Andrew Feffer

Dear civil servant A guide to the new executive actions on the federal workforce and what you can do now

And here is some advice for civil servants from @protectdemocracy.org

open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

In a day of terrible news thing that scares me most--because even now I think it might have gone another way--was Stewart Rhodes of the Oathkeepers, just released from his 18-yr J6 sentence, on platform behind Trump at his Vegas rally. Not "just" commutation; full promotion of paramilitary force.

Budget 2025 : Marine Tondelier dénonce les coupes sur l’écologie et promet de voter la censure du gouvernement Bayrou La cheffe des écologistes a dénoncé le manque d’investissements dans l’écologie figurant dans le projet de budget de l’État pour 2025, qui doit être adopté jeudi au Sénat.

« Les sommes qu’on n’investit pas dans l’environnement, il est démontré par les économistes que ça nous coûtera au moins 5 fois plus cher. »

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

25 wealthiest Americans “saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes… it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%.”

The median family paid a far, far higher rate on their incomes.

US’s inequalities in stark detail:

How about internalized oppression?

Look at this joyful walk off content 🥰🥰

“Organizing for labor protections and academic freedom is crucial to combat higher education’s creeping authoritarianism.” Indeed.

Social issues drove some Teamsters to ‘take that risk’ and vote for anti-union candidate Trump Republicans elevated culture-war issues alongside economic ones to siphon working-class support from Democrats in a way longtime Teamsters said was unprecedented.

If you’re willing to fuck your union and your own paycheck over trans people being able to use the bathroom I don’t really know what to say www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

The Trump-Trumpist Divide The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced.

Trump and his entourage want fo claim a mandate for the most extreme elements of their agenda. But a lot of people who voted for Trump were delusional about what that agenda actually is, and voted for him believing he wouldn’t do those things. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’ Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’

New from me: in his 2020 book American Crusade, Trump’s Pentagon pick wrote that if Democrats won that year there would be a “national divorce” in which “The military and police … will be forced to make a choice” and “Yes, there will be some form of civil war” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

No justice in Trump’s America. Probably no peace either.

I straight up think it is dishonest to make this claim without noting that a) the mobilization against the Muslim ban involved a thousands of actual people flooding airports and b) coincided with a massive mobilization of people on the ground in Washington D.C.

One Man’s Foray Into the Heartland of the Far Right (Gift Article) Alarmed by the country’s political divisions, Jeff Sharlet embarked on an anguished quest to understand the rise of antidemocratic extremism. In “The Undertow,” he documents his findings.

I’m firming up speaking dates this winter & spring for The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Came out in ‘23 & I’m onto the next book, but it’s, um, relevant. So far, Penn State, College of Charleston, & NYU. If you’re interested in adding to that, let me know. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/b...

Trump cabinet picks Rubio and Stefanik once confirmed Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump So much for the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

NEW: Trump has tapped for his cabinet, two GOP legislators—Rubio & Stefanik—who have each confirmed that Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump. In 2020, Rubio even produced a 966-page report detailing this. So there's no hoax, and they know Trump's lying.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Huh!? “Great deradicalization machine?” Tell that to Czar Nicholas II.

yes and there’s congress and the courts and even if they’re compliant this things can still be time consuming and hard to pull off. And it’s the work of an opposition to make it as hard and time consuming as possible. And make the consequences visible, not stick to this knowing cynicism.

Aujourd'hui s'ouvre le procès de Squarcini, qui m'a espionné.
Mais c'est surtout celui de Bernard Arnault.
Qui a utilisé la police de la République et ses services de renseignement pour ses intérêts privés. Pour les intérêts de LVMH.
Et qui a acheté la justice pour étouffer ses méfaits.