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Posts posted by The Original Greaser Bob
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18 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:
This is fucking madness. What.the.fuck.
this state sucks ass
Let a transgendered high schooler race in a high school swim meet, fool me once.
Let two more race over the course of the next year, we won't get fooled again.
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41 minutes ago, South Austin said:
I don't see the issue as winnable at all.
Dude, I'm just trying to psyche myself up. I'm basing this on being on the winning side of a Richardson School District school board election and one state representative election.
The school board election was close but it really felt like my little participation did help.
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This issue is winnable if everyone harasses their state reps and Sens and gets involved in school board elections and identifies those who are trying to destroy public education.
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1 hour ago, troph said:
well, the first thing I would consider is re-arrange your local friend group, because they will be much better at this than I for what you can do locally. Quick google shows a few restaurants, bars, lodging providers, therapists, gyms, etc. are openly supportive and accepting. I would look those places up and first, support them with your dollars, and second get to know the staff and owners and try and get into their community. Most people who are openly supportive are eager to meet more openly supportive people and you can actually just strike up the conversation about what are the comings and goings on around JC, what else can we do, are there any organizations, etc. Often times there are support groups, get togethers, etc. This may not yield exactly what you want but it gets you plugged in and there's no better place to do that than in your own back yard.
As for organizations to support - here are the Texas orgs I would consider (some of which I am intimately familar with but I'd rather not say my involvement publicly I can answer questions privately though):
* Equality Texas - this is the premier Texas LGBTQ+ organization in the state. They are the group that ran trans ads during Abbott's state of the state address. This organization is well funded and focuses exclusively on LGBTQ+ issues, and let's face it right now that's almost exclusively TQ issues.
* Texas Freedom Network - this organization is a fierce advocate at the Texas Capitol and does a fantastic job energizing Texas youth to get out the vote (not good enough mind you, but one of the best). TFN is unique in that they focus on religious freedom (freedom from religion mostly), public education (one of the lone progressive voices at the SBOE hearings), as well as LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive rights. A small organization, but a great one with a unique cluster of issues they fight for.
* Out Youth - this organization focuses on LGBTQ+ youth in their journey, I don't know much about them but one year we volunteered to do light handyman and clean up work in one of their houses. They have a community center approach but with a traditional home where youth can come and find a safe place. we donated a xbox that summer and scrubbed the snot out of their house, painted, repaired, etc. It was a good time and it's a more granular approach to helping.
* Lifeworks - this organization is more broadly focused on ending youth homelessness in Travis County, but that necessarily means LGBTQ+ kids and young adults. LifeWorks is about to break ground in the coming months on a new 120 unit housing complex dedicated solely to helping homeless and at risk youth transition to adulthood with dignity and opportunity. This organization also offers "wrap around" services including job training, education support, trauma counseling, peer support, life skills, housing assistance, help setting up apartments with all the goods and wares needed, etc. A real thought leader in the national movement to end youth homelessness.
* Kind Clinic - this is one of the last standing organizations providing trans and LGBTQ+ healthcare without fear (well maybe some fear). I don't know about volunteer opportunities, but they do accept financial donations and contributions.
* Texas Observer - I've mentioned them anytime someone posts their articles. One of the only progressive, long-form, investigative journalism magazines focused solely on Texas. They accept donations starting at $5/month and their print magazine is a steal of a subscription. They also accept larger donations. If for no other reason, supporting the Observer to get the magazine is a great way to stay abreast of unheard of and unreported travesties in Texas (and in some case hope).
Nationally, Human Rights Campaign (they have a local Austin committee that is active), GLAAD, Lambda Legal, ACLU, Planned Parenthood (also in Texas), could all use financial support. But for being active locally, those are the organizations I know about. I also hate to say this, but trans specific organizations are not very effective imo. I think the organizations that are focused on more than just T issues do better.
Can't give enough rep to this post and people actually being spurred to become more involved. I'm inching out of my cowardly fetal position but if all that is happening causes people to grouse and panic less and actually get into the tranches with helping and giving and caring, there will be some kindness and growth under the surface.
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World Within a Song, Jeff Tweedy (2023) (audio)
Continuing the Wilco readings. I enjoyed the audiobook more, but this has some nice bits. Really a thankyou ode to all the folks he listened to on his headphones growing up, and those to come.
It's fun when he hits stuff that you have strong feelings about or memories. Bit's I liked where the CBGB toilet, his thoughts on The Weight on the last waltz, and one great story about meeting a childhood friend.
Music and life affirming.
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Well okay, then.
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12 hours ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:
There were protesters at Royal and 75 in Dallas yesterday during rush hour.
Those are just dudes napping under the bridge. Probably stretching when it got a bit warmer.
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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Not an employment lawyer, but those that resigned and took severance are no longer at-will employees, but governed by a contract to pay severance for a set term in order to terminate employment. At minimum, there's a promissory estoppel/detrimental reliance problem for the employer.
You seem to imply that before resigning for severance, they were at-will employees and could have no expectation of continued employment/salary. The resignation/severance agreement changes all that.
As noted in the lawfare article I have posted twice, that's not a clear thing with the federal government as an employer
All of this is based on not seeing any release doc they may have signed.
I don't think they were ever truly employment at will but doesn't matter because they resigned.
The release will govern what was actually promised. I think the pinch points are in the garden leave aspects of the agreement. That's where the mischief will likely lie.
As to promissory estoppel, that's going to be fact specific. That's where all of us will get screwed in terms of the cost of the lawsuits.
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Good luck Bevo in VA.
