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Susanita
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library | Staunton, VA (Library)
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As a #longtimefed I never attended a conference that was co-sponsored by an organization that had ceased to exist…but that happened today. I guess that explains why they didn‘t have any staff at the event. 😥

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/doge-wilson-center.html

dabbe I'm not “liking“ this in any way except for the fact that it's you and you posted it. #beyondheartbreaking #resist ♥️👊🏻♥️ 2w
LeeRHarry What Denise says…thank you for keeping us in the loop about things I would have no idea about from my side of the world. @dabbe 2w
Catsandbooks Another day another horror 🫠 2w
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dabbe @LeeRHarry ♥️👊🏻💙 2w
dabbe @Catsandbooks 🎯💙🎯 2w
Leftcoastzen Disgusting 2w
BarbaraBB I‘d have no idea either how far and deep this reaches. Thank you for keeping us informed 2w
CarolynM What @LeeRHarry said. We need to do our best to spread the word further, Lee, because if TemuTrump forms government…😨 2w
LeeRHarry @CarolynM TemuTrump! I haven‘t heard that one! But it‘s VERY appropriate! 2w
Amiable @BarbaraBB @CarolynM @LeeRHarry Spread the word far and wide around the world because our mainstream media is downplaying, ignoring or outright gaslighting the events that are happening in this country. We need the help! (edited) 1w
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Susanita
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Sometimes the memes just write themselves.

As a #longtimefed I would receive regular briefings and training about the importance of OPSEC. During COVID my office had to jump through hoops to be allowed use Zoom.

These people are ridiculous.

ETA: “But her emails…”

lil1inblue 😂 😂 😂 😭 😭 😭 3w
CBee This meme is 🔥 3w
AmyG 👊🇺🇸🔥 3w
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dabbe Lock them up! Lock them up! 👊🏻❣️👊🏻 3w
Reggie lol 3w
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While POTUS was cutting IMLS, he was also dismantling Voice of America and Radio Martí. My career as a #longtimefed started at VOA. I later spent a few years at Radio Martí, where I met my husband and my best friend.

These agencies were not without problems, but they didn‘t deserve to be one more tradition thrown on the scrap heap of history. Meanwhile the “champion of Cuban freedom” does nothing.

Susanita But he‘s okay with deporting people to a brutal prison in El Salvador. 1mo
Suet624 It just gets worse every day. 1mo
BkClubCare I just want to cry. And make the calls. 1mo
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AmyG Hahahaha. The face you make when you sold your soul to the devil. 1mo
Leftcoastzen 😡 1mo
DogMomIrene I thought Kari Lake there was awful, but this is definitely worse! 1mo
Susanita @DogMomIrene Holy moly! I totally missed the news that she was put in charge … and then told to shut it down a few days later. 4w
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I have a complicated relationship with Williamsburg. My sister went to college there, and I was determined to go anywhere else (contrary teenager syndrome) but ended up there anyway. As a #longtimefed I sent colleagues all over the world but never traveled myself, for the first 10+ years.

Then my first work trip was to…Williamsburg! My very last work trip was to nearby Chesapeake, to learn more about processing travel reservations and vouchers.⬇️

Susanita I visited again in January to get away from the inauguration and the gloating. It was a somewhat bittersweet trip. 1mo
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As a #longtimefed I‘ve seen staff cuts before. Now I‘m seeing some stunning “whataboutism,” comparing the Clinton-Gore cuts to what DOGE is doing.

Though my agency at the time was minimally affected, I had issues with the initiative.
-Government as a business
-OPM staff laid off during the process
-Increased reliance on contractors

However, there was a logic and process to it. Employees were treated with empathy, which is apparently now a sin.

marleed I am sickened at the thought of how long it will take for empathy to become the norm. This admin cracks its self up over who can deliver the next cruel and spiteful line - in this country and across the world. I hope the courts have the intestinal fortitude to act as a barrier to this cruelty. 1mo
Leftcoastzen Musk quote on Empathy “The fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is empathy.” And if you have read anything about Donald you know he never had any. 1mo
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It looks like the awful CR was passed. Thanks, traitor Dems!

I don‘t have the spoons to write a #longtimefed post today, so I‘ll be back tomorrow with a fresh take.

Meanwhile, I‘ll leave you with this. I was running errands today and saw the most ridiculous cybertruck ever. (Even more than the one wrapped in a realtor‘s ads.) It was painted bright green on the bottom and jet black on the top. I guess it‘s supposed to look like a convertible?

Tamra Sigh 😞 1mo
ncsufoxes There is one of those silver monstrosities in my neighborhood & every time I see it all I think is: there goes another mediocre white man 1mo
Susanita @ncsufoxes I hope you get to point and laugh once in a while. 😏 1mo
BookmarkTavern I sometimes see one on my commute to work with a vanity license plate that literally says cybertruck. 🙄 1mo
ImperfectCJ It is kind of impressive when I see a cybertuck that looks more ridiculous than they naturally do. I saw one in the library parking lot yesterday, and it caused me some stereotype dissonance. 1mo
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OPM, the Year in Review | United States. Office of Personnel Management. Office of Public Affairs
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As GSA is the federal government‘s property management agency, OPM is the HR agency. Perhaps I don‘t have a clue, but it seems to me that when you‘re massively cutting your workforce, you don‘t want to cut the staff that will be processing all those retirements and terminations. At least let the dust settle first!

As a #longtimefed I can verify that retirement actions take months to process in the best of times.

