#resigned — Public Fediverse posts
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#CaitlinKalinowski, #OpenAI’s #robotics leader, #resigned over concerns about the company’s agreement with the #Pentagon to deploy its models on a classified network. She cited concerns about #surveillance and #autonomousweapons, stating that these issues deserved more deliberation. OpenAI has since clarified restrictions on #military use of its systems. https://fortune.com/2026/03/07/openai-robotics-leader-caitlin-kalinowski-resignation-pentagon-surveillance-autonomous-weapons-anthropic/?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI
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Labour minister #JoshSimons #resigned after the Guardian revealed he falsely linked #journalists to a “pro-Kremlin” network: Simons, who had been under pressure for Labour Together’s commissioning of a PR firm to investigate reporters, claimed he was unaware of the report’s scope. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Labour minister #JoshSimons #resigned after the Guardian revealed he falsely linked #journalists to a “pro-Kremlin” network: Simons, who had been under pressure for Labour Together’s commissioning of a PR firm to investigate reporters, claimed he was unaware of the report’s scope. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Labour minister #JoshSimons #resigned after the Guardian revealed he falsely linked #journalists to a “pro-Kremlin” network: Simons, who had been under pressure for Labour Together’s commissioning of a PR firm to investigate reporters, claimed he was unaware of the report’s scope. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Labour minister #JoshSimons #resigned after the Guardian revealed he falsely linked #journalists to a “pro-Kremlin” network: Simons, who had been under pressure for Labour Together’s commissioning of a PR firm to investigate reporters, claimed he was unaware of the report’s scope. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Labour minister #JoshSimons #resigned after the Guardian revealed he falsely linked #journalists to a “pro-Kremlin” network: Simons, who had been under pressure for Labour Together’s commissioning of a PR firm to investigate reporters, claimed he was unaware of the report’s scope. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#TonyWu, a co-founder of #ElonMusk’s #xAI, #resigned, joining other departing founders. Wu’s departure comes amid #consumerbacklash and #regulatoryprobes over xAI’s #Grok #AIchatbot, which allowed the creation of non-consensual #deepfakeimages. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/elon-musk-xai-co-founder-tony-wu.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department – The New York Times Magazine
“They didn’t want the ethics office calling them up and telling them what to do.”
Joseph Tirrell, former director of the Departmental Ethics Office“If we’re indicting people because the president hates them, that’s counter to the whole point of doing my job.” Mike Romano, former prosecutor in the Public Integrity Section“Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; our job was to find the facts that would fit the narrative.” Dena Robinson, former lawyer in the Civil Rights DivisionThe Unraveling of the Justice Department, New York Times Magazine
Sixty attorneys describe a year of chaos and suspicion.
By Emily Bazelon and Rachel Poser, Photographs by Stephen Voss, Nov. 16, 2025
President Trump’s second term has brought a period of turmoil and controversy unlike any in the history of the Justice Department. Trump and his appointees have blasted through the walls designed to protect the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency from political influence; they have directed the course of criminal investigations, openly flouted ethics rules and caused a breakdown of institutional culture. To date, more than 200 career attorneys have been fired, and thousands more have resigned. (The Justice Department says many of them have been replaced.)
What was it like inside this institution as Trump’s officials took control? It’s not an easy question to answer. Justice Department norms dictate that career attorneys, who are generally nonpartisan public servants, rarely speak to the press. And the Trump administration’s attempts to crack down on leaks have made all federal employees fearful of sharing information.
But the exodus of lawyers has created an opportunity to understand what’s happening within the agency. We interviewed more than 60 attorneys who recently resigned or were fired from the Justice Department. Much of what they told us is reported here for the first time.
Beginning with Trump’s first day in office, the lawyers narrated the events that most alarmed them over the next 10 months. They described being asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations and to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis. They also talked about the work they and their colleagues were told to abandon — investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud.
