I-270, Exit 1

Poor AF1. Trying to show it's usefulness while the gilded Qatari Flying Palace is being retrofitted. Don't be sad AF1, just wait for January 21, 2029 like the rest of us.

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025 We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...

6/6 Federal workers want a CR that protects healthcare for millions of Americans, stops illegal impoundment of Congressionally appropriated funds, protects civil rights that DHS and ICE are destroying, and protects the federal workers from illegal firings. Read more
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5/6 "Sooner or later, Trump could opt to make the shutdown much more painful, especially at agencies that Democrats care about the most, and for federal workers whose jobs they want performed."

MISLEADING: Agencies have been throttled or closed since Jan 20, denying services to all Americans.

4/n "Trump says he’s willing to negotiate on health care but only after the government reopens."

CLUELESS: Trump will not negotiate if he gets his budget or a clean CR. If that happens, millions of Americans will lose healthcare or be faced with unaffordable premiums. Hospitals will close.

3/n "If they [federal workers] knew they would ultimately not be paid for sitting at home, they would be pushing much harder for Democrats to pass a so-called “clean” [CR]"

LIE. Federal workers still have to pay bills while missing paychecks. Fuck the Ed Board for saying what we would/would not do

2/n "A big reason Democrats were inclined to force this shutdown is because of a law passed in 2019, after the last shutdown, that guarantees back pay to furloughed federal workers."

LIE. The shutdown is mainly about healthcare. The MAGA threat to withhold pay was made AFTER the shutdown began.

Washington Post editorial

🧵 1/6 If you needed further convincing that the Washington Post is a MAGA mouthpiece, their ed board is trying to convince Democrats to sacrifice healthcare for millions of Americans by passing MAGA's continuing resolution. I won't post a link and give them hits, but here are responses to excerpts.

#maga are some of the most hate filled, angry, constantly teetering on the edge of violence people I have ever met. Hippies just want to have sex and chill.
#fucktrump #releasethefiles #musicmeme #music #resist #resistance #NoKings #FightFascism #AntiAuthoritarian #FuckICE #FightTheNazis

I followed Montgomery Co. BLM on Twitter in 2020. Their radical posts about protests included: wear a mask, wear sunscreen, bring water. The nerve!

@ianlmorgan.bsky.social made this list of federal worker declarations against administration policies harmful to Americans and people of the world. You can add your name to most of them (or sign anonymously) and stand with us.
#NIH #EPA #NASA #NSF #CDC #FEMA #VA #HUD #DOJ

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CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

No f*cking way. Share @SenatorSchumer Subscribe The GOP is hellbent on taking health care away. Let's break it down:

This is a legitimately amazing video from @schumer.senate.gov

Please watch.

Thank you, Chuck Schumer!

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Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

Under the Government Employment Fair Treatment Act, federal employees are guaranteed back pay at the end of any shutdown. That is the law and cannot be undone at the whim of this Executive Branch.

White House in photo.

Voughter-fraud is trying to scare us. All furloughed feds will receive back pay. It's the law.

Why some federal workers aren't scared by the threat of shutdown layoffs Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

"many of these [university] leaders seem not to be including the risk of losing the trust of members of the communities they are charged to lead."

@jeremymberg.bsky.social on the lack of action by university leadership to Trump's war on academic freedom; a short (3-page) read and well worth it.

OGE Posts Guidance on Accepting Assistance, Outside Work During Shutdown Following is guidance from the Office of Government Ethics on ethical considerations for federal employees who are put in non-pay status during agency

JFC. Teslas can be sold from the White House lawn, and gifts over 400 million dollars are always acceptable from our fre-enemies. But God fucking forbid a furloughed fed receive go fund me assistance

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Urbanophileophobe. Rolls off the tongue.

Someone tell this dumb motherfucker that Chuck Schumer is a Senator and cannot call the House into session.

A real estate mogul, a great deal maker on his own opinion, paid $608M for a cages and bunk beds. The art of the deal?

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show: The NFL ‘Sucks and We’ll Win and God Will Bless Us’ Kristi Noem says ICE will be "all over" Super Bowl 2026 with every intention to "enfore the law."

Bad Bunny shouldn't worry about Kristi Noem. Snoop Dog, Li'l Bow Wow, and Three Dog Night on the other hand...
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The more we nosedive into lunacy, the more historians there are going to be in the future that write very favorably about GWB, "The Last Republican President."

Shutdown will stretch into another week as Senate standoff continues “I’m not optimistic that we have the numbers at this stage of the game,” said a lawmaker involved in talks to reopen government.

The GOP lies when they say the gov't must be open to negotiate a budget. They can do it now. Instead, they are holding healthcare for millions of Americans hostage. The ransom is a blank check for their cult leader.
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OSC tells us how to file a #HatchAct complaint. Nearly all federal sites are in violation. Do not accept this as normal. #FEDSTRONG
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The MAGA House will do anything to prevent the release of the Epstein files and protect their pedophile leader.👇

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The truth is, the government has been shutting down since January. Mass illegal firings, withholding funds, censorship, corruption. Making this fight about medicaid subsidies is fine. But no democrat should be voting to fund a dictatorship.

Call your dems and tell them to hold the line

5calls.org

Note that university professors are a party to the suit. Most of the presidents, chancellors,et al., who should be suing, are more concerned with protecting endowments and their jobs than doing the right thing.