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@andrewfherrmann.bsky.social

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Professor of Communication. Studies business and political economy. Writer of ethnography and autoethnography. Purposefully picks on people in power. #EnemyWithin

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ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Mar 15

It’s time to make corporate #Democrats scared shitless of the people again. #TheTraitorousTen

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Mar 15

It’s time to make corporate #Democrats scared shitless of the people again. #TheTraitorousTen

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Mar 15

@chrislhayes.bsky.social It’s time to make corporate Democrats scared shitless of the people again. #TheTraitorousTen

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Feb 20

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 8

Kash Patel should be prosecuted, not confirmed. #KashPatel #trump

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 8

File Under: Last Night’s Criterion Collection

#Welles is at his peak in this adaptation of The Trial by #Kafka. The police arrive to arrest Josef K (Anthony Perkins), but no one will tell him the charges. It’s claustrophobic, paranoid, unsettling, absurd. Perfect for our current times.

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 8

Remember, these are not good people. Andrew Taake, who received a presidential pardon, was arrested by a fugitive task force in Texas for soliciting a minor. #jan6

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Newly-pardoned Jan 6 rioter rearrested on child solicitation charges

‘He must answer for 2016 charge of soliciting a minor online,’ said Harris County authorities

www.independent.co.uk

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 8

If you are wondering why #Musk went after USAid with a vengence, it’s because #USAid helped end apartheid in South Africa. Since Musk is a racist, he hates that. www.flyingpenguin.com?p=65793&fbcl...

Elon Musk’s Angry USAID Grudge Explained: Revenge for Ending South African Apartheid | flyingpenguin

www.flyingpenguin.com

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Kid Riles @kidriles.bsky.social · Feb 7

USAID paid me $3 million to post this picture of traitor Ron Johnson grinning while holding a confederate flag.

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 7

Back in the day a beast of a bouncer would come out, knock that asshole into last week, and take the money from his wallet to pay the bill.

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 7

I guess she’s “concerned.”

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Feb 7

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 7

Working my way through the #CriterionCollection of films. Last night it was Rita Hayworth as the gorgeous but damaged titular character in a love triangle with the despicable Mundson (Macready) and the “read between the lines” likely bi-sexual Farrell (Glenn Ford). #movies #film #classic #gilda

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 7

Right-wing men calling #Trump
“daddy” is not the flex they think it it. #betaboys

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 7

I’m doing a thing tomorrow. #commsky #autoethnography #ETSU

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · Feb 7

This is a line Democrats should revisit on Vought from @schatz.bsky.social:

"Why doesn’t government run like a business? Let me tell you why: because if you ran government like a business, you would shut down every rural hospital.”

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 3

I don’t want to hear people who bought a $70,000 #truck to run errands telling people that a #college #education is a waste of money. #morons

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 3

He’s a demented McKinley.

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 3

The #Trump administration needs to be drowned in lawsuits, subpoenas, phone calls, emails, strikes, and every other way they can be cock-blocked.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Feb 3

Mitch McConnell: Tariffs "will drive the cost of everything up. In other words, it will be paid for by American consumers. I mean, why would you want to get in a fight with your allies over this?"

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Feb 3

#Obama should have closed #GITMO like he promised he would. This stain on America keeps getting worse and worse and worse. Immigrants aren’t terrorists. Or are they? By using Guantanamo Bay, #Trump is inferring they may well be.

Trump’s Gitmo Detention Center Would Be Bigger Than History’s Worst Concentration Camps

Like the border wall, building a detention center for migrants in Guantanamo Bay is nothing new. The scale, though, is frighteningly new.

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Jan 18

These are the people running our country. 🙄

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Jan 18

The Dems didn’t get slaughtered. Messaging stunk. They lost a smidge on Gaza, a dollop on the economy, a pinch on healthcare, a tad on reproductive rights, a spoonful on Biden staying in & no primary, a handful on immigration, etc. They gave themselves 1,000 paper cuts until they bled to death.

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Jan 18

@theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social

“Why now?” regarding TikTok. Because our oligarchs didn’t like that we weren’t buying their narratives about the economy, Gaza, healthcare, housing, or about them. TikTok allowed us a workaround and a way to organize, a way to fight the system that is crushing us.

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Jan 18

Meta ranks this as 100% accurate!

ComDocH @andrewfherrmann.bsky.social · Jan 18

The oligarchy is not coming. The oligarchy is here. Time to burn this mother to the ground.