Two of the former DoJ prosecutors who cosigned this letter will appear in chapter 1 of our upcoming book Count Me Out: The Best Federal Resignations of 2025. #ResignationBook

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 11h ago

Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

Our next book will be technically challenging to print, so we solicited quotes from 12 (!) printers. Check out our findings on this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Print Quotes for our next book

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Well, it finally happened - someone decided to pay me for my work! 💰 Originally published in Weekly Humorist. @weeklyhumorist.bsky.social #booksky weeklyhumorist.com/im-a-backyar...

Satirical piece by our poetry editor @ransackedroom.bsky.social : What would happen if Microsoft sold cars the way it sells software? www.thesling.org/imagine-a-wo... Thanks to @theslingutah.bsky.social #antimonopoly

Imagine a World in Which Microsoft Sold Cars the Way It Sells Software - The Sling

Sure, Henry Ford was ruthless, but even he never dared to retroactively alter an end user license agreement.

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Who wants to get together, eat some popcorn, and collectively cry while watching HEIST? 😭 Good night, friends.

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HEIST - a documentary about the Trump Administration's DOGE and its dismantling of federal agencies and purging of federal employees. Director Rebecca Cammisa.

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"well-written, but not for me." ever heard that one? take a deep breath. here's what agent rejection might actually mean:

Just gonna leave this here, speaking of Dr. Faucci, NIH, and the politicization of science… #ResignationBook

Kool-Aid Man could break every single other one of these motherfuckers at the same time and you would've even see sweat on the glass

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2w ago

Things aren't great, let's have some fun

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

"Why publish a book by and about people who quit their government jobs?" They didn't quit because they were lazy, or because they got better offers. They quit because to stay would have been intolerable. In some cases, to stay might have been a crime. #ResignationBook 📚💙

Yeah, it feels fraudulent! I hope someone launches a class-action lawsuit. These were marketed as perpetual!

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning for just shy of 20 minutes. We talked of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.

"Everything I learned in law school tells me I cannot remain here another day. For that matter, everything I learned in Hebrew school reinforces that same feeling…." –former employee, Department of the Interior #ResignationBook

Imagine if Microsoft sold cars the way it sells software? "Sure, Henry Ford was ruthless, but even he never dared to retcon a EULA." www.thesling.org/imagine-a-wo...

Imagine a World in Which Microsoft Sold Cars the Way It Sells Software - The Sling

Sure, Henry Ford was ruthless, but even he never dared to retroactively alter an end user license agreement.

thesling.org

Claude is apparently buying up rare books, first editions, and as yet unpublished fare to scan and destroy to feed their engine without having to worry about copyright? (Have also heard anecdotally about rare book dealers getting unprecedented orders) isbndb.com/blog/print-b...

The Receipt is the New License: Print Books Sourcing for AI Training - ISBNDB Blog

In 2025, a federal judge handed down one of the most consequential copyright rulings in AI history. Anthropic (Claude AI) had purchased and physically

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Fun piece on @theslingutah.bsky.social about a not-so-fun thought experiment: what if Microsoft sold cars the same way it sells software? www.thesling.org/imagine-a-wo... #righttorepair

Imagine a World in Which Microsoft Sold Cars the Way It Sells Software - The Sling

Sure, Henry Ford was ruthless, but even he never dared to retroactively alter an end user license agreement.

thesling.org

Disruption of the space-time continuum is not a risk @theslingutah.bsky.social takes lightly, but to bring hope to this fraught political moment, they courageously published a sneak preview of what Rohit Chopra will do in next 6 months as head of CA's new Business & Consumer Services Agency

The United States Digital Service was created under Obama to be an elite in-house team of tech consultants to bring federal IT projects on parity with private sector innovation. Elon Musk used USDS as a handy pre-existing structure to implement his DOGE project. #ResignationBook

"A single engineer on my team had more experience than the entire reported expertise of those on the DOGE team—at least of those willing to share their names." –former employee, US Digital Service #ResignationBook

🎵Ah, the familiar siren song of offset printing…🎶 Digital printer: we’ll print you 300 books for $1800, or 500 books for $2700. Offset printer: We’ll print you 300 books for $3000, or 2000 books for $3700.

You have it in you to be the people you were in 2020. You're under obscene amounts of pressure - groceries doubled in price, gas is through the roof, energy bills are climbing, rents increased and your salary didn't - and we don't blame you for struggling. Not at all. But things can be different.

We're getting print quotes for our upcoming #ResignationBook . This book will have color inserts to showcase our illustrations of the federal employees who resigned rather than carry out illegal or unethical directives. Color inserts are not uncommon for non-fiction. But wow.

I love the idea of an England-France World Cup Final during the USA's 250th anniversary. It'll be like the band getting back together. They should play it in Yorktown.

This went viral a few years ago, but with the Bayeux Tapestry back in the news, it's worth remembering that you can make your own Bayeux Tapestry graphic story online:

A former National Park Service employee whose story will appear in #ResignationBook sent over some photos for our illustrator. In one pic, he's wearing an NPS cap at a No Kings rally. He took pains to point out that he bought the cap at a gift shop; he would never wear official gear to a protest.

According to @brookings.edu and @lohplaces.bsky.social , all it takes to get some rent relief in the DMV is the decimation of the federal civil service! A housing market on the precipice: New insights from the DMV Monitor www.brookings.edu/articles/dmv...

A housing market on the precipice: New insights from the DMV Monitor | Brookings

New data from the DMV Monitor suggests weakening housing demand across the Washington region, with falling rents, softening home prices, and growing economic uncertainty reshaping the local market.

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Trump has claimed repeatedly that the career workers his minions drove out are “getting private sector jobs” and making “twice as much money, three times as much money.” The numbers paint a more troubling picture. Many struggled to find work, with about 40 percent searching for at least six months.

DOGE ended on July 4, but the workers whose lives Musk upended are still reeling

“It’s hard to explain. Like, this is not a normal job loss.”

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Got a favorite bookbinder/printer? We are seeking quotes for our next trade paperback. Must be USA-based. Must be able to do color inserts on fancy paper, because comics. #BookSky

"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger." - Muriel Rukeyser #poetry #poems #writing #books #booksky #murielrukeyser #art #reading #invention

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts