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Now let’s put pressure on Apple!
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Mine too. Very disappointed in her.
February 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Are we really trying? Massive boycotts? General strikes? Large organized protests?

I see what’s recently taken place in South Korea, Serbia, Georgia, and the response to the right wing in Germany and wonder why we are so lackadaisical.
February 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Would love to see a general strike at some point. Could you ever see that happening?
February 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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The Guardian?
February 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I really appreciate your insights in this area and helping us make sense of it all.
February 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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here's the full (and now-deleted) reddit post supposedly written by an OPM employee:
I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen.
January 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM