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>
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Nonilex<p>About 30% of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> employees in the federal government are <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/veterans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>veterans</span></a>, & many have lost jobs in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s drive to cut federal spending. Trump & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, who is leading the *cutbacks*, have fired about 20,000 workers on probationary status — & about 6,000 were veterans.</p><p><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/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/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/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</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/TheCrueltyIsThePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheCrueltyIsThePoint</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/2025/03/04/us/politics/veteran-firings-trump-musk-democrats.html?smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/veteran-firings-trump-musk-democrats.html?smid=url-share</span></a></p>
Keith B Martin DC :verified:<p>YES!!!</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SOTU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOTU</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-congress-fired-federal-workers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/03/trump-congress-fired-federal-workers</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"The team is now moving faster than many of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> efforts to stop it, making drastic changes that could be hard to unwind even if they are ultimately constrained by the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>courts</span></a>. Musk’s associates have pushed out workers, ignored <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> protections, torn up contracts & effectively shuttered an entire agency established by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>...</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> & his crew... now have about all the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/passwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passwords</span></a> they could ever need"<br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.t9r3.sBTAws_GSyV3&smid=url-share" 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?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.t9r3.sBTAws_GSyV3&smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</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>Allies of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, …fanned out across the govt as part of the transition, extracting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> about computer systems, contracts & personnel.</p><p>The team is now moving faster than many of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> efforts to stop it, making drastic changes that could be hard to unwind even if they are ultimately constrained by the courts. Musk’s associates have pushed out workers, ignored <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> protections, torn up contracts & effectively shuttered an entire agency established by Congress: the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</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>
Nonilex<p>US Dist Judge William Alsup ordered <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OPM</span></a> to rescind its prior directives to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a> including the Dept of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defense</span></a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Park" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Park</span></a> Service, Bureau of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Land" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Land</span></a> Management, National <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> Foundation, & others. The ruling is one of the biggest roadblocks so far to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s effort to slash the federal workforce.</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/MassFirings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassFirings</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</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></p>
Nonilex<p>Probationary employees—those who were recently hired, promoted, or otherwise changed roles—have been targeted first, as they lack certain <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/protections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protections</span></a> that would make them harder to fire. Thousands of workers have been terminated over the last few weeks across multiple agencies. With the new software & the use of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, some government employees fear that large-scale terminations could roll out even more quickly.</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/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/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AutoRIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutoRIF</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/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/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Linknation<p>"20 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/civilservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservice</span></a> employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> adviser <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s Department of Government Efficiency (<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dodge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dodge</span></a>) saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dismantle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dismantle</span></a> critical <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/publicservices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicservices</span></a>.”“We swore to serve the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> people and uphold our oath to the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/doge-elon-m</span><span class="invisible">usk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c</span></a></p>
The Conversation U.S.<p>Trump's plan to reclassify 50,000 federal workers would make them easier to fire for political reasons. </p><p>Critics say this threatens the merit-based, politically neutral <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/civilservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservice</span></a> that 87% of Americans support. A public affairs professor explains: <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <br><a href="https://theconversation.com/trumps-moves-to-strip-employment-protections-from-federal-workers-threaten-to-make-government-function-worse-not-better-248086" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/trumps-mov</span><span class="invisible">es-to-strip-employment-protections-from-federal-workers-threaten-to-make-government-function-worse-not-better-248086</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>> 20 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/civilservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservice</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/employees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>employees</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/resigned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resigned</span></a> Feb 25 from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> adviser <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> saying they were refusing 2 use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> people and uphold our oath to the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> across <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/presidential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>presidential</span></a> administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by AP. “ However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/doge-elon-m</span><span class="invisible">usk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>>20 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> employees resigned from billionaire <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> adviser <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s DOGE, saying they would not use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”</p><p>“We swore to serve the American people & uphold our oath to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/resignation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resignation</span></a> letter, a copy of which was obtained by AP. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”<br><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/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/doge-elon-m</span><span class="invisible">usk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c</span></a></p>
The Conversation U.S.<p>From Turkey to Hungary to Venezuela to Benin, firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power.</p><p> Scholars share lessons learned from around the globe: <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/autocrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocrats</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://buff.ly/40WR9n6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/40WR9n6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dennis A<p><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/MassDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <br>Trump/Musk fired more hardworking American civil servants than immigrants deported. </p><p>Trump admin deported fewer people than it fired in first month—Report</p><p>"New numbers reported by Reuters show lower-than-expected deportation numbers, showing more federal employees fired in comparison."<br><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-deported-people-fired-month-report-2034869" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/trump-admin-depor</span><span class="invisible">ted-people-fired-month-report-2034869</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>Federal employees, please see this advice from counsel.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFedi</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FederalEmployees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalEmployees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GovJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovJobs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/OPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FederalWorker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/KnowYourRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowYourRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GovernmentJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentJobs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EmploymentLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmploymentLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WorkplaceRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkplaceRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FedLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FedLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicService</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JobSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JobSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UnionStrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnionStrong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MindfulWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MindfulWork</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shaunsouthworth_federalemployees-govjobs-elonmusk-activity-7299441298959151104-S3zc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAACmWtEBurVmJxUdnv5QtGB6hgFTyYJNROs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/shaunsouthw</span><span class="invisible">orth_federalemployees-govjobs-elonmusk-activity-7299441298959151104-S3zc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAACmWtEBurVmJxUdnv5QtGB6hgFTyYJNROs</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“There is zero basis in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> system for this,” said Sam Bagenstos, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> prof at the University of Michigan & a fmr general counsel to the OMB. “This is obviously designed to intimidate employees. <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> & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin are persistently acting in a way that disregards civil service rules & they are just counting on the courts not being able to catch up & clean up after them.</p><p>“They are counting on employees saying, ‘This is too much, I can’t keep doing this,’” he added.</p>
Nonilex<p>“It is cruel & disrespectful,” Kelley said, “to hundreds of thousands of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/veterans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>veterans</span></a> who are wearing their second uniform in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilService</span></a> to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicService</span></a> in his life.” 🔥</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>’s demand raised significant <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> issues, experts said.</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/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</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>
Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱<p>"The most ferocious response to <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> in the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> is also the most disciplined. It’s a sustained act of <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/civildisobedience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civildisobedience</span></a> by the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/civilservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilservice</span></a>. Amid the malignant <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a> of the current regime, <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> workers are steadily telling the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/civil-servants-trump-gamestop" 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/20/civil-servants-trump-gamestop</span></a></p>
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