Some spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation against them or their new employers. We corroborated their accounts with multiple sources, interviewing their colleagues to confirm the details of what they described and reviewing court documents and contemporaneous notes. We also sent a list of questions to the Justice Department and the White House. “This story is a useless collection of recycled, debunked hearsay from disgruntled former employees,” a spokeswoman for the D.O.J. responded in an email. “Targeting the department’s political leadership while ignoring the questionable conduct of former attorneys who do not have the American people’s best interest at heart shows exactly how biased this story is, and further illustrates why Americans are turning away from biased, outdated legacy media platforms.”
Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, sent this statement: “These are nothing more than pathetic complaints lodged by anti-Trump government workers. President Trump is working on behalf of the millions of Americans who voted for him all across the country, not the D.C. bureaucrats who try to stymie the American people’s agenda at every turn.”
The attorneys who spoke to us for this project, many of whom have spent decades in government service, disagree.
On his first day in office, President Trump made it clear that lawyers loyal to him would lead the Justice Department. One of his personal defense attorneys, Emil Bove, became the temporary No. 2, and Trump nominated another of his lawyers, Todd Blanche, to take the position permanently once the Senate confirmed him.
Trump also undid one of the largest investigations in the Justice Department’s history by pardoning or commuting the sentences of the nearly 1,600 rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The group included more than 200 defendants who were convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers.
Prosecutors said they were in disbelief when President Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of Jan. 6 rioters. Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times.Ryan Crosswell, Public Integrity Section, which handles corruption cases: When I saw it was Blanche and Bove, I was actually relieved. OK, it’s gross that they were Trump’s personal attorneys, but before that they were federal prosecutors in New York. They’ve done the job. They know the prosecutors’ code. We’re the only lawyers whose job is not to get the best result for our client. Our job is to get justice. Sometimes that means losing or walking into court and saying we made a mistake.
But then things were 10 times worse than I thought they would be.
Liz Oyer, pardon attorney: We had no knowledge that the Jan. 6 pardons were coming on Day 1. Everybody was concerned that our office was being completely sidelined from the review process.
Gregory Rosen, chief of the breach and assault unit of the Capitol Siege Section, which prosecuted the Jan. 6 rioters: When I was alerted to the pardons, a lot of thoughts ran through my head about how absurd this could get, but first I had to do my job. We had to ask, Did we believe the order was lawful and constitutional?
My team and I determined that it was. The president has the right to pardon people and commute their sentences. So then it was a blitzkrieg of hundreds of cases. We stepped to it.
I was numb. As career prosecutors, we don’t talk about our feelings. We’re not partisans. We’re public servants just doing the job. Early on, we stayed away from using emotional language about our own reactions.
Mike Romano, Jan. 6 prosecutor: Anyone who spent any time working on Jan. 6 cases saw how violent a day that was. I’d spent four years living with that day, the things done to people. It’s incredibly demoralizing to see something you worked on for four years wiped away by a lie — I mean the idea that prosecution of the rioters was a grave national injustice. We had strong evidence against every person we prosecuted. And I knew that if they’re going to wipe all of that away based on a lie, either I’ll be fired as retaliation or pretext or asked to do something unethical. Or both.
Until that point, I’d hoped the second Trump term would be similar to the first one, or similar enough for a while. Then the pardons came down and I knew, in light of that, there is no way I can stay.
Trump appointed Ed Martin, another longtime ally, as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin had promoted Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud in 2020 and then turned to the cause of defending the Jan. 6 rioters. He had never worked as a prosecutor.
Martin soon fired 15 attorneys in the Capitol Siege Section who prosecuted the Jan. 6 defendants. They joined more than a dozen other prosecutors fired for working under the special counsel, Jack Smith, on the criminal investigations of President Trump. According to the D.O.J.’s new leadership, they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda.
Gregory Rosen, Capitol Siege Section: When 15 employees were fired from the Capitol Siege Section, I was the angriest I’ve ever been. Most of them were younger attorneys. I’d hired them. They came from firms, federal and state government, all over. But some naïve part of me thought, Maybe this is the new leadership’s “pound of flesh.”
