How about some of the “good” billionaires stepping up and if the resisters stay and get fired, which could result in losing their pensions, that the billionaires will step in and make them whole. Hell, double what they’d get. What say you @mcuban.bsky.social?
My wife and I are not of retirement age. However, I’m working on my plan to get a work visa and emigrate. I work for a multinational corporation that’s always hiring for my position overseas in Europe.
Wishing U all the best with that. If they have positions in Asia maybe check them out. Cheaper cost of living. Much easier 2 get a visa 4 #Thailand now. Retirement visas 4 Thailand minimum age 50. For #Cambodia 55, but easier 2 get, & U can get 7.3% interest (paid monthly) on US$ savings. Stay safe
Senators need to file a legal brief with the Supreme Court to revoke Trump's unlimited powers. The judges represent the Constitution and us, the people! If any judge refuses, they have to give good cause for allowing the Constitution to be destroyed.
#ElectionsHaveConsequences #ResistFascism🚫卐
Judge temporarily blocks #Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to #resign.
Several #laborunions sued, which had a midnight deadline for workers to "apply" to the program. https://youtu.be/dt6X2UgbRpA?si=JSLj0emiuRWt
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Laurel Gordon Sandler, Extortion “Under Color of Official Right”: Federal Prosecution of #OfficialCorruption under the #HobbsAct, 5 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 513 (1974).
Loyola University Law Journal Vol. 5: 513
#PoliticalCorruption
Americans are too busy watching TV and going to sporting events.
The resistance and opposition, this far, is pretty pathetic.
Outright capitulation and compliance to basically king-like edicts and illegal EOs.
W T F.
This whole fiasco is also showing how actually vague constitution is
It seems to me that America has always, maybe a perception, felt it was under attack by outside forces intending to weaken it's power in the world. This week the world has watched incredulously as America attacks and weakens itself from within.
It's not that simple.
It never has been.
Office HRs are telling people it is legitimate.
There is paperwork and terms and people have to decide if they want to take anything or potentially get fired in a week with nothing.
HR is there to protect the company/agency/etc from getting sued.
They have their best interests in mind.
Which means if they lie to thousands of federal employees, they would could open up mass lawsuits.
Truth is, no one knows wtf is going on and trying to just survive it.
"Drump" has a long history of not paying contractors & workers or honouring deals he has agreed to. The most recent example of this is his violation of USMCA. Anyone who takes the carrot offered by the Drump Administration and resigns is likely to be stiffed.
It was on MSNBC today that latest # was 60K. Unless a person is 65 & can retire it would not be a smart move. No guarantee for income, loss of medical ins., no more funding of 401. No job, no money how are they going to pay for mortgage/rent or food & the rest.
I wouldn't pretend to tell anyone working for the Federal Government what to do in these days of anxiety and fear for the future. They each need to make a calculation of what's best for them and their families ... not what Bluesky thinks is best for them when their livelihoods are not on the line.
The tech bros are using the practice of willful infringement, a situation of knowingly violating someone else’s IP rights but proceeds anyway. This opens the door to enhanced penalties because it signals more egregious, deliberate, or reckless behavior than simple (perhaps innocent) infringement.
Having difficult time doing that when my cancer treatment bills are coming in & my Congresswoman wants to cut my SS payment & Medicare coverage.
She's increased her wealth an average of $20M over her 2 terms while I keep going without a little more each month.
But, I am getting a little more pissed🤬
Welcome to Republican politics! Look I'm not gonna lie, Dems enrich themselves too, but at least their policies favor benefits for the people beneath them! Republican politicians don't give a fuck about the people! They view themselves as forgotten man.
Oh, they'll get paid.
It just grinds me that I even have medical bills when I have insurance.
I'm old enough to remember when insurance covered everything.
Of course that was when the industry was regulated and not privatized and profit driven...before Republicans were in their pockets 100%.
Take care. I hope you have wonderful support. I feel like the work to evict my cancer cells is somehow related to evicting this cabal from our government. Perhaps the courts and other nations will hold them at bay until they can be evicted. It’s a battle. Sending warrior angels.
Thank you!
You may be on point with that theory.
It's a battle, alright. Certainly don't need the evil realtime drama.
Sending 🤗and warrior angels back!
I’m so sorry! Do a go fund me but I think medical can not refuse to treat you. Let them send you those bills and don’t pay them! F that! Your health is more important then your credit then when you are better dispute it and get it removed. Stay strong xo
That's one more thing that angers me about my Trump kissing Congresswoman - she's against removing medical debt from credit ratings.
I will be working (🤞) her Democratic opponent's campaign this term. Super red farming district bordering Canada but there's lots of grumblings about Trump's tariffs.
If the patient does not pay they can lose their house their credit score sinks and they have to go bankrupt. But ya they might treat you but it won’t be top level treatment. It is a horrible system. Horrible!
