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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14/02/2025

Trump & Musk are trying to fire 100,000+ civil servants right now - including over 1,000 VA employees. Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more. Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/02/2025

“Despite the demands of Trump, Leavitt, and Big Brother, the AP is not changing their style to suit the whims of a would-be tinpot dictator. And by defying Trump, the AP has created a rallying point for other organizations and individuals to find their spines and defy him as well.”

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The AP provides a model of effective press resistance

Credibility is more important than access.

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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 14/02/2025

This bombshell investigation from yesterday with six bylines is already off the NYT homepage. Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read. 🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

By Annie KarniSharon LaFraniereCarl HulseKate KellyJonathan Swan and Karoun Demirjian
Reporting from Washington

Feb. 13, 2025

Four days after President Trump was sworn in for his second term, his nominee for defense secretary was teetering on the brink of defeat on the Senate floor, and the president was on Air Force One talking about political retribution.

Mr. Trump had gotten word that Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, planned to oppose Pete Hegseth, the former “Fox & Friends” weekend host who was his choice for Pentagon chief, and who faced accusations of excessive drinking and abusing women. If Mr. Tillis could not be brought to heel by that night, there would be enough Republican “no” votes to sink Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation, a humiliating defeat at the dawn of Mr. Trump’s second term.

Turning to a group of North Carolina lawmakers who were flying with him to survey storm damage in their state, Mr. Trump noted Mr. Tillis’s impending defection and posed a question: Which of them wanted his endorsement for a primary challenge to the senator next year?

The implication was clear: Mr. Tillis’s refusal to back Mr. Hegseth could cost him his seat. By that night, Mr. Tillis, who had been toiling behind the scenes for days to kill Mr. Hegseth’s nomination so he could avoid having to publicly cross Mr. Trump, would vote to confirm Mr. Hegseth to control the most powerful military force in the world.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

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Informal Grievance Template for Adverse Personnel Actions

There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

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Live and Learn @liveandlearn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Trump/Musk's firing the CFPB experts that protect consumers from predatory businesses and wild AI is a big win for greedy executives & tech bros and huge loss for the rest of us. We'll easily become unwitting victims of scams, fraud & theft without any oversight, protections, or accountability.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hagan Scotten, who wrote this spectacular resignation letter, was an army ranger for 8 years, top of his law school class (Harvard) & a John Roberts law clerk. Not exactly a candidate for Trump’s liberal deep state.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This entire thing is almost comically corrupt

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Someone else said it, but this should be the biggest scandal in American history-Watergate on steroids and speed. If this is true, the president is tearing through the DoJ to find a lawyer to break the law. No ambiguity about wasteful spending or administrative procedures-just naked lawlessness.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

BREAKING: StatNews reports that more than 5,000 HHS employees across NIH, CDC and other public health and research agencies will be fired this afternoon. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

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Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies

The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

New from me! Workers at the Treasury received an email confirming Tom Krause will officially be taking on the duties of the Fiscal Assistant Secretary. But he will still be keeping his job as CEO of Cloud Software Group. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/musk-k...

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Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO

An email sent to workers at the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service said DOGE's Tom Krause is “currently” the CEO of the Cloud Software Group. Critics believe this could be a massive...

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Total tin ear by Homan--just announcing a quid pro quo “If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City,” Mr. Homan said. “And we won’t be sitting on a couch. I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying where the hell is the agreement we came to?”

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The audacity of Vance scolding Europe for having annulled Romanian election results due to Russian interference, representing a president who violently physically attacked the US system of governance and refused to acknowledge his defeat, still claiming the elections was stolen, is simply disgusting

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

ABC: “.. Multiple current and former employees described the situation as ‘a national security crisis.’” @abcnewsgo.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Because AP continues to refuse to use 'Gulf of America,' it is being barred indefinitely from the Oval Office and Air Force One, but its journalists will be able to retain their credentials to the White House complex, according to Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of staff.

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Tell me again about this administration's commitment to the First Amendment?

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 14/02/2025

Hagan Scotten’s resignation letter says it all. Dropping the charges against Eric Adams to turn the Mayor of New York into a lackey of the President is a staggeringly corrupt perversion of justice and democracy.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 12/02/2025

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 14/02/2025

Federal workers make democracy work for all of us—but their hard work often goes unnoticed. Today, let’s change that. Share your stories of how civil servants have impacted your life in the comments below and use the #FedLove hashtag to spread the message! (1/2)

Federal service is the heart of our nation. This Valentine's Day, let's honor those who build, protect, and inspire us by sharing our #FedLove.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 14/02/2025

US Vice President JD Vance launched a blistering attack on European governments at the Munich Security Conference today, chastising them for ignoring the will of their people.

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JD Vance attacks Europe over migration, free speech

U.S. vice president stunned the audience with his broadside on the way Europe is run.

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Heidi Schuster @heidischuster.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Anyone that believes this won’t effect quality of care is delusional. Also, this is only saving them $98 million!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If they ever invent time travel, I think we need to pass a law requiring everyone to spend one full year in an era before vaccines and environmental regulations. You survive that year, you get to come back to the present, and you'll never vote against public health measures ever again.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 10/02/2025

WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 10/02/2025

Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

ABA
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.
Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few.
But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong.
It is also contrary to the rule of law.
The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair.
We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 10/02/2025

"For the Army now, it's 'Blacks need not apply' and it breaks my heart." that's a quote from an ACTIVE DUTY U.S. ARMY GENERAL.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 08/02/2025

Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health. I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I wonder how one possibly justifies any of these actions

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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This really pisses me off… Republicans are trying to repeal the $35 cap on insulin. Please spread the word.

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