For a person to care about another person, they have to have empathy and compassion and be human. None of those things apply to the Republican party, especially those at the top.
A Facebook friend of mine keeps accusing me of “regurgitating talking points” while cheering everything on, talking about all the times politicians have promised cuts but failed to deliver, and saying, “I’m an optimist!” Like I’m supposed to watch the Hindenburg burning and say, “This is fine!”
Your Facebook friend is a low intelligence NAZI SHITBAG. If you start unapologetically calling them NAZIS they don't like it. So then I ask them why they don't like it. Believe it or not, this is the ONLY thing so far that has worked for me.
I think he is first and foremost genuinely misinformed. He proudly declares that he doesn’t watch the news, but I suspect he’s living in a rightwing bubble, regardless. It does disturb me that he doesn’t seem to care when I say that what Elon is doing is not only reckless but most likely illegal.
I did. He didn’t care. He said, “Funny. democrats used to love Elon before all this.” I said I can’t speak for everyone, but I’ve never liked Elon. I’ve always been annoyed by private companies that think they can do what NASA does cheaper. Private companies also cut corners. Remember OceanGate?
And MAGA voters, fellow Americans, who don't even understand yet, that this will certainly hit them, and hit them soon, are gleefully laughing at illegally fired government workers.
I was working at Tesla when he did a similar thing. I worked in a mostly remote team and we essentially lost 3/4 of the team in one day. Of course, what is happening in the federal government is WAY worse, I just got to see the trial run a couple of years ago.
And again, where is dem leadership? Why are they not reading these aloud everyday. Why are there no press conferences highlighting these. It’s clear that musk will whack a lot more people yet. They are not finding space for them because they don’t need it. They will be firing many many more.
I sincerely hope ALL these people who have been fired file HUGE LAWSUITS against Trump & Musk, not only for LOST wages but for the EMOTIONAL TRAUMA they are doing to them! MAKE THE RICH SOB's PAY until their BOTH BANKRUPT!😡
I’m sure Musk, his DOGEsters and people at the highest levels of the Trump administration are revelling at being able destroy so many employees’ livelihoods and lives. These twisted sadists are enjoying the rush from exercising unrestrained power or taking retribution on the ‘deep state’.
I live in MD and so have many friends who work for the federal government. Hard working people who take their jobs very seriously. This is exactly what they are going through.
I’d love to say this letter surprises me, but it doesn’t. We can’t afford a failure of imagination when it comes to the level to which Trump, Musk and their regime are capable of sinking. The cold, clinical destruction of federal workers, our institutions and our very way of life is a game
I feel for all these dedicated federal workers who are being arbitrarily fired by Elmo and his hacker bros. We cannot sit back and just let this happen. We must speak out and react to this.
I think that the day cRump replaces the the secret service with the oath keepers or the proud boys as his body guards (in lovely brown or black uniforms of course) might, maybe, could, potentially alert some “unaligned” folks as to the clear and present danger.
This would wake people up. Even the multiple "shut downs" the Rs instigated over the years were practically nothing. "Essential" workers kept things going, so people barely noticed. A general strike/true shut down would be a rude awakening for people who think the Federal government does nothing.
Though, as we've seen, it would be dangerous for the nuclear weapons managers to walk off the job, and the military, air traffic controllers, and I'm sure a lot more.
I had the privilege and the pleasure to work for the Department of Defense at Fort Belvoir Virginia, most of the folks who I worked with just as the letter described, honest, hard working individuals dedicated to the mission! They don’t deserve this treatment and disrespect! Fuck Musk, Fuck DOGE!💩🤬🖕
They should stay and fight
Fascist MAGA scums wants to replace them with loyalists
That is how orban and others took the power
@aoc.bsky.social this is important
Fight
Heartbreaking. I worked for federal gov’t for 9 years, and was proud to do so. I cannot imagine being treated this way. #47 and Musk are evil idiots ruining so many lives for power and their god, money.
