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Tell us more about how women are too emotional to govern.
February 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Tell us more about how women are too emotional to govern.
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my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth
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Donald Trump has betrayed America.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
February 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Donald Trump has betrayed America.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
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If you restate the question as “why are we hearing the worst stories of federal workers harmed by vindictive authoritarians with a penchant for punishing dissent with harassment and violence via anonymous Reddit posts, press reports, and lawsuit filings” I think the answer gets a bit easier to see
I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis.
This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
February 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you restate the question as “why are we hearing the worst stories of federal workers harmed by vindictive authoritarians with a penchant for punishing dissent with harassment and violence via anonymous Reddit posts, press reports, and lawsuit filings” I think the answer gets a bit easier to see
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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
www.bloomberg.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc
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Presidency-ending scandals that make Watergate look like a middle school prank, happening now hourly. Total failure of Article I. Maybe someone, anyone, in the DC press corps wants to ask Speaker Johnson or SML Thune about this? 🤷♂️
This database would give Musk detailed technical specifications of every system, detailed pricing and delivery schedules, and information on any confidential government investigations into every other U.S. defense firms. Conflict of interest does not get bigger than this.
Musk and DOGE Might Soon Have Access to the Most Lucrative Defense-Contract Database of All
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
February 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Presidency-ending scandals that make Watergate look like a middle school prank, happening now hourly. Total failure of Article I. Maybe someone, anyone, in the DC press corps wants to ask Speaker Johnson or SML Thune about this? 🤷♂️
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If Joe Biden said this, the entire Republican Party would be yelling about Munich/1938/appeasement, & it would prompt nonstop front page headlines about whether he was mentally unfit to be president.
"You should have never started it" -- Trump to Ukraine, which very much did not start the war
February 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If Joe Biden said this, the entire Republican Party would be yelling about Munich/1938/appeasement, & it would prompt nonstop front page headlines about whether he was mentally unfit to be president.
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"Project 2025 approved SSA administrator steps down just 3 weeks into the administration, giving up a GS-15 career in the process, because she knew even one more week on the job would risk putting her in prison for decades" is a very good and comforting sign
(Musk's touching the stove)
(Musk's touching the stove)
Just to be clear, because I don’t think the Post story highlights it enough: This was Trump’s day-one pick to lead the Social Security Admin until his nominee got confirmed who RESIGNED a career job rather than do what Musk’s DOGE team wants.
This is Treasury (DOGE) and DOJ (Adams) all over again.
This is Treasury (DOGE) and DOJ (Adams) all over again.
Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"Project 2025 approved SSA administrator steps down just 3 weeks into the administration, giving up a GS-15 career in the process, because she knew even one more week on the job would risk putting her in prison for decades" is a very good and comforting sign
(Musk's touching the stove)
(Musk's touching the stove)
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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.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
www.reddit.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“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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Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law.
Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
February 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law.
Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
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It’s pretty wild that this is doing the exact same thing the Twitter files did where the set up is “we are finding all these crimes! All this depravity!” and then when you actually look at it you’re kind of shocked that there wasn’t more crime or depravity and that 99.999% of it was just office shit
When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
February 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s pretty wild that this is doing the exact same thing the Twitter files did where the set up is “we are finding all these crimes! All this depravity!” and then when you actually look at it you’re kind of shocked that there wasn’t more crime or depravity and that 99.999% of it was just office shit
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Gonna be reductive and rephrase: Vance moved by Auschwitz to advocate for present day German Nazis
After spending yesterday visiting Dachau and saying he was "really moved" by his time there, today JD Vance went to Munich to say that German political parties need to break the firewall against the far-right, Holocaust-minimizing AfD and start working with it: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
US-Vizepräsident: J. D. Vance fordert Zusammenarbeit deutscher Parteien mit der AfD
Bei der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz will US-Vizepräsident Vance mehr Kooperation mit Parteien wie der AfD fordern. Die Bundesregierung weist seinen Vorstoß ab.
www.zeit.de
February 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Gonna be reductive and rephrase: Vance moved by Auschwitz to advocate for present day German Nazis
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1. I have said it before and I will say it again that the last election was decided not on policy, but on information, and given the result of that election, it’s safe to say that we have entered a new era, a kind of American Dark Ages, in which superstition, fear and ignorance reign supreme.
February 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
1. I have said it before and I will say it again that the last election was decided not on policy, but on information, and given the result of that election, it’s safe to say that we have entered a new era, a kind of American Dark Ages, in which superstition, fear and ignorance reign supreme.
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Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference
February 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
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The Attorney General of the United States — the chief *law enforcement* officer of the country — just told Apple and Google that they can break the law with impunity. Maybe you like this result; but is this the kind of country you want to live in? open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)
Two very different episodes on Thursday provide growing evidence of a Department of Justice that is showing less respect, by the day, for the rule of law.
open.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The Attorney General of the United States — the chief *law enforcement* officer of the country — just told Apple and Google that they can break the law with impunity. Maybe you like this result; but is this the kind of country you want to live in? open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually
February 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually
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Yes. Important for all NIH people and scientists:
The executive orders are not law. The President *cannot* make laws.
And in fact, executive orders may violate the law. As a federal employee, you are obligated not to follow illegal orders. That includes illegal EOs.
The executive orders are not law. The President *cannot* make laws.
And in fact, executive orders may violate the law. As a federal employee, you are obligated not to follow illegal orders. That includes illegal EOs.
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
February 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yes. Important for all NIH people and scientists:
The executive orders are not law. The President *cannot* make laws.
And in fact, executive orders may violate the law. As a federal employee, you are obligated not to follow illegal orders. That includes illegal EOs.
The executive orders are not law. The President *cannot* make laws.
And in fact, executive orders may violate the law. As a federal employee, you are obligated not to follow illegal orders. That includes illegal EOs.
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There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.
February 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.
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Have confirmed the same. Truly fucked up. And, should go without saying, illegal.
Probationary employees with less than 1 year of service at CFPB have received termination notices, but they are so hastily done that they don't have people's names, job titles, or other information.
They literally say "I am removing you from your position of [JobTitle]... effective [EffectiveDate]"
They literally say "I am removing you from your position of [JobTitle]... effective [EffectiveDate]"
February 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Have confirmed the same. Truly fucked up. And, should go without saying, illegal.
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for years a fucktillion of rightwing lunatics claimed biden was so inept that there was a “shadow govt” secretly running things and now that it’s really happening they seem fine with it actually
REPORTER: Are you policing yourself for conflicts of interest? What are the checks and balances?
MUSK: We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X
MUSK: We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X
February 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
for years a fucktillion of rightwing lunatics claimed biden was so inept that there was a “shadow govt” secretly running things and now that it’s really happening they seem fine with it actually
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Trump has signed an executive order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids companies in the U.S. from bribing foreign officials.
February 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Trump has signed an executive order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids companies in the U.S. from bribing foreign officials.
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"Free speech" extremist Elon Musk wanted this.
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Free speech" extremist Elon Musk wanted this.
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Cutting the NIH is cutting cancer research
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
February 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Cutting the NIH is cutting cancer research
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
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Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.