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Paul Pennell

@popennell.bsky.social

Program Manager, Scrum Lord, IT guy. PMP, CISSP, CSM, SAFe SPC

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Only a month and a half after announcing comedian Amber Ruffin would host the White House Correspondents Association dinner, WHCA has acquiesced to White House demands to end criticism of the President at the event.

Thus ends 41 years of tradition and precedence.

thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

29.03.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

27.03.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 64911    πŸ” 20580    πŸ’¬ 1645    πŸ“Œ 976
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

15.02.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 50735    πŸ” 16508    πŸ’¬ 519    πŸ“Œ 1160

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

15.02.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 98459    πŸ” 26233    πŸ’¬ 2576    πŸ“Œ 950

Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough

08.02.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 12642    πŸ” 1289    πŸ’¬ 277    πŸ“Œ 73
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Trump administration moves to make tech officials political appointees amid DOGE clashes The change could smooth Elon Musk’s efforts to access the technology systems of various federal agenciesΒ through his Department of Government Efficiency. One former personnel management official calle...

New: Trump’s White House is ending the decades-long practice of ensuring federal CIOs are career employees. OPM is reclassifying the job so they can be replaced with loyalists, per agency memo published today. Total authority over agencies’ IT infrastructure, email, etc.

05.02.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 512    πŸ” 278    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 30
Think Tank Called β€˜The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

Think Tank Called β€˜The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

Think Tank Called β€˜The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
theonion.com/think-t...

03.02.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 17694    πŸ” 3521    πŸ’¬ 187    πŸ“Œ 144
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Members of Congress going into the US Agency for International Development!

03.02.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 20097    πŸ” 4508    πŸ’¬ 574    πŸ“Œ 425
list of banned keywords

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

04.02.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 27918    πŸ” 15810    πŸ’¬ 1279    πŸ“Œ 3687
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Trump’s rapid-fire moves have ranged from banning birthright citizenship to firing 18 inspectors general to freezing trillions of dollars in federal spending and dismissing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

#ResistTrump

02.02.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 241    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 3
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An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging:
1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal.
2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

03.02.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7847    πŸ” 2670    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 310
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Adopting rightwing policies β€˜does not help centre-left win votes’ Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre

β€œWe’re now in a different era. The data strongly suggests centre-left parties can build a coalition of voters who believe a strong welfare state, effective public services and real investment, for example in the green transition, are essential"

Centrists leaping rightwards lose in every way:

28.01.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 414    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 19
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Shut down the Senate: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

29.01.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4688    πŸ” 1728    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 205

Do not text them from your work cell phones either.

28.01.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 322    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

We're all of the opinion that this guy has been reading from the teleprompter all along?

22.01.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In case you missed it: 2024 was the world's warmest year since @noaa.gov records began in 1850.

Global surface temperature was 2.32Β°F (1.29Β°C) above the 20th-century average. The 10 warmest years since 1850 have all occurred in the past decade.

21.01.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 767    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 41

BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE... Hurrdurr

22.01.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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