Trump 2.0 is a regime that is now in power. To call it anything else is a lie and belies the sword that is being wielded against the federal workforce and our society. Every American should be asking: "When are they coming for me?".
I am sitting here with tears running down my face. This is heart wrenching. I don't know where this all ends or how we are going to come together to stop it. I have absolutely no faith in the SC and besides the law is being ignored. I'm taking more anxiety meds.
Wow. Just wow .. my heart goes out to these people. Elon has no boundaries , what is to stop him from doing this in private sector ..he is an infestation
This is very sad, and only confirms it’s as bad as we thought it was. They are firing people so rapidly and carelessly, I can’t help but have this gut feeling that the entire DOGE team, as well as much of the Trump admin, are getting a good laugh at everyone’s pain. 🤬🤬
This is the most significant documentation of the horrors and devastation happening in all these agencies. The lives Trump and Musk and the Republicans in the Senate and House, are ruining! They all need to go to jail!
And we must multiply this by thousands of times over in order to begin to comprehend the magnitude of pain and anguish hard working, civil servants are going through.
Thank you for sharing this and thank you to the fed worker who publicized the reckless, dangerous, illegal, and unconstitutional actions by the Trump Regime and Doge as they attack our federal agencies, institutions and Republic.
These offenses cannot stand if we the people stand together.
This whole cancelling remote work is ignorance and distrust on the part of management. And shame on the Muskovite: if you work in high tech COMPUTER NETWORKING is THE thing!
Managers simply do not know how to manage the people that work under them. They could even be fukking off!
Change the conversation.
Republicans added $8 trillion to the debt in 2018 for corporate handouts.
Government workers account for 2% of government spending, fire all of them and it won't cover the interest on the debt load of past and coming $5 trillion republicans will add to the debt this year.
Utterly heartbreaking to read. These federal workers have devoted their lives to our Country.
I view it as a “federal ethnic cleansing”; this is what occurs in a Dictatorship.
America is now a country where you are FREE TO DO AS YOU’RE TOLD - pure unadulterated Facism.
Please please take the time to read this letter from an anonymous federal worker.
I now have a much greater, down to earth, from the trenches understanding of what is happening.
The America we love is disappearing very fast.
I am frightened
I think every single person that works for the government. At every level !! Should go on strike until the entire Trump administration is removed from office !!
I saw the lady's letter and before I offer sympathy, here's a question. For whom did she vote? If she didn't vote for Trump; I feel saddened for her that she's being dragged into this shit storm. However,if she DID vote for Trump. I have another question... WTF did you expect?
My heart goes out to these federal employees. They are dedicated people trying to do their job . We have a crime syndicate in the white hose now who answers to Putin .
It’s not a ripple effect when fired federal workers can’t pay their bills all of a sudden, it’s a tsunami! Many more people, businesses, jobs will see losses.
I went through this in 2014, when we had a despot win our state election here in Queensland, Australia. I lost half my team, I had to personally tell 30 odd people they no longer had a job. It was a terrible time - i feel for the US federal employees being defamed and monstered.
I didn’t seek or ask for my government job. I was recruited from the private sector. I took a significant pay cut and ate the cost of moving to DC. I felt like I was the guy they needed to help keep us safe.
Now I’m on my knees with a gun at my head. Not the thanks I was expecting.
I am heartbroken for you and all the others who are going through this warlike terror. Tell you story, find a news outlet if you can. Magas need to know the horror Trump and Musk are spreading.
Every Hitler has his Josef Kramers and Ilse Koch’s. The ones who smile while they kill. For some reason, Trump has had no trouble filling his ranks with American versions of these psychopaths. Interestingly, Trump surpassed Hitler by finding those who will also betray their country to Putin.
What shocking to me is so many are shocked at USA's gov being converted into a fascist Trump company. It's exactly what I expected on 1/20/21 when, to me, Biden made it clear he did not want the traitor leaders brought to justice or expelled.
