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Would go a bit further and insist on retro-actively removing the masks. Names, faces, where they were deployed, on some kind of accessible public record.

It is vitally important that if this ever happens again, people understand that the masks they put on only temporarily conceal their faces.

a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration

If you're an officer in any way involved in these strikes and you haven't resigned your commission the next Dem Admin must demand it at 1201 on 20 Jan 29

There's no possible excuse at this point given everything that is now public; these people have proven themselves unworthy of the position

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.

See also civil servants (who swear the same oath of office)

This won't happen, but as I've said before the 13s and 14s involved in pulling the levers to make shutdown military pay happen in direct contravention of Art I need to be prosecuted for ADA violations, for the exact same deterrent reason

evergreen

this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”

I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away.

Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.

fuck this shit.

And it's not people like me - a GS-12 SINK with a five-figure savings account - I'm worried about. Think of families raising kids on a GS-9. Those are the people you're asking to sacrifice their financial security and sanity.

At the end of the day, how much pain are you willing to inflict on them?

anyway I encourage any bsky poaster expressing this sentiment to donate 100% of your income to charity for the next 13 months in solidarity

Maybe mutual aid can help your sorry ass out, because it sure as fuck isn't gonna do jack for me in Mike Johnson's district

It'd be nice if there was a natl paper that had a local beat with tons of feds but Bezos's rag is doing Furlough Fun puff piece BS

Anyway air traffic being snarled is a pain and SNAP is a travesty, but also not getting a paycheck for going on 6 weeks kinda sucks too, esp working for 4 of them

Mamdani got a humanities degree.

His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio.

i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.

A very normal, lib neighbor of mine (albeit a philosophy professor) was invoking Locke the other day and arguing the social contract was being broken here in Chicago and that in her view violence was becoming justifiable which was kind of a trippy conversation to have in the laundry room

It's been a decade since I worked in offices serving SNAP applicants, and I vividly recall a similar range; some were in the process of escaping abusers, others recovering from injury/illness that kept them from working the hours they needed to get by, all circumstances they never wanted or imagined

In my professional role, I've interviewed SNAP recipients with advanced degrees and professional licenses. Often an illness or injury, or the need to step away from work to care for an ill or elderly family member, is the catalyst to falling into poverty.

when I worked in community services in the US, I helped fill out SNAP applications for people who'd once had successful careers as lawyers, healthcare professionals, bankers. The jaws of poverty can snap shut on anyone.

they want you eating bulk rice and beans and to say thank you when they spit on you lol

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.

Go look for them now.

if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is

Illegal as shit, ADA violations must be prosecuted at al levels, bunch of GS-14s need to be out of a job, etc etc

But using what sounds like MILCON to pay BAH is a level of insanity even by this thing's standard that might actually wake up the appropriators, it's a whole different subcommittee!!

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

With extra chafing

Fine, do it. It was always imperative that, whatever else happens, Democrats cannot own any of the consequences of the Republican death cult budget bill.

rip the watch officer who had to wake up a passed out pete and then both explain the concept of the South China Sea and naval aviation to him

he treats "I don't know" like a magic spell, as if no one could possibly expect him to *find things out*

In fairness, at least they are crashing while airborne rather than falling off the deck.

This is progress.

Like "mad king stops the grain dole" is truly the stuff of revolutions