I so admire these people blowing up their careers to do the right thing. But I worry that once everyone with integrity is gone, there will be no one to protect us. - ThreadSky

helenkennedy.bsky.social • 5 days ago

I so admire these people blowing up their careers to do the right thing. But I worry that once everyone with integrity is gone, there will be no one to protect us.

Reposted from Brad Heath

The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract.

ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

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telesonixseeker.bsky.social•4 days ago

Exactly😢

patrickularity.bsky.social•5 days ago

That’s the plan. They want complete capture within a couple months.

eminencefront.bsky.social•5 days ago

Rock meet hard place. You stay and play the game or you leave. Either way it's a win for President Musk. Wasn't that the plan of project 2025 anyway? Replace federal workers with MAGA zombies? The dominos are falling.

mickeyfoon.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's no winning by staying. Just like Democratic House Reps need to shut the govt down (no yes votes for GOP budget) till Musk/Doge are gone. And Americans need to stop buying things to show our power.

ianrobo.bsky.social•5 days ago

but at least we know then who to blame ... there is normal work to be done and if ethical people leave, well DOJ collapses anyway

ianrobo.bsky.social•5 days ago

maybe thats the feature ?

drop-in.bsky.social•5 days ago

Share your concern. Would love to see these people get hired in similar positions within a Blue State and somehow use their talent and integrity to fight at the Stae level, the flood of corruption coming from the Trump Autocracy. Admittedly, I have no idea what this looks like.

mheido.bsky.social•4 days ago

Head of the FDA gone today too. I share your fears.

olympicdane.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is a big gift to criminals all over the world. Trump has made the US more vulnerable to crime.

mikebaltar.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed.

I'm sure I don't have their complete perspective and reasons for going out with a bang, but at least from my perspective I would prefer their statement had been:

"I will stand in your way until you move me."

craigwinston.bsky.social•5 days ago

The biggest hope is that they only put incompetent ideological fools into those positions which will hurt people but we think not as badly as competent ghouls would do since hurting people on purpose is their goal.

hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social•5 days ago

Im not sure they will be able to bring cases without capable prosecutors

tallgirl7.bsky.social•5 days ago

💯 Agree!

saintjoe.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's OK Then we can storm the castle and destroy all within without harming an innocent.

laurenbdavis.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is precisely my concern. I understand the impulse, but if all those of good conscience quit, who's left to defend the Constitution, to oppose the coup, to hold the line against #fascism?

annabellelecter.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's kind of unfair to expect career civil servants to absorb the hate and rage of Elon's pet army after Republicans undermined them for decades and Democrats didn't show up, isn't it?

sinclairlewis.bsky.social•5 days ago

Nah, don’t worry. According to a senior Democrat, if Democrats just “play possum” and let protests play out every thing will be honky dory.

myskhin.bsky.social•5 days ago

And once these folks land jobs in the private sector it will be almost impossible to get them back. Same with all the scientists that Musk is firing.

treelimb.bsky.social•5 days ago

They're doing the right thing.

shazmo27.bsky.social•4 days ago

I just don't see what it achieves. It creates job opportunities for maga people to fill

giraffey.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hopefully, all these people will be snapped up by blue states to fortify states' rights or build a shadow government.

speitsch.bsky.social•5 days ago

I don’t think people who will get fired anyway have anything other than resigning in disgust as an option

This is like saying Schleicher, Röhm and Strasser should stay on to make a difference

cofax.bsky.social•5 days ago

Even if they stayed, they wouldn't be allowed to protect us

emmagoldman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Exactly this. And if they’re replaced by incompetent RWNJs, hopefully the weaponization of [in]justice will be inept.

lunarbike.bsky.social•5 days ago

The thing about lawyers is that they can generally pretty much get another job quickly. So I suspect we will see more resign. Even conservative ones.

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