Sign in

I hide lychees

@heidileech.bsky.social
1.8K followers 774 following 315 posts

Gen X. Anti-drama. Still a U.S. federal worker but enduring mistreatment by the regime. Pro-union!

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by I hide lychees
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026
"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
buff.ly
“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
8897240
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm so glad @matthenry.fyi put out an open letter about saving USWDS. Thank you! And that @fedscoop.bsky.social picked it up! Please add your name to the letter (link in the article) if you want to save USWDS from AI takeover ✊🏻 fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...
fedscoop.com
Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA
The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.
201
Reposted by I hide lychees
WTF Just Happened Today? by Matt Kiser @wtfjht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💡 Do something: A normal person's guide to civic action. whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/do-something/
whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
Do Something: A Normal Person’s Guide to Civic Action
A practical guide to having your voice heard, engaging your community, and driving change through civic action.
011
Reposted by I hide lychees
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t want to laugh at Elon Musk. I want to see him spend the rest of his life in jail for the unprecedented crime against the Constitution & the rule of law that was DOGE.
930555
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alert the regime! 💡 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...
mcsweeneys.net
We Must Create the Shit Machine
“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A...
001
Reposted by I hide lychees
Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/
share.google
Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
10516061066
Reposted by I hide lychees
Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump apparently hasn't heard about the economic golden age he proclaimed. He says that we can't give pay raises to federal employees because of economic conditions federalnewsnetwork.com/pay-benefits...
federalnewsnetwork.com
Trump officially plans for civilian federal pay freeze in 2027 | Federal News Network
The alternative pay plan that the White House issued this week carves out exceptions to give larger raises to federal law enforcement and military personnel.
47834
Reposted by I hide lychees
PacifistCell @peacefulbrevard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Did you forget about 5 Calls? Yes, they have a new midterm-specific program. Find out more and sign up here for 5 minutes a week to save democracy: 5calls.org/midterms/
5calls.org
5 Minute Midterms ⭑ 5 Calls
Five minutes a week. Protect your vote.
03223
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a tech civil servant I'm a fan and user of USWDS, and am furious about this. I'm glad it's been backed up. We'll have a lot of rebuilding to do, hopefully sooner than later. P.S. At the office I sit near the DOGE person responsible for this travesty.
030
Reposted by I hide lychees
Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.
7325140
Reposted by I hide lychees
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Her family also raised a shit ton of money to create America First Legal to sue others. Her husband has helped weaponize the DOJ to sue others. Using the legal system to intimidate and threaten people or force them to adopt MAGA views is a core tactic of these people.
8481120
Reposted by I hide lychees
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
20178341894
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Can identify with this 😅 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...
mcsweeneys.net
Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...
000
Reposted by I hide lychees
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.
373421408
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I like @markhamillofficial.bsky.social too, @timothysnyder.bsky.social! Thanks to your "Thinking about …" newsletter I've donated to help99.co (NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade) and plan to stay involved. snyder.substack.com/p/why-i-like...
snyder.substack.com
Why I Like Mark Hamill
He’s there for you in the bomb shelter
010
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My new-to-me (but old) office building. Can confirm. www.wired.com/story/mice-a...
wired.com
Mice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart
“Do we need to look at the ceiling before going to the bathroom? Can we actually trust the water is safe to drink?” asks one GSA worker.
010
Reposted by I hide lychees
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Texas GOP has a plan for victory in the midterm elections: it will decide who can vote and who can't. It's pretty simple. bsky.app/profile/proj...
26246
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Boycott Starbucks. The workers deserve a union! ✊🏻
030
Reposted by I hide lychees
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are a lot of evil shits in this administration, but this gormless ghoul is right up there at the top. I hope @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have a Project 2025-sized playbook of investigations and inquiries into what he's been up to, because I bet we only know a fraction of his fuckery
15335051091
Reposted by I hide lychees
Eli Savit @esavit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Supreme Court just allowed the Trump Administration to move forward with plans to restrict mail-in voting. Fights remain. Democratic AGs will continue leading them. But make a backup plan to vote now. And in November, remember who’s trying to take so much away from you.
611236
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Brilliant
000
Reposted by I hide lychees
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The center's Trump-aligned staff left up a massive tarp that prevents the public from seeing the sign without Trump's name." can you believe this tarp has been up for two months- TWO MONTHS- to protect trump's ego from seeing the space where his name was torn off the building. good grief.
1212947
Reposted by I hide lychees
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2026
Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.
AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule
3023031315
Reposted by I hide lychees
ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/08/2026