She owns a financial services company.
After being elected the 1st time, she claimed to have distanced herself from the company.
But, a couple weeks back, in a hearing, she stated she was a business owner.
So, whatever. She's a Trump follower and honesty is🤷
Sure hope they don’t get conned into his “deal”! He can’t be trusted and will only lie to them all. By the time they take him to court he’ll be dead. He’s banking on that!!
#NationalStrikeWeek
Feb17 or Memorial Day
Plan your vacations & shut down USA
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#SaddleUpUSA
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#NationalStrike
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There is no guarantee that you will get paid. No money approved by Congress. You will not have healthcare which is a big #. You cannot get unemployment if you quit.
Because there is a good chance that chronic liar will eliminate my job anyway. It is easy to judge when you aren't worried about how you are going to pay for your spouses medications in retirement.
DEFINETLY no judgement. I'm not knee deep in it. I'm watching through a long lens. I just hope you all can support each other in the face of a giant shit storm.
There’s so much judgement until it’s your paycheck… this administration has us all scrambling and I don’t blame anyone for trying to take care of their families. My heart goes out to you all!
Right. That is why the unions are in court. The judge halted the midnight deadline for tonight & are back in court Monday. At this point there are NO guarantees IF you resign. Don’t do anything until the judge rules. They made the offer too good to be true to entice people to leave. #Project2025
If this thrown out and I am caught up in a RIF, I lose my FEHB and can't collect retirement until 62. With DRP, I could take VERA and have FEHB and an annuity. We all have different circumstances. The union may make a lot of noise, but they can't save you in a RIF.
U resigned? OMG I feel terrible for U! I wish U would have sought out legal advice 1st (yes there are free services). I made sure the gov employee I know did just that. It was an instant red flag to the attorney bc of no Congress auth especially under current CR. I hope IF found illegal u can undo!🤞🏻
I keep thinking that the offer for anyone to resign is more likely to work on women who have an innate need for stability. It’s so obvious they are purging women out of the workforce.
Hmm, I think you are right. Elon himself said women have no role in government.
This could be a stealthy way of getting rid of women from the government .🤔
I'm antsy about my job, but I'm "blessed" enough to work at a hospital that is criminally understaffed, so if they fire me, they just shoot themselves in the foot. But we all know corporations are killing themselves by killing their workforce, so I could be just another body for them to step over.
I'm not going to claim I know anything about Federal labor law or working for the government, but if I were a Federal worker I wouldn't resign. I would make them lay me off or fire me.
It's over. The bad guys lost this one. I wouldn't be surprised if they simply dropped the whole thing at this point. Move on to the next maiden to tie to the railroad tracks.
10K USAID workers fired. Less than 300 people left. This not only hurts them & their families, it also affects the farmers who support & supply food to the countries they serve.The people who pick & process it.The subcontractors & all the others who work with USAID. So many will now go without.
Nothing is as simple as it seems. By taking this offer, I will have medical insurance in retirement. If it is thrown out and I get caught up in the purge, I lose that option. I made the decision that was right for my family. Now that option may be taken away.
I am not in a position to interpret the forking offer nor would I give advice to others; each must make their own decision. I thought CS folks who stay but get riffed later could keep FEHB. Now, if you don't already have FEHB and there is no open season before rifs, that's terrible. Good luck!
There are some of use who reach the minimum years of service during the DRP time frame. If caught up in a reduction in force before hitting the minimum years needed for retirement, there is no FEHB and no annuity until 62. Under DRP FEHB continues and the annuity starts immediately.
Yeah I thought about the minimum after posting. I know ppl who were in DEI and are out, and others who are taking the forking offer. The whole thing is awful.
Precisely and that’s why it’s important to challenge things in court or public opinion, the point is you have to do something because if you don’t, well nothing will change.
They rigged the election. It explains the reckless takeover with blatant disregard for the wellbeing of the American public. Trump has contempt for even those who supported him. Nothing will ever be enough for him.
We just don’t make angry young white men like we used to.
Oswald was such a good shot tens of millions of people twist themselves in knots claiming it was too hard to have made, yet this dude straight up missed.
Damn right next election if the orangenazi still there the majority no matter how you vote will 95% Nazi because they will control the outcome look how resentful he was 2020 IT won’t give up power unless it’s torn away…..
Too late. If we had warriors in the democratic party maybe I'd have a fight left in me. But the leadership like @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social made it clear our warriors like @aoc.bsky.social and @repjasmine.bsky.social are to be silenced for the sake of seniority. So I'm done. No one to fight for me.
I won't blame or shame any worker who takes a buyout. Pretty tough decision to make between, "Resign now and get 6-8 months of severance pay, or get laid off in a month and get nothing."
