#Purge

i looove the fediverseifediverse@mstdn.jp
2025-04-29

My mstdn.jp looks like this today and it's fine. I'm not complaining.

The moderation policy that you follow, I could predict this might happen one day and a purge now and then is actually healthy!

#mstdnjp #purge #mstdnjpPurge

2025-04-28

Is It Happening Here? Other countries have watched their #democracies slip away gradually, w/out #tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. archive.is/5cFz9 When #Trump ran again, in #2024, his #autocratic #rhetoric was more pitched. He promised #retribution, a #purge of ideological #enemies, and #mass #deportations on flimsy legal pretexts. WH debuted set of lawn signs 2 highlight undocumented people who have been arrested since Trump’s return 2 power

2025-04-24

In the latest edition of the Skinny I took advantage of the two day Easter truce with reality the Trump regime undertook to catch up on a couple of stories that had fallen by the wayside. Talking Climate Crisis, ideological purges in Trump's federal government, and why RFK Jr is starting to scare the heck out of me.

ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/23

The Skinny: Stop and Breathe

"It is shockingly disingenuous and absurd for the Trump regime to argue that regulations on air quality, fossil fuel production, environmental pollution control, and nuclear fucking waste are “contrary to the public interest.” Unfortunately that really doesn’t matter because once again it’s clear that the public interest was never the point of the president’s order. The crass level of corruption and self-serving exercise of power the Klepto Kaiser regularly partakes in makes it obvious that this is all just a way to reward his capitalist donors; without having to tolerate pushback from a public that cares very much about clean air to breath, clean water to drink, and a world on fire. Fascist is as fascist does I guess."

#Fascism #Trump #ClinateCrisis #Purge #RFKJr #Eugenics #Autism #Politics #News #Capitalism #TransRights

David Scott Moyerfarbel@mas.to
2025-04-22

If you live in Georgia, check your voter registration, and then check it again before the next election. Georgia is going to purge 450 thousand voters. Many of these will be legit, having moved or lapsed, but check yours anyway.

#voterregistration #georgia #voting #purge #votersuppression

Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’grammasaurus
2025-04-22

**“Ask yourself: what does it mean when defending Ukraine’s sovereignty could get you sidelined—while admiring Putin’s tactics gets you promoted?** That’s not diplomacy. That’s complicity.
This isn't restructuring. It's a purge.”

open.substack.com/pub/welivedi

2025-04-21

As I've mentioned a few times, the Trump regime is undoubtedly aware that there will be opposition inside the US federal workforce to its plans to repurpose the machinery of state to accomplish objectively fascist objectives. Which is of course why they're also working to give Der Leader the power to purge anyone who won't enact their heinous ideology in government, and presumably replace them with Heritage Foundation-trained obedient little nazis; as was leaked during Trump's 2024 election campaign.

As this Common Dreams article notes, this plan was originally called Schedule F when Trump tried to enact it near the end of his first term, but the fascists haven't abandoned the project because it's a vital step in enacting their reactionary, Christian Nationalist agenda. Now Trump is attempting to progress this ideological purge and restacking scheme forward under a new title, "Schedule Policy/Career," to ensure nobody with a conscience inside the government sticks around long enough to object to their fascist activities.

Trump Advances Plan to Fill Federal Government With 'Political Cronies'

commondreams.org/news/trumps-s

"Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said Friday's announcement was the latest "in a series of deliberate moves by this administration to corrupt the federal government and replace qualified public servants with political cronies."

"President Trump's action to politicize the work of tens of thousands of career federal employees will erode the government's merit-based hiring system and undermine the professional civil service that Americans rely on," said Kelley. "Politicizing the career civil service is a threat to our democracy and to the integrity of all the programs and services Americans rely on."

On some level, what the regime is attempting to do here amounts to a "jobs for cracker Republicans, and nobody else" program. But none of the stories about Trump politicizing the American government can be properly contextualized in a vacuum. The fact is that this is a fascist regime, attempting to force the entire US government to enforce a fascist "unreality" on society that would justify and enable their Christian Nationalist plans and intentions. Every single horrible thing Trump wants to do, every single idea the nazis want to turn in its head to harm rather than help people, becomes easier if the regime can purge opposition from the government and stack thousands of civil service positions with folks who ideologically support all this fascist bullshit.