During Biden's first speech as president, I expected to hear that all the leaders who attempted the coup would be brought to justice & expelled from Congress. When he didn't, I knew he supported the traitor leaders stay in office & run again. Then later Biden said he wanted Trump to run in 2024.
Yeah this guy is a really truly sick bastard. Imagine bragging that you want Americans, any Americans, to be "in trauma". I want this entire regime to be in trauma.
America needs to rise up and demand we invoke the 25th- a madman is in office. He has gaslighted millions and grabbed America by the ‘p___y’ - because ‘they let you when you are rich and famous.’
Vance would be completely on board with everything, and he's probably not as incompetent. Be careful what you wish for. But who knows? Maybe he couldn't be any worse? Ugh. It's all so frustrating!
I'm from the UK. Reading this letter is frightening. My heart tightened as I read it. What with trumps words last night blaming Ukraine for starting that war: AMERICA! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!
Scary scary times. A madman is in charge. 😡😡
For many, one day off of work could result in becoming homeless. In addition to the vastness of this country. I talk to people DAILY that don't have a clue what is going on. They think they have "fuck you" money. They don't. 29% wanted this. 99% will ultimately suffer.
I'm retired now, but worked in a NHS hospital with staff from all over the world. That taught me to accept others of all manner of creeds, colour and religion. I loved that. Always interesting to hear how other people live. Gives one a nice balanced view. As a beautician I'm sure you find the same?
Also, strikes off of work are easier in countries where access to healthcare isn’t tied to your employment. America, on the other hand, is a libertarian hellscape.
This is heartbreaking to read. The federal workforce is on the frontline of this fascist takeover of America and they are hurting.
Billionaires who don't support these fascists better step up before the masses lump them in with the evil ones because a reckoning is coming. Anger is building.
As a Federal Worker I feel this 😞 I don’t feel safe either even as an essential worker. Hell our management told us, “we will work to at least make sure the supervisors are safe” thats how fucked it is
If Russia and America’s fascist regimes are aligning, ask yourself: Who are they really preparing to fight?
When authoritarians feel threatened, they call in backup. If Trump needed help to "maintain order," what's stopping him from inviting Russian troops onto U.S. soil?
They need to impeach apparently all Three of them! Then immediately hall their asses off to jail. Freeze their bank accounts. They won’t need money because they’ll be in jail! But give them one million and the rest goes back to healthcare, education and end poverty! Haha That would be awesome!!!
Go to @skyeperryman.bsky.social As head of Democracy Forward, she has many lawyers to assist government employees. 202-448-9090 [email protected] Please repost as often as possible. Get the word out. You have been illegally fired. You can sue. Bring your case to Democracy Forward ASAP.
Wow, what a sad state of affairs they're going through. I can't reiterate it enough, everybody needs to leave Twitter. I know it's hard, but that guy doesn't deserve any of us.
Wondering what the national unemployment numbers will be in March ? Any guesses? How about one of you smart IT folks get access to Muskrats accounts and Robin Hood it?
Something is not adding up. I learned today that a couple of surveys of Americans show a majority of people are happy with the current results performed by Trump and Musk. So, are Americans truly heartless? Or are the surveys lying?
I’m a federal employee and I absolutely am not an attorney. I also worked in private industry for a decade prior to any job supporting the government. This is an example of a person who doesn’t understand how govt works.
Who are attorneys? The fed worker who wrote this letter is not an atty. While she didn’t specify where she worked exactly, context clues indicate it is in a civil service govt agency or dept.
They’re firing approximately 250K fed employees across the country.
I don’t know the federal employee who wrote this there are 2 million of us, but I can assure you lawyers don’t just work at DOJ regular every day people do too as support staff same with every other govt organization.
Obviously this person wanted to remain anonymous. Please stop rationalizing. They are firing tons of people. Not lawyers.. real people who work their asses off to help us the American people.
No I don’t know her. As I said, I can tell by context clues in the letter she wrote that she is not an attorney. The other ~250K fired federal employees are not all attorneys.
