Trying to rebuild my community #altfam #altgov #KHive #Virginia esp politics. Repost a lot, but try not to repost photos, memes or gifs without alt text.
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We'll be visiting ports in Mid-South Wales e.g., Fishguard and Aberystwyth next week (2nd-4th September). If you're from the area and know anything about the Irish Sea herring fishery (past or present), or know someone who does, please get in touch here or at fishistory@bangor.ac.uk🐟
🌊📊 Celebrating 100 years of daily ocean monitoring! Did you know that the #FarallonIslands Shore Station has tracked sea surface temps & salinity data since 1925 (with only a brief pause during WWII)? Thanks to secured funding, there will be no gap in 2025! 🧪 🦑 🌎 #FarallonFriday
A Epinephelus marginatus saying "Hi" 🦑🌊 #Snorkel #Sardinia #LaMaddalena #Diving
JAWS back in theaters in a limited release from 8/28 to 9/3 to celebrate its 50-year anniversary!! 🤘🦈 I will be attending a showing in a regular theater as well as one at IMAX!! 🎬 Get your tickets now!! 🎟 #Jaws #jawsmovie #jaws50 #filmsky #shark #movies #ArtYear #Bruce #sciart #marinelife #art
TLDR: every single FEMA head that has been in charge of the organization since Katrina has spoken out publicly in support of this letter and its accuracy. We, the American people, ignore this warning at our own peril. This is deadly serious. The FEMA employees who wrote and signed it are heroes. 3/3
I really need people in this country to move away from "but that's illegal!" or "but that's not allowed!" as their default response. Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
Earlier this week we said you can choose to believe unqualified leaders in this admin or you can choose to believe experts like @samlmontano.bsky.social & employees inside #FEMA. This article has five former administrators validating the concerns outlined in the article. #FEMAStrong
Jk that link stopped working too 😑😑😑 Imma try to find one that works later. 🙃🫠
LOL I swear that link worked when I posted it because that’s how I read it. Whatever. I have a new link and will post above. Sorry! 😑
This article is a fantastic, thorough overview of the issues that caused the #FEMA employees to write their letter of dissent to Congress that many of them are now being placed on administrative leave for signing. Senator Puppy Killer is a petty ass bitch for going after them for their bravery. 1/?
maybe give a little more grace to a place that is still finding its way
but already lamenting about the good old days come on now
it is a little weird to read stuff like “this place used to be great once” i mean it’s only been a little over two years and a portion of that was just twenty people posting alf memes lol
When tech meets purpose, powerful change follows. 💻 Afua Bruce is using technology to build a better world, and inspiring a new generation of changemakers along the way. #WomeninSTEM #Science #Technology #Engineering This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
Ain't no way RFKJ wrote this when he literally called us "troubled" only a few hours ago. Sorry, anon comms person/maybe the AI forced to write this drivel... We just added a few notes. Anything to be helpful! ✨😊😇
Red squirrels have a hard enough time without this kind of public shaming. Tut etc. Happy Wednesday!
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
Removing facts from museums does not remove its existence. We cannot gloss over how horrific the treatment of our fellow humans was and still is to this day. If you are in the now-occupied U.S. capital, we recommend visiting the Smithsonian National Museum of (2/3) www.si.edu/museums/afri...
African American History before this administration destroys its legacy. If you cannot make it to DC, we recommend checking out Slave Voyages, a transatlantic slave database that was principally funded by #NEH. shorturl.at/rO778 (3/3)
If I’ve learned anything in the past 7 months , it’s that anyone under the age of 60ish probably needs a good lesson in Civics. And every damn leader from the President down needs to revisit the constitution. #altcitizen #civics 1/3
Hey DOGE -- Found some of that government waste you're so concerned about.
I served on a Westchester County grand jury. Jeanine Pirro was the DA. We did not indict on one of the charges her office brought to us. As our term ended, she noticed that non-indictment. She said grand juries are a great bastion of liberty in the US. Not so sure she thinks that now.
You do love to see it.
Auto-reply email of the year. 🏆 FDA official resigning in spectacular fashion #badass #dropthemic #goals 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DNG3MdWyto...
Thoughts and prayers as sincere as an elected Republican official after a school shooting
nature is healing
At some point it is a choice to be this way. A person who desires to read will find a way to the books they desire. Even if the book shelf they walk past doesn't dance for them. I'm a chick & I'm not reading these books. Choices!
In a world where male authors have dominated for how many years & there are so many millions of books to choose from? Bro looks at a book shelf in TARGET & says it's not marketed to me so I don't read. Bro gotta phone? Got access to public libraries, search engines, internet & chat forums? 🎻
Yeah, 'cause one curated shelf in a store (not even a bookstore, a freaking Target) is indicative of the industry. If I snapped a photo of the books they sell in grocery stores, I could make all manner of wild statements. Also, I (a man) quite enjoyed When the Moon Hatched.