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I don't disagree with anything you say troph. I'm just saying that this particular deal was a voluntary deal. Surge it's part of the plan, but swaths of folks are getting RIFed as part of the overall plan.
I agree. Let's base opposition on what they do. Enough to be outraged about what they do when they do it.
I'm repeating myself. I'll just wait and eat crow at some point within the next year.
And me eating crow has nothing to do with the pain administering that this administration revels in.
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10 minutes ago, Captainant said:
*They're
And holy shit you're one dense mother fucker
That showed him.
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3 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:
Interestingly I just got an employee survey with a ton of DEI questions… very right leaning management but maybe because it’s private? I have a feeling there’s a lot of re-branding of DEI right now…
Taking up a good deal of my time.
Find: Diversity Replace:
Find: Equity Replace:
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57 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Let's turn this around. What makes you so confident throughout this process that the people who took this offer are going to be made whole?
Made whole. By that I assume you mean paid out for 8 months while not working?
My argument is that these guys are in no different a position than those who remain working and don't retire. Those who keep working are hired under whatever contractual agreement they have - presumably they can only be termed for cause. And a reduction in force for lack of funding or other budget priorities is likely good cause.
So made whole under these circumstances means being able to get paid while not working for however long the job exists. The only way I could see these guys arguing that they are owed the full eight months is for their agency to only fire people who resigned. If they terminate people by position or group, including those who didn't resign, I'm not sure what their cause of action would be.
I'm not certain that these people will be "made whole" in your terminology, but I don't think it would take much effort for DOGE to finesse this without screwing them.
They aren't trading their retirement for a Tesla Annuity. They aren't trading their Thrift Saving Plan for Trump stock. Their resigning with a promise that they will get garden leave for 8 months. In the realm of Trump screw jobs, I just don't see this as super high on the list. Imagine if the worst that was being done to the federal workforce was the offer of slimy exit incentive agreements?
And any release language could arguably cut both ways in that it could make the garden leave and related provision much more enforceable but matters outside the agreement waived.
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1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
In other words, these promises were illegal. And there are no guarantees that after the smoke clears on whatever CR is passed in a month (which, we all know....isn't a sure thing these days) there will be funding for people that resigned a month ago. Other than an email "promise" typed up by someone probably not old enough to purchase beer.
There isn't going to be funding for anyone. Including the people who worked up until government shutdown.
I have no beef with any argument that such a move was illegal. I'm just questioning the idea that the folks who accepted this illegal offer are inevitably going to be screwed. Especially in relation to other people who just get RIFed/permanently furloughed.
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7 minutes ago, Captainant said:
I mean, they MIGHT actually be civil servants and give a shit about their mission, not just getting paid. Because in some cases it DOES fucking matter, ya know?
This president ran on a platform that wanted to destroy the government. The fact that 1/4 of the federal civil servants haven't been fired to date in some completely arbitrary way frankly amazes me.
These guys voluntarily resigned. Not for a severance to be paid in a lump sum at some later date, but on the condition of garden leave. When they get fucked, they'll get fucked. We will soon know. I'll save my hysteria for now on the folks that are actually gettng fired.
And I worked for 8 years in the federal government so quit being pissy. Whether you or I care about civil service doesn't matter. What matters as that the GOP doesn't care about civil service.
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Well, we'll see. They've essentially given their 8-month notice of resignation.
They should be suing in a couple of weeks now.
CFPB employees about to really be screwed.
Let me ask this question. You're company tells you on January 12, 2025 that you can resign effective September 1, 2025 and you don't have to report in. You don't do any work for three months, and get paid not doing it, and on April 12, 2025, you're company does a huge RIF (lack of funding) where everyone in your department is fired, including you. Instead of resigning effective January 12, 2025, you are separated on April 12, 2025.
What are your damages? Under what theory?
What are the damages of the folks who didn't take the deal and worked January 12, 2025 - April 12, 2025? What theory.
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45 minutes ago, capnamerca said:
You think THOSE people will somehow honor a commitment drawn from thin air, not even passed by Congress, eight fucking months from now?
I think they at worse, will stumble through paying these folks for the next eight months.
These folks aren't going to accept that "the checks in the mail" for eight months, and the congress will bail the administration out of any problems caused by this.
This is essentially eight months of garden leave. These folks aren't just going to sit around for eight months and then ask - oh, about my 16 delinquent pay checks.
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I'm still trying to figure out why this is garnering so much outrage, especially relative to the other stuff going on. Although maybe it's just par for the course and the overall weight of everythiiing.
However, the employees are going to be able to rely on representations, etc. that were made by their managers on these matters. The idea that they would have no recourse flies in the face of employment law in general, let alone federal employment tribunals.
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I'm trying to graduate from just posting gifs to actually getting to some sense of awareness again.
Our betrayal of Ukraine is the starkest example of the absolute capitulation by the Republicans of any semblance of belief in democratic ideals. WTF.
There are support mechanisms for the people affected by GOP domestic terrorism. But no one in Europe can stand in for the hole we are leaving and no one in Europe is more of a Putin puppet than Trump. Revolting and such a stain on this country.
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Yeah, I've basically been watching the whole yellowstone etc. oeurvre (sp?) and its certainly riding the trumppy wave, if not straight trumpy.
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The Kenosha Kid?
I thought he was the Wisconsin Warbler?
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Wico in San Antonio in May. Just read Tweedy autobiography which was really good. If you missed it when it came out 8 years ago, and you don't know everything about them already, it's pretty good.
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
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My dad was Army Air Corps.
In them rough years, '46, '47 and '48.