250K suddenly unemployed people flooding the job market all at once also will not lend to quickly getting new jobs.
I spent my entire career as a government employee and I know how hard most of us work - for substantially less money than we could make but we believe in public service. What Trump is doing is unforgivable and dangerous. Hate doesn’t begin to express what I feel for him and his supporters
This is sooooo sad and incredibly awful. I hear the pain in this letter. No human being is deserving of this treatment. No animal is deserving of having their caregivers fired with no contingency plans. My mind is blown at the degree of evilness that the Orange buffoon is inflicting. Impeach him!
My understanding of government work was that it didn’t pay well, but it offered security and the ability to use your skill set to make a difference. Seems like a lot to lose.
I worked in the government for a while, and the best thing for me was working with others who were so passionate about what we were doing. Never got that feeling in the corporate world.
In my private sector job, I worked closely with a federal agency. The fed workers I had contact with were hard working, dedicated to their jobs, and their mission. I am beyond furious at Madman Musk and Dementia Donald for this assault on federal employees and for making America far less safe.
Oh, how I wish the media would spotlight the completely unnecessary cruelty being inflicted on hundreds of thousands American workers who did nothing other than show up to do the mission that Congress said America would do. But they don’t, because Americans seem to hate workers.
The Lincoln project puts together some great ads in the past. Now would be a good time to get some ads iut tgrre with done of these personal stories. there as often and widely as possible. Educate Americans on what our federal workers actually do.
I don’t even think this would work. They are in control of FCC, and would not hesitate, to pull licenses, to silence any critics. This is truly a dictatorship regime, and the only rules they follow, are the ones they make.
If not local tv stations there are local independent community newpapers in my state that are read by virtually everyone. There must be others like it in other states
Maybe... once people finally start to feel the absence of these workers and these agencies that serve quietly. Maybe then, people will finally understand and hopefully stand up. Easy for one to ignore when it doesn't touch them personally. But it will at some point, hopefully not too late.
I just find it bizarre that American workers have no sense of solidarity at all. It’s like it’s been bred out of our culture. It’s like we don’t want other people to have good jobs.
Frustrating to watch the predictable consequences of easily-avoidable mistakes slowly play out, while hundreds of thousands of people are treated like shit and fired.
I knew just about everything in this letter, but reading their account is heartbreaking. I totally understand why they are anonymous, hopefully sooner rather than later we get to see and hear these horrific accounts. I would like to see the oh so quiet Republicans in congress start responding.
How about top Dems like @aoc.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @jasmineforus.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
hold press conferences daily - including the AP - to present these stories and counter misinformation!
Federal Civil Service employees are very loyal to the Constitution. Besides the firings, BILLIONS in tax payer money is being wasted due to the loss of productivity from the stress and poor management. Hiring is a skill. Firing as a primary tool is used by bad businessmen.
Some of these employees getting fired voted for Trump. I hope they never get another job, lose their home, & have to live on the street. Those people will probably end up being forced to ask liberals for help. If so, tell them "Don't vote for felons - that's the best help anyone can offer."
Trump supporters losing anything because of Trump is on them. We knew who he was and they were warned. When you side with your enemy expect to be betrayed. To expect anything else is just ignorant.
I agree. I guess some people just need personalized lessons in critical thinking. I do expect, though, that they will eventually get around to requiring a fascist loyalty pledge - if they aren't doing it already.
Hopefully heavily leaning in the direction of realizing their mistakes...although nothing will ever redeem them it will be easier to fight if his supporters turn on him.
This destroyed me. If you’ve ever had an abusive boss aka toxic work environment you KNOW how much it physically drains you. That uncertainty would cripple a person.
Can democrats hold some kind of hearing with all the IG’s, department heads, and maybe those leaders under Adams who quit and let the public know what those people have to say? Or do their work contracts keep them from talking about the jobs they lost?
American federal workers should do what the French would do in this situation. Go on strike! Walk out. Everyone. Together. For each other. Instead of everyone cowering in fear that they are next. Musk and trump would be completely paralyzed.