Archived: archive.ph/swEG3

#Fascism #Trump #USPol #ScheduleF #ChristianNationalism #Purge #IdeologicalPolicing #LaborRights #AFGE #EverettKelley

2025-04-18

In court filings ahead of the hearing, Mark Paoletta, the bureau’s chief legal officer, defended the #purge, which he said would “right-size” an agency filled w/ “vast waste.” Paoletta said he & others had determined that it needed only 200 workers. Many legally required units — including those that focus on #FairLending, #StudentLoans & protections for older Americans — need only one! employee, he said.

#law #Trump #CFPB #consumers #finance #protections #corruption

Hacker Newsh4ckernews
2025-04-18

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

theregister.com/2025/04/18/ibm

2025-04-15

While I'm certain Amanda Marcotte and I have different ideas about how to actually fight fascism, I agree strongly with her argument that Marco Rubio's cable asking State Department employees to use a snitch line to report each other for "anti-Christian bias" is both an indicator of the regime's theocratic intentions and an ominous portent of the next moral panic the Trumpenreich will use to purge its enemies and continue installing a fascist dictatorship.

archive.ph/7Zge0

Marco Rubio's hunt for "anti-Christian bias" is creeping theocracy

"Unsurprisingly, a deeper read of the cable shows that "anti-Christian bias" is the cover story propped up to justify Rubio's actual assault on freedom of religion at State. He's giving Christian nationalists at the agency a tool to harass and even purge people who don't share their far-right beliefs. The definitions of "anti-Christian bias" throughout add up to outrage that conservative Christians are expected to treat people who believe differently with fairness and decency.

For instance, the memo asks for reports of "mistreatment for opposing displays of flags, banners or other paraphernalia," specifically during Joe Biden's administration. It doesn't take a doctorate in bureaucratese to interpret this. Rubio is seeking stories where conservative Christians were told to mind their own business after objecting to a colleague putting up a Pride flag, a Black Lives Matter sign or perhaps a religious knickknack from a non-Christian faith. This might be more comprehensible if, say, any Christians had being told they couldn't wear a cross or have a picture of Jesus on their desk. Instead, what Rubio is suggesting is that Christians have a prevent other people from having the freedom to express views and positions they dislike — and that it amounts to "bias" if they can't control what others do or say.

Also defined as "anti-Christian bias" is alleged mistreatment for "opposing official media content due to religious objections." Under Biden, the State Department flew the Pride flag, validated the passports of trans people, allowed LGBTQ employees to be out at the office, and expected employees to use the correct name and pronouns for trans colleagues. Under this new policy, if State employees objected to these policies, they are now free to punish those who asked them to show professional courtesy to co-workers. This is not an anti-discrimination policy, but a pro-discrimination policy."

Throughout the rest of the piece, Marcotte does a solid job of debunking the idea that anti-Christian bias is a significant problem in an increasingly Christian Nationalist/fundamentalist America, and pointing out that what Rubio is doing is enabling Christian Nationalists working at State to harass and potentially purge anyone opposed to their odious ideology; including other Christians who do not conform to the very narrow definition of believer the Christian Nationalist worldview allows for.

"What's ironic here is that, because of American demographics, most of the people who risk being targeted by these authoritarian policies are either Christian or grew up Christian. But a large part of the MAGA project is redefining "Christian" only to mean people who share a white nationalist, anti-feminist, anti-LGBTQ worldview — and want to use force to bring everyone else in line."

In other words, it's just another project to install fascist ideology as the only acceptable way to think and act inside the Trumpenreich-controlled US government. Where I think Marcotte's analysis shines however, and what I hope readers take away from this story, is the author's direct connection of this nascent argument for another fascist purge, with its prior two arguments for doing so as we watch them evolve into their horrifying final forms in real time; specifically the regime's fake wars against "antisemitism" and "gang activity."

Like most fascist movements, what some call "Trumpism" is actually a giant quilted patchwork of reactionaries, supremacists, and eliminationists who are ideologically aligned under the big picture fascist umbrella, but have (at times) wildly different priorities and concerns on the micro level, inside each individual clique. One of the core constituencies in the fascist Trump alliance are Christian Nationalists and the evangelical right; whose loyalty to the regime was rewarded with an anti-trans pogrom and assaults on public education (among other things) the moment Trump was inaugurated. Now, slightly staggered as their two prior fake moral panics become exposed as just bog standard fascism, what better way to right the nazi ship of state than to drum up a third moral panic about anti-Christian bias? This would rally the Christian right around Trump's banner, while the regime continues its project to purge "enemies" and install a fascist dictatorship, in what it hopes will become a white ethno-state.

