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Pragmatic. Charming (mostly). Mother. Fighter against injustice. NFL fan - Chiefs have been my team since before TSwift was born.❤️ Looking for hope instead of hate. Love gardening/landscape design & totally here for pet content. 🐱🐶🪴🌱

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 4d

Friends, I was at the grocery store today when a lovely older man approached me with a bunch of carnations in his basket & handed me one. I smiled & thanked him. He said, don’t you want to know why? I said, yes please. It was his wife’s birthday. She had been gone “a while.” We proceeded to chat. 1/

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 4h

Hm. My initial thought is rat fleeing the ship.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 6h

He did. And it was bipartisan. Only 7 no votes in House and passed Senate with voice vote.

Shameful.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 19h

I think that is the goal, and then like all the other firings, they will ask them to come back.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 21h

Stephen Miller a/k/a a douchier Nazi-er Headly Lamar.

two men in suits are standing next to each other in a room and talking .

ALT: two men in suits are standing next to each other in a room and talking .

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 22h

NGL. I wouldn’t mind them not being paid, but with Trump’s Oval comments today, he made it clear that they will pay them, just maybe not anyone else.

Also, most of those “agents” would probably do it for free because they enjoy the depravity of it & they think it’s still owning the libs.

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 23h

Additionally, furloughed workers are required to request permission to get another job in the interim. It has to be approved by ethics officials, most of which are furloughed. Even if someone else can approve, that takes time. Unemployment benefits vary by state. That takes time. Bills don’t stop.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

I addressed this earlier.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

Which is, of course, the point.

Pain. Stress. More will quit. It’s not worth it if your employer consistently ducks its obligations & scapegoats you.

Those that stay will also be under tremendous pressure.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of feds live paycheck to paycheck. They’re not getting a full check on Friday as it is.

So even tho the law exists, if the WH decides not to cut checks once the govt reopens, they will have to sue & that will take a long time to resolve. There will be serious financial impacts on them.

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

OPM can declare an individual who participates in a strike against the US unsuitable for federal employment, forever.

So if they try, they get hit with a felony & lose the opportunity to ever work for the government again.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

They can’t. 5 USC§7311, feds cannot participate in a strike, assert the right, or even belong to a union that asserts the right to strike. 18 USC§1918 makes it a felony to strike against the US or belong to a union that asserts the right to strike against the US.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

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When asked directly about it today, he basically confirms but also says that “they I’ll take care of their own people.”

In his demented mind, not all federal workers are working for America, much like not all Americans are real Americans. #invoke25

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Is it the White House's position that furloughed workers should get backpay?

TRUMP: I would say it depends on who we're talking about

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

I live in SFL. I have a few friends that did work at the Doral property. He broke the contracts & stiffed them. They sued, but as small companies/independents couldn’t afford drawn out litigation. One settled for pennies on the dollar & closed the business, then declared bankruptcy. It destroyed him

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

The lack of self awareness is utterly astounding.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

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This needs to be amplified. They are planning to not pay furloughed workers.

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

Govexec Article with no wall.

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently not.

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

Ya know, I liked until that. No reason to bring her into it..

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

Plus they still had a timeout that they didn’t use. WTF?

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

25 on Jax is quick getting downfield too!

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

This. I think they show him things THEY want him to see because they have a decent idea of how he will react, then capitalize on it for themselves & their ambitions.

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

The best message in that movie is that the woman went around sounding alarms about what was going to happen. None of them listened to her & she was the only one that lived.

It’s the prelude to “dinosaurs eat man, women inherit the earth.”

And in 2025 the GOP would like to time warp to 1950.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

While thousands of federal workers are furloughed & may miss their next paychecks, Senate Repubs were off golfing & playing pickleball this weekend at a luxury retreat on Georgia's Sea Island.

This after a 2 week recess & refusing to reopen the gov't.

Golfing with their donors more important.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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