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Unions & Civil Rights Groups Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by Trump
1,000+ lawyers in 42 states have completed training to offer their services as Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network
#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #TrumpMuskPurge #MuskTrumpPurge #Justice
I'm case you're wondering, @skullvalanche's Arthur A. Allen pioneered and perfected a modeling program that predicts where people lost at sea will be found, cutting search and rescue times and saving thousands of lives during his 35-year career with the Federal government.
https://servicetoamericamedals.org/honorees/arthur-a-allen/
Sen. Tim Kaine:
When you fire #veterans working for the US government, fire staff & close programs for #Vets at the #VeteransAdministration, this is a war on veterans. And they can't claim this is accidental.
Amy McGrath's theory: DoD is currently lead by a guy who has wanted to privatize the #VA, and so the idea is to gut it, make it worse so there's an outcry against it [Me: and artificially create support for #privatization].
#VMI's 1st Black superintendent says ouster's based on politics, not job performance
https://apnews.com/article/vmi-black-superintendent-cedric-wins-virginia-544bb0d267f915e78f7ad890300a6ee7
VMI is an official #Virginia State institution. #VAgov Youngkin's fingerprints are all over this move motivated by #Trump/ MAGA's racist anti-#DEI fever dream.
Alex Witt/MSNBC:
All 80,000 #HHS employees, incl MDs, have rec'd an UNSIGNED letter offering them a payout if they resign. Many, if not all, are leery of it since they have no idea who or where it came from &/or don't believe they'll get paid in the end anyway.
#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #RFKjrPurge #RFKjr #Trust #Health #Healthcare
Take action to save public services at
savepublicservices.com.
Jake Auchincloss to Ayman:
#DOGE firing employees is misdirection: it does NOT reduce the budget.
Federal employees account for about 5% of the federal budget.
Seen on 🦋:
"Power always thinks it has a great Soul, and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws."
- John Adams
#TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #TrumpFreeze #MuskCoup #MuskPurge #MuskFreeze #TrumpMuskPurge #TrumpMuskChaos #MuskTrumpPurge #MuskTrumpChaos
The #DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun
It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.
Oopsie!
#TrumpMuskPurge just wrecked an NIH org championed by #GOPers, who once lavished praise on #NIH center that deals w/#Alzheimers. Donald Trump & Elon Musk are hobbling it.
What will those Republicans say now?
Hope you like the sound of crickets. https://newrepublic.com/article/191702/trump-musk-national-institutes-health-wrecked
US Citizens:
If you haven't already been alerted, you might want to check this page from #SSA to see what the current status of your local #SocialSecurity office is:
https://www.ssa.gov/agency/emergency/?utm_campaign=emergencypage&utm_content=ctabtn&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#V
From @jeremy_kress on 🦋:
The #FDIC is funded by fees paid by banks.
Firing FDIC bank examiners saves zero taxpayer dollars and puts the whole #economy at risk.
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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/fdic-fires-probationary-employees-amid-continued-agency-cull
‘Who the hell voted for Big Balls?’ Former Clinton adviser rages at Musk’s teen DOGE hire | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-edward-coristine-b2697352.html
@petersuber
Bird flu explains why eggs are so expensive, so they wouldn't be able to blame migrants or trans people or whatever. Plus so far it's affecting mainly poultry and dairy workers i.e. the poors, mostly brown, so they don't care.
#BirdFlu #CDCcensorship #MuskPurge #TrumpPurge
Another #Tesla slammed into a firetruck, this time killing its operator (driver?) on a #California highway. "At least 14 Teslas have #crashed into emergency vehicles while using self-driving systems," AP reports. Shouldn't #lifesafety be a basic #engineering principle in #autopilot development? The #FAA would never allow this in air travel... why doesn't #Congress act to stop it on the #roads? https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20/1158367204/tesla-driver-killed-california-firetruck-nhtsa
#AI #BadEngineering #EngineeringEthics #SelfDriving #TeslaSuicide #MuskPurge
#MuskPurge has begun.
He's essentially asking for his followers to shadowban anyone who is unmutual to the new regime.
Keith Olbermann on the Musk journo-purge. This is an event worthy of KO's hyperbolic vituperation. " I"ll give you the full saga of Apartheid Clyde here, but what a friggin candy-ass lying hypocritical self-contradicting little paranoid snowflake Elon Musk is!"
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/so-elon-musk-has-banned-me-from-twitter-12-16-22/id1633301179?i=1000590363832
#Musk #MuskPurge #TwitterPurge #elonjet