#Fascism #Trump #Rubio #Theocracy #Purge #ChristianNationalism

WordofTheHourwordofthehour
2025-04-14

: to operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner

- German: das Abführmittel

- Italian: purificazione / epurazione

- Portuguese: expurgar

- Spanish: purga

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2025-04-11

"Navy vice admiral fired for insubordination, after refusing to display portrait of president and secretary of defense at NATO headquarters"

Also read the comments if you have the stomach

#trump #hegseth #purge #cultofpersonality #dictatorship #fascism #admiral

mustreadalaska.com/navy-vice-a

#purge #DEI #WarOnWomen

"Last Thursday, the Trump administration fired the director of the National Security Agency, Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh. Hegseth, who has derided diversity efforts because he says they weaken the military, has fired a series of senior officers, including the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. C.Q. Brown.

Brown, who is Black, had been outspoken about his career challenges and the need for racial reconciliation after the police murder of George Floyd in 2020. Like Chatfield’s firing, Brown’s dismissal and others came without explanation from the Pentagon.

(. . .)

The Senate confirmed Chatfield to the NATO post in a unanimous vote in December 2023. Reuters first reported her firing. The Trump administration has fired two other female admirals: the commandant of the Coast Guard, Linda Fagan, and the chief of naval operations, Lisa Franchetti."

usatoday.com/story/news/politi

2025-04-07

Firing more female leaders in the military - U.S. #admiral at #NATO fired, latest ouster in #Trump #military #purge. Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior #military leaders — and the fourth #woman — removed since Trump’s return to Washington.

2025-04-07

The #Trump admin has fired a top #Navy admiral assigned to #NATO HQ in Brussels, …the latest ouster in an ongoing #purge of senior #military officers that has disproportionately targeted #women.

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the US military rep to the NATO Military Cmte, was notified of her removal over the weekend…. Chatfield’s abrupt dismissal marks at least the 9th firing of a senior US military officer, including 4 women, since Trump returned to office <3 months ago.

#sexism #DEI #USpol

2025-04-07

US admiral at #NATO fired, latest ouster in #Trump #military #purge

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — & the 4th woman — removed since Trump’s return to Washington.

#MaleSupremacy #sexism #misogyny #DEI #USpol
washingtonpost.com/national-se

Tactical Training Teamtacticaltrainingteam
2025-04-06

Diese in und gab es wieder einiges an .
Unter anderem und .
Auch in Arma Reforger sind wir jeden unterwegs.
Nächste Woche gibt es auch wieder Missionen vom Feinsten!

@ArmaPlatform

OP Silent PurgeArma Reforger MittwochOP Silent PurgeOP Silent Purge
2025-04-01

#Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Cmte Chair #BillCassidy (R) & Ranking Member #BernieSanders (I) sent #RFKJr a joint letter asking him to testify at an April 10 hearing to explain his "proposed reorganization" of #HHS.

#PublicHealth #health #healthcare #disease #vaccines #research #science #medicine #pandemic #law #USpol #Musk #DOGE #MassLayoffs #purge #USpol #Trump

Dear Secretary Kennedy: We write to invite you to testify on April 10, 2025, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions at a hearing titled "An Update on the Restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services." The hearing will discuss your proposed reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services. The hearing will begin at 10:00AM EDT in room 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. We are following up on the commitment you made during the confirmation process that as Secretary you would come before the HELP Committee on a quarterly basis, upon request of the Chair. Please submit a written statement of any length prior to the hearing for inclusion in the hearing record. Committee rules require witnesses to submit testimony at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing. At the hearing, you will be given five minutes to summarize your written testimony. Each Senator will then have five minutes to ask questions. In order to accommodate Committee members and the press, please arrange to submit a one paragraph biographical profile, your written testimony, and a one-page summary of your testimony by electronic mail to Chung Shek (Chung_Shek@help.senate.gov) at least 48 hours prior to the hearing. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, April 10. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
2025-04-01

“And once again they’re breaking the #law to take money that has been granted to the states. These programs keep #Michigan healthy &, in some cases, help save lives, & that’s worth standing up & fighting for,” Nessel added.

#PublicHealth #healthcare #disease #vaccines #research #science #medicine #pandemic #law #USpol #RFKJr #Musk #DOGE #Coup #MassLayoffs #purge #US #health #HHS #Trump

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