veteran, endured the humiliation of having his military docs questioned.
January 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
The fallout from this will be enormous, including a potential childcare crisis.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jan 23
NEW: The US Office of Personnel Management has issued a memo to all federal agencies to terminate remote work and submit a plan by *tomorrow* for full compliance.

Full text:
MEMORANDUM TO: Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies FROM: Charles Ezell, Acting Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management DATE: January 22, 2025 RE: Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following guidance to agencies regarding President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum (PM), Return to In-Person Work. I. Authority OPM is issuing this guidance under the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, which requires agencies to consult with OPM in developing telework policies1 and tasks OPM with providing policy and policy guidance,2 as well assisting agencies with establishing teleworking goals.3 This guidance also implements OPM Director’s statutory duties to “secur[e] accuracy, uniformity, and justice in the functions of the Office” and “execut[e], administer[], and enforc[e] . . .the civil service rules and regulations of the President and the Office and the laws governing the civil service.”4 II. Background President Trump was elected with the mandate to increase the efficiency and accountability of the federal workforce. A glaring roadblock is that most federal offices presently are virtually abandoned. The vast majority of federal office workers have not returned to in-person work, even though the COVID-19 pandemic ended years ago.5 Many federal office workers never show up to the federal worksite at all.6 Federal office buildings sit mostly empty, particularly Washington, D.C.-area agency headquarters offices, devastating the local economy and serving as a national embarrassment.7 Virtually unrestricted telework has led to poorer government services and made it more difficult to supervise and train government workers.8 Fairness requires that federal office employees show up to the worksite each day like most other American workers. In addition, during the Biden Administration, federal unions attempted to abuse the collective-bargaining process to guarantee full-time telework into the indefinite future and forestall any requirement to return to the office.9 The President’s PM directs agency heads to “take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis” “as soon as practicable.” It allows agency heads to “make exemptions they deem necessary” and directs that the directive “be implemented consistent with applicable law.” The PM reflects a simple reality. The only way to get employees back to the office is to adopt a centralized policy requiring return-to-work for all agencies across the federal government.10 Seeking to cajole individual agencies to try to get employees to return to the worksite has not succeeded.11 III. Steps for Agencies to Return to Workers to the Office In light of the PM, agencies should take the following steps to return workers to the office. No later than 5:00 pm EST on Friday, January 24, 2025: 1. The agency head or acting agency head should revise their agency’s telework policy issued under 5 U.S.C. § 6502(a)(1)(A) to state that eligible employees must work full time at their respective duty stations unless excused due to a disability, qualifying medical condition, or other compelling reason certified by the agency head and the employee’s supervisor. 2. The agency head or acting agency head should email all employees notifying them of President Trump’s PM Return to In-Person Work, attach a copy of the PM, and notify employees of the agency’s intention to fully comply with the PM. (A copy of the PM is attached as Appendix 1). 3. The agency should notify OPM of the agency’s Telework Managing Officer, and assign that individual responsibility for complying with the guidance herein. Agencies should advise OPM of the date that the agency will be in full compliance with the new telework policy. If an employee’s official duty station is more than 50 miles from any existing agency office, the agency should take steps to move the employee’s duty station to the most appropriate agency office based on the employee’s duties and job function. OPM recommends that agencies set a target date of approximately 30 days for full compliance with the PM, subject to any exclusions granted by the agency and any collective bargaining obligations. Please send all reports requested by this document to tracking@opm.gov. Do not hesitate to contact OPM if you have any questions regarding these matters by email to tracking@opm.gov. cc: Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs), Deputy CHCOs, and Human Resources Directors Appendix 1: President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work. Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary. This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.
January 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I’m looking to speak to federal workers about how this will impact childcare. Message me securely on Signal at marisakabas.04
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jan 23
NEW: The US Office of Personnel Management has issued a memo to all federal agencies to terminate remote work and submit a plan by *tomorrow* for full compliance.

