Em Wasserman

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at HR@opm.gov.

a black and white photo of a waterfall coming down a wall . ALT: a black and white photo of a waterfall coming down a wall .

OPMs email servers trying to hold back all the external troll emails they’re getting in response to DOGE.

Well to the #altgov family @altfema.bsky.social. We desperately need some disaster management right now…

⏳ Time is running out to stop the 🪱

📱 CALL YOUR SENATORS
(202) 224-3121

“Hell NO RFK Jr.

If you vote to confirm him we will primary you.

We will ensure your constituents know just how many kids you helped kill.” ⚰️⚰️⚰️

Thank you!! A federal judge in New York has granted a temporary restraining order in favor of the states suing over DOGE.

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

Staff at CDC are being asked to scrub data on trans and non-binary folks from datasets.

Public health ethics hold us to the highest ethical, professional, and scientific standards. Deleting data about Americans is unethical.

OPM has ZERO authority over CDC practices. Obey the law.

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🚨 Call your senators and tell them NO on RFK Jr! (202) 224-3121
CALL. THEM. ALL.
Flood the switchboard. 🚨

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

This is fucking trash 🗑️🔥
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Facing the Future Together: FAQs, Guidance, and Resources Many in our community are experiencing the heaviness of recent events and a range of emotions including fear, anger, sadness, grief, hopelessness, and…

We know today is a heavy day for many in our community.

Just know, you are not alone. We are not going anywhere. We are in this together. hrc.org/faq

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Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case The report, which said the special counsel’s office stood “fully behind” the merits of the prosecution, amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of the president-elect.

Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case

"But for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,"
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

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GILLIBRAND: "You said in your statement 'you don't want politics in the DoD.' Everything you've said is politics. 'I don't want women, I don't want moms.' What's wrong with a mom, by the way? Once you have babies you're no longer able to be lethal? It's a silly thing to say."

US lawmakers urge Biden to extend TikTok Jan. 19 ban deadline Two Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged Congress and President Joe Biden to extend a Jan. 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to sell the U.S. assets of TikTok or face a U.S. ban.

The government does not get to control how Americans express ourselves based on vague and hypothetical harms.

Congress or the Supreme Court must act before TikTok is effectively banned on January 19.

This must be condemned by everyone.

Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

Cutting social sciences from the curriculum to curb "indoctrination" is dangerous. Social sciences teach us to think critically... far from indoctrination. It examines individuals and systems, how they interrelate, and so much more. Such a sad state of affairs.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

Post: Freddy Mercury died of AIDS 33 years ago today. With modern medical technology, he likely would have lived. Never forget how much progress against major infectious disease has been made in a short time. We are at risk now of rolling back much of that progress.

We’re not going back.

When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless.

But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.

Hi! I’m God.

Stop blaming it on ‘woke.’

Start blaming dark money corporate donor control.

Thank you for coming to my GOD talk.

I’m old enough to remember there was some lady (I think she was like Black and Indian or something) who told us he was gonna do this and it would be bad

Post from Jojo: Holy fuck. Seb Gorka is his pick to be senior director for counterterrorism. Seb fucking Gorka, who was denied security clearance in the last Trump administration… Seb fucking Gorka who has ties to a Nazi-allied organization in Hungary… The. Director. Of. Counterterrorism.

Well this seems bad.

Very 😔

Sign on public storage building with lights burnt out in several letters, leaving “Public rage.”

I don’t think it will all fit in there.

this bill allows the feds to remove the tax-exempt status of any US nonprofit group that it designates a “terrorist supporting organization". I don't trust the incoming regime to interpret this and they'll surely label social justice orgs as "terrorists".

Well fuck

YouTube video by 80's Preservation Society Re Flex The Politics Of Dancing RARE Original Version

Song #3 on my “Getting Through It with the 80s” playlist.

“We got the message
I heard it on the airwaves
The politicians
Are now DJs…”