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Big USDA’s bratty little unsanctioned sibling 🌱🐮 Real gov. Real talk. Do Right and Feed Everyone. Cut the moo shit. Roll 1D20 to increase levity. Says No to $$. #climatesmart #nutrition #urbanag #conservation #diversity #bullsonparade #renegade 🚜💨🥦🥕⚗️🏡🌎🌈🐮✊

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · Feb 14

New USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins received by USDA today.

Her: “…a privilege beyond description to have the trust of President Donald J. Trump, and the opportunity to advance his agenda.”

Me:

FX show Archer, meme portrait of Cheryl Tunt exclaiming, “you’re not my supervisor!”

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 19h

Who is on Skylight?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

With Larry Ellison in control of TikTok, we now have right-wingers or looney far-right wingers in control of most of the major social media platforms.

Right-Wing Moguls Dominate Social Media. One Legal Fix Can Help Stem the Tide.

Revising Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act would make outlets more accountable for the content they platform.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 19h

Wait til they find out the Chinese actually discovered the Americas scores to centuries before this colonizer did. Fuck Columbus and his diseases. Fuck Trump and his… ____. #indigenouspeoplesday #oct13

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans. n.pr/4h2pwRc

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

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Spuds 🥔 @spuds4.bsky.social · 1d

"Boycott Amazon!" I know, I know, but hear me out...

An Amazon cart containing a pink inflatable frog costume and rolling paper cones

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Ambassador Luis G. Moreno (ret) @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social · 23h

For pipsqueak Mike Johnson to basically say that protesting this administration is the equivalent of being a terrorist is obscene and terrifying. And for those of us (myself and many friends and colleagues) who personally experienced real terrorism-highly insulting.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

Exactly.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

THIS!! 👇👇

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

✊

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Sen. Adam Schiff: I can tell you this: Those of us on the president's enemies list — and it is a long and growing list — will not be intimidated. We will not be deterred, we will do our jobs, we will stand up to this president."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Alternative View, Pacific Northwest @alt-pnw.bsky.social · 1d

A little something for your morning:

Dizzygirl @dizzygirl.bsky.social · 4d

Glare from the window. 👎

This is a Question Mark butterfly.

Called that bc there is a question mark like marking on the underside of the wing.

There's a very similar Comma butterfly and you guessed it.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

Epicccccc 🤣🤩

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 23h

There is no leader of Antifa.
There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa.

They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

📢 Wide and far

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1d

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1d

Look at these fucking numbers.

#RIF #VoughtDidThis #PresidentMiller

315 Dept of Commerce
466 DoE
187 Dept. of Energy. You know, the agency that has the NUKES.
Between 1100 and 1200 at Dept HHS
442 at HUD
176 DHS which... they have to be UNDESIRABLES
1446 and Dept. of Treasury

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

Context on the ribbit ribbit 🐸

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · 1d

People. CDC is Literally being decimated right now. Our hearts are breaking for our colleagues at @altcdc.altgov.info.

You can check out their page to see the growing list of departments affected. They don’t deserve this and America doesn’t deserve this.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

USDA Certified Soylent Green. Get it today at your farmers market. Good for canning and long term storage situations. 🙃

Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 1d

Soylent Green
Carb count Soylent Green
Soylent Green wine pairings
Is Soylent Green gluten free
Soylent Green vegan recipes

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

How are they notifying furloughed employees who do not have access to email? Anyone in this situation yet?

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Reduction in force (RIF, I.e. firing) email and page 1 of the RIF memo.

CDC, this is absolutely illegal and our union (AFGE) will be suing.

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The union is asking that you send your RIF notice to: [email protected] with

Name
CIO/division/branch
FTE status & tenure

Dear [name redacted],

I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action. Please find attached a notice memorandum explaining the RIF and next steps. This RIF action does not reflect directly on your service, performance, or conduct. It is being taken solely for the reasons stated in the memorandum.

After you receive this notice, you will be placed on administrative leave and will no longer have building access beginning Friday, October 10, unless directed otherwise by your leadership. Additionally, please save this email and its attachments, or forward them to a personal email address, for your records.

Leadership at HHS appreciates your service.

Sincerely,
Tom Nagy

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is executing this Reduction in Force (RIF) to maximize efficiency and funding priorities. This memorandum constitutes a specific notice of a RIF.

I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a RIF action. This RIF is necessary to reshape the workforce of HHS.

This is your specific notice of the RIF. In accordance with the RIF procedures specified in Chapter 35 of Title 5 of the United States Code and Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 351, and HHS policy, you are being released from your competitive level based on your retention standing. Consequently, you will be separated from the Federal service effective December 8, 2025. In the event you are qualified and have assignment rights to a position that becomes available during the notice period, you will be informed via a specific, subsequent notice. Should the circumstances of the RIF notice change, this notice will be updated.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 1d

Register now for a fast-paced global talk series which will explore the #FutureOfFood & agriculture through the lens of @fao.org’s #4Betters.

Hosted by Dan Saladino and Yasmin Khan.

📲 faoeventregistration.powerappsportals.com/en-US/Meetin...

#WorldFoodDay #FAO80

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

Trying to not breathe toxic positivity but just hang in there, as we have been doing, this is another attack we will need to deflect through the courts…

Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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leeks @anonleeks.bsky.social · 23h

#SpookySeason🎃

we should just quietly *ribbit* non-stop at the baddies outside their hotel rooms and facilities just like the Tell-Tale Heart

a cartoon frog is wrapped in a mummy costume

Alt: a cartoon frog is wrapped in a mummy costume

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

October 11 is the "International Day of the Girl" on the United Nations calendar. These photos pay tribute to the spirit of girls in a world where they face many obstacles. n.pr/470GXx1

Photos celebrate the glory of girls on 'International Day of the Girl'

October 11 is the "International Day of the Girl" on the United Nations calendar. These photos pay tribute to the spirit of girls in a world where they face many obstacles.

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

All the teas!!

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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 20h

We stand strong y’all 🦾

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

First, you can’t fire altCDC and our #altgovs so we gonna be here. Pissing you all off by sharing the tea, giving real info and supporting our government employees.

The government is only as strong as its employees.
And you’ve pissed off a lot of super smart and super skilled employees.

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