Full text:
MEMORANDUM TO: Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies FROM: Charles Ezell, Acting Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management DATE: January 22, 2025 RE: Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following guidance to agencies regarding President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum (PM), Return to In-Person Work. I. Authority OPM is issuing this guidance under the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, which requires agencies to consult with OPM in developing telework policies1 and tasks OPM with providing policy and policy guidance,2 as well assisting agencies with establishing teleworking goals.3 This guidance also implements OPM Director’s statutory duties to “secur[e] accuracy, uniformity, and justice in the functions of the Office” and “execut[e], administer[], and enforc[e] . . .the civil service rules and regulations of the President and the Office and the laws governing the civil service.”4 II. Background President Trump was elected with the mandate to increase the efficiency and accountability of the federal workforce. A glaring roadblock is that most federal offices presently are virtually abandoned. The vast majority of federal office workers have not returned to in-person work, even though the COVID-19 pandemic ended years ago.5 Many federal office workers never show up to the federal worksite at all.6 Federal office buildings sit mostly empty, particularly Washington, D.C.-area agency headquarters offices, devastating the local economy and serving as a national embarrassment.7 Virtually unrestricted telework has led to poorer government services and made it more difficult to supervise and train government workers.8 Fairness requires that federal office employees show up to the worksite each day like most other American workers. In addition, during the Biden Administration, federal unions attempted to abuse the collective-bargaining process to guarantee full-time telework into the indefinite future and forestall any requirement to return to the office.9 The President’s PM directs agency heads to “take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis” “as soon as practicable.” It allows agency heads to “make exemptions they deem necessary” and directs that the directive “be implemented consistent with applicable law.” The PM reflects a simple reality. The only way to get employees back to the office is to adopt a centralized policy requiring return-to-work for all agencies across the federal government.10 Seeking to cajole individual agencies to try to get employees to return to the worksite has not succeeded.11 III. Steps for Agencies to Return to Workers to the Office In light of the PM, agencies should take the following steps to return workers to the office. No later than 5:00 pm EST on Friday, January 24, 2025: 1. The agency head or acting agency head should revise their agency’s telework policy issued under 5 U.S.C. § 6502(a)(1)(A) to state that eligible employees must work full time at their respective duty stations unless excused due to a disability, qualifying medical condition, or other compelling reason certified by the agency head and the employee’s supervisor. 2. The agency head or acting agency head should email all employees notifying them of President Trump’s PM Return to In-Person Work, attach a copy of the PM, and notify employees of the agency’s intention to fully comply with the PM. (A copy of the PM is attached as Appendix 1). 3. The agency should notify OPM of the agency’s Telework Managing Officer, and assign that individual responsibility for complying with the guidance herein. Agencies should advise OPM of the date that the agency will be in full compliance with the new telework policy. If an employee’s official duty station is more than 50 miles from any existing agency office, the agency should take steps to move the employee’s duty station to the most appropriate agency office based on the employee’s duties and job function. OPM recommends that agencies set a target date of approximately 30 days for full compliance with the PM, subject to any exclusions granted by the agency and any collective bargaining obligations. Please send all reports requested by this document to tracking@opm.gov. Do not hesitate to contact OPM if you have any questions regarding these matters by email to tracking@opm.gov. cc: Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs), Deputy CHCOs, and Human Resources Directors Appendix 1: President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work. Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary. This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.
January 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
nathanhj.bsky.social
Pretty sure this is exactly what people wanted when they chose Trump, right?
drericding.bsky.social Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · Jan 22
NEW—Trump WH has blocked all CDC science reports (eg MMWR) & suspended all CDC / FDA / NIH external communications of all HHS agencies until further notice... including all FDA & CDC Health Alert warnings & all social media. Public health be damned.

Gift 🎁 link:
wapo.st/4aqfN44
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
wapo.st
January 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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melissaryan.bsky.social
Whole lotta people are going to disappoint us as they let their fear get the best of them and submit to Trump and the mob.

So it's good that people such as Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who had the courage to call the monsters out to their faces, exist. May we all find her courage when called upon.
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Jan 21
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
nathanhj.bsky.social
Whoopsies.

Also, classic non-apology. No acknowledgement of harm. No accountability. No intent to do better. Acting as if being good at sports is separate from being a good person.
raecomm.bsky.social Derek Rae @raecomm.bsky.social · Jan 17
Holstein Kiel have had to go into damage control mode after their new American signing on his social media, “liked” several dubious conspiracy theories & statements related to COVID, the shape of the earth & gender identity. Picture of the Kiel statement below (press on it for the whole statement.)
January 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
nathanhj.bsky.social
Right. Because this isn't abt fairness. It's about policing gender boundaries and maintaining patriarchal hierarchies.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Jan 17
Survey analysis finds people who don't watch women's sports, think they are less deserving of media attention than men's sports, and think women should prioritize being thin are more likely to oppose transgender women's inclusion in women's sports
Transgender athletes’ rights was opposed by those who viewed female athletes as undeserving, study finds
A recent study found opposition to transgender athletes' inclusion in sports was more common among those with weaker interest in supporting, promoting, and watching female athletes.
www.psypost.org
January 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
nathanhj.bsky.social
Glad SEIU leaders are finally fixing Andy Stern's worst mistake.
aflcio.org AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · Jan 9
We’re thrilled to share breaking news:

The AFL-CIO and @seiu.org are reuniting with a new, long-term effort to make it easier for workers to win a voice on our jobs with our unions. 

