Every year, without fail, because I work in customer service, multiple people tell me to have a great holiday, and I know they mean well, but honestly, it’s like a gut punch every single time. Please remember 30% of the Federal employees are vets. And for a lot of us, this weekend is not fun. 💔💔💔
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#transgender #healthcare #ACA #transrights
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Please repost. Someone very dear to me tried to kill himself this week, in part triggered by the insanity in the news.
Take time for yourself. Step away but don’t step out. Especially for my feds and veterans and #LGBTQ+ peeps—you are loved & needed.
Ask for help. DMs are open.
#resist despair
A school photo of a gently smiling teenage girl. She has long brown hair and a black cardigan.
My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow.
I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws.
But her name was Haley.
Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more.
Taking back our power starts now.
“On petitioning the Massachusetts legislature to incorporate their Lunenburg Social Library in 1798, its organizers cited their “great utility… in diffusing useful knowledge among the People.”
Saw this quote in my feed and though it disappeared it bears consideration. “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty" -James Madison
This is such a great call to make and I really hope more media outlets follow suit 👏👏👏👏
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
Schumer cancels his book tour citing 'security concerns.' Yeah, right. His real concern was getting screamed at by Democrats in a dozen viral moments.
This.
This is a great overview of the chaos DOGE is creating and manufacturing. Doing away with the telephone system we currently have would be incredibly detrimental to the population we serve.
Trump lies about SS so we’ll lose faith in the system. Then he’ll turn it over to Wall St.
Tariffs are a tax.
It’s a tax on the farmer who depends on machinery from Canada.
It’s a tax on patients who rely on prescription medication from other countries.
It’s a tax on anyone who needs groceries, electronics, or gas for their cars.
Ummm...
MUSK: A sophisticated cyberattack from Ukraine took out Twitter's servers
REALITY: Twitter's servers were not secured properly and were publicly visible
Great explainer here from @lhn.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...
The January mid-air collision with the Army helicopter happened as the American Airlines jet was about to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. All 67 people on both aircraft died.
Show me the receipts then. In our systems. That you don’t know how to fucking use or read. Show me. I dare you.
🚄 France Appreciation Post 🇫🇷
Last Friday scientists across France rallied in support of American scientists. At a time when many Americans are feeling desperate it means a lot to see so much support from our oldest allies.
We are so grateful for the support!
#vivelafrance #solidarité
Men like this will do everything they can - use every privilege - to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
It doesn’t even matter that the dead 6-yr-old girl wasn’t malnourished or in poor health. A vaccine would have prevented her death, & he knows because he vaccinated his own children.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Vaccines aren’t even associated with autism.
The biggest predictor of autism?
GENETICS.
We have decades of data and millions of data points that to show this.
This lie insults people with autism too — as if it’s an “adverse effect” of medicine.
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Trump says millions of people over 150 years old are getting Social Security checks. That is a LIE. He is sowing doubt so he can gut benefits for tens of millions of Americans. Social Security is not broken—it is a lifeline. And we are going to fight like hell to protect it. 🚨
In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
Monday morning pep talk for Senior Leaders and Supervisors (based on responses from Saturday):
1. Employees need you to be visible and be real. Show your emotion. Be present even when you don’t know the answer.
2. Acknowledge the chaos and trauma of shifting guidance. Stop sugar-coating.
They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
