Literally. And directly. And in myriad far-reaching ways.

I will say more soon but I am in utter shock and disgust and grieving with friends and colleagues.

JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers.

Where the HELL are the Democrats? Friends,

I’ve asked this question before. Now I’m SHOUTING it.

Where the HELL are the Democrats? robertreich.substack.com/p/where-the-hell-are-the...

we really need to stop saying “arrested” by ICE. the word you’re looking for is “kidnapped”.

multiple issues here:
-it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders
-even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate

This is absolutely horrific.

Literally fuck this administration. Fuck this guy. Fuck their racism. Fuck their ignorance and stupidity. Fuck their fragility. Just fucking fuck off already.

Also- side note- can we stop using his fucking face in media stories? We don’t need to see his mug too. /fin

Between the unsecured bombing chats and eliminating FEMA and trafficking legal residents to foreign labor prisons and supermaxxing measles and halting cancer research, it’s so hard these days to guess how you’re gonna die

I wish I was shocked. I am not.

Try: “Pres issued another inflammatory EO declaring/overreaching on another topic he doesn’t have power to make decisions on. EO has no legal bearing.”

REPORTERS- @nytimes.com History has its eyes on you and your role in our country’s current crisis.

SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about...

You cannot understand the Signal story if you don't remember that Trump had a call on the proper USG channels and an intelligence analyst reviewed it and realized he needed to report a crime. That got Trump impeached. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

Spoiler: They are all lying, all the time, and not being held accountable this will continue to do it and more brazenly.

a room with flames and smoke from the "This is Fine" meme and Ralph from the Simpsons sitting in a chair next to a table and a coffee cup with a speech bubble "I'm in danger" from the "I'm in Danger" Meme

I crossed the memes to more accurately reflect the current situation.

I am apoplectic.

At some point, I was afraid at what strategy may be going on with this admin. I think that was very generous thinking.

I am now convinced they are all dumb as bricks and are going to get us all killed.

Yes.

👍

The layers to this story, it is WILD. This is all wild.

While Trump slashes jobs, his golf trips are costing taxpayers millions | Mohamad Bazzi The US president is condemning ‘waste’ and firing workers – while cashing in by traveling to his own resorts

See: $23 million so far, just this term, of taxpayer money for golfing alone:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am not a financial scholar and I can GUARANTEE you that cutting Medicaid for 20 million people will not “keep the nation’s finances from spiraling out of control” when the president is spending millions of taxpayer $$ on personal golfing and upcharging to line his own pockets.

Utter chaos.

In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics
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www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing…

There would be bipartisan calls for investigations

Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion

Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day

Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

Very fun to explain the signal scandal to my 13 year old who truly understands the catastrophe of adding the wrong person to the group chat and absolutely fell out when I showed her the Mike Waltz emojis.

EPA knew it wrongfully canceled dozens of environmental grants, documents show According to an internal email, EPA officials knew they had no contractual right to cancel some grants. They did it anyway.

Termination of many E.P.A. grants made on the basis of what officials were told was a "significant error." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Lied under oath. So easy to fact check, as any federal employee knows from yearly records training. Unbelievable incompetence. HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!

Much of the media is complicit in the rise of this president. It was true in 2016. It is true now. Shame on you, @usatoday.com DO BETTER.

I 100% agree with this take and think it is infuriating. See also: phone trees. Lets them employ less humans, saves them money, wastes consumers’ time and probably saves them money when we get frustrated and give up.

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

Absolutely unnecessary and preventable. This anti-health secretary should be investigated, removed, held accountable. But he won’t be. He’s being praised for this chaos.

There is always a tweet.

As a federal employee, we had yearly training on federal records laws, etc. Everything these asshats do is illegal.