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  1. There have been rumors that Trump is simply going to close USAID, which is an independent agency. He would ordinarily need Congress to do so, but…..Anyway, here is their website right now.
  2. https://apnews.com/article/trump-cbs-60-minutes-harris-interview-ac36372dd700c9d233eee78773473f49
  3. Do not understand how to share a planet with these people.
  4. Things getting shitty and even unrest is good for the admin. That’s the type of thing that you use to justify even greater special measures. We are in an authoritarian state. It’s happening here. Consider— those fired FBI personnel? Who do you think did that? Who processed the papers? Who walked them out? Who is uploading their separation papers. Just regular people. Civil servants who happily worked for Biden. Who are scared to lose their jobs. So they’ll do this.
  5. Concur. Was highly unimpressed after hearing the hype.
  6. Maybe those puddles were just extra horseradish sauce from the pit beef.
  7. Relevant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/
  8. JD having theological squabbles and online beefs with professors in the UK. This man would have been so much happier scribbling Thomist screeds in a French monastery in response to some other monk in Bavaria.
  9. He may not be fucked but he’s for sure finished off.
  10. The pair mentioned had moved to the U.S. in the 1990s, naturalized, and coached U.S. juniors.
  11. All of them were now American. Most of them either Russian-American or kids of Russian immigrants. At least that’s what Telegram is reporting. I’m not going to repost till confirmed.
  12. The feds are the last major unionized workforce. And the only thing they can get involved in is stuff like this. There will be amazing lawsuits.
  13. The number of feds that retire each year is a bit more than 100k which is suspiciously close to the “5-10 percent” of the federal work force predicted by OPM to take this offer. Assuming that doing so doesn’t fuck a pension and retirement benefits (not a given at all as actual agencies haven’t chimed in), my bet would be that the vast chunk of people who take this will be retirement eligible and have plans to do so soon. DOGE will tout their efficiency in paying them to not work on the way out. There will also be a lot of lawsuits on this as the largest and best funded unions are licking their chops to go to town on this for anyone who feels they didn’t get what they were promised. Which the taxpayer will pay to defend. There’s a good reason the government doesn’t do personnel actions by email subject line. Everyone will get a lesson in “tech founder” number cooking.
  14. My strong recommendation is to never use an expediter unless you really value your time a LOT more than your money, but that’s a discussion for another thread.
  15. The shock workers of DOGE have increased efficiency by 20 percent over quota. The heroes of MAGA labor expressed their determination to reach 40 percent over quota.
  16. Creating a problem for someone else. It’s very easy to get people to GITMO. Something else entirely to get them out.
  17. That offer came anonymously from an office that has no authority to offer it and in a way completely out of line with how the federal government handle any personnel action. A better question is why anyone would think it is valid.
  18. How does Elon’s dick taste? Umami at the back of the tongue or bitter at the front? Who are we kidding, it doesn’t reach the back.
  19. This isn’t a buyout. You can check the other thread for more, but employees that accept remain on payroll, get paid on a regular basis, and either keep teleworking or move to admin leave. It’s not even clear if all agencies will let employees accept, which jobs are exempt, and if employees can even take other jobs before 30 September. And if you are moved to admin leave you likely take a pay cut in the form of no agency matching to the government version of a 401k. I’d expect a pretty low uptake nearly only from people planning to leave anyway or retire. It’s not even as good as voluntary early retirement.
  20. More on the utter shit show that is OPM (which is now the nerve center for Elon’s team). https://www.pogo.org/investigations/raging-misogynist-now-federal-government-h-r-s-top-lawyer
  21. Astronauts are not stranded on ISS. This is a new storyline that was launched and Trump and Elon are doing kayfabe.
  22. “Acting” Inspector General because the real one was fired illegally. The United States has an authoritarian regime in control. This was voted for.
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