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One Lone Vegan trying to live a clean life.

[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."

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

OMG!!!!

[Rishabh @Rixhabh__]

The 20 most creative and iconic ads you've ever seen:

1. Sam - looking for a graphic designer

[Eli Not Hybrid NAFO @EliBlueYellow]

Fuck Rogan

[Klitschko @Klitschko]

. @joerogan , I disagree

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Fine. I’ll play ball.

Russia is the bad guy because:

1. They crack down on political dissent with violence and even assassinations - you don’t really think all these people are just falling out of windows, right?

- they criminalize both protests and NGOs that attempt to circumvent the regime’s censorship

2. They brutally suppress media that is critical of the regime.

3. They shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17.

4. They invaded Georgia in 2008.

5. They invaded Ukraine in 2014 and in 2022.

6. They indiscriminately bombed hospitals and targeted civilians during the Syrian civil war.

7. They’ve been caught meddling in US and EU elections.

8. They’ve been responsible for some of the most devastating cyber attacks in history:

- Estonia in 2007, Russia shut down the entire Estonian internet, banking, government websites, etc.

- NotPetya in 2017, caused billions of dollars in damage globally - this is the hack that shut down Merck, Maersk, FedEx, etc.

- SolarWinds in 2020 - impacted tens of thousands of organizations globally, including a large chunk of the US government

9. Russia frequently threatens the world with nuclear armageddon, even though they’re normally the aggressor.

10. Russia has used chemical weapons multiple times, including in foreign assassination attempts

- Alexander Litvinenko (2006)
- Sergei Skripal (2018)
- Alexei Navalny (2020)

11. Their paramilitary groups sow discord globally - Wagner has been active in Syria, Africa, and Ukraine

- in Africa, Russia is almost exclusively responsible for the explosion of illicit weapons

12. They frequently use energy production to blackmail entire countries into ignoring their criminal actions

I could keep going, but if you haven’t figured it out by now, you don’t want to.

[Taniel @Taniel]

A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.

Get this: Judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.

Context: https://t.co/WDa4X1C4l3

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

Doesn't this make you mad? It makes me SO MAD.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This gentleman's rage and righteous indignation is palpable. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

And this is in church. CHURCH!

These poor kids don’t have a chance.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Election security experts have officially asked Biden to do an Election Recount on Trump's victory

They are citing potential breaches in voting machines.

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

Dear @JoeBiden, pardon Hunter before these clowns go after him to take revenge on you.

And while you’re at it, give pre-emptive pardons to Liz Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Jack Smith…and anybody else who may be on the enemies list of the promised retribution.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

TODAY IN HISTORY
1960—Ruby Bridges first Black child to desegregate elementary school in New Orleans.

In 2023,a Florida school banned the movie about her life.

This scene makes Ron DeSantis & MAGA feel "uncomfortable." So I'm posting it here. Pass it on.

Just one mother at North Shore Elementary was able to get the movie banned single handedly.

Even though the movie has been a staple in the Pinellas County, Florida curriculum for years during Florida Black History Month.

She said that “the use of racial slurs and scenes of white people threatening Ruby as she entered a school might result in students learning that white people hate Black people.”

The same people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges in 1960 are now upset their grandchildren might learn about the racist crap they did.

#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

[Jon Savitt @savittj]

you should be able to send steve kornacki sponsor gifts like in the hunger games

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Republican voter in Texas being interviewed on CNN says he decided to vote for Kamala Harris because “I cannot forget January 6. It is ingrained in my mind.”

[That Chick from Texas @JenMactexas]

Ken Paxton is a criminal. He is just another Republican who lacks morals and integrity.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“I did not want to be pregnant in Texas,” says Dr. Dani Mathisen, who moved from Texas to Hawaii after the loss of her first pregnancy. "I know too much about what can go wrong in a pregnancy to feel comfortable being pregnant in Texas." https://t.co/iYag1MSeh0

[Cassandra @mamacass_whit]

From Texas.

[Billy Baldwin @BillyBaldwin]

Convicted felon voting... illegal.
Wearing MAGA hat while voting... illegal.
Having Melania double vote for her... illegal.

Trump Crime Family on Election Day. 🗳️