Inside a chaotic 48 hours of firings and rehirings at the agency responsible for maintaining the the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n... - ThreadSky

gbrumfiel.bsky.social • 12 days ago

Inside a chaotic 48 hours of firings and rehirings at the agency responsible for maintaining the the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa

Comments

kirkmurphy.bsky.social•12 days ago

“Don’t nuke America”?

xcsci.bsky.social•11 days ago

📌

cbquist.bsky.social•12 days ago

Did they have to fit the justification in a twitter post

monkeyes2.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hey is there a tracker for all these agency firings, rehiring, freezes etc??

rlboston14.bsky.social•12 days ago

completely incompetent

allanschlosser.bsky.social•11 days ago

As if a Department of Government Evisceration isn't bad enough, it's headed by a guy who's both policy- and process-illiterate.

aminorjourney.bsky.social•11 days ago

“Do you like life on earth? No, of course you don’t: you want to go to Mars. We’re fucked”

countertony.org.uk•11 days ago

Most likely, since we are in the worst timeline - however, if the US we to achieve unilateral nuclear disarmament *by accident* that would be hilarious.