There’s power in unity!
aflcio.org/press/releas...
A photo of, from left, Rocio Sáenz, Ai-jen Poo, Liz Shuler and April Verrett at the SEIU Convention in May 2024.
January 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
nathanhj.bsky.social
JFC this is dire
January 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
In authoritarian regimes, the rule of law is whatever the autocrat and those doing their bidding want it to be.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jan 7
The North Carolina Supreme Court's conservative supermajority has blocked the certification of Justice Allison Riggs' narrow election victory. Riggs, a Democrat, narrowly beat Jefferson Griffin, a Republican; Griffin is now trying to overturn her victory in court. drive.google.com/file/d/1vlV5...
No. 320P24 SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA *************** JEFFERSON GRIFFIN From N.C. Board of Elections v. NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF ELECTIONS *************** ORDER On 18 December 2024, petitioner filed a petition for writ of prohibition and motion for temporary stay related to the 2024 election for a Seat 6 on Supreme Court of North Carolina. Prior to filing a response or this Court taking action on petitioner's filings, respondent Board of Elections filed with this Court on 19 December 2024 a notice of removal of this action to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. On 6 January 2025, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina remanded the matter to this Court. Even though we received notice from the Board of Elections of its appeal of the order from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, in the absence of a stay from federal court, this matter should be addressed expeditiously because it concerns certification of an election. Therefore, petitioner's motion for temporary stay is allowed, and the Court upon its own motion sets the following expedited briefing schedule concerning the writ of prohibition: GRIFFIN V. STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS No. 320P24 Order of the Court Petitioner shall file his brief on or before 14 January 2025; Respondent shall file its response on or before 21 January 2025; and Petitioner shall file his reply brief on or before 24 January 2025. By order of the Court in Conference, this the 7th day of January 2025. Is/ Allen, J. For the Court Riggs, J., recused Earls, J. dissents on the grounds that the standard for a temporary stay has not been met here, where there is no likelihood of success on the merits and the public interest requires that the Court not interfere with the ordinary course of democratic processes as set by statute and the state constitution. Further dissents or concurrences, if any, will be filed through an Amended Order. WITNESS my hand and the seal of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, this the 7th day of January 2025.
January 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
nathanhj.bsky.social
Serious question: Who has a plausible explanation for Il Douche's desire to acquire Greenland?
January 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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banditelli.org
The narrative around unions, both historically and on deeply personal levels for tens of millions of workers simply can't be beat by taxing the rich. It's a narrative that we gave away to the bosses for decades, and we've taken back

Billionaires want to control our algorithms to stop us

They can't
January 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
nathanhj.bsky.social
This is the one celebrity couple I give a shit about and I want them to succeed very badly.
popbase.tv Pop Base @popbase.tv · Jan 6
Zendaya and Tom Holland are now engaged, TMZ reports.
January 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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nytguildtech.bsky.social
THEY ARE TIMES GUILD: We are happy to welcome @theathletic.bsky.social to our @nyguild.bsky.social family. @nytimes.com needs to do the right thing and recognize them as part of the Times Guild.

x.com/NYTimesGuild...
January 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
"The insurrectionists failed in the moment, but they set off a series of events that transformed US Constitutional democracy by upending the core principle that no man is above the law."
devorahleah.bsky.social Donna Halper @devorahleah.bsky.social · Jan 6
Excellent post by @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social, who notes that while GOP pols claim the party stands for law & order, "Assaulting police officers, disrupting order, breaking the law is fine—good, even—if Republicans are doing it to advance Republican interests." substack.com/home/post/p-...
The January 6 Attackers Won
The fourth anniversary of the Capitol attack marks a dark day in American history
substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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brianbeutler.bsky.social
When Republicans last handed Democrats control of the Senate, Mitch McConnell filibustered the organizing resolution, freezing the ousted GOP’s control of committees, until Dems agreed to some of his procedural demands. Just sayin.
January 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
nathanhj.bsky.social
Hey remember when the Iron Curtain fell and there was a burst of democracy in the West? Those were good times, right?
January 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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warren.senate.gov
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.

Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
December 17, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
⚠️BREAKING: 98% of SBWU baristas voted to authorize a ULP strike, if necessary - just DAYS before our emergency campaign call Thursday @ 8:30pm PT / 5:30pm ET 🔥✊

Our union is STRONG - and we’re READY. 🧵
Bold text says "WE ARE READY. Starbucks workers authorize a nationwide STRIKE if necessary." alongside the SBWU fist surrounded by a ring of fire
December 17, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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melissaryan.bsky.social
A must-read about what MAGA 2.0 will be from @davidneiwert.bsky.social, a man who has forgotten more about authoritarianism and white nationalism in America than most of us will ever know. davidneiwert.substack.com/p/get-ready-...
Get ready for the authoritarian aggression
With two of the three core traits of authoritarian personalities fully sated by the 2024 election, expect the third—unbridled aggression at those who dissent—to manifest itself soon.
davidneiwert.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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fusewashington.org
"The capital gains tax won in 32 of 39 counties, including places in Eastern Washington that voted more than 70% for Donald Trump."

The WA GOP and their multi-millionaire backers lost big trying to buy themselves a tax cut at the expense of our kids..
The GOP went all-in on taxes — and lost. It’s shaking up WA politics
It was the big bet that would recast state politics in favor of the GOP. Instead, Democrats just got the most pro-tax vote in decades and they're emboldened by it.
www.seattletimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM