OMB director and Project 2025 architect Russ Vought announced that he intends to flaunt the 2019 Government Employees Fair Treatment Act, which Donald Trump signed into law, that requires that all Federal employees receive back pay at the end of a shutdown. www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

First, Republicans created a healthcare crisis. Then, they caused a total government shutdown. Now, Speaker Johnson has extended their vacation and canceled this week's votes while Americans are hurting. This isn't leadership—it's cowardice.

Totally normal, not at all dictator thing to do. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

No lie.

The FBI just fired an Agent for being gay. Lavender Scare 2.0 under way… www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

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Did the President just formally declare war on several U.S. cities?

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

OK this is cool. 😎 A geological diversion for your timeline. #science #mapping #history of the #earth.

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

Being a domestic terrorist is a lot less exciting than I would have envisioned. I always thought it would be more living on the run and underground actions, rather than just passively existing a trans person.

“The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder.”

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

Awhile ago I came across a paper that showed a type of trap door caldera roof failure that involved actually uplifting one side of the caldera roof, but for the life of me I can’t find it again. Does anyone have any paper suggestions that discuss this type of caldera failure? ⚒️ 🌋 🧪

How did we even get to this point. And yes, this is an official government website. trumpcard.gov

The Republican war on Science continues: EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say 🧪⚒️ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

A wonderfully written commentary of what’s at stake as Trump and his goons try to strangle any vestige of free or critical expression. I’m not sure if the decision to end the article with a clip of Mon Mothma’s speech was his or his editor’s, but it was inspired. deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

Looks like the Evergreen shooter was on the FBI’s radar back in July, but were unable to identify him. I wonder what impact the political purges and diversion of resources towards rounding up our immigrant neighbors had on that. Thankfully no one other than the shooter died.

The Right: “Charlie Kirk was a tireless worrier for the freedom of speech.” Also the Right: “Anyone who celebrates or makes fun of Charlie Kirk’s death needs to be fired and/or deported!!!” And somehow no cognitive dissonance between those two thoughts.

Imagine loving Trump so much that you’d voluntary turn over your own kid knowing that Trump and Cox have both called for his execution.

Earth science departments are being gutted across the country, which is utterly bizarre given their relevance to our understanding of climate, hazards and disasters, the soils that feed us, the industries that drive our economies, and the importance of ancient life to understanding biodiversity.

NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.” It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.

The Onion again speaking more truth than most media outlets. From the available information it sounds like the Wall Street Journal pushed a made-up narrative to blame trans people for Kirk’s assassination. To the NYT’s credit, they actually followed up with the ATF and exposed the WSJ lie.

I mean if this is a Leftist the disguise is either very good or very consciously ironic or both. "ChatGPT, show me a picture of a guy named Not All Men"

In a normal country we would be talking about the fact Charlie Kirk was a fascist stochastic terrorist engaged in coordinating attacks on educators, children and others opposed to his fascist views. Reminder the media is willingly lying about Kirk and tpusa. Kirks legacy is white power terror.

His work was calling for lynching of trans people. Political violence is wrong no matter what and he constantly called for it.

"Continue his work"? Yeah that guy shouldn't have a future in politics.

This is what SHOULD be dominating the news cycle today- 3 kids shot in Colorado. Another school shooting. Instead champions of gun violence get all the media attention when they’re the ones shot? Nah. Fuck that. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Two students shot at a Denver-area high school, per CNN.

There is way too much concern trolling happening on here. Kirk shouldn’t have been shot and political violence is bad, but people need to quit pretending Kirk wasn’t a deeply evil man who made his bed and was made to lie in it. Meanwhile a school in my kid’s district had a mass shooting today.

Meanwhile in America…

For the love that all is good, please refrain from sharing the video of Kirk getting shot on here. Bluesky defaults to autoplay, and a lot of us do not want to see that. I really wish I’d been given the choice to avoid it.

Fedposting is the mind-killer. Fedposting is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fedposting. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. I will leave that shit in my mind and not go to prison Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This is such a fundamental indictment of modern American politics. She had to leave her home in Texas and travel to Colorado to give birth after a “complicated” pregnancy due to Texas’ extreme anti-abortion laws.

I’m actually deeply surprised by these two groups ideologically consistency here. Usually groups like this look the other way when marginalized people come under attack.

I think she’s broken

You want to see this new geologic map of the contiguous US that the USGS just released.

One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.

The USGS just dropped the most detailed national-scale geologic map of the country to date, and it's got us all 😍 www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...

Understatement of the fucking year right here.

Some of these top CDC officials being pushed out had bullet holes in their office windows

One might even call it National Socialism.

If what happened to those poor kids today wasn’t bed enough, we now have a slough of right wing pundits exploiting their death to motivate people to attack trans people. And not just our rights. Tim Pool’s cohost went as far as to call on Trump to arrest all of us.