@haasome.bsky.social
@velazquez.house.gov will you be holding a town hall any time soon? Constituent from 11106 here!
February 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
@velazquez.house.gov will you be holding a town hall any time soon? Constituent from 11106 here!
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Personal Discretion Over the Treasury’s Payments System Means the End of Democracy. “Don’t like “woke” research? Turn it off. Hate USAID? Cut off the money. Think payments to Lutheran Family Services are illegal? Shut them down.” (via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) [liberalcurrents.com]
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury’s Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury’s Payments System Means the End of Democracy. “Don’t like “woke” research? Turn it off. Hate USAID? Cut off the money. Think payments to Lutheran Family Services are illegal? Shut them down.” (via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) [liberalcurrents.com]
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I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame. “Those outside the federal government might not understand the gravity of this situation.” And: “Now is the moment to act.” [slate.com]
I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame.
Things are bleak.
slate.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I’m a Federal Worker. Elon Musk’s Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame. “Those outside the federal government might not understand the gravity of this situation.” And: “Now is the moment to act.” [slate.com]
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FAIR calls out some of the shoddy coverage on the 2025 Coup by the NY Times & Wash. Post. They “largely buried these stories, downplaying their earth-shattering break from democratic norms”. (Wired & Rolling Stone have been courageous in their coverage.) (via @harrisj.bsky.social) [fair.org]
February 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
FAIR calls out some of the shoddy coverage on the 2025 Coup by the NY Times & Wash. Post. They “largely buried these stories, downplaying their earth-shattering break from democratic norms”. (Wired & Rolling Stone have been courageous in their coverage.) (via @harrisj.bsky.social) [fair.org]
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Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
January 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
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I’m working on a list of Dem parties at the local level and let me tell you - if you’re not in a city in a deep blue state, you and a couple friends can basically run your local county’s Dem party. Tons of positions are vacant or inactive. So much potential for young people to build new leadership
If you’re feeling despair and have never been, go to your local Democratic Party meeting this month. Some even meet virtually. You get to meet candidates and elected officials and vote on who the party supports. And you’ll meet awesome people!
Want a better Democratic Party? Two part solution:
(1) Get better people to run as Democrats or run yourself!
(2) Join the party by showing up at local meetings, learning the rules, and taking it over.
Both are hard, neither are rocket science.
(1) Get better people to run as Democrats or run yourself!
(2) Join the party by showing up at local meetings, learning the rules, and taking it over.
Both are hard, neither are rocket science.
January 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’m working on a list of Dem parties at the local level and let me tell you - if you’re not in a city in a deep blue state, you and a couple friends can basically run your local county’s Dem party. Tons of positions are vacant or inactive. So much potential for young people to build new leadership
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Directive instructs federal agencies to suspend public communications until they can be cleared by a Trump appointee (though Senate hasn't confirmed most appointees yet)
Trump administration just ordered a blackout on public communications by agencies across government, multiple officials tell me.
Here's a memo from HHS I obtained describing the comms blackout.
Here's a memo from HHS I obtained describing the comms blackout.
January 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Directive instructs federal agencies to suspend public communications until they can be cleared by a Trump appointee (though Senate hasn't confirmed most appointees yet)
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Internal memo Homeland Security employees received today instructing them to send evidence of hidden DEI programs to “[email protected]”
January 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Internal memo Homeland Security employees received today instructing them to send evidence of hidden DEI programs to “[email protected]”