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A.<p>Part 2<br>Its possible that they laid off the federal workers just to save on retirement payouts.<br>from Business Insider <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlueWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlueWave</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/midterms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>midterms</span></a></p>
Kay<p>Gives a history of how the when the Democrat party was in power for 60 years life got better. Also how the <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Heratagefoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heratagefoundation</span></a> which was created in the 70's set a blueprint for Ronald Reagan to follow and he did etc</p><p>The <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> resentment toward <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/federalworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federalworkers</span></a> is misguided. <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>...</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0?si=UzuTURWf8cdaNRzA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0</span><span class="invisible">?si=UzuTURWf8cdaNRzA</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The decision further clears the way for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> to re-fire probationary employees. Those are typically <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> in their 1st or 2nd year on the job, or who have been recently promoted.</p><p>In a 2-to-1 decision, the appeals court said the Trump admin was likely to succeed in showing that the lower court lacked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jurisdiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jurisdiction</span></a> in the case brought by 19 states &amp; DC. The court did not rule on whether the firings were <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawful</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/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</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/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</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/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>🤬 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/4thCircuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4thCircuit</span></a> clears the way for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> to fire <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> again </p><p>In a win for Trump, a panel of judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a lower court ruling ordering 20 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a> to reinstate tens of thousands of employees they had fired.</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/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</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/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</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/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357415/trump-federal-probationary-employees-firings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-53574</span><span class="invisible">15/trump-federal-probationary-employees-firings</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Don't forget who's defending this: "pro-life" Catholics are doing so. And don't listen to the spin of those who want to keep pretending that the Roberts Supreme Court has not anointed Trump a quasi-king and will overturn every precedent and invent every legal loophole to allow him to continue trampling on people's rights and lives.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ProLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProLife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>And now that same "pro-life" Supreme Court dominated by a bloc of right-wing Catholics is going to bat for Trump as he and Musk remove thousands of workers from jobs, from livelihoods, from wages to pay bills, pay for housing, put food on the table, provide healthcare coverage for themselves and family members, etc.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ProLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProLife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>The treatment being afforded to immigrants who are, it appears, innocent but are being shipped to lethal foreign prisons contradicts Catholic "pro-life" values in the grossest way possible.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ProLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProLife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Something we shouldn't allow ourselves to forget or unsee as the Roberts Supreme Court invents legal fictions to provide cover for Donald Trump as he rounds up and deports immigrants who are afforded no due process:</p><p>The Roberts Supreme Court is controlled by a bloc of right-wing "pro-life" Catholics, Roberts himself included in their number.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ProLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProLife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <br>/1</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> on Tues blocked a ruling from a federal judge in California that had ordered the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin to rehire 16k of fired <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> who had been on probationary status.</p><p>The court’s brief order said the nonprofit groups that had sued to challenge the dismissals had not suffered the sort of injury that gave them standing to sue.</p><p><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040825zr_1b8e.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">supremecourt.gov/orders/courto</span><span class="invisible">rders/040825zr_1b8e.pdf</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/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</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/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/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivistCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartisanCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CorruptCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorruptCourt</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Something’s not adding up </p><p>The report is: US employers added 228k jobs in March. About 2X the number added in Feb. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1% in Feb, as 232k people joined or rejoined the workforce.</p><p>But the report also says: Feb–March, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> signaled cuts of &gt;280k <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> &amp; contractors in 27 agencies, acc/to a count kept by the outsourcing firm Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas.</p><p><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/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</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/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5349661/jobs-economy-trump-tariffs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-53496</span><span class="invisible">61/jobs-economy-trump-tariffs</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Nonprofits challenging the February mass-firing of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> urged <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Thurs to leave in place a federal judge’s order that would require the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin to reinstate 16k fired employees from 6 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</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/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</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/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/nonprofits-urge-justices-to-leave-judges-reinstatement-of-federal-employees-in-place/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scotusblog.com/2025/04/nonprof</span><span class="invisible">its-urge-justices-to-leave-judges-reinstatement-of-federal-employees-in-place/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"Authorizing a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>-controlled agency like <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OPM</span></a> to hire a driver while slashing essential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> who actually help Americans in need is a good example."</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>, Musk &amp; Ezell did not respond to requests for comment. An OPM spox said in a statement that the agency "has ongoing security concerns" requiring a driver, w/o providing further detail.</p><p><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/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</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/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</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/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
