Nonilex<p>Such <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonpartisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonpartisan</span></a> roles traditionally have had <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JobProtections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JobProtections</span></a> that shielded them from the political whims of whoever was in the White House.</p><p>But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> & many of his backers have long believed the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> that a "deep state" of Washington bureaucrats was undercutting his agenda.</p><p>Toward the end of his first term, Trump signed an EO establishing a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScheduleF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScheduleF</span></a> category for federal employees.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OPM</span></a>'s new rule—dubbed "Schedule Policy/Career"—will allow many career <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> to be classified as "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AtWill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtWill</span></a>" employees, making them easier to remove.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> aides argue they need greater flexibility to fire civil servants who are *underperforming*, engaging in *misconduct* or *undermining* Trump's policy plans.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScheduleF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScheduleF</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutivePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutivePower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3<p>I feel like throwing an eraser at these sleeping <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/influencers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>influencers</span></a> like one of my professors did at <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/HowardU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HowardU</span></a> BITD. Hello? Have you been paying attention? The current <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> regime is, whelp, <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a>. They are busy <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/deporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deporting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/legalimmigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legalimmigrants</span></a> & threatening to <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/deport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/citizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citizens</span></a>. They have illegally fired <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/civilservants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservants</span></a>. Why would they, on god's green earth, be constrained by <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>international</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/treaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treaties</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/IARU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IARU</span></a> agreements or listen to suggestions from <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/hams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hams</span></a>?</p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/civilservants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firings</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dictattors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictattors</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> </p><p>A Civil Servant Speaks<br><a href="https://substack.com/@oldreddragon/note/c-100406955?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/@oldreddragon/not</span><span class="invisible">e/c-100406955?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p>Inside the Explosive Meeting Where <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Officials Clashed With <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a></p><p>Simmering anger at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a>’s unchecked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> spilled out in a remarkable <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cabinet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cabinet</span></a> Room meeting. Trump quickly moved to [appear to] rein in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NeoReactionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoReactionary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NRx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NRx</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofeudalism</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E4.ATOK.IAuKFCoOgNFl&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-musk-doge-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E4.ATOK.IAuKFCoOgNFl&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> has sought access to a powerful database of nearly all US workers’ earnings kept by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> dept’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> office, setting off another disagreement w/career staff over demands for legally <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/protected" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protected</span></a> records, acc/to 4 people familiar w/the matter.<br>
Over the last several weeks, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s team has clashed w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> over attempts to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/access" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>access</span></a> privileged <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> or systems kept by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Treasury</span></a> Dept, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRS</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a>, among other agencies.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>JFC</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> targets <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChildSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildSupport</span></a> database full of private income data<br>
Associates of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s group provoked yet another clash with career <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> over sensitive government records</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/06/doge-hhs-ssa-data/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/business/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/06/doge-hhs-ssa-data/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s attempt to fire Dellinger is part of his broader push to remove government <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/watchdogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>watchdogs</span></a> who investigate wrongdoing & protect <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a>. Trump also has tried to fire the head of the Merit Systems Protection Board [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MSPB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSPB</span></a>], an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independent</span></a> agency that hears appeals of terminations & other adverse actions against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a>. A federal judge reinstated her temporarily. Dellinger’s office refers certain cases to the merit board, which issues its own decisions.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The group at Mar-a-Lago brainstormed ways to terminate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a>. One idea was to motivate them to quit, by forcing them to return to the office 5 days a week or, as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ramaswamy</span></a> suggested, moving <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> to work on admin priorities like border security. Ramaswamy predicted to the team that many federal workers would not want to be part of an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> crackdown & would leave govt — a win-win situation.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…In one early meeting, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> said Smith was being too careful & offering “classic consultant stuff.” In discussions, Musk expressed impatience w/Smith’s caution that the team would need a phalanx of lawyers to help w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrders</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulations</span></a>. Musk wanted to tear down the government to the studs, & saw Smith’s approach as incremental.