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  1. *I blame the "analyslop" phenomenon of speculative, lie-ridden fan fiction *But I blame that philosophically, okay? "Let Ed Be Ed!" If Ed wasn't around I would miss him #agentic #claws #fangs #yikes #marketpanics #massfirings #yikes

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/post/3mftu5znsws2r

  2. The decision comes after #VeteransAffairs Secy Douglas A. Collins, under political pressure from #Congress, backed away from a plan to slash 15% of the agency’s workforce through #MassFirings. Instead, the #VA lost almost 30k employees this year from buyout offers & attrition.
    
The agency hopes that the cuts will reduce the #healthcare workforce to as little as 372k employees, a 10% reduction from last year, acc/to a memo shared with regional leaders last month….

    #Trump #Republicans #Veterans

  3. Illston has said she believes the evidence will ultimately show the #MassFirings were #illegal & in excess of authority.

    The #Trump admin has slashed #jobs in #education, #health & other areas it says are favored by #Democrats. The admin has also said it will not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through #SNAP flowing into November.

    #law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy

  4. Illston has said she believes the evidence will ultimately show the #MassFirings were #illegal & in excess of authority.

    The #Trump admin has slashed #jobs in #education, #health & other areas it says are favored by #Democrats. The admin has also said it will not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through #SNAP flowing into November.

    #law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy

  5. A spox for the #OMB said the reductions are “substantial” but did not offer more immediate details.

    The #Education Dept is among the agencies hit by new #layoffs, a dept spox said Friday without providing more details. The dept had ~4,100 employees when #Trump took office in January, but its workforce was nearly halved amid #MassFirings in the admin’s first months. At the start of the shutdown, it had ~2,500 employees.

    #law #labor #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState

  6. #Extortion

    #Trump begins #firings of #FederalWorkers to pressure #Democrats in government #shutdown

    The White House budget office said Friday that #MassFirings of federal workers have started to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers in the ongoing govt #shutdown.

    #OMB dir #RussVought, posted on social media that the “RIFs have begun,” referring to reduction-in-force firings.

    #law #labor #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #tyranny
    apnews.com/article/government-

  7. Previous #ShadowDocket rulings have backed #Trump on, among other matters, #deportations of #immigrants to countries other than their own [#rendition], revoking temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants, banning #transgender people from the #military, pursuing #MassFirings of #FederalWorkers & removing various #FederalAgency leaders.

    #law #judiciary #SCOTUS #Constitution #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt

  8. District-court judges have repeatedly used #NationwideInjunctions to block #Trump admin policies, including to halt the #MassFirings of civil servants, the defunding of #ForeignAid & the relocation of #transgender women in #FederalPrisons to men’s housing. Some of those injunctions have been lifted by higher courts; many, including those detailed below, remain in place, …for now.

    #FuckSCOTUS #law #SCOTUS #Constitution #democracy #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #PresidentialPower #AbuseOfPower

  9. Judge #AmyBermanJackson said she is “deeply concerned” that #Trump admin ofcls aren’t complying with her earlier order that maintains the #CFPB’s existence until she rules on the merits of a lawsuit seeking to preserve it.

    During the hearing, Jackson said she will bar ofcls from any #MassFirings or cutting off employees’ access to bureau computer systems.

    Jackson scheduled a hearing on April 28 to hear testimony from ofcls who were working on the reduction in force, or #RIF, procedures.

    #law

  10. Appeals court allows #Trump admin to temporarily remove #watchdog lawyer #HamptonDellinger

    A federal appeals court on Wed allowed Trump to temporarily remove the head of an #independent watchdog agency who was investigating the admin’s #MassFirings of probationary #FederalWorkers.

    In a 2-pg order, the court granted the Trump admin’s request to stay a lower court ruling that blocked Trump from summarily firing #Dellinger, head of the Office of #SpecialCounsel.

    #law
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  11. #Trump has also tried to remove more than a dozen #InspectorsGeneral, as well as members of the National #Labor Relations Board [#NLRB] & the #Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [#EEOC]. Many of the ousted ofcls are contesting their removals in court.
    
In addition to fighting his own ouster, Dellinger has been arguing that the admin’s #MassFirings of probationary #FederalWorkers is illegal.

    #law #NationalSecurity #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #SeparationOfPowers

  12. Another fired employee said the hundreds of dismissals meant that the #aid agency now had only a skeleton crew to respond to #humanitarian crises.

    The appointee running day-to-day operations at #USAID is #PeteMarocco, a #State Dept official overseeing foreign aid who was a #divisive figure at the agency & other government departments in the first #Trump administration. Early this month, #MarcoRubio announced he was taking over the aid agency as acting administrator.

    #MassFirings #Musk #USpol

  13. A federal judge in Washington gave #Trump a victory *for now* when she declined on Tues to bar #ElonMusk & his associates from having access to data at 7 #FederalAgencies or involvement in #MassFirings.

    In an order on Tues, Judge Tanya S. #Chutkan, wrote that a coalition of 14 state AGs had failed in seeking an emergency halt to show specific examples of how #Musk’s team’s sweeping data collection efforts could cause those states imminent or irreparable harm.

    #law #DOGE
    nytimes.com/live/2025/02/18/us