What DOGE is doing is also illegal. So striking in protest is justified. And strikes *do* work. If they weren’t effective, no one would bother to make them illegal.
It’s easy for me to say from Australia but I think that large scale protest and strikes will be the only way to slow or reverse things
There are several things that we give up as public servants. We cannot run for political office. We cannot strike. We cannot officially endorse products. We cannot fundraise for political parties. These are all designed to keep us professionally apolitical no matter our private politics.
I genuinely sympathise. And have no idea what I would do.
I’m a public school teacher here in 🇦🇺 and we actually took unsanctioned action recently when negotiating our new award (our “right” to strike is absurdly limited here) but our union copped a $1.5m fine and we had our pay docked. No firings.
They kind of have a point tho. Maybe people need to be better educated on the necessity of the federal services provided by these maligned workers. As Trump says, if you’re saving the country, you can’t possibly be breaking any laws. Or similar nonsense…
I would add that the reason we are not allowed to strike is to protect the people from losing services. Just as many of us are deemed essential during a government shutdown. Federal Employees have certain restrictions designed to protect the public.
Regardless of our personal political beliefs we signed up to serve the public and uphold the CONSTITUTION. In my job I don't ask who someone voted for, I just serve them all. Those days seem numbered now.
If you cared about the Constitution you'd engage in
Civil Disobedience, striking against the illegitimate insurrectionist in solidarity.
Instead you're forfeiting your one weapon, withholding the *essential* to resist fascism, & talking down your nose at the victim (the public) about your virtue? 🙄
Let's say fed. workers did strike. Since they're not legally allowed to, they get fired for cause. Saves the regime a lot of time/ legal fees b/c they don't have to even pretend they're fired for cause. Not sure if feasible, but what about the opposite, fired workers do sit-ins and refuse to leave?
How many women since gamer-gate have faced life threatening harassment online with ZERO arrests. @meidastouch.com gets these threats daily. I’m so sick of the billionaires getting benefits and protections no one else gets.
The recent firings came at 10 pm on a Friday night on a three day weekend. Any halfway decent person knows you don't fire someone this way. The goal was trauma.
Employees were immediately shut off access to management, personnel records, employee assistant programs. Chaos by design.
Ya get what ya voted for, and this time ya can’t even say the majority didn’t.
I understand a large number of you didn’t vote for him, but alas, maybe your country really needs to break before people will make sure this level of pain and idiocy never happens again.
That's pretty cold. There are similar problems in Canada, and many othe countries. Breaking every single thing, including the good, implemented by people who don't know what the hell they are doing, is note a solution. That's like tearing out all the plumbing in the house cuz the faucet is dripping.
Also it’s more like knocking down the house because you willingly let someone drive their Cybertruck through it and put giant holes in every wall and foundation. They choose to let it happen, now they pay the price for it.
@fetterman.senate.gov and @pasenatorsaval.com and @benwaxman.bsky.social and @repbrendanboyle.bsky.social this is going to have a terrible impact on the Commonwealth of PA.
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Resist EVERYTHING trumpamerikkkan.
#DOGE #illegitimatePresident #starlink #Trumpcheated
Very sad dark times.
When Elmo did this to Twitter, it was sad. I felt for the workers. But it was also “just an app”. (I’m so sorry ex-twitter workers.)
What is happening now is the exact playback and it threatens to shut down our country.
It feels personal because it is.
This story is being repeated many times over throughout the country. Think this is one that really needs to be shared.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-park-ranger-fired-dream-job-emotional-viral-letter/
Presidents Musk and trump must stop
Fascist MAGA scums wants to replace them with loyalists
That is how orban and others took the power
@aoc.bsky.social this is important
Fight
They regretted firing the nuclear scientists. Just wait until they fire the people who keep their lights on. Fuck them.
It's heartwarming.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/musk-to-unions-the-nazis-are-coming
These offenses cannot stand if we the people stand together.