The International Olympic Committee needs to move the 2028 Games out of the U.S. to a country that doesn’t persecute foreigners.
this sort of fanciful destruction of a shared baseline of economic reality is bad. Facts matter. Dept. heads shouldn't have their lives destroyed for informing US so we can make educated decisions. Welcome to the State of America where freedom of information & People's liberties are in decline.
1/12 ⚠️ TL;DR: There’s a Legionnaires’ outbreak in Central Harlem, NYC — 67 cases, 3 deaths. If you’re in affected ZIP codes and have flu-like symptoms, get medical help fast. Let's break down what you need to know.🧵👇
I’d say staffing losses across the federal land management agencies (NPS, BLM, BIA, FWS, USFS), have hampered the interagency capacity to respond— not just at the Forest Service.
The secret is that if you're not a fascist and you try to wear what makes you happy, the menswear guy will never make a 25-post tweet chain calling you out 😆🫡
America, where a Lt. Governor can blatantly admit to not knowing what due process is, and still have a job. Not only that, but still honestly think this is correct despite Supreme Court decisions. And then get upset at the town hall participants for reacting in such a way. Gaslighting
This is America. 😡😡😡
The Commandant's quarters are provided as a housing arrangement for an active-duty military officer. Noem is a civilian, with absolutely no reason to be there. She's playing house on the taxpayer's dollar. What a great example of government waste and misuse of funds. And an insult to the CG.
Yes— my charitable interpretation may be to too generous when the worst could also be true: Someone in a position of power (Secretary Burgum, perhaps?) may want this nonsense out in the public’s mind, and forced it. When asked for a source, USFWS Fire cited a study that didn’t mention moon once.
Counterpoint: it could be AI or someone forced to put out what some dogeshit in DOI forced them to. Don’t tread lightly. The monsters and stupids are everywhere in DOI and nothing gets out without going through their claws.
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I worry about the dozens of # resisters that attacked me whenever i pointed out this grift… It’s like they’re desperate for their own version of Qanon to latch onto.
AltNPS is not part of the #altGov community.
This week, the head of FEMA’s urban search and rescue unit resigned after 10 years of service. He says Secretary Noem is risking lives by putting more red tape on agency support. The delayed response in Texas was his last straw. The chaos must end. Secretary Noem must resign.
Bless these people!
One of the things that strikes me as being part of the AltGov community is the ability to see trends across all agencies. It’s alarming. InFEMA grants have all but come to a standstill. I had a state tell me they haven’t received a grant payment since Jan or FEB
You see? It all makes sense if you remember that Ghislaine Maxwell isn't a drag queen, person of color, or poor.
She'll say whatever she's told to say, if it gets her out. Speak to the victims for #truth
There’s an existing research station there— Rocky Mountain Research Station. Charitably, perhaps they think it has the most space. Skeptically, maybe they think it’s the location other R&D staff would be least likely to consider relocating to. It is centralized, and they mention cost of living.
“To be clear, all critical functions of the Department will continue uninterrupted.” Uh, likely not. Due to all the lying, I have a hard time believing Rollins has the authority to make the changes she’s proposing. Act of 1953? Act of 1994? C’mon. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAJAHAHAHAHAHA fuck around and find out, Elon!
Matt and Trey have balls of steel, man.
Absolute cowardice, and everyone involved in this decision should be immediately fired, then flogged with a book on the history of Neville Chamberlain
From the Department of Cognitive Dissonance: 83% of the doucheoise want nonpartisan civil servants but support Mango Mussolini’s attempts to gut the civil service & install bootlickers thru Schedule F and Schedule G (among other things). My take on a survey from the Partnership for Public Service.
Steady State members have spent careers handling classified info. So let’s be clear: if you cut/paste text marked SECRET/NOFORN to another medium—like a phone—it’s a serious security violation, and very possibly a crime. No excuses.
If I did this as an archivist it’s a guarantee of dismissal and possibly jail time depending upon the breach dimensions.
Facts matter.
I think this is obvious but I just want to highlight it in case it isn’t. Taking 72 hours for Noem to personally approve search and rescue teams can be a literal death sentence. www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
HELP I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT MY TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS
i have no idea if this is true and i don’t even care, it’s part of the little caesar’s canon now
"Execs at CBS’s parent company Paramount may have dumped Colbert not to appease Trump, but to join with him. There’s ample evidence that billionaires genuinely, sincerely like Trump’s vision of authoritarian rule by billionaire, and want to do their part to crush dissent and discipline the proles."
NEW: Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis shows that Trump's Big Ugly Law adds $3.4 TRILLION to the deficit. While working Americans lose their health care, the ultra-rich get massive tax breaks. Donald Trump and his Republican lapdogs have betrayed the American people.
It’s Saturday. And I’m at work. So is over half my office. All across the country, SSA staff are working OT in a desperate (but probably futile) attempt to keep from drowning under all the work we have now after losing so many staff. We’re fighting a losing battle. When we lose, so do you. 🫠🫠🫠
FedGov is local jobs. These aren’t cuts to *them* over *there*, these are cuts to *us* right *here*.
