#civil-servants — Public Fediverse posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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New Rule Strips Rights from Thousands of Federal Workers
#ScheduleF was an attempt to create a new federal employment category that would let #WhiteHouse reclassify 1000s of career #civilservants in “policy-related” roles and strip them of key job protections.
Once reclassified, employees subject to the new rule would become much easier to remove, making their continued employment far more contingent on political leadership than on merit-based civil service protections.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/new-rule-strips-rights-from-thousands

'Trump dodged America's darkest secret by dropping two bombshells that shook world'

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/trump-dodged-americas-darkest-secret-36576281

Man who worked at same firm for 84 years lists three things that helped him keep his job

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-who-worked-same-firm-36552002

History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along – The New Yorker

History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along

Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience.

By Michael Luo, December 14, 2025

The second Presidency of Donald Trump has been unprecedented in myriad ways, perhaps above all in the way that he has managed to cajole, cow, or simply command people in his Administration to carry out even his most undemocratic wishes with remarkably little dissent. Some civil servants and senior officials, however, are experiencing bouts of conscience. In March, Erez Reuveni, a veteran Justice Department lawyer, was promoted to the position of acting deputy director of the Office of Immigration Litigation. He decided to personally take on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had been wrongly sent back to El Salvador, in violation of a 2019 court order. On April 5th, Reuveni told his supervisor he would not sign an appeal brief that said Abrego Garcia was a “terrorist.” According to a whistle-blower complaint that Reuveni later filed, he said, “I didn’t sign up to lie.” He was suspended and then fired.

Other career prosecutors have chosen to step down. In February, when Trump officials moved to dismiss corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, it triggered resignations from Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim United States Attorney in Manhattan, and from Kevin O. Driscoll and John Keller, the two officials in charge of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. In September, Erik Siebert, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, resigned, after his investigations into Letitia James and James Comey stalled and Trump demanded that he be fired.

There has been turnover in senior ranks of the military as well. In October, Admiral Alvin Holsey, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, abruptly announced that he would retire at the end of the year. Tensions had reportedly been mounting between Holsey and the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, particularly over the admiral’s concerns about the legality of drone strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. Now military experts have raised the possibility of war crimes, as lawmakers investigate a drone operation on September 2nd that destroyed a boat and killed everyone on board.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along | The New Yorker

#CivilServants #Conscience #GOP #Republicans #SeniorOfficials #TheNewYorker #ThoseWhoGoAlong #Trump #TrumpAdministration

Nation grateful to its trans Civil Servants

The re-emergence of Liz Truss in her YouTube show is a timely reminder of the debt of gratitude the UK has to its transgender civil servants.

#CivilServants #LizTruss #satire #trans #transgender

https://daily-twerk.com/general/nation-grateful-to-its-trans-civil-servants/

Nation grateful to its trans Civil Servants

The re-emergence of Liz Truss in her YouTube show is a timely reminder of the debt of gratitude the UK has to its transgender civil servants.

https://daily-twerk.com/general/nation-grateful-to-its-trans-civil-servants/

#CivilServants #LizTruss #satire #trans #transgender

A blind woman, a ‘dream job,’ and the toll of the government shutdown – USA Today

A blind woman, a ‘dream job,’ and the toll of the government shutdown

The historic funding crisis inflicted pain on Americans across the country. Christine Grassman still hasn’t fully recovered.

By Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY

FALLS CHURCH, VA – It all started right before dragon boat practice.

Christine Grassman and her husband, Gary, had an important race coming up. In less than a week, the couple would be off to Florida for the national championships.

Much like the Grassmans, who are blind, dragon boating is often misunderstood. It’s confused with rowing, but they’re not the same. Dragon boaters use paddles and face forward; rowers use oars and face backward.

Read more: I survived breast cancer. Now I race dragon boats for Team USA. | Opinion

The lesser-known sport is also favored among people with disabilities – “paradragons,” as Christine and Gary call themselves. The two were “bit by the dragon” just after the coronavirus pandemic. Roughly four years later, Christine, at 56, is the president of their team, the “Out of Sight Dragons.”

On the morning of Oct. 11, Christine’s phone lit up with a text just as she and Gary were gearing up for one of their last workouts before nationals. Her supervisor at the U.S. Department of Education relayed a message that their team had received “reduction in force” notices. That’s Washington-speak for a layoff. She instructed Christine to check her own email.

She did. She let a “few choice phrases” slip. Her last day would be Dec. 9.

Christine was distraught. She also wasn’t alone. President Donald Trump’s administration fired more than 4,000 federal workers that weekend, just 10 days into what eventually became the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Read more: Education Department lays off roughly 20% of its workforce amid shutdown

In the past, such ordeals caused furloughs that, while harmful, were only temporary and ended with federal workers eventually getting paid for their forced time away from the office. That’s what happened during Trump’s first term, when the government shuttered for 35 days, setting a record at the time.