Managers simply do not know how to manage the people that work under them. They could even be fukking off!
Republicans added $8 trillion to the debt in 2018 for corporate handouts.
Government workers account for 2% of government spending, fire all of them and it won't cover the interest on the debt load of past and coming $5 trillion republicans will add to the debt this year.
Musk does this at Teska all the time random irrational firings
I view it as a “federal ethnic cleansing”; this is what occurs in a Dictatorship.
America is now a country where you are FREE TO DO AS YOU’RE TOLD - pure unadulterated Facism.
I now have a much greater, down to earth, from the trenches understanding of what is happening.
The America we love is disappearing very fast.
I am frightened
Now I’m on my knees with a gun at my head. Not the thanks I was expecting.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-key-ally-russell-vought-agenda_n_671fed62e4b0a55cb4cdec09/amp
After a fair military tribunal, of course.
I'm so done. When will America catch up?!
Scary scary times. A madman is in charge. 😡😡
What they are doing is illegal.
I am hoping we put it in our tool kit soon
Because we won't be able to do it alone.
He is planning on invading Panama, Greenland and Canada. I've no doubt.
It's time to rise up.
Billionaires who don't support these fascists better step up before the masses lump them in with the evil ones because a reckoning is coming. Anger is building.
(B) Cook the numbers and/or lie
(C) Start a war to distract everybody
My Q is whether Obama is the puppet master for Biden or the mastermind of the Deep State, I can’t keep track.
You vote in a rapist you get
F
When authoritarians feel threatened, they call in backup. If Trump needed help to "maintain order," what's stopping him from inviting Russian troops onto U.S. soil?
They’re firing approximately 250K fed employees across the country.
They won’t all get jobs quickly.
250K suddenly unemployed people flooding the job market all at once also will not lend to quickly getting new jobs.
Got this.
Totally not sus.
Forgive my ignorance. I’m angry, but that’s no excuse to be foolish. Accountability matters so I will not be deleting my previous post.
Abominable!!
hold press conferences daily - including the AP - to present these stories and counter misinformation!
KEEP DOING & SAYING THOSE THEM.
Toss the stupid emails & memos in the trash & keep doing the job as it needs to be done.
STOP COMPLYING
STOP OBEYING
FFS!
And please offer any support you can to these innocent people caught up in the chaos.
We simply MUST do something to protect our country from the damage being done at scale.
Same here!
- animals left with no one to care for them.
- conservatives don’t seem to know there are trans men. They are only worried about trans women.
Just… deplorable. #FireElon
But also, it wouldn't matter much as destroying the government is the goal.
It’s easy for me to say from Australia but I think that large scale protest and strikes will be the only way to slow or reverse things
I’m a public school teacher here in 🇦🇺 and we actually took unsanctioned action recently when negotiating our new award (our “right” to strike is absurdly limited here) but our union copped a $1.5m fine and we had our pay docked. No firings.
Civil Disobedience, striking against the illegitimate insurrectionist in solidarity.
Instead you're forfeiting your one weapon, withholding the *essential* to resist fascism, & talking down your nose at the victim (the public) about your virtue? 🙄
AND his offsider Trump.
https://fox59.com/indiana-news/indiana-man-charged-with-threatening-elon-musk-on-x-arrested-for-felony-intimidation/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIiGmVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbr0BE3McsW46DUAGyOEUZZjnOpHKYXUwn5a27-eNQbiWH3IMJwSlnBwfQ_aem_1jxGwL_F1k9zFsHE2PVYMQ
“If any of this is news to you, I highly encourage you to hop onto Reddit and read the posts in r/fednews.”
Employees were immediately shut off access to management, personnel records, employee assistant programs. Chaos by design.
I understand a large number of you didn’t vote for him, but alas, maybe your country really needs to break before people will make sure this level of pain and idiocy never happens again.
I understand your attitude. Our president is turning us into a horrible world neighbor. A lot of us are mad as hell too.
The only time I started caring again was when he started attacking Canada.
