Margie Purser

JUST IN: Judge Hollander has issued a *second* letter today warning Social Security acting commissioner Dudek not to shut down all operations over her order barring DOGE's access to sensitive systems. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Historical erasure from the landscape is a critical part of authoritarian rule: the past is always contested. It is about to become even more of a battleground.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

Great to hear it made it to the archive! I downloaded a set as well, while it was still up. Bastards.

If you are asked to take a polygraph at work, consult an attorney first, and find out about your rights.

Custer much, anybody?

Trump Has a 'List' of National Archives Staff to Fire as Revenge for Docs Scandal President Donald Trump, still bitter about the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago, has asked for a "list" of National Archives staffers to fire.

NEW: In recent months, Donald Trump asked advisers for a “list” of staff at the National Archives who he should purge, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.

- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.

The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

ah trump’s merit in action. only certain people can be meritorious

having border patrol raid school busses to terrorize children is far more harmful to your kids than a trans teenager in palo alto playing water polo

Notably, Wall Street is quiet, apparently preferring to keep favor with fascists than to raise the rather important objection that the world's richest person and his friends having early access to, and the ability to manipulate, U.S. economic releases will be catastrophic to our financial markets.

maybe 250 words describing status

250-ish social justice words

smaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender?

And another 150 or so on race

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Okay this is funny. Figured as much.

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

Whoa...

This is fine.

16 Democratic senators recently voted to confirm the Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary who just gave Musk’s team access to a Treasury payment system that disburses trillions and holds mass quantities of personal information. Food for thought. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"finding common ground" with kleptocrats and fascists is like trying to forge a deep emotional bond with a running chainsaw

Absolutely agree: 'Fuck you, make me" = far superior. Buying my t-shirt now.

I can’t say more firmly to you:

If you are facing a threat of being fired or resign, you stay until fired.

If you don’t, you have the worst employment case and will have difficulty finding a lawyer.

The former is wrongful termination the latter is constructive discharge.

Get fired. No shame.

The Public Domain Image Archive The Public Domain Review (a true gem of the web) has launched The Public Domain Image Archive, “a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse”. While Th

The Public Domain Image Archive is a newly launched “curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse”. Careful, you could lose some hours in here… [kottke.org]

Pittsburgh WWII soldier in uniform.

Help me identify this WWII soldier for a story I'm writing. My deadline is Feb. 14. The portrait was made between 1943 & 1945 in Pittsburgh's Hill District. He has a rifle medal on his chest, Service Forces patch & a Corps of Engineers insignia on his hat. Please repost & help me ID him. 🗃️

Inside the curated image collection spanning 2,000 years of visual history – that you can use for free Hand-picked from digitised public collections and ready for reuse, the Public Domain Image Archive is the perfect antidote to AI.

We answered some questions about the Public Domain Image Archive for @itsnicethat.com.web.brid.gy, read the write up here: www.itsnicethat.com/articles/pub...

Calling all LA- based archaeologists 📣

We are looking for folks to help with upcoming recoveries.

Amplify the outrage. They want this moment to pass. We won’t let them. Keep the pressure up, share stories of the harm Trump’s freeze will cause, and make sure their name is always attached to it.

Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship The suit appears to be the first from a faith-based organization challenging the change in court.

Good.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

LOL!

The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.

www.expressnews.com/news/article...