@chibiseira
Cat mom (x7) & nerd, future vet tech, former nanny, spoonie. The + in LGBTQIA+. BLM, science is real, no human is illegal, trans rights are human rights, etc. Currently trying to keep it together while the world falls apart, only sometimes succeeding
Airports
Friendly reminder to check your flight status before heading to the airport, the ongoing shutdown is already causing air traffic controller staffing shortages, delays, and possible cancellations.
Good morning! The worst timeline continues: CDC has paused/revoked approvals for telework accommodations for staff with disabilities. This is so illegal and cruel it makes our heads spin. Our unions are on it.
Also, Zombie ACIP panel also looms later this week π§ββοΈ.
Buckle up, friends.
Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
I'll agree with this until you start considering human rights (eg trans rights) "zealotry." There are some things you just can't compromise on, no matter how much you want to work across the aisle.
I love that Governor Janet Mills is standing up to Trump!!!
Weak men donβt scare strong womenβ¦
Observers of her political rise β and some who have sparred with her β say Gov. Janet Millsβs refusal to bow to President Trump is right in character.
βSocial Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Social Security is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer and employee. If you reduce the outgo of Social Security, that money would not go into the general fund or reduce the deficit. It would go into the Social Security Trust Fund. So, SOCIAL SECURITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BALANCING A BUDGET OR LOWERING THE DEFICIT.β ~President Ronald Reagan A color photo of Ronald Reaganβs face accompanies the quote.
-> βSocial Security has nothing to do with the deficitβ¦is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer & employee. If you reduce the outgo of Social Security, that money would not go into the general fund or reduce the deficit. It would go into the Social Security Trust Fundβ¦β
~Ronald Reagan
This is a link to the official #altGov starter pack. Keep up with the federal employees who care about this nation and not the oligarchs' whims. They'll tell you how it is, not what 47/MuSSk wants us to know.
go.bsky.app/FLUwv5d
An invitation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-y...
The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers HawaiΚ»i, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.
www.tsunami.gov
there is really going to be no option but to prosecute these people the second they are out of power if we ever want a chance to fix this country
Deepest condolences with a side of blame Asia. Sounds about right π«
LGBTQ+ support showing multi colored flag with the words You are loved, accepted, and celebrated just as you are in the foreground.
Love will always be more resplendent than the darkness of hate can conquer.
We've heard that the vibes are really really heavy today across many of our agencies.
Let's hear something good to pass along to our govvies. It could be words of encouragement, a good service story, anything. Doesn't have to be VA. I'll make sure they get to the right people.
Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.
Dark Pence is back.
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
DHS suspects that ICE raid locations were shared by an internal source. Now the department is calling for polygraph tests.
What isnβt in this article: polygraph experts on #AltGov social media offering their advice to ICE employees who may need help passing.
Weβve got each others backs.
We are about to lose all our federal food safety, workplace and environmental protections at the hands of fuckers who can't even spell "Executive"
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Gulf of Distraction
What is it about watching a 4-year-old tell a 78-year-old with the maturity of a 2-year-old to "shut up and go away" that is SO deeply satisfying?
NEW β I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over.
"Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.
#BoycottNFL #TurnItOff #ListenDontWatch
We know whatβs going on here.
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
Evangelicals,
Your incessant attacks on Transgender human beings are the rotten fruit of a toxic faith that has needs an enemy to feel valid; a religion that cannot exist unless it has an imminent danger to wiped out.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/evangelica...
This
AFSA - The Foreign Service Union - posted a "virtual go bag" of steps to take and documents to back up on a non-USG computer:
afsa.org/virtual-go-bag