The complaints cite a ProPublica report detailing how CBS and Paramount have for years given FCC commissioners luxury gala tickets, which the commissioners accepted even as the FCC was reviewing or about to review major Paramount business decisions.
propublica.org
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about…
541844779
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Agree 💯
000
Reposted by I hide lychees
CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Things are about to get weird here. Better double check.
26321
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is enraging
000
Reposted by I hide lychees
City of Spokane @spokanecity.org · 02/08/2026
As the Spokane community continues to face the devastating impacts of local wildfires, you can help your neighbors. We will continue to update this thread with more opportunities to help!
1147106
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I hope it works. Settlers out.
001
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Please ask Blanche these questions! justiceconnection.substack.com/p/questions-...
justiceconnection.substack.com
Questions for the Record: Nomination of Todd Blanche to be U.S. Attorney General
Based on input from subject matter experts in Justice Connection’s DOJ alumni network, we prepared questions for the record that Blanche should answer before Senators vote on his nomination.
020
Reposted by I hide lychees
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
240693923
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Same
010
Reposted by I hide lychees
Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 14/07/2026
I'd feel far safer in a community of immigrants than I would in a community of ICE agents
829826
Reposted by I hide lychees
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE killed another person.
11335141742
Reposted by I hide lychees
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE killed another person in a vehicle, this time in Maine. Again, federal agents were not wearing body cameras. Expect the same routine: agents claim they feared for lives, the claims will be unsupported, and no accountability. Expect it to keep happening. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/13/p...
bangordailynews.com
ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says
It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.
21668282
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Where should the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room go next? trumpepsteinreadingroom.com/vote
link.primary-facts.org
The Trump & Epstein Memorial Reading Room | Read the Files
A free, traveling public reading room with all 3,437 bound volumes of the released Epstein files — read them page by page. Help bring the Reading Room to your city.
020
Reposted by I hide lychees
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/07/2026
Trump’s name was removed from the centre's facade and signage last month, after a judge ordered its removal.
aljazeera.com
US court rules that Trump's name must stay off Kennedy Center during appeal
Trump's name was removed from the centre's facade and signage last month, after a judge ordered its removal.
420742
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Enjoying the nerdy history-focused and countrywide C-SPAN America 250 coverage today. A small balm against the Freedom 250 and current administration horrors. Let (actual) freedom (and democracy) ring! www.youtube.com/live/qezqtaG...
youtube.com
America 250: United States Semiquincentennial
YouTube video by C-SPAN
010
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ALERT: Oppose House Amendment to Defund the Peace Corps! Thank you! www.congressweb.com/NPCA/121?fra...
congressweb.com
ALERT: Oppose House Amendment to Defund the Peace Corps!
The House of Representatives has before it the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations bill (H.R. 8595) that funds the State Department and other international program spending, including funding for the Peac...
001
Reposted by I hide lychees
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
1745211475
Reposted by I hide lychees
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Frost: It’s too dangerous for you to visit Haiti for a day. Yet, they want to expel 350,000 people from this country. It is deeply racist, and part of this bigger project that Trump has of essentially expelling Black and brown people from this nation. And this is part of that.
10650301480
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We won't forget
000
Reposted by I hide lychees
The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/06/2026
“Things are so bad that Republicans will never win an election again if they can’t figure out how to prevent millions and millions of Americans from voting.” trib.al/o7w96Pu
trib.al
Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms So Vile It Jolts GOP
As Trump’s demands for voter suppression get so absurd that even Republicans balk, the author of a piece on his narcissism explains how he’s royally screwing them in the midterms—and himself, to boot.
13259131
Reposted by I hide lychees
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
ICYMI, the US Postal Service proposed a rule allowing it to refuse mail ballots in states that don’t provide voter rolls to the federal government. This could impact millions of Democratic voters and could disrupt the 2026 general election. You have less than a week to comment via mail or email.
federalregister.gov
Ballot Mail for Federal Elections
The Postal Service is proposing to amend the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), regarding the transmission of mail-in or absentee ballots for federal el...
7221168
Reposted by I hide lychees
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands
3438831495
I hide lychees @heidileech.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
WTF?
000
Reposted by I hide lychees
Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 17/06/2026
There is a huge election going on in DC today. The mayor and council races will determine how DC responds to Trump in the future. It will affect the public schools, policing, city agencies... If you're in #DC and haven't voted—still time to get in line! And outcome may not be known tonight:
51st.news
Why D.C. probably won't know who won on election night
With the introduction of ranked-choice voting, officials say the results could take days.
2237
Reposted by I hide lychees
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
1440382467417
Reposted by I hide lychees
End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In November, voters should hold Gabe Evans accountable for corruptly putting his big money donors ahead of his constituents. It’s time to reform this broken system and flip #CO08 blue.
223872