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Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

Waiting for Ross Douthat or some other goon to churn out a column about how ackshually, maybe this cut-rate Roman Roy is qualified.

I’m guessing that some empty handwaving and false equivalences with Hunter Biden will be involved.

I love this song. I have memories of rocking out to this song as an elementary school student. I recently bought a cassette of this song after finding it at a music store.

I had no idea that Diane Keaton had directed it.

I have a pen
I have a pineapple

In February, I feared they might turn IDEA into a block grant, which would be bad. I wrote, “Families who already must fight to ensure that their children receive the schooling they deserve will be put on weaker footing.”

But the wholesale (and illegal) firing of this office seems markedly worse.

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Watching people dissect and debate screenshot of some random person’s post is so weird.

If you want to make a point, make it! Don’t set it against some straw man you plucked out as representative of whoever you dislike! And if someone else dies that, don’t take the bait!

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates).

The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Public health folks should correct me if I’m wrong, but…

-MMWR published during previous shutdowns.

-Its first interruption (ever?) came in January, when Trump “froze” comms for 2 weeks.

-It stopped again in this shutdown.

-Now they want to illegally lay off the writers & editors.

This is bad.

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Even by Andrew Cuomo standards, this is laughably bad.

I don’t want to generate or receive an email, document, manuscript, PowerPoint deck, post it note, grocery list, novel, film, or hit list that has been generated with AI.

Making clear that it’s a lie probably won’t, on its own, stop his attacks. I don’t expect it to make his goons stop kidnapping parents picking up their kids from school.

But the more he erodes his legitimacy, the less power he has to wield.

The President insists on telling a story that’s false. It’s some mix of his own fixations, the Fox News Cinematic Universe, and whatever Stephen Miller feeds him.

But it’s fiction. He has no credibility. I’m glad that some judges are recognizing that. And we need to keep hammering it home.

It really is amazing how diametrically opposed this is to the separation of powers laid out in the Constitution.

Some of that has a long history. Dick Cheney claimed to “restore” the power of the presidency.

But this administration is in an entirely different league of unabashed authoritarianism.

I don’t want to wade into the discourse on this one, but I’ll note that he referred to “children who are circumcised EARLY,” raising the possibility that RFK Jr. has a particular timeline in mind as he opines about your junk.

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Yikes indeed. After multiple quarters of success in bringing down backlogs, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is taking a turn for the worse.

The latest data shows that in the first six months of 2025, total net backlogs rose 26%, up by 1.1 million pending applications (of all kinds).

Explaining a meme to my gf and thinking that I should probably lock myself in an internet-free space for a month at least.