So, are we in the taxation without representation phase yet?

Come read about how I made a terrible decision, activated deeply buried PTSD and started my barely begun healing journey. The world is on fire and I'm a mess open.substack.com/pub/mariallo...

why are we so nostalgic? i have a theory or two: open.substack.com/pub/mariallo...

Ever wonder how essential oils became a toxic scam? I have the post for you. Trigger warning: this post contains a brief mention of infanticide due to the founder of Young Life being a maniac. open.substack.com/pub/mariallo...

Brand new post just dropped! Do you like medical history? Are you watching with morbid curiosity and despair at the general populace? You may like this. open.substack.com/pub/mariallo...

I've taken a hiatus, started a new project. Be gentle please! Any feedback is welcome. Positive or negative 🥲 A Drop in the Bucket open.substack.com/pub/mariallo...

A quarter of a million people marched on Washington in 1963 for equal civil rights. Over a MILLION people marched in Washington alone yesterday. Over 5 MILLION (so far!) peacefully protested yesterday. I'm crying. I'm sorry we have to do this again but I am so proud of everyone who is.

This is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

I'm with all of you in spirit today in protest. With all of my heart and soul. please remember that some of us did not stay at home out of complacency- some have small children, some are disabled, some are ill. But we are still pissed and still fighting.

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

Sen. Strom Thurmond voted against the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, AND supported Jim Crow laws. Thurmond’s record for longest floor speech (in protest of the Civil Rights Act, no less!) was just broken by a Black man, my good friend Cory Booker. That’s America.

Conscience of Congress Removed: Al Green Walked Out: Jasmine Crockett, Maxwell Frost, Maxine Dexter, Andrea Salinas, LaMonica McIver, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, and several others Refused to Attend: AOC, Chris Murphy, Ron Wyden, Patty Murray, Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer History will honor these names 🔝

All of these victories shitler is listing off were achieved by immigrants. America is a country founded by, built by, and created by immigrants. We all agree that fighting racism was a victory- let's do it again.

(1,2) During the last Trump State Of The Union, I spoke the truth when I yelled out "What about victims of gun violence like my daughter." For that, I was removed, arrested, & jailed. This speech is a bottomless pit of undignified nonsense with evil at its core.

#IStandWithZelenskyy 🇺🇦 Pass it on.

I'm a little rusty on my Book of Revelations. Do one of the seals get broken when two of the architects of the apocalypse procreate?

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

I will not send a list of my "accomplishments" to verify whether I am a valuable employee or not. My 7 years of outstanding annual reviews will vouch for that. I will send a list with duties copied and pasted from the annual review template, however.

Things I did at work last week: Mainly tried to reassure the population that we serve (trying to be as anonymous as I can) that I'm not leaving and I am here for them. Worked through my breaks and lunches. Had approx 37 panic attacks. Shove your email up your starfish, you sentinent chicken nug.

There's a lot of people out there feeling immense guilty about cutting MAGA family out of their lives. Do you think the Vikings, the Romans, all of the civilizations before us gave a shit about who they were related to? Or do you think they rolled with their tribes, their crews, the people who

Ah, we're in The Enabling Act part of history now.

I've been looking at jobs since I don't know how far into the cuts I'll get. If anyone knows if a job where I can stay to myself, research my weird eclectic ADHD driven interests and write about them (potentially talk about them), and get paid for it-- let me know.

I made it through the first round of terminations, because I'm not a probationary employee. I don't know what the next round will entail. I've been crying since last night. This is an absolutely terrifying time, full of uncertainty. I cannot put into words more how scared I am.

Shitler thought Great Value Goebbels was referring to golden showers, was disappointed for only a minute until he was told the golden age of America is generally agreed to be the 1950s when women and minorities had no rights, LGBTQ were murdered and disabled people were locked in institutions.

I can't sleep. I'm scared to go to sleep just to wake up to more bad news. Depression and anxiety meds can't touch this pit in my stomach. It's like a hand squeezing my heart at all times. How will we get through this?

Coincidence that the webpage to try to apply for SSDI won't load?

Yesterday, I went to the ER with a medical event that was eventually decided as "we just don't know", but they kept asking what my stress level is. I've literally stressed myself into the hospital. I pledged an oath to the Constitution, to serve and help the public and citizens of the US.

One of the most important websites in America right now.

Sitting in the waiting room waiting for a strep test. The sounds of coughing and chest congestion is another reminder of why people aren't exactly jumping at the chance to gather in large masses right now.

History clearly shows us that tariffs cause and/or worsen economic depressions and increase the likelihood of war.

Dear Canada and Mexico, We’re so, so sorry. — Sane America

People are asking why there are no large protests happening here in America. A couple of reasons why: It's legal to fire you for any reason (if you're an at will employer, which most are). Rent is astronomical. Nobody can afford to risk losing their jobs and possibly find a new place to live.

At what point do we start calling what Elon Musk is doing inside our government a coup

Threatening #tariffs on swasticars- we'll see if titler and shitler will back off or double down.

1929- stock market crash 1930- smoot-hawley #tariff act passed. Dust Bowl begins (caused by drout and overharvesting). Banks begin to fail. 1932- Unemployment is at 23.6% 1939- WW2 begins. We're speed running the worst parts of our history, mashing them together to create a new nightmare.

hey question, is this bad?

I highly recommend signing up to get your 4 free #covid tests sent to your house while you still can. Covid is rampant right now. Every household is eligible for 4 free tests, sent with free shipping. Sign up now: covidtests.gov

Okay. What is an efficient and safe way to store photos now? I would be devastated if I lost decades of family photos and currently everything is backed up on a cloud. On Google. Is there another option besides printing off thousands of photos? I'll do it if I have to.

They want in DFAS now? That's where VA disability payments come from. Stay the fuck out of government payments, you ghouls.

These emails are getting more annoying than an MLM salesperson. "Lower productivity jobs" 💀 I would love to see the thin skinned MAGAs deal with the general public and get verbally abused daily like federal employees do. Please, by all means. Get called names, get threatened, just to be told

I miss the 90s, when you didn't have to hear everyone's asshole opinions. They existed, they've always been there, but I didn't know about Sovereign Steve's economic advice from across the country. Social Media being widely available is the spot on the timeline where humanity was doomed.

ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant? RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ... ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

Ah, yes. The "wellness farms". Call them what they really are- working poor farms, which were notoriously unsafe, abusive, unsanitary, rife with disease, and are a stain on our history. Right up there with mental institutions. Which will also be coming back, I give it a year along with sanitariums.

Wow no way, a shady looking email that reeks of a Nigerian Prince scam wasn't actually secure?

Another #fedemployee tip- make sure you have your outside (non agency) email set on programs in the event you suddenly have no access to your agency email one day and need to reset your password to access your pay stubs and W2s.

A word to #federalemployees-- you can only access eOPF from a government computer. Print off physical copies for your records of your SF-50s, award letters, annual reviews- everything in your employee file! Get copies of them now before the next round of workforce purging attempts!