UncertaintyLich

We're screwing our beautiful farmers folks, screwing them on a level that's frankly never been seen, and they're coming up to me with tears in their eyes saying something that isn't "sir"

Regular reminder that this entirely comes down to retirements. I think it's good that old people are able to stop working, and that we have payroll-tax-paying-aged people coming here from around the world to keep things going

What an odd scene

DOGE is, in the truest sense, a completely rogue agency. The White House has admitted it doesn't really know what DOGE is doing, it's commandeering critical systems, it's resourced by an independent oligarch, it's tearing chunks out of the government. It's a rogue actor in US government

As an OPM employee, I want my fellow federal workers and the American people to know that these emails may be coming from inside the house—but they are not coming from us. We at OPM are just as frustrated, confused, and traumatized as the rest of America. When I started my job at OPM, I swore an oath to the Constitution, and to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic, making it especially awful that the threat to our government is coming from inside my own office building.

Excellent, chilling piece by a current OPM employee giving an inside view of the reckless (and frequently illegal) Musk/Trump assault against the federal workforce. slate.com/news-and-pol...

As much as this may be angering Trump, we can also console ourselves with how much the recent Trump-Musk compact is doubtlessly angering JD Vance!

I will never yield a nanometer in my open contempt and disgust for the drones and useful idiots who called Musk a free speech hero.

Sincere props to a colleague who very obviously is doing his job well.

I have not become completely numb; I can still be shocked by some depths of depraved sadism inflicted by this collection of despicable thugs, giggling sociopaths, and dead-eyed apparatchiks. May their days be short and frustrated.

CFPB Union NTEU 335 spies dodgy DOGE bros - CFPB Union **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**   Washington, DC, February 7, 2025 — On the evening of February 6, three minions of professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk appeared in the Consum...

So DOGE showed up at the CFPB last night. This truly epic press release identifies the workers by name (and biographical low-points) and goes on to say "we welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators." nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...

As MLK famously said, injustice anywhere isn’t really a big deal to justice everywhere, no matter how much the loudest voices might want to equate the two

Today's annual benchmark revisions to jobs data turned tech job growth from bad to worse—instead of only slow growth from late 2023 through 2024, the industry has actually been losing jobs at a rate not seen since the Great Recession

He resigned because those posts were about to be printed in the wall street journal.

Does RFK Even Lift, Bro? An investigation—and a thought experiment.

great @brianbeutler.bsky.social piece

open w/ trivialities of interest to your audience (me), close with appeals to the bittersweet yearning of our shared humanity. leave the reader confused about how you got from one to the other. that's the good stuff

www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...

I would pay money to be a fly on the Oval Office wall when Trump sees this

How Elon Musk forked up his mass resignation plan Incompetence and desperation are a bad combination.

New — I did a brief history of the ‘Fork in the Road’ email to show how Musk screwed up by treating federal workers like fucking idiots, and how the pressure to resign is about breaking morale more than culling the workforce.

Do Democrats Have a Plan? Senator Brian Schatz on how the Party should be responding to Donald Trump’s breakneck assault on the government.

"No, and I think you can’t be a senator in private. At some point they have to do something." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

F**k Elon Musk

The self-abasing, servile conduct of congressional Republicans, whose own power is under attack, is the element of the current crisis that the founding generation didn’t anticipate.

withholding information like this is beyond irresponsible and borders into the territory of purposeful malice

That would be the logical start.

"Democratic [or republican] strategist" became this catch-all fake title for cable news pundits without real jobs and then journalists started acting as if it was a real job title

This is a very good reminder to keep your cats indoors. (Er, unless you're leashing them or keeping them on a cat patio.) I know that cats are very special little libertarians who demand their freedom to roam, but keeping them indoors keeps them and you safe. Please and thank you.

Illinois should hire them all and establish a robust foreign policy apparatus.

Don’t shop at Whole Foods. I mean mostly because they’re overpriced and pretentious-twee, but also because of this bullshit.

hey @schatz.bsky.social I want you to know I literally laughed out loud and slapped the table when I read this. go off king

Exclusive: Catholic Relief Services lays off staff, cuts programs after USAID shakeup An internal email says CRS is likely to be cut in half this year from Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign assistance. Cuts will "cost people's lives and livelihoods," a former bishops' conference official ...

Trump and the GOP just gutted a major Catholic charity but apparently it’s liberals and Democrats who are anti-Christian and anti-Church

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor There are a lot of them.

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor www.vox.com/politics/398...

I have to say that the fact that the people destroying the country are such fucking morons kind of stings.

Seriously though the Illinois democrats hate republicans. Yesterday our House Speaker, Chris Welch, called the Trump admin fascist and the house passed like four bills condemning the administration, all while the Republicans walked out in protest lol