Listen to Capitol police officer Daniel Hodges. 🥺👇

ATTN: THREAD: The loyalty interviews have begun in DC. As someone who has direct experience with this, I have a couple of recommendations for all federal workers. Please share this widely, and with any federal government employee you know. 1/

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

Remember in 2006 when President Bush aggressively campaigned to Congress to pass legislation to privatize Social Security and give the money to big banks?

Remember that it failed because it didn't have the votes?

Remember how those big banks started to fail a year later?

That

I don't understand people who leave their home in the morning to go get coffee.

How do you manage to get out of bed, get dressed, and make it to the coffee shop without caffeine? 🤔😂

John Cleese for the win

The reality-based community is studying judiciously, as you will, Trump's Cabinet picks without any clue that the names don't even matter, that it's all about the destruction of any concepts of U.S. governance or even basic reality as we've come to know them

What happened to all the "Alt" accounts from the site formerly known as Twitter? We need them again! AltEPA, AltNatParkSer, RogueNASA, AltUSDA, Alt_CDC, AltHHS, AltNOAA, AltNIH...Come back!