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  1. Now that the 'lovely', dog-killing Noem has been fired, should we rush out and buy popcorn? She knows a lot about Trump. Will she end up six feet under like Epstein?

    I can't wait to see what the future holds for her! 🍿🍺

    #Trump #DonaldTrump #WhiteHouse #KristiNoem #EXGovernorKristiNoem #Fired #TheEpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #Pedo #PedoTrump #MAGA #PedoUSA #MEGApedon #USA

  2. Now that the 'lovely', dog-killing Noem has been fired, should we rush out and buy popcorn? She knows a lot about Trump. Will she end up six feet under like Epstein?

    I can't wait to see what the future holds for her! 🍿🍺

    #Trump #DonaldTrump #WhiteHouse #KristiNoem #EXGovernorKristiNoem #Fired #TheEpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #Pedo #PedoTrump #MAGA #PedoUSA #MEGApedon #USA

  3. At least 10 FBI staffers who worked on Mar-a-Lago documents case are fired, sources say

    misryoum.com/us/politics/at-le

    At least 10 FBI employees who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's retention of classified records after he left the White House in 2021 were fired on Wednesday, multiple sources told US News Hub...

    #least #FBI #staffers #who #worked #MaraLago #documents #case #are #fired #sources #say #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

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

    Jack Gruber, 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.

    Video source: USA Today

    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

    Christine and Pixie, Jack Gruber, USA Today.

    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

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  5. First, they blame all the mass #shootings on mental health, then they go and cut #mentalHealth services
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    #Trump cuts jobs at nation's mental health agency and some jobs at #CDC : Shots - Health News

    The Trump administration has laid off more than 100 employees at the nation's main mental health agency, NPR has learned.

    Employees were notified of a "Reduction in Force" shortly before 8 p.m. ET on Friday
    #rif #fired

    npr.org/sections/shots-health-

  6. #Manhattan #Prosecutor Who Handled #Epstein Cases Is #Fired. Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of the former #FBI director #JamesComey, worked on the #criminal cases against #JeffreyEpstein and his associate #GhislaineMaxwell. The attorney who prosecuted the case, and is fully aware of the documents associated with the prosecution, was fired by #trump why? #maga #corruption #crimes #sextrafficking #financier Ms. Comey was also a prosecutor on trial of #SeanCombs, hip-hop mogul known as #Diddy

  7. 2 days after catastrophic #floods roared through Central #Texas, #FEMA did not answer nearly ⅔ of calls to its #disaster assistance line, acc/to documents reviewed by NYT.

    The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had #fired hundreds of contractors at call centers….

    #Trump #idiocracy #ExtremeWeather #FederalGovernment #Funding #MassLayoffs #BudgetCuts
    nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate

  8. The #union noted in its statement that #federal #law prohibits #workers from being #fired for going on strike & that threatening to do so is #illegal under the National Labor Relations Act.

    "The #UAW has filed federal #labor charges against disgraced billionaires Donald #Trump & #ElonMusk for their illegal attempts to #threaten & intimidate #workers who stand up for themselves by engaging in protected concerted activity, such as strikes," the union said in a stmnt issued by spox Jonah Furman.

  9. A #federal #AppealsCourt has #ruled that a #KatyTexas company and #church can #deny #employment to #LGBTQ #workers without legal recourse. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (#5thCircuit) #overturned a #lower #court's #ruling that the company, #BraidwoodManagement, and the church, #BearCreekCommunityChurch, #violated #TitleVII of the #CivilRightsAct of 1964 by #discriminating #against LGBTQ workers.

    The
    #court determined that the two entities are not mandated to abide by #federal #discrimination law because they are #religious #organizations. The court's opinion said that Braidwood Management follows the belief among some Christians that "marriage is between one man and one woman."

    The ruling is a
    #setback for #LGBTQRights advocates, who had hoped that the 5th Circuit would follow the lead of the Supreme Court (#SCOTUS), which ruled in 2020 that Title VII protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination. The Supreme Court's ruling was a landmark decision, but it did not explicitly address the issue of religious exemptions.

    The 5th Circuit's ruling leaves open the possibility that other religious organizations could also deny employment to LGBTQ workers without legal repercussions. This could have a significant impact on LGBTQ workers, who could be
    #denied jobs or #fired simply because of their #SexualOrientation or #GenderIdentity.

    The ruling is also a reminder of the importance of the ongoing fight for LGBTQ equality. Despite progress in recent years, there are still many challenges that LGBTQ people face, including discrimination in the workplace. It is important to continue to fight for the rights of LGBTQ people and to ensure that they are protected from discrimination.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/katy/article/katy-company-and-church-can-deny-lgbtq-workers-18167418.php