For all federal employees:

Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs.

If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

More than 1,100 EPA employees warned of immediate termination "It's bad. I've been with the agency for over 33 years and I've never seen anything like this," said Marie Owens-Powell, president of the union that represents more than 8,500 EPA employees.

EPA has 8,500 employees in total. Cutting 1,100 probationary employees would be a massive blow.
If all probationary employees are going to be fired (and given what Musk is saying, this sounds more likely) it will kill federal recruiting
www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-emp...

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

The man who inspired this and cheered it on will never be worthy of the office of the presidency.

projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do. With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.

I pray this helps some of you today. We have a duty to Dr. King whose life was taken because he dared demand that this country face itself, to demonstrate that his work & sacrifice was not in vain. Let’s do it together. Please share. And subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Opinion | Suddenly Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk so much about the economy If Trump doesn’t want to talk about the economy, Democrats can fill the vacuum.

Suddenly, Trump doesn’t want to talk so much about the economy. If Trump doesn’t want to talk about it, Democrats can — and should — fill the vacuum.

Even in Death, Navalny Still Threatens the Putin Regime The opposition leader’s posthumous memoir is a chronicle of a death foretold.

NEW: If people like Alexei Navalny "are willing to risk imprisonment, torture, and death to resist an evil empire, there is no excuse for us to back down from standing up for truth and principle" in the United States.
www.thebulwark.com/p/even-in-de...

THIS is Our INSTRUCTION

This is Beebee from Tallahassee, Florida

"Trump will bring a new era of corruption to government, which will largely go unpunished...The worst stuff may be the legal stuff, or what we come to accept as legal, happening out in the open." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is a good day to thank undocumented immigrants.
🦃 3/4 of them are essential workers vital to keeping our country running.

They make up:
📌 23% of construction workers
📌 40%–55% of agriculture workers
📌 25% of food preparation & serving workers
📌 8% of healthcare workers

I guess since Trump is appointing everyone who worked on Project 2025 he must’ve just heard about it.

RFK Jr’s vaccine views ‘dangerous’, cousin Caroline Kennedy warns Australian audience Outgoing US ambassador to Australia discusses Trump’s pick for health secretary, and concedes climate action under president-elect may not be as ‘fast’ The outgoing US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has labelled her cousin Robert F Kennedy…

RFK Jr’s vaccine views ‘dangerous’, cousin Caroline Kennedy warns Australian audience

With Musk to his left, Trump talks to Yasir Al-Rumanyyan on his right, who runs Saudi Arabia’s $1 trillion Public investment Fund. Man of the people.