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Inspiring, empowering & supporting federal workers to directly resist and defy dangerous, unlawful and illegal orders. Website: https://federalworkersagainstdoge.com Instagram: @federalworkersagainstdoge TikTok: @fedsagainstdoge Reddit: r/FedsAgainstDOGE

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Federal Workers Against DOGE @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Full 'I Do Solemnly Swear' Audio Series is out NOW as well as an exclusive from @axios.com!

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Federal Workers Against DOGE @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social · 3h

📣 Heads up! 📣

We're joining Maryland Delegate Lesley Lopez at 11 AM (ET) to talk about our Call to Action for federal employees, allies, Congress, and the American public!

Mark your calendars & tune in!

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#NoKings
#CalltoAction
#SupportFederalWorkers

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alt-dea @alt-dea.altgov.info · 4h

Just a reminder for the #NoKings protests.
Kidnapping/abduction laws by state. Be safe.
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State Kidnapping Laws - FindLaw

Kidnapping is one of the more notorious crimes, and unfortunately, abductions and kidnappings remain a serious problem in current times. Please choose a

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 7h

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 1d

He made up baseless concerns to Joni Ernst, promising to “ask the right questions” about how agencies are monitoring their employees, specifically workers who “might be benefitting from the D.C. pay rate” without living in Washington.

I'd love to know what they found!

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 1d

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“That doesn’t mean there’s not amazing career civil servants, many of whom I’ve worked with at OMB. I look forward to [being] confirmed, getting back to work with them, … But I do believe that there are bureaucracies that are weaponized against the American people.”

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 1d

When Vought was pressed on this in his confirmation hearing, he lied and told Senator Kim that he was referring in those comments to “bureaucracies” that he believes have been “weaponized.”

“There are portions of weaponized bureaucracies across the federal government,”

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained the videos and quoted him: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected… We want their funding to be shut down… We want to put them in trauma.”

www.propublica.org/article/vide...

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 1d

In private speeches from 2023–2024, Russell Vought (a lead architect of Project 2025 and now a head of OMB) said a future administration should make career civil servants “miserable” and “put them in trauma.”

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 9d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 9d

"In 1756 the Pennsylvania governor, declaring war against the Lenape, offered '130 Pieces of Eight for the scalp of Every Male Indian Enemy above the Age of Twelve Years' and '50 Pieces of Eight for the Scalp of every Indian Woman." (2/4)

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 9d

Re California, "This campaign of genocide was carried out not by the military or police, but by a willing, participating public."

Whether ICE are seen as legit state agents or groups of unlawful "thugs," the settler state builds upon centuries of violent precedent, and they know it. Why don't you?

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 9d

"Following California statehood..the state's first governor inaugurated an extermination policy that..paid between 25 cents and 5 dollars per scalp. At least 4,500 Indigenous people were murdered between 1848 and 1880...the state issuing close to $1.5 million in payments for their scalps." (3/4)

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 9d

"Unprecedented." "This isn't us."

Please read a book. Try Joanne Barker's 2021 "Red Scare: the State's Indigenous Terrorist," to start. On pages 28-29:

"In 1703..the Massachusetts Bay Colony offered.. between 250 and 300 pounds for Indian scalps." (1/4)

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Robert Raymond @robertr369.bsky.social · 9d

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 8d

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has denied consideration of Laura Loomer's lawsuit over social media censorship:

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jeidswick.bsky.social @jeidswick.bsky.social · 10d

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12d

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.

It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.

Always punching down

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12d

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

Trump and Republicans spread lies and scapegoat immigrants to distract you from how they are picking your pockets.

Do not be fooled.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

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