Prosecutor, Capitol Siege Section: It was inconceivable to me they’d fire people for no reason except they’d worked on cases that were now disfavored. People like me, who are career attorneys, work within a structure. We don’t have much latitude. To be told that you are being punished for your decisions, when you were following guidance created by very talented and skilled prosecutors above you, which judges blessed for the most part — it’s completely bizarre. It flipped the culture of the institution. It’s a culture now of fear. And they are losing people all the time, very good people, who were the future of the department.
Editor’s Note: Please look at and read the narratives and share the post as you can. This is a case study of how Democracy is lost; how Justice in America is corrupted; by one man, one party, one President who is unfit for office. This is not the people’s DOJ any longer.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: 60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department – The New York Times
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A #Microsoft #engineer #resigned after 13 years, citing the company’s continued #cloudservices to the #Israelimilitary and executives’ refusal to discuss the #Gazaconflict. The engineer’s departure follows #employeeprotests and the firing of five employees over the issue. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/microsoft-engineer-resigns-over-cloud-business-from-israeli-military.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Federal #Prosecutor Reportedly #Resigned Over Concern New Investigation Of Ábrego García Was #PoliticallyMotivated
Ben Schrader, announced his resignation as the chief of the criminal division at the US attorney’s office for the Middle District of Tennessee in a LinkedIn post on 21 May, the same day the indictment of Ábrego García was signed by the acting US attorney for that district.
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#Texas #SolicitorGeneral #Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get 'Anally #Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid'
> Why am I not surprised this is in a #MAGA stronghold
https://www.404media.co/texas-solicitor-general-judd-stone-resigned/
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> 20 #civilservice #employees #resigned Feb 25 from #billionaire #Trump adviser #Musk #DOGE saying they were refusing 2 use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve #American people and uphold our oath to the #Constitution across #presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by AP. “ However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.” https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c
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@krassenstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: 21 employees have just #RESIGNED from #ElonMusk's #DOGE, refusing to "dismantle critical public services."
We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
Full Story : https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1894421174270193690?s=46
(Ed : Meanwhile our Dem & GOP "leaders" play dead before 🍊🤴🇺🇸)
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Colleagues were said to be "shocked" & uniformly negative. Editor-at-large #RobertKagan, who has been highly critical of #Trump as #autocratic, told NPR he had #resigned from the #EditorialBoard as a consequence.
Fmr #WashingtonPost Executive Editor Martin Baron, who led the newsroom to acclaim during #Trump's presidency, denounced the decision starkly.
#democracy #FourthEstate #journalism #media #acquiescence #WaPo
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#Former #Trump #official #StephanieGrisham to #speak at the #DemocraticNationalConvention.
Grisham #resigned from the #Trump #administration immediately after the #January6th #Insurrection at the #USCapitol.
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After a year of turning a blind eye to skyrocketing #antisemitism on campus, #Columbia #University's #President Minouche Shafik has finally #resigned.
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So today is my #birthday.
I am still alone without #friends or #family, still living in a remote isolating unfriendly town, still without work. I didn't even lose the 10 lbs I tried to lose before today.
I would really appreciate any cheering up please 🙏
#sad #failure #LifeSucks #resigned #community #hope #allies #mentors #support #manifesting #miracles #JustNeedALittleLuck #WillingToWorkHard
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Two more #USofficials have #resigned over #Gaza, saying #BidenAdministration is not telling the truth about #Israeli obstruction of #humanitarianAssistance to 2 million+ #Palestinians #trapped & #starving.
Alexander Smith, a #contractor for the #USAID said he was given a choice between #resignation & #dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal & child #mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week.
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Career #USStateDepartment official #resigned Tuesday, saying she could no longer work for the #BidenAdministration after it released a report concluding that #Israel was not preventing the flow of aid to #Gaza.
Stacy Gilbert, who served as a senior civilian-military #advisor to the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration #PRM, sent an email to staff saying she was resigning because she felt the State Department had made the wrong assessment
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#UniversityOfVictoria professor #resigned from federal #disability advisory group saying funds allocated for #DisabledCanadians are inadequate.
