Once we are out of this mess I’m hoping I can get a job in the government and I feel there are a lot of people out there who will want to join up as well to help right the ship as they say.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

TO ALL FEDERAL WORKERS: if you were illegally fired today and have information of wrongdoing or abuse of power by the Trump Administration, our whistleblower tip line is open. We want to hear from you. All whistleblowers are federally protected.

Only a government run by billionaires would berate its employees for not wanting to work without pay.

"Ooh, I gotta check the outcome of the Mariners game, I had to go to bed before it ended." "Since when do you care about baseball? And the Mariners??" "I have to know if my podcast boys are going to be happy on Monday!!" #tbtl #alwest

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

we're taking frogs back you motherfuckers don't know how to act

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

people who think this will not have an effect on employer-provided health care rates and premiums are walking into a buzzsaw

Anyway, thank you Portland and thank you Chicago for the creative and brave ways you are meeting this moment and giving us hope.

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Qatar. Fucking Qatar. They will absolutely sell the incredible intel they'll get as a result to Russia, China, and Iran.

Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

All of this is to say that cops already make up reasons to detain and arrest people and people have been bitching about it for years, they're called defense lawyers and get shit on regularly and called names. The system is perfectly set up for an autocrat to fuck anyone they'd like with it.

Okay I have finally watched K-Pop Demon Hunters and BOY is it a master class in giving just enough story to drag you along… until 30 seconds after the credits roll and you're like "WAIT." Impossible to tell if it was on purpose. Rest of the thread is spoilers so move along if you don't want 'em.

Joni Mitchell and I don't think it's close

"in her placenta" Spoken by the *checks notes* HHS Secretary at a table of *checks notes* anti-abortion extremists.

I "like" - that is, I fucking hate it but I appreciate that the media is for once not entirely bullshitting - that nobody is pretending that this isn't naked intimidation and retaliation, even if the media then treats it as an "oh you scamp!" instead of the obscene racist travesty of justice it is.

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Things said to me at work, part 2: "You're scaring the shit out of me." (source: my grandboss, watching me rearrange the atoms in one of his stress balls)

I was playing with my #tbtl Melodica (picking out "What a Fool Believes") when Avi snuck a bit down the stairs, not quite far enough for me to see him, and said, "Blow on, sis." 🤣🤣🤣 Truly I have the world's funniest babies!! #AvisArgot

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes” I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Opposing genocide in Gaza requires no opinion whatsoever on the innate character of the state of Israel or Zionism itself. It is a specific group of war criminals pursuing a criminal policy of collective punishment, not the Pure Spiritual Expression of the Israeli Will.

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”: A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

It's a good thing for Russell Vought that literally the only record of the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 was in that FAQ he deleted. <holds hand to ear> Wait, this just in: www.congress.gov/bill/116th-c...

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

“We’ll tell our grandkids that we defeated fascism with six-dollar clickers”: how a group of community activists is tracking ICE’s movements in Los Angeles.

Things said to me at work: "I don't want you at the meeting because I don't want you to have an aneurysm, but I do want you at the meeting because I want to watch you flip a table."

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

the belief that a parent's religion exempts a child from human rights protections is the single toxic root of all conservatism. regardless of if you're LGBT or not, ending the idea that parents have the right to indoctrinate their children is essential to preserving your human rights

gonna be so cool when we actively have a horrifically bad drug and organized crime problem in five years under a Democrat because Trump has systematically destroyed our capacity to fight things that need fighting in favor of deporting people and wanton pointless cruelty

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

it would not be the worst outcome if all these guys turned away from talking about politics and drive their low-info listeners back from the polls

"At the Pentagon, some military lawyers, including international law experts within DoD’s Office of General Counsel, have raised concerns about the legality of the lethal strikes on suspected drug traffickers.... Multiple current and former JAGs ... told CNN that the strikes do not appear lawful."

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

If I hear 'keep your head down' from one more leader, especially a senior military I will scream in a primal maternal way. Leadership and ethics matter most when they cost. No temptation, no honor.

Leo: I have to pick a topic. Me: I think first you should pick a [cue on obnoxious French accent] 𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓻𝓮. Leo: 𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓻𝓮. 𝓙𝓮 𝓷𝓮 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓼 𝓺𝓾𝓸𝓲. 𝓟𝓪𝓷𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓮. #LeosLanguage

YES YES YES YES YES I have been waiting for an episode about Push for like a decade 🤩 CC @jimhillmedia.bsky.social

Are we totally sure that LOGAN'S RUN had it wrong? Because my 2 AM dispatch from my 40s is that I cleaned my shower too hard today and now I have debilitating wrist pain that won't let me sleep. Maybe I should've been euthanized long ago!!

A judge's home is burning to the ground. In what I am sure is just a coincidence.... that they were recently targeted on x . com by the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

the mere mental image of a sundowning man, with control over a nuclear arsenal, being kept in this AI-generated reverie is immensely disturbing to me on a visceral level

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters