Judge orders Education Department to remove out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for shutdown

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A federal judge told the Department of Education to remove “partisan” language blaming “Democrat Senators” for the government shutdown from furloughed federal workers’ out-of-office email messages.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper sided with a federal employees’ union that alleged its members’ auto-reply emails were changed without their permission to insert the partisan message.

Cooper said the move violated the First Amendment because the government had essentially forced staffers to make a political statement against their will, a concept known as “compelled speech.”

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Only took a month to issue this order, lightning speed for the law.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Letting shitty people do blatantly shitty stuff for months on end deserves punishment, not just telling them to stop.

This admin is so embarrassing

“… enacted by the sitting government at the time of the shutdown in 2025 …”

There, completely unbiased.

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/straightens deck chairs on the Titanic

That’s much better.

Honestly I think it might be doing more harm than good at this point. It is so transparent that I think even Americans can smell that it’s bullshit.

No. It’s still doing exactly what it’s supposed to be doing: reinforcing political tribalism and radicalizing the far right against “the other side”.

Trump can’t run for office again, he doesn’t need the votes or approval. What he needs is control, and having a rabid base of armed and angry supporters taking his word as gospel is a means to that end.

And unfortunately, it works. His dissenters in the Republican party are afraid to speak out against him.

So the USDAs website… When?

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