. @kenwhite.bsky.social , is it a good idea to publicly announce “this thing we’re doing is just bullshit to fool the judge” while litigation is pending

Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more

So the Defense Intelligence Agency on its own decided long time observances of MLK Day, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and more are “DEI?” I joined the Army in the 80’s and we recognized these and DEI wasn’t a fucking thing then. This is bullshit. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

For federal employees (or anyone) who wants to speak to a reporter about what's unfolding about their agencies, the Associated Press investigative team can be reached here: Investigative@ap.org or www.ap.org/tips/

I am byrontau.01 on Signal.

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

Seems like we all agree RFK Jr. cannot be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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I love @theonion.com

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Hey Jim- You were the best that @cnn.com had to offer & will be deeply missed! I look forward to the next chapter in your career & I'm not just saying that because of the killer Yoda impression you did when I was on your show.

Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at t... @ • 10/19/19 And it's precisely this "governance as sabotage" milkshake that brings all of the mega-rich donors to the GOP yard, even when the king of that yard is someone they find personally repellent. 1. 17 12 50 Il 贝 Seth Cotlar, mostly now at t... @ • 10/19/19 The radical right wing (which now controls the GOP and a good chunk of the federal judiciary thanks to Trump/McConnell) wants to dismantle what they call "the administrative state." It's what the rest of us would call "our federal government." 企 ADMINISTRATIVE How Our Administrative state Underines The ... From thefederalist.com 2 17 19 52 ill

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at t... @ • 10/19/19 These are not reformers, calling for new procedures to make federal bureaucracies more effective or accountable to multiple stakeholders. No. These are folks bent on literally destroying these institutions that make modern life more manageable for ordinary citizens. 2 17 18 63 ill 企 Seth Cotlar, mostly now at t... @ • 10/19/19 I'm not being a conspiracy theorist here. This is their stated goal. The reason why they don't put it front and center in their messaging is that it is WILDLY UNPOPULAR with voters, even though it is WILDLY POPULAR with their mega-rich donors. t712 0 62 ill 企 Seth Cotlar, mostly now at t... @ • 10/19/19 There are many well-funded institutions devoted to this mission of dismantling the administrative state. The wonks in this world probably hate Trump's ignorance and buffoonery. But he's a bull who walked into the china shop they want to destroy, so "what the hell?" 2 1710 44 ill ①

Steve Bannon has been talking about “dismantling the administrative state” since 2016. The politics of systematic sabotage we are currently witnessing was already clearly the Trumpian plan in 2019 when I wrote this thread. This is their long game and they are really going for it hard.

Imagine the message to America's enemies that the Secretary of Defense - normally a position filled by overwhelming bipartisan consensus - has squeaked into his job with a Vance tie-breaker after repeated concerns about his character and lack of experience.

Deleted apps for Instagram, Threads, & Facebook. X is private and no longer active. Eliminating the unnecessary. Cheers.🍻

This is not some disgruntled ex-employee speaking off the record.

This is David Maraniss, a Pulitzer-winning reporter and author who’s now an associate editor at the Washington Post, where he’s been affiliated for more than 40 years.

The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.

1/It goes beyond what happened at DHS & NASA today.

CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate back to former offices.

Less than a week into the Trump administration and we’ve already blown through all of these.

THE REASON THAT FEMA EXISTS IS BECAUSE STATES COULD NOT DEAL WITH LARGE SCALE DISASTERS BY THEMSELVES *IN THE 1970S.*

Now the disasters are bigger, there are homeland security threats, and this guy wants to roll us back 50 years.

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going.

It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture Meteorologist Sam Kuffel criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture some likened to a Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration.

Indicative of the political moment that somebody can throw up something that looks like a Nazi salute at a political rally, and it’s other people who get in trouble for saying that’s a bad thing.

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I have and will continue to. But you know why I say it here ? Because @bsky.app is 30m strong and growing quickly. The collective wisdom and influence of users here is far greater than any individual democrat.

I can't say it enough. Bluesky can be the influence that can counter RW media.

it sounded better in the original East German

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

My wife is doc, seeing a lot of children in hospital with virulent flu. None are vaccinated. Many are extremely, dangerously sick.

We are just moving backward so rapidly.

I just got a report that the Minneapolis VA has stopped hiring workers thanks to a hasty Trump Executive Order.

They’ve rescinded offers to dozens of people who were going to fill critical roles to care for vets.

Trump Demands Bishop Apologize for Urging Mercy for Immigrants President Trump demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people and immigrants.

President Trump demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people and immigrants.

Republicans choke on defense of Trump's pardon of Jan. 6 rioters. Could it be shame? YouTube video by MSNBC

"Shame and embarrassment and the difficulty of answering unanswerable questions about indefensible things, those are brakes that can be tapped in our political system."

Here's Rachel on Republicans struggling with their answering for Donald Trump's pardon of violent January 6 rioters:

Watch:

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

💯. Thoroughly agree. The terms of the settlement were incommensurate with the merits of the case.