Even if it's a bluff, many many people literally cannot afford to take that risk.
They will have to drag me out of my office if they want me gone. My husband is also a fed worker. We might end up getting royally fucked, but our oaths are to the constitution and to the people, not fascists.
Awesome to hear that you aren’t letting those son of a b**ches drive you and your husband out! Those fascists can f**k off. Thank you for keeping your oath to our Constitution and for being there for us! -proud US Army vet-
I’d be careful posting on social media. You know Elon and crew are going through private/public records looking for those that are not 100% loyal to Trump/Elon/Project 2025.
Same. When I questioned this I had a coworker tell me that I was to obey the President because he has the power to do this. No, my oath is to uphold & defend the Constitution not kiss a ring. I will go down with the ship before that happens.
We need Americans to help us defend our institutions!
I'd like to think that I would be flipping these guys two birds, but in reality I just don't know- it's not my career (or mortgage, etc.) on the line - my heart goes out to all federal employees who find themselves in impossible situations right now
I'm an art teacher, in public education - My job is definitely at risk in a project 2025 world. That doesn't prevent me from empathizing with federal employees who are under direct threat right now. 💔
Yes exactly. Easy to say you’d fight back unless you have a family to support. But that’s what they’re counting on. Slowing them down without getting fired might be the key
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Judge temporarily blocks #Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to #resign.
Several #laborunions sued, which had a midnight deadline for workers to "apply" to the program.
https://youtu.be/dt6X2UgbRpA?si=JSLj0emiuRWt
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Extortion of #governmentemployees is a #crime that's covered by both federal and state #laws.
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Loyola University Law Journal Vol. 5: 513
#PoliticalCorruption
Americans are too busy watching TV and going to sporting events.
The resistance and opposition, this far, is pretty pathetic.
Outright capitulation and compliance to basically king-like edicts and illegal EOs.
W T F.
This whole fiasco is also showing how actually vague constitution is
It never has been.
Office HRs are telling people it is legitimate.
There is paperwork and terms and people have to decide if they want to take anything or potentially get fired in a week with nothing.
They have their best interests in mind.
Which means if they lie to thousands of federal employees, they would could open up mass lawsuits.
Truth is, no one knows wtf is going on and trying to just survive it.
So it's basically people who were on the way out anyway taking the deals.
At least, that's what I have been seeing being reported here and r/fednews.
but here I stand!
Time4SomeSabotage - great thread 👇🏼
One of my favs.
Elon and Trump should cut themselves out of the Budget
and we save bigly, with my calculations
https://bsky.app/profile/shamballa-warrior.bsky.social/post/3lhjfyncxtk2o
All are/is not lost.
find your feet. stand.
breathe.
find your foundation. root to rise.
breathe.
She's increased her wealth an average of $20M over her 2 terms while I keep going without a little more each month.
But, I am getting a little more pissed🤬
It just grinds me that I even have medical bills when I have insurance.
I'm old enough to remember when insurance covered everything.
Of course that was when the industry was regulated and not privatized and profit driven...before Republicans were in their pockets 100%.
You may be on point with that theory.
It's a battle, alright. Certainly don't need the evil realtime drama.
Sending 🤗and warrior angels back!
I will be working (🤞) her Democratic opponent's campaign this term. Super red farming district bordering Canada but there's lots of grumblings about Trump's tariffs.
After being elected the 1st time, she claimed to have distanced herself from the company.
But, a couple weeks back, in a hearing, she stated she was a business owner.
So, whatever. She's a Trump follower and honesty is🤷
Anyway, her "job" has useful perks.
And they passed with flying colors. How many Germans obeyed orders because they were "just doing their jobs"?
So glad, I am not one of these pu$$ies.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/deferred-resignation-program-irs-tax-refund
Feb17 or Memorial Day
Plan your vacations & shut down USA
#SaddleUpTruePatriots
#SaddleUpUSA
#HoldTheLine
#Protest50501
#ProtestTruePatriots #PTP
#NationalStrike
#StudentsStrike50501
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This could be a stealthy way of getting rid of women from the government .🤔
We take the House back in 2025!
We win 2, House is tied 217-217
We win 3, we control the House 218-217
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Florida 1st district: @gayforcongress.bsky.social
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We invented much of the stuff that drives modernity.
We will not be turned around.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
Just some food for thought.
To the Americans, YES.
Thousands protested & it barely made the news.
You must force them to tell people the real news. That will only happen if protests are at the actual physical TV networks & local stations.
We need real leaders with actual plans not bloviators.
He is a dark soul.
Oswald was such a good shot tens of millions of people twist themselves in knots claiming it was too hard to have made, yet this dude straight up missed.
Even if it's a bluff, many many people literally cannot afford to take that risk.
We need Americans to help us defend our institutions!