Shady Jon<p>OMG, this is so sweet. Wife found out her federal job was being eliminated. Husband drove her out to the burbs to a puppy adoption event, only to find out that they got the time wrong and missed it. So he posted on the DC sub reddit, and if you need a glimpse of human kindness, take a look: </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1jmrk87/fed_in_need_of_hanging_out_with_a_puppy/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comm</span><span class="invisible">ents/1jmrk87/fed_in_need_of_hanging_out_with_a_puppy/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kindness</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/puppies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>puppies</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>He says he's witnessing "something big"</p><p>Da has followed the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin's firing of many US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> &amp; its dismantling of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>. As a past visitor to Washington, he knows people who have been fired.</p><p>"Having said that," he added, "I don't want to be too critical to the Trump administration just from this personal level. As a scholar, I try to be neutral. I think there is something big happening in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>. It could be bad. It could be good."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</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>Whoa, yesterday, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> illegally stripped <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CollectiveBargaining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollectiveBargaining</span></a> rights from hundreds of thousands of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> in 18 different departments across multiple <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>.</p><p>The admin stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared *<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a>* on President Trump’s agenda.”</p><p>Is he going to use <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wartime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wartime</span></a> powers against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> members now?</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/LaborLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborLaw</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/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</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/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/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gaslighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaslighting</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaziState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-exempts-agencies-with-national-security-missions-from-federal-collective-bargaining-requirements/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-exempts-agencies-with-national-security-missions-from-federal-collective-bargaining-requirements/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>This is the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new admin that are squandering America’s strength &amp; threatening our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a>. Firing hundreds of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> charged w/protecting our nation’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> weapons is also <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dumb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumb</span></a>. So is shutting down efforts to fight <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pandemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemics</span></a> just as a deadly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ebola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ebola</span></a> outbreak is spreading in Africa. It makes no sense to purge talented generals, diplomats &amp; spies at a time when rivals like China &amp; Russia are trying to expand their…reach.</p>
50501 Chicago<p>One more day of action! On April 5th we will be united with many groups to say HANDS OFF</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/WeAreAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeAreAmerica</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/50501Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>50501Chicago</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/50501Movement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>50501Movement</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PeacefulProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeacefulProtest</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PeaceIsNotPassive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeaceIsNotPassive</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BuildTheResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuildTheResistance</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/peaceful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peaceful</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/50501protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>50501protests</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/50501activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>50501activists</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Midwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midwest</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DumpTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumpTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DumpElon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumpElon</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DumpMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumpMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fiftyfiftyone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiftyfiftyone</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/action" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>action</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/midwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>midwest</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Unite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unite</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fight</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Win" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Win</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EndOverreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndOverreach</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Illinois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illinois</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Midwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midwest</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThreePointFivePerCent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreePointFivePerCent</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/April5th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>April5th</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/indivisible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indivisible</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/womensmarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensmarch</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a></p><p>A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> government workers, according to job ads &amp; a researcher who uncovered the campaign.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/secretive-chinese-network-tries-lure-fired-federal-workers-research-shows-2025-03-25/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/china/secret</span><span class="invisible">ive-chinese-network-tries-lure-fired-federal-workers-research-shows-2025-03-25/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, as the architect of a group he called the Dept of Govt *Efficiency*, has taken a chain saw to the apparatus of governing, spurring <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> &amp; dread by pushing out some 100k <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> &amp; shutting down various agencies, though the govt has not been consistent in explaining the expanse of his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a>.</p><p>But in selected spots across the govt, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> is positioning itself to see billions in new federal contracts or other support….</p><p><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/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Vero Balderas Iglesias<p>Posting in my personal capacity since I was placed on Administrative Leave by USAGM. Today, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/federalworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federalworkers</span></a>, and their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a> sued the U.S. Agency for Global Media (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USAGM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAGM</span></a>), its Acting Director Victor Morales, and Special Adviser <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KariLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KariLake</span></a> to challenge the unlawful shuttering of the agency and silencing of global media. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/saveVOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saveVOA</span></a><br>👉🏼 <a href="https://www.afge.org/publication/journalists-federal-workers-and-unions-file-lawsuit-to-challenge-closure-of-us-agency-for-global-media/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">afge.org/publication/journalis</span><span class="invisible">ts-federal-workers-and-unions-file-lawsuit-to-challenge-closure-of-us-agency-for-global-media/</span></a></p>