Tamra Zero logic, no common sense. 1mo
Chrissyreadit It feels like the cult will never give up its belief while drinking the kool aid that destroys them and everyone else. 1mo
Bookwormjillk The lawsuits are going to go on for years. 1mo
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Leftcoastzen Insanity. Have you been watching YouTube posts by senator Sheldon Whitehouse ? He‘s working hard ,a voice in the wilderness 1mo
wanderinglynn It‘s going to take decades to recover from this insanity. But a DC Circuit Judge did order DOGE to produce records on cost-cutting. We‘ll see if they do it, but at least it‘s something. 1mo
dabbe #stoptheinsanity 😳😡🤬 1mo
Susanita @Bookwormjillk @wanderinglynn This 💩is going to keep lawyers busy for years. 1mo
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For what it‘s worth, this morning I used 5Calls to contact my senators and ask them to vote against the pending continuing resolution.

In “normal” times, I wouldn‘t favor this approach. But we‘re not in normal times. Republicans have proven themselves to be untrustworthy. As a #longtimefed I found the kick-the-can budget process to be disruptive, especially when it would drag on until March. However, we‘re already living under massive disruption.

ImperfectCJ I need to educate myself more about this issue and then follow your lead and call my congresspeople...there's been too much to keep up with, and I don't want to get fatigued as the consequential stuff comes up (which I know is the goal of those holding the fire hose). 1mo
TheBookHippie I like the 5calls thing and I agree with everything you said. 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @ImperfectCJ the point is to overwhelm you. My unsolicited advice, get a group of like-minded friends and parcel out the issues. In my friend group I monitor abortion issues, 1 friend monitors LGBTQ, 1 takes immigration ECT. Then when serious things come up the person in charge of that subject writes a letter to the Congress people and shares it with the group and we all send in a letter. 1mo
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Bookwormjillk Have you seen what they want to do to DC? Take away $1.1 B dollars! Think of what that would do to public services. 1mo
ImperfectCJ @ChaoticMissAdventures Indeed. They've said as much while saying the quiet part loud. Between pandemic, job changes/relocations, and now all of this, my friend group has diminished significantly. I'm in a rebuilding phase, but at almost 50, that's challenging. I'm trying to focus on the ways that the Constitution is being eroded rather than specific issues (forest vs trees), but it's easy to get distracted by outrage and fear. 1mo
Susanita @ImperfectCJ @ChaoticMissAdventures The point is definitely to overwhelm us. I‘m gonna go out on a limb and say they probably don‘t even mind the lawsuits that much (bitching and moaning and bluster aside), because it keeps the waters muddied. Throw in Tesla publicity stunts and a Hannity rant. Rinse. Repeat. 1mo
Susanita @Bookwormjillk I understand that‘s not even federal money! For that the city had to dismantle the BLM plaza?!? 1mo
Susanita @ImperfectCJ @ChaoticMissAdventures One option is indivisible.org which has local groups centered around particular issues. 1mo
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Death and Taxes | David Dodge
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I‘ve seen a lot of misinformation about government employees on social media. One of the most ridiculous assertions is that government employees don‘t pay taxes. This is news to me! I‘ve been paying taxes on my wages since I started working in high school, through college, and as a #longtimefed for 35+ years. I still pay taxes on some of my retirement income. The same applies for teachers, firefighters, state workers, and other public servants.

Tamra 🤦🏽‍♀️ it‘s inexplicable. (edited) 1mo
ImperfectCJ So many misconceptions. I spoke with a medical doctor yesterday who didn't know that the NIH was part of the federal government and didn't understand the link between cutting federal funding and colleges decreasing the number of science graduate students they could accept. I just...ugh. I don't mean to imply that I have a firm understanding about how everything works, but I feel pretty confident that I understand the basic structure. 1mo
TieDyeDude That hurts my brain. Why would someone make up a lie like that, unless there is no practical reason for these fed lay-offs and supporters need to make up easily refutable stories to justify this administration's actions in their own minds... 🤔 😵 😔 1mo
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marleed I‘m retired fed civil service (38 years). I paid taxes then. I pay taxes now. And honestly, I‘m good with paying taxes to support roads, libraries, education, keeping SS solvent, healthcare, emergency response, military, peace keeping mission, altruistic endeavors and so much more. I don‘t want to pay the taxes of billionaires who have the accountants and the exception‘s to avoid their responsibility. 1mo
marleed And another thing… In 2022-23 the average cost of educating one student was $17,650. I have 2 grown children who were in public schools k-13. Without adjusting for inflation, my taxes for those 13 years of education is $458,900. My taxes did not pay the direct education of my own kids. It went to the education of the US. Just stop it with private school vouchers. Our best natural resource is the education of our children. 1mo
Susanita @marleed I don‘t think anyone “likes” paying taxes, but I definitely like what taxes pay for, nationally and locally. I like public land and schools and libraries and sidewalks and food testing and so much more. Vouchers are a scam. 1mo
Susanita @TieDyeDude The more I think about it, the more absurd it seems to me. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1mo
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As a #longtimefed the only “DEI” employment initiative I ever saw in action was Veterans Preference, which was established by law in 1944.

Was it sometimes a hassle to “clear” a veteran who had applied for a job? Yes. Did it sometimes feature a qualified veteran who turned out to be perfect for the job? Yes. Did it lead to an unqualified veteran being hired instead of a qualified non veteran? No.

Leftcoastzen Scumbag Idiots! 1mo
marleed Yea, as a retired DoD Army civilian the comments made by those ‘advising‘ POTUS infuriate me. He has normalized hateful, off-the-cuff and/or even deliberate, inaccurate speech. It will take generations to recover from all this hate and intolerance. 1mo
AmyG You can‘t say you support veterans while at the same time gut veteran services. 1mo
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