Good Things Friday (316) and Link Love
March 14, 2025
1. It’s been a crap couple of weeks… Months? For my health, physically and mentally, but we’re still here. Still holding on.
White supremacy and the love of 47 really is such a cult: Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
How A Tiny Federal Agency’s Lawsuit Could Provide The Smoking Gun Against DOGE
This I love: How Khari Arnold is Bringing Dads in Atlanta Together at the Library. PiC isn’t a reader himself, he gets all his reading time via reading to the kids but he’s the one who takes the kids to the library regularly and they love it.
This was an unexpected development: USDA Status Update on Probationary Employees
Swedes launch boycott of US goods in response to recent policy shifts
As a first generation immigrant this covers a lot of the conflict I feel about America. America was our refuge from war and Communism and at the same time it is nothing like the refuge it’s supposed to be. It’s been so terrible to and for so many people who sought safety here: After Self-Deporting From the U.S., My Life Improved, Jill Damatac.
Look at these people whose only objections to Trump are that his actions specifically hurt them. They’re STILL fine with him hurting anyone else. They should be left to suffer the consequences of their choice they made for all of us. Money should be spent on helping the people who voted against this and got hurt anyway, first. That’s what I’m doing. I feel like some responses that call for Democrats to bail these people out are foolish. They would still choose this hellscape for the rest of us! Even after suffering from his actions themselves, even after admitting his choices don’t seem to make sense, they still support him! Ugh: DOGE job cuts bring pain to Trump heartland.
“Nobody that I’ve talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives,” Piggott, 47, told Reuters in an interview, saying she would not have supported Trump if she knew then what she knows now.
“As much as I think that President Trump is doing wonderful things for the country in some regards, I don’t understand this at all,” she said.
Roger Conley is a Trump supporter who left the Republican Party last year because he thought it was too liberal. In a Facebook post before BFS workers were cut, Conley said DOGE was acting like any successful business in boosting efficiency and wondered why anyone would question its moves to lower costs.
Then his son lost his job at BFS, according to union members.
In a February 20 Facebook post, Conley said while he still backed Trump, he questioned the need to fire so many people so quickly and whether Musk was the right person to lead the effort.
