Quote by Walter Shaub:
[T]he cost of this so-called deferred retirement is in the realm of...$6.38 billion.
How do you tell hard working American families that you just paid people who actually wanted to help the government deliver for the American people over $6 billion not to work β and then made those families pay the tab run up by an unelected billionaire?
The cost of the "Fork" is steep. Here's how former director of the U.S. Office of Gov Ethics, Walter Shaub is thinking about the Trump administration's deferred resignation offer. Read his full explanation here: https://buff.ly/3QwNGqP
25.02.2025 21:40 β
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Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views
The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.
The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges. The FBI employees suing to challenge DOGEβs alleged targeting of them should win their First Amendment claims, explain John Langford and Erica Newland.
18.02.2025 17:30 β
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The Coup dβΓtat Has Begun
Friends,
None of Trumpβs actions since January 20th have surprised me. He is the most βhonestβ President weβve had in our lifetime. He has announced over and over what he was going to do should the American people let him back into the White House. He is transparency on steroids.
Read the rest here:
12.02.2025 05:40 β
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βICYMIβ'DOGE' agentsβhandpicked Trump loyalistsβare snooping through sensitive government records with no safeguards. The Privacy Act of 1974 was designed to prevent exactly this kind of abuse.
Weβre taking them to court. Read more π https://protdem.org/4aYTWRp
11.02.2025 01:02 β
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@jameeljaffer.bsky.social says that a βfailure of courageβ from large media organizations is emboldening Trump as he attacks the free press.
www.democracynow.org/2025/2/11/ja...
11.02.2025 18:18 β
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LOOK WHAT CNN IS NOT REPORTING!
Another Trump Fraudster GUILTY!
-BBC
11.02.2025 16:56 β
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11.02.2025 17:26 β
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Need to read his book.
06.02.2025 18:16 β
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@peterbeinart.bsky.social's new book is "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza." He says it is "addressed to my fellow Jews and trying to say that something has gone catastrophically wrong in our community."
www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/pet...
06.02.2025 18:14 β
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Leonard Peltier has been granted clemency!!
21.01.2025 18:27 β
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@chef-bku.bsky.social
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@chef-bku.bsky.social
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Good news.
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