Tanya Pluth

She has the patience of God. Meanwhile, I do not…

Oh look, people who passed by going in are now returning from their vacations. Looks like they had a great time! Meanwhile I’m gathering cobwebs waiting for @flypdx to ensure my spouse makes it through security checkpoint

Good thing we got here 500 years early.

Watching a hundred people go by while one still waits, patiently. So stupid! All the renovations and access at security is a brick wall omg. #pdx #flypdx #tsa #accessibility #rantthread

Hey @flypdx.bsky.social disappointing that someone using a wheelchair is left aside at security screening for 20+min waiting for the “assist” screening & others stroll by. New tech and new security checkpoints but the access for people with disabilities is actually WORSE? Yikes, embarrassing. #pdx

it is, again, intensely funny that the entire country threw a massive "fuck that guy's birthday party" party in response to trump's birthday party

DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...

Source, for others like me who dont have a post subscription, This is the actusl policy annoucrment omg www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

In the midst of the hardship, fear, and threats running through the political, social, and economic milieu that is 2025, the spring season brings reminders of vitality and beauty to my days, and I feel grateful. #nature #oregon #photography #spring

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Sleepy young barred owl on the trail today. #bird #owls #Oregon #nature #photography

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

I think I’ll take a look at these each day - and listening to John Lithgow read them too.

snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

“13. PRACTICE CORPOREAL POLITICS

Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside.”

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Spring showers bring…lovely afternoons. #spring #nature #photography #oregon

We have another case here of US Marshals assisting DOGErs in making forcible entry into a govt chartered independent agency to which it has not clear right to enter. The key point here is that there’s no court order for the Marshals to enforce. So here’s my question. Did the Times confirm that …

Doge breaks into US Institute of Peace building after White House guts board Remaining members of board – Pete Hegeth, Marco Rubio and Peter Garvin – fire president of independent non-profit

And - the Institute called the DC police to arrest them for trespassing; and, the DC police and the FBI said no, that’s alright, sorry…

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

Tracking -

Climate justice under attack- the list of organizations targeted made public due to a Citibank filing- deserves a read. This likely just the beginning - if you see an org you believe in and support on this list, reach out to them; donate; organize; connect; stay informed.

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

WTF?!

The FBI is accusing Jimmy Carter’s Habitat for Humanity of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

They are targeting orgs that received a Biden-era climate change grant.

newrepublic.com/post/192660/... newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.

Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

Social media post by Brandon Friedman ( @brandonfried ...) on X, posted 1 hour ago, with the text: 'All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.' The post includes a grid of six headshot photos of individuals who reportedly left NBC, arranged in two rows of three.

Put all the “DEI” folks who got let go onto a new network and I’d watch the shit out of it.

Tip o’ the hat to the judge I the hearing today re: Trump EO banning Trans people from military, banning trans care, and more. 5 billion points to Nudge Reyes. In these times, this kind of direct clarity is 🎉🎉🎉

www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-...

‘Transgender’ and ‘queer’ erased from Stonewall Uprising national monument website | CNN The National Park Service has removed references to transgender and queer people on its web page for the Stonewall National Monument, which marks the site of the New York City inn where LGBTQ rioters ...

I was just saying to a friend how Orwellian headlines are these days - then came across this headline. Incomprehensible.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/u...

YouTube video by Release - Topic Danny's Hope

fellows of the community - I offer this tune, which I find incredibly beautiful:

youtu.be/mq8KPeeEahM?...

It is from a critically important beautiful film- written and directed by Leah Purcell. The first Australian feature film written & directed by an Aboriginal Australian woman.

The Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students The directive, which continues the Trump administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights, could end school-based mental health services and support for homeless students.

So sad, petty and scary -

www.propublica.org/article/depa...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Join Throwaway918284 OPM employee here, we are not the bad guys HR I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm posting this because people need to know what's going on at OPM. I've been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I've never witnessed anything even remotely close to what's happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service, Let me say this in no uncertain terms - OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen,. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest "yes man" you'll ever meet. He never says no. It's clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil

Let me say this in no uncertain terms - OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest "yes man" you'll ever meet. He never says no. It's clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they've sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.

Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various "test" message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road. The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed. Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it's looking pretty grim.

Ho-ly shit. Getting word from trustworthy sources that this plugging in of external servers is also happening at other agencies and is responsible for some of the press releases and deletion of web content.
www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

"I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email

server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road. The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed. Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."

Interesting things happening over at the fednews reddit... why would someone want to bypass the chain of command and communicate directly with civil servants? 🤔

FINALLY we are seeing some pushback from SOMEBODY! Lawyer up, Donnie

Great game! I wish Brady wasn’t on announcer team tho. I avoided watching him for so many years but now I got to hear him? Sigh…