Paul McAllister

Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

More Than 5,000 Fired USDA Employees Just Got Their Jobs Back The Merit Systems Protection Board significantly broadened a previous decision to restore six federal workers' jobs after Trump illegally terminated them.

The Agriculture Department is having to rehire more than 5,000 fired employees through at least mid-April: www.huffpost.com/entry/usda-e...

Has your article been pulled from a DOD website or journal because of an executive order about how diversity is bad?

I’d love to host it on my site so that the information is still out there

Email me at angrystaffofficer@gmail.com and we can make it happen

Featured are Melvin Barnes Jr. (Ohio Humanities program officer), Shawn Waldron (Getty Images' Curator of Print Sales and Exhibitions), Daniela Edmeier (Managing Editor of Picturing Black History and author), Nick Breyfogle (Picturing Black History Editor), and Lorna Closeil (author).

Last week, Gramercy Books in Bexley hosted a book talk for Picturing Black History for #BlackHistoryMonth. It was standing room only!

Featured are Melvin Barnes Jr., Shawn Waldron, Daniela Edmeier, Nick Breyfogle, and Lorna Closeil.

#BlackHistory

Damarius Johnson represented the Picturing Black History team at the NAACP Image Awards reception. Our Book, "Picturing Black History" was nominated for an NAACP Award. He is holding a certificate that confirms the nomination.

Our book, Picturing Black History, has been getting a lot attention. We appreciate it!

Damarius Johnson represented the Picturing Black History team at the NAACP Image Awards reception. Our Book, "Picturing Black History" was nominated for an NAACP Award.

#BlackHistory #NAACPAwards

Would it be possible for a future admin (assuming they have the support of the courts) to employ eminent domain on these properties?

Dems could campaign on this for the next decade

one thing I've become very convinced of is the need for the civil service to do waaayyyy more propaganda. like you should know about how NOAA makes the weather app on your phone work. you should know that Uncle Sam runs GPS. you should know how impressive the US census data collection effort is, etc

As my friend @drshepherd2013.bsky.social says, asking why we need a National Weather Service when we have apps and the Weather Channel is like asking why we need potato farmers when we can buy fries at McDonalds.

"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten 'interruption of benefits,' ex-agency head says New changes at the U.S. Social Security Administration may put its ability to deliver monthly benefit checks at risk, former agency head says.

The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

I worked there for a few months in 2024. The writing was on the wall but I hope staff got enough notice to make plans for themselves. People really loved that place. Tis a shame it's gone.

People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

No matter which coins they choose, a "crypto reserve" is literally just handing government money to crypto bros.

Federal Judge Says Trump Exceeded Authority in Firing Head of Watchdog Agency Read more here.

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Trump's firing of Hampton Dellinger, the head of a key federal whistleblower agency, was illegal. The judge has ordered the Trump administration to recognize Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel.

Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says Eric Swalwell says threats to them and their families are stopping GOP officials from criticizing president

Teachers and librarians are still doing their jobs despite the threats against them.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

They could literally get together with Dems and start impeachment proceedings next week.

NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes **for work that’s been done.**

One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

We Are All Less Safe Today, as NOAA Gets Hit With Mass Firings Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing

Spoke to a mil historian yesterday who is being asked to do this *for museum exhibits*

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

It's understandable but still selfish and cowardly. They're the nation's elected representatives. They empowered this man, and Musk by extension. If they want to ensure their safety and those close to then they're going to have to band together and stand up to him.

Over *38* tenure-track postings in History or History-adjacent fields over the course of February 2025:

One of the most frustrating things about media coverage of fragmented politics is the inability of journalists/editors/producers to ever accommodate more than one narrative about a complex result.

And the narrative they always seem to favour, if available, is "why is the radical right growing?"

This sucks so much

Explainer for why we can't just "use the university endowment." Most of it comes with strings from the donors...