I feel like throwing an eraser at these sleeping #influencers like one of my professors did at #HowardU BITD. Hello? Have you been paying attention? The current #fascist #lawless regime is, whelp, #lawless. They are busy #deporting #legalimmigrants & threatening to #deport #citizens. They have illegally fired #civilservants. Why would they, on god's green earth, be constrained by #international #treaties and #IARU agreements or listen to suggestions from #hams?

#DOGE has sought access to a powerful database of nearly all US workers’ earnings kept by the #health dept’s #ChildSupport office, setting off another disagreement w/career staff over demands for legally #protected records, acc/to 4 people familiar w/the matter.

Over the last several weeks, #billionaire #ElonMusk’s team has clashed w/ #CivilServants over attempts to #access privileged #information or systems kept by the #Treasury Dept, #IRS & #SocialSecurity, among other agencies.

#Trump’s attempt to fire Dellinger is part of his broader push to remove government #watchdogs who investigate wrongdoing & protect #FederalWorkers. Trump also has tried to fire the head of the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB], an #independent agency that hears appeals of terminations & other adverse actions against #CivilServants. A federal judge reinstated her temporarily. Dellinger’s office refers certain cases to the merit board, which issues its own decisions.

The plan for his #DOGE was mapped out in a series of closely held meetings in Palm Beach, FL, & through early #intelligence-gathering efforts in Washington.

Without ceding control of his companies, the richest man in the world has embedded his engineers & aides inside the government’s critical #digital #infrastructure, moving with a swiftness that has stunned #CivilServants.

#ElonMusk deepened the confusion & alarm of workers across the #FederalGovernment Saturday by ordering them to summarize their accomplishments for the week, warning that a failure to do so would be taken as a resignation.

Shortly after #Musk’s demand, which he posted on X, #CivilServants across the government received an email from the Office of Personnel Management with the subject line, “What did you do last week?”

It is a name that #Trump 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 #CivilServants & the very notion of #apolitical #expertise.

Trump allies make noises about expert failures—& yes, experts sometimes do fail. In particular, #MAGA world continues to demonize what its constituents believe was the medical establishment’s attempt to curtail civil rights during the pandemic…

#Trump’s plan to shrink the size of the federal work force dealt blows to thousands of #CivilServants in the past few days. But the cuts to the #HHS — coming on the heels of the #coronavirus #pandemic, the worst #PublicHealth crisis in a century — have been especially jarring. Experts say the firings threaten to leave the country exposed to further shortages of #health workers, putting Americans at risk if another crisis erupts.

The #CIA does not disclose its budget or the number of people it employs.
…The report of #buyout offers is in line w/a massive makeover of the US govt embarked on by the #Trump admin, which has fired & sidelined hundreds of #CivilServants in first steps toward downsizing *bureaucracy* & installing #loyalists.

The WH last wk offered 2M civilian full-time #FederalWorkers an opportunity to stop working this wk & [supposedly] receive pay & benefits through Sept 30 as Trump seeks to slash the govt.

@Wileymiller They and their team are not elected officials and have no authority or power under law but this clown show will serve the purpose as directed - dismantle career public service jobs across the government [which means offices in all states] and eliminate experts who together perform critical services for our country in all sectors. #doge #musk #trump #ramaswamy #politics #maga #lies #democracy #civilservants #federalgovernment

@csmonitor @politics-csmonitor Everything about #rump and co is about #politics #power #censorship #dictatorship #tyranny - forcing #government, #civilservants #intel #lawenforcement to bend a knee under constant #threat to #democracy is a #fact. Responses are now circumscribed by #genuine #fear - just what the new overlords want. #SCOTUS #House #Senate and many state legislatures will not be buffer. There is no place to run #legalresearch #courts #congress #democracymatters