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The plan for his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> was mapped out in a series of closely held meetings in Palm Beach, FL, & through early <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a>-gathering efforts in Washington.</p><p>Without ceding control of his companies, the richest man in the world has embedded his engineers & aides inside the government’s critical <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a>, moving with a swiftness that has stunned <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NeoReactionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoReactionary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NRx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NRx</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofeudalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>How <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy 🧵</p><p>It started as banter at a fund-raising dinner for Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential campaign in 2023. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> indicated to guests that he believed that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> was the key to gutting the federal bureaucracy.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicService</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NeoReactionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoReactionary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NRx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NRx</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofeudalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=6140EDB3-F386-416C-A435-30BAE8B243F0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=6140EDB3-F386-416C-A435-30BAE8B243F0</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/lauraingrahm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lauraingrahm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/civilservants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservants</span></a> </p><p>From Today in Politics Ron Filipkowski</p><p>… Fox host Laura Ingraham: “How are Democrats going to win elections? By trying to gin up sympathy for federal workers who need to get real jobs in the real world?”</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> deepened the confusion & alarm of workers across the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> Saturday by ordering them to summarize their accomplishments for the week, warning that a failure to do so would be taken as a resignation.</p><p>Shortly after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>’s demand, which he posted on X, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> across the government received an email from the Office of Personnel Management with the subject line, “What did you do last week?”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>It is a name that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is allowing a favored donor & ally to use in a reckless campaign against various targets in the federal govt. The whole enterprise is an attack against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> & the very notion of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/apolitical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apolitical</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/expertise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expertise</span></a>.</p><p>Trump allies make noises about expert failures—& yes, experts sometimes do fail. In particular, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> world continues to demonize what its constituents believe was the medical establishment’s attempt to curtail civil rights during the pandemic…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s plan to shrink the size of the federal work force dealt blows to thousands of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> in the past few days. But the cuts to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> — coming on the heels of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coronavirus</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a>, the worst <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> crisis in a century — have been especially jarring. Experts say the firings threaten to leave the country exposed to further shortages of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> workers, putting Americans at risk if another crisis erupts.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a></p>
wdhughes.bsky.social<p>We need to continue to turn out to <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23protest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a> as much as we can. We need to support <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23CivilServants" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilServants</a> and give moral support to <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FederalWorkers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalWorkers</a> so they know what our will is.
"...public <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23outrage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#outrage</a> gave us <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23courage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courage</a> and the knowledge that we were, in fact, working in the public interest."<br><br><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/05/brendan-ballou-how-to-resist-trump-00202381" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Opinion | Notes to the America...</a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>"A new internal memo circulating inside the U.S. Agency for International Development [...] warns USAID employees not to communicate with the press about the shocking disruptions in humanitarian assistance that are being caused by the Trump-Musk attack on the agency [...]"</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/191578</span><span class="invisible">/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo</span></a></p><p>We need to support our government workers more than ever, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@civictech" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>civictech</span></a></span> has some resources:</p><p><a href="https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=cdb853c4847acff0d0a09460d&id=129a43c362" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=c</span><span class="invisible">db853c4847acff0d0a09460d&id=129a43c362</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USNews</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a></p>
gentlegardener<p>“Based on the most recent data available, as of March 2024, there were approximately 150,000 federal workers -- excluding Defense Department employees -- with one year of service or less.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/civilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilServants</span></a><br><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-begins-mass-layoffs-multiple-federal-agencies/story?id=118805051" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/US/trump-admini</span><span class="invisible">stration-begins-mass-layoffs-multiple-federal-agencies/story?id=118805051</span></a></p>
Xamanismo Coletivo<p>"These <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/partisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>partisan</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/witchhunts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witchhunts</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firings</span></a> need to stop. Congress creates independent agencies and insulates <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/civilservants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservants</span></a> from partisan firings for a reason. </p><p>If this week’s actions become the new normal—and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/partisanship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>partisanship</span></a> becomes the only criteria for holding a position in a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/federalagency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federalagency</span></a>—then our financial markets will be more volatile, our consumer products more hazardous, our skies more dangerous, and our civil liberties and constitutional rights less secure."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/trump-oversight-board-firing-security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/feb/06/trump-oversight-board-firing-security</span></a></p>
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