In Trump’s second term, the administration’s decision to fire its employees during another historic shutdown became one of the funding crisis’ defining challenges.

The upheaval that people like Christine endured underscored just how harmful Washington gridlock can become for many Americans, including civil servants. That tumult has in turn affected some people with disabilities, who are employed at slightly higher rates in the federal government versus the private sector. Federal law has historically required agencies to plan to meet specific hiring goals for people with disabilities.Read more: Their time at the Education Department may be over. The grieving isn’t.

Claire Stanley, director of advocacy and governmental affairs for the American Council of the Blind, said Christine wasn’t the only blind or low-vision federal employee she knew who was initially laid off during the shutdown. Many others, though not fired, spent weeks without pay.

“All of us were kind of holding our breath,” she said.

Christine spoke to USA TODAY for this story in her personal capacity as an advocate for other blind people – she is the president of the Fairfax chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Virginia – and as a member of AFGE Local 252, the union for Education Department employees. She said her views are not representative of the agency.

From a ‘dream job’ to nightmares

On Oct. 29, four weeks into the government shutdown, Christine sat in her apartment, resting both palms flat on her dining room table. Pixie, her Norwegian forest cat, lounged on a couch nearby, his sandy brown fur complementing the dark maroon upholstery.

For a multitude of reasons, she was on a higher dose of anxiety medication. Worries about caring for her aging parents usually live more toward the back of her mind. Since she was fired, those fears had shoved their way to the front.

Her mother has Alzheimer’s; her father, a longtime firefighter, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. They both still live in Long Island, New York, Christine’s hometown.

Nightmares were making it harder to sleep. Her stomach hurt frequently.

Despite all those concerns, the previous 24 hours had brought some hope. On Oct. 28, a federal judge in California temporarily paused her firing, along with thousands of others. With most federal agencies still largely closed, though, she wasn’t back on the job yet.

The news offered only limited comfort. It did little to soothe her concerns about the long-term future of the federal law she has helped implement since 2019. Though housed in the Education Department, it’s not really about education at all.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: A blind woman, a ‘dream job,’ and the toll of the government shutdown

#2025 #america #blindWoman #civilServants #departmentOfEducation #donaldTrump #dragonBoating #dreamJob #education #federalGovernmentShutdown #fired #furloughed #health #history #laidOff #libraries #library #libraryOfCongress #nationalFederationOfTheBlind #opinion #pixie #politics #reductionInForce #resistance #science #tollOfShutdown #trump #trumpAdministration #unitedStates #usaToday #virginia

https://theconversation.com/why-have-relations-between-civil-servants-and-ministers-turned-so-sour-and-can-they-be-repaired-269025. This article presupposes that there is such a thing as "impartial advice", which isn't the case. Facts exist, but they have to be interpreted, & different people interpret facts in different ways. It's clear, however, that the trust between #politicians & #civilservants in this country has broken down.

https://virginiamercury.com/2025/10/14/warner-kaine-push-bill-to-shield-federal-workers-from-evictions-defaults-amid-shutdown/ As layoffs ripple across Virginia, the Federal Employee Civil Relief Act aims to protect thousands of families from losing homes, cars and credit stability during the ongoing government shutdown. #economy #federalworkers #governmentshutdown #civilservants #civilservice #WorkingFamilies #gopshutdown #foodinsecurity #debt #housing #politics #news

#Seattle #KristiNoem #Resist #CivilServants

SEATTLE REFUSES TO PLAY NOEM PROPOGANDA AT TSA STATIONS AT SEATAC INSTEAD SUPPORTING CIVIL SERVANTS

Aaron Parnas

"It now appears that both the U.S. Code and the U.S. Reports contain significant volumes of quasi-law, principles established by the enactment of laws or the rendering of judicial decisions but that a sufficiently willful administration is practically free to ignore."

#Trump #Courts #civilservants #civilservice #LayOffs #Unemployment

The Legality of the Friday Night Massacre https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-legality-of-friday-night-massacre.html

Tories confirm plans to cut PIP for mental health claimants

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/tories-confirm-plans-cut-pip-36019760

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A prior post about how #Trump has strived to strip federal workers (civil servants) of their collective bargaining (unionization) rights since the beginning of his second term earlier this year.
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#USA #US #USpol #unionization #CollectiveBargaining #FederalGovernment #USFederalGovernment #FederalWorkforce #CivilServants
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https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/115307527544880390

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So not only are the federal employees used as political pawns whenever the #US government shuts down because Congress can’t do its Constitutional job and make a budget, but they are also now being forced to go against everything they have ever been and be political.
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#USA #USpol #usgovernment #USgov #FederalGovernment #CivilServants #GovernmentShutdown #MyThoughts

#GiftArticle

…it took #Trump fewer than 24 hours to turn a #shutdown into a #weapon wielded against the #CivilServants he once praised & the opposing party he has long derided. The admin has targeted Democratic districts, announcing holds on more than $25 billion in projects in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, & elsewhere, with more cuts believed to be on the way.

