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Solidarity with Sesame Workers The recent unjust layoffs of dedicated Sesame Workshop workers following their announcement to form a union with OPEIU Local 153 contradicts the core principles of the community that Sesame Street cla...

S is for SOLIDARITY—let’s help the Sesame Street workers as they fight the expropriation of kid’s media! Sign the below and spread the word! @kimkelly.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social

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Dozens of volunteers posing together with Zohran for NYC posters in Union Square.

Dozens of volunteers posing together with Zohran for NYC posters.

Volunteers standing on Church steps.

A “field lead” training a group of volunteers.

600+ volunteers.
8 neighborhoods.
≈7,000 ballot signatures collected.

In a single day.

Our momentum is powered by people.

Another tragedy

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

"Mayor Adams to issue guidance on how NYC workers should handle ICE"

"DOJ seeks dismissal of case against Adams"

any appearance of a connection is pure coincidence, needless to say

Earth pregnant

I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know. We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.

this OPM career civil servant is risking a lot to share her situation slate.com/news-and-pol...

Screenshot of press release: CFPB Union NTEU 335 spies dodgy DOGE bros Washington, DC, February 7, 2025 — On the evening of February 6, three minions of professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk appeared in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) internal staff directory.

NEWS: DOGE operatives accessed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) internal staff directory last night—and according to a source inside the building, are currently back in the office *right now*
nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...

What thrives in the dark

Opinion | This Is How Democrats Can Counter Elon Musk Recklessness will not get us to a revitalized government, but neither will excessive caution and addiction to procedure.

Anyone who cares about the core principles our of government will need to protect civil servants who defend the law. But a defensive crouch is the wrong response. If you’re mad about what Musk is doing to government, it’s time to go on the offense to reform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

Urgent and much-needed. Keys to our response are not confusing tactics for goals and figuring out which aims to press for that are aligned with DOGE's (like repealing the PRA) while fighting like hell for a muscular administrative state that actually delivers to working people.

Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

There’s a typo here

‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government 404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...

SCOOP: We have full details of changes Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, is asking government coders to help the administration with. This includes using login.gov as a fraud surveillance system against Americans, which employees told him is an "illegal task"

www.404media.co/things-are-g...

YR4: the asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth - BBC News The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

BBC is like you know what jumpy audiences need right now? A 1% chance of being hit by YR4

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The EOs raining down like asteroids and then an asteroid is like hold my beer

"USDS leadership would frequently go around the deputy CIO, the CIO, the Deputy Director for Management, the Director of OMB, and the White House deputy chief of staff to bring issues to the President," said a former government official, who requested anonymity in order to speak more candidly about USDS. "After this happens several times and there are real questions about USDS' ability to produce on the ground, then the question becomes, We created this monster with a personal relationship with the President and how do we rein it in?''

It certainly is not responsible for the scale of what is happening, but eventually folks are going to have to reckon with how DOGE’s tactics mirror USDS’s & how more checks were needed.

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If people leaving USDS are looking to stay in #civictech, the Alliance of Civic Technologisits (@civictechallies.bsky.social) is recruiting for both our current member organizations and for starting NEW civic technology volunteer organizations.

Get in touch -> hello(at)civictechnologists.org

Fighting communism and socialism by nationalizing social media apps

😱

The TikTok thing (it’s banned, no wait cancel that it’s not banned) kinda ruined it for me. Anyone else?

Thinking today about MLK, who said “only when it is dark enough can you see the stars,”

And I’m holding that close.

Why These Leftists Oppose Free Money A conversation with Daniel Zamora Vargas and Anton Jäger about why a “basic income” isn't such a progressive welfare idea.

Veterans of the many guaranteed income threads on Twitter (RIP) won't be surprised by anything here but it is a good intro to critiques of UBI/GI from the Left.

www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Hello?

So right wing

Grey and white bunny rabbit adorably looking at the camera

This chapter of my memoirs will definitely be titled something to do with rabbits. How adorable is this bunny? So adorable.

Just zoomed into a press conference for a new federal rule being published tomorrow — related to work I and the team have been doing for going on a year. I’m honestly feeling verklempt seeing it come into reality. (Quibbles and contentions notwithstanding.)

Image on the ground at an electric car charger spot. On its side the image looks like a cat

I see Waitrose now has spaces for charging your cat 🤪