#UVic professor Michael Prince resigned from #GovernmentOfCanada #DisabilityAdvisoryGroup in #protest after being appointed to it in 2020.
In 2023, the federal government passed the #Canada #DisabilityBenefitAct to help financially support #Canadians living with a disability
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The good news: my skillet #lasagna came out ok again #food #cooking
The bad news: today is my 1 year anniversary of losing my senses of #smell and #taste to #LongCovid
It's only gotten worse over the past 3 months. So today I chopped 10 cloves of #garlic and absolutely could not smell anything
I ate #pineapple and it could have been cardboard. I've put on 30 lbs trying to find something I can taste. Nothing is satisfying without #flavor and #aroma
4 months ago I could make out the scent of #lavender from #peppermint. No more
Very #depressed #despairing #pissedoff #furious #resigned #OhWell
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"By introducing the #HB299, #Chamberlin continues a chain begun by his predecessor in District 24, Rep. Joe #Harding. Harding, who sponsored the state’s original #DontSayGay bill, #resigned from office in 2022 after being #indicted on charges related to Covid business relief #fraud and #MoneyLaundering. Harding ultimately accepted a #plea deal and was #sentenced to four months in #prison."
I hope Rep Chamberlin's career is as successful as Rep #Harding's was.
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Today was the last day I worked at https://getir.com , world's prime fast delivery company. Even though there are awesome engineers inside (one of the best, really!), recent restructuring changes and decisions of directors led me to resign and look for new opportunities.
For a week, I'll rest (play with my #SteamDeck like a lifeless kid), reset my head, then will start working on a new company.
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To #Fight the #Rightwing ‘#War on #Woke,’ We Need #Poetry and #Poets.
I’m a former #professor at the #NewCollegeofFlorida—I #resigned the end of July.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #HigherEducation #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Poetry #Representation #Culture #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Racism #Misogyny #Xenophobia #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://msmagazine.com/2023/10/12/new-college-of-florida-poetry-gender-studies-women/
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Here the latest news on the Journal of Biogeography editorial work stoppage and mass resignations, from Twitter/X:
I along with 95% of #AssociateEditors have now #Resigned from @jbiogeography. @WileyGlobal never responded to our invitation to discuss #BetterPublishing.
Very sad to see this outcome of a once highly respected journal. But hope we all learned a lesson from this and stop submitting to such journals.
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BORIS AND NADINE HAVE RESIGNED!!
Fuck off and get fucked, you pair of nasty right-wing narcissistic, self-serving sociopaths.#BorisJohnson #NadineDorries #Resigned #ToriesOut #Tories #GTTO
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This story is so much more bonkers than ever. Not only did #Elon order leases broken, 2 employees #resigned because they were ordered to commit actual #crimes, which #Twitter and #Musk committed anyway.
Changes that were not code-compliant and could have cost Twitter #employees their #lives because of locks that would lock first responders out in case of a #fire started by the space heats Musk ordered.This man wants to kill his employees.
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For some context, let's remember that #Strom #Thurmond so detested Abe Fortas on #SCOTUS, he screened #pornography on the Senate floor (since Fortas voted w/ majority to allow #pornographic films), calling it the #Fortas #Film #Festival. Fortas #resigned the following year, after a personal donor got arrested for stock fraud & #Nixon's AG threatened to #prosecute Fortas' wife for #tax evasion. He later argued cases before the #court! #impeach #clarence #thomas #now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas#Fortas_Film_Festival
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3 members of #NationalAudubonSociety #BoardOfDirectors #resigned Wednesday in response to the conservation group’s announcement that it will retain name tied to #enslaver & #bird #artist , #JohnJamesAudubon .
The national #conservation organization is facing an #internal #backlash after opting to keep the name after a yearlong deliberation. The #decision #outraged employees, prompted an uncomfortable all-staff meeting & drove three board members to #ResignInProtest .
https://www.eenews.net/articles/revolt-at-audubon-as-3-board-members-resign/