#OrchestratedShutdown #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #tyranny
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/government-shutdown-weaponized/684441/

#Trump #Fascism #CivilServants #Firings #Budget Alt

Heather Cox Richardson 9/29/25
TRUMP REGIME TO FIRE 100,000 CIVIL SERVANTS

#trump #Record #Lawsuits #CivilServants #NWS #Deportations #DiseaseControl #Republicans #Dictator #Fascism #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 9/19/25
DEMOCRATS DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY

In Trump’s Federal #WorkForce Cuts, #BlackWomen Are Among the Hardest Hit

#Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the #federal work force, disproportionately affecting #Black employees.

When Trump started dismantling #FederalAgencies & dismissing rank-&-file #CivilServants, Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the #Education Dept, immediately started to make a calculation.

#Math #WeSeeYou #WhiteSupremacy #law #labor #discrimination
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-federal-work-force-black-women.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@servelan not sure why everyone seems surprised that #OrangeFelon is screwing the #AmericanPeople, #NationalGuard, #Military, or #CivilServants ... That's what he does. That's how he ran and still runs his scams camouflaging as businesses. Usually around this time of his ruinous leadership, he would declare bankruptcy. Since the US government isn't a business he goes for full blown dictatorship instead.
Let's not forget #TheUnAmericanVotersDidThis #BillionairesDidThis #HatersDidThis #EvangelicansDidThis...
More and more Americans will soon see what the "Only I can fix it"-POTUS following the playbook of #Project2025 did when his administration destroyed the #NWS, #FEMA, #NHS, #DOJ, #IRS, #NPS, and #EPA.
Their dirty deeds will not go unnoticed! It just will be 100-times harder to remove the regime than it was to prevent it.

#Politics #Facts #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Cuts #CivilServants #Contractors #Expense #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 8/27/25
FACT: CONTRACTORS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN PUBLIC SERVANTS

#Politics #Facts #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Cuts #CivilServants #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 8/27/25
FACTS ABOUT CIVIL SERVANTS

#Politics #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #TakeOver #DC #NationalParks #CivilServants #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 8/27/25
TRUMP CUTS TO DC CITY SERVICES JUSTIFY TAKEOVER

#trump #FEMA #Resist #resistance #CivilServants #Disasters #Hurricanes #Fires #Emergencies #alt #Corruption

Aaron Parnas 8/27/25
FEMA CIVIL SERVANTS RAISE THE ALARM AND ARE SUSPENDED

Former career #diplomat who served as director of the #CIA, deputy Secretary of #State, served 32 years in the #UnitedStates #ForeignService & 7 years as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International #Peace William J. Burns writes ‘A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants’

“You all deserved better.”

#GiftArticle #Trump #RevengePolitics #retribution #CivilServants #PublicService #MassLayoffs #labor #law #WeaponizationOfGovernment
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/trump-retribution-public-servants/683914/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxWgvPL95XrR70qjeawHGu7Y

#Politics #Trump #Doge #StateDepartment #layoffs #Fascism #democracy #CivilServants #video
Video of Covid, Servants leaving

https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3ltrrjc3kd32s

#politics #trump #CivilServants #Rehiring #expertise #Warning

Aaron Parnas 6/24/25
TACO MOVE REHIRING CIVIL SERVANTS

No TikTok, Facebook For Civil Servants On The Job, Says CUEPACS #civilservants #cuepacs #government #malaysia #socialmedia

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/356072/no-tiktok-facebook-civil-servants/

#Trump accelerating efforts 2 transform #nonpartisan #merit based federal #workforce into 1 that demands rewards #loyalty 2 #president, according 2 #civilservants #publicservice experts, #employment #attorneys. Ongoing shift would ditch decades-old rules that were intended 2 ensure that federal #hiring #retention #promotion decisions R based largely on employees’ #skills #knowledge #experience, say the workers, experts and #attorneys.#maga #politics #government #scheduleF https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-accelerates-push-to-reward-loyalty-in-federal-workforce/ar-AA1GN8nG

'After all, most of Trump’s dirty work is being carried out by people serving in America’s beloved armed and security services.

Ask yourself these questions: Who picked up Garcia? Who are picking up hundreds of others like him, incl. small children? Who are the people [...]who abduct people off the street?

Answer: They're government officers from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, ICE."

https://www.jandehn.com/post/the-enemy-within-america-s-security-services #Trump #fascism #ICE #civilservants