You’d be shocked at the number of people that have little to no connectivity in rural communities. I do this for a living and know the issues.
“They’re in towers.” They’re in TRACON centers and approach control. Few are actually in a tower. Fucking incompetent bastards all over this admin and I hate it.
Trump Admin’s rescission bill isn’t about cutting waste or fraud. It’s a partisan power grab that would halt humanitarian aid & wipe out public broadcasting, emergency alerts, & more.
Happy birthday USPHS! And thank you to all those who serve or have served in the USPHS Commissioned Corps, for your essential work supporting our nation's health. From one non-DOD uniformed service to another, we appreciate you and the work you do!
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We wish we had people like her still doing great service within the government. The “early retirements” DOGE pushed on us did us all a disservice.
You’re assuming that rural Alaskans and other rural folks have sufficient bandwidth for internet access. Prolly more fuckery on that to come. 😡😢
If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.
I know "650 lbs an hour" sounds crazy, because it kinda is. But that also just means filling one of these buckets every ~3 minutes. That's doable for the average healthy adult. (Doing it 10hrs/day for weeks in a row is the hard part.)
Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
I’m horrified people are even thinking children in Texas deserved to die at church camp because they live in a red state. Fuck all the way off you heartless assholes. Maybe listen to the voice of FEMA—they never ask who you voted for when they provide aid & relief after a disaster. #WhatWouldDollyDo
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What could possibly go wrong?
NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”
So 2 days after massive protest (& btw huge influx of MAGA trolls before it), there is a flood of - posts about a verified group that generally posts good information. I’m sure many of them are actually skeptical. That’s healthy. I’m also pretty dang sure this isn’t organic.
If you ever see a verified #altgov account asking for money or posting anything that is false, inaccurate or misleading, please call us on it. We are here to learn too, and we aren’t perfect. We are real. We are human, and all of us have a unique voices that we truly only want to use for good.
What I ask is for you to keep in mind that we are all real people (can you at least take that tiny little leap of faith?), who are here to #resist, & support in every way we can. We don’t have to agree with one another about every last thing. But we are all in the same fight. Let’s not eat our own.
made a choice to be #altgov, which required us to put blind trust in the person who vetted and verified us, it is your choice whether to extend your own trust and judgement in us. If you are unable to give us the benefit of the doubt, that’s 💯 okay!
or to sabotage my own agency, I am here to share my own “insider” information about the Air Force & the military in an effort to help others more easily navigate this shit show of a presidential administration. No one is “required” to believe that any of us are who we say we are. Just as all of us
wear my Captain Obvious hat, I will. Many of us are current, active employees of the agency that we are affiliated with, and revealing our identities could have serious, negative personal consequences for us. While I’m not here to share sensitive information that may compromise national security,
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Another attempt to use affordable housing as a red herring for grift. It’s endless greed. They’re squeezing blood out of the country’s land.
We love this win for our #NIH friends and for public health initiatives! 👏👏 Let’s hope we can get a similar ruling for our pending cases. 🤞
That might be good advice except the Trump/Elon crowd canceled grants on “forest diversity’ so they clearly don’t understand the meaning of the words—they just don’t like them
The post is 6 months old but the feed hasn’t been down that long; Jaz just moved and seems to have had a flint of back-online before it came back down. In the meantime, you can search cats and swipe to the feed tab to find other ones.
As soon as I saw the units just ambling along, I sensed some delightful malicious compliance afoot. Same with the salutes from the passing tanks & vehicles that snapped back down fast as they went up. And the complete lack of enthusiasm all around really took a concerted effort. #resist #NoKings
Capitol Police arresting an 87 year old veteran with a WALKER who was protesting #Taco spending $45 million for a parade while cutting VA benefits. www.mysuncoast.com/2025/06/14/8...
HUGE kudos to @MSNBC reporter David Noriega who keeps reiterating that the protesters have been absolutely peaceful and the violence is being perpetrated by the local law enforcement.
11 million is the final count I believe. And those were just the people who could physically show up today. And it’s just the start. Yes nonviolence works
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7.2 Million showed up. 7.2 million. I don't ever wanna hear another instigating chud on this site or elsewhere tell me nonviolence doesn't work. It fucking does. This proves it.
Teamwork makes the dream work. Five million people in over 2,100 towns and cities across America. Well done! #NoKings
Eastern most town in the US, Lubec, Maine. Population (2023) 320 persons. TODAY we had 200 show up for No Kings!! Hurray Lubec!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Some of our Canadian neighbors crossed over in support. ❤️🇨🇦 +🇺🇲 RESIST!!!
Wow. We’re really doing it. Millions of people in 1,800 cities exercising our 1A rights and we didn’t assassinate any elected officials or their families. Is this another ✌️both sides✌️ situation, @chriscillizza.bsky.social?