Cephalobloop Jones

Fuck that, fed unions are already hamstrung by the provision against striking. I hate getting Voughted all over like this for the whole fedgov

Holy shit.

A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.

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This is behind a paywall but I will explain more in the following thread.

There’s a public comment period but I think our time is probably better spent contacting our representatives and senators in Congress. I have zero faith in public comments as they seem to be completely disregarded.

DAV statement on VA Interim Final Rule concerning disability ratings and medication

"The new regulation would allow VA to reduce disability compensation ratings for veterans who take medications to control their conditions or reduce their symptoms."

WHAT THE FUCK?? So if you don't have symptoms because you're on meds then you don't have that condition anymore??

Avoid roads and waterfronts

As soon as one of the lovely good altgov accounts has a write-up out, this needs to go loud with veterans groups to get loud at Congress

They are coming for the disabled veterans.
This new rule says the VA will now set disability ratings by your level of disability with medication. Not what you would be without meds. Comment period runs thru April 20. COMMENT.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

So much of this^

Sent from a coastal state which still doesn't have an income tax.

Completely not the point, but I think most municipal water treatment with chlorine should actually oxidize away the CN-... (Not a chemist, not a water treatment except, do not take as advice)

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

We eradicated one of the four main strains of the flu during the COVID containment efforts... Hitting a similar virus with similar vaccines would be huge.

I hope a certain Danish interlocking brick manufacturer sues the DoD.

Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating

Carbon Dating

xkcd.com/3205/

Placard for a grocery store that sells uncooked chicken pieces and offers to cook them for free for folks who have an EBT/SNAP card.

Not directly related to this at all, but very sad-to-see-it-needed and very happy-to-see-it-happen with these bureaucracy hacks with EBT restrictions.

Want a thread that analyzes Bad Bunny's halftime show?

This is it ⬇️

Throwing no shade at all for you or these roles, but still very sad for civic tech to be so location based 💖

Engaging with this because it's awesome. Truly wish there were remote opportunities though... They help not just people in the city, but also us disabled folks too.

Former OPM here. The traitortots came in hard and pushed out all the competent leadership.

It's amazing to me that the folks who still work there are accomplishing any of the mission work with how hellish the gutting was.

RV caused at least a generation's worth of backslide there.

There's no way that idiot and the fools who work for him could build a rocket with that much ∆v. (Shhh, don't spoil the challenge baiting)

Broken clocks are still technically correct twice a day...

I'm pretty sure this opens up a ton of things to legal discovery processes... But I'll let the two Clintons with law degrees manage that aspect.

Former OPM here. Two things;
1) read the OP thread.
2) the competent leadership at OPM was gutted. The traitortots hit hard and fast at OPM. The feds who are left are trying to superman efforts that were always understaffed and underprioritized in the best cases.

The damage RV caused to gov...🤮

wat

That one time when Department of Justice’s Pam Bondi penned a ransom letter to Minnesota Governor Walz demanding the state turn over their voter registration data and Medicare information while working closely with creepy AI vendor Palantir on a nationwide database.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

“My father warned us, ‘When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.’”

Said "shows the execution of a non-violent protester" incorrectly. Please revise.

TW ⚠️

The stabilized version is brutal.