Kristin Cragg

Writer. Purveyor of parodies. Mother of monsters. Attached to an attorney. Confessor of Christ. Epileptic, hypothyroid & celiac. Also, cats.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

This is your daily reminder that it's a coup.

[Christopher Moore @TheAuthorGuy]

Your Daily Affirmation:

I pay homage to Justice and her little sister, Truth. Justice is blindfolded and wandering around with a sword and a scale, probably drunk, but Truth will lead her through. I hope. #also_waffles

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

A dairy farm worker in Nevada has screened positive for H5N1 bird flu.

First human infection identified in the state.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A government worker reports that fresh-faced 19, 20, and 21-year-olds from DOGE are running 15-minute kangaroo courts to decide if federal employees keep their jobs.

Bureaucracy just turned into an episode of Shark Tank, but with interns holding the gavel.

[Shontel Brown @ShontelMBrown]

Elon isn’t finding “waste” — he’s finding spending he doesn’t agree with.

Elon isn’t finding “fraud” — he’s firing, purging, and accessing personal data with no transparency or accountability.

Elon isn’t finding “abuse” — he’s flagrantly breaking laws.

[Rep. Salud Carbajal @RepCarbajal]

Here's the thing about Trump's half-baked plan to displace millions and turn the Gaza Strip into the Las Vegas Strip with American troops...

He's trying to distract you from the fact that he gave an unelected billionaire access to your Social Security number.

Don't fall for it.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

A federal worker sent me audio of a call that HR did today with staff about "deferred resignation" agreements offered by DOGE ... I think this is pretty well understood by now but helps confirm what many suspect

The audio goes:

Employee: Lets say I accept the agreement tomorrow - you were to rescind the agreement and they were to stop paying me on Friday ... we would have no recourse available?

HR official: Yes ... as the agreement is outlined that is absolutely correct

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Murphy: "The reality is this could get dystopian very quickly. If you were to start speaking ill of Elon Musk on social media, Elon Musk might be able to stop or delay your tax refund, or your mom's Social Security benefit, in part because we have no window into what's happening at Treasury right now."

[Maxwell Alejandro Frost @MaxwellFrostFL]

I’m in Oversight Committee right now. Ranking Member Connolly just called for a vote to subpoena Elon Musk. Republicans out-number us on this committee, but many aren’t in the room. We’ll see who wins this vote. We deserve transparency and answers.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Gerald Connolly, Democratic Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight, just introduced a motion to SUBPOENA Elon Musk.

MAGA James Comer, chair of the committee, refuses, and chaos interrupts.

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@RepAlGreen: "The movement to impeach the president has begun. I rise to announce that I will bring Articles of Impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done."

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

HOLY SHIT, Rep. Jasmine Crockett:

"We are going to be in your faces, we're gonna be on your ass, we're going to make sure you understand that this is what democracy looks like!"

🔥🔥🔥

[Maxwell Alejandro Frost @MaxwellFrostFL]

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @JasmineForUS @SethMagaziner

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Here's what the press refuse to say.

1. Trump backed down from fights with Canada and Mexico when they fought back.

2. Trump got nothing for it.

3. The stock market crashed.

4. Trump announces gains from Mexico+ Canada that were already there or happened under Biden.

[Susan For San Jacinto City Council @ifudontlike2bad]

Fed employees at OPM are blocking doors trying to protect everyone from Musk stealing our data. Please boost & if you can, help. @ICJ_org @briantylercohen
@MSNBC @CNN @NewsHour @NPR @maddow @samstein @AnonOpsSE @ArtCandee @darafaye @Acyn @atrupar
Credit TikTok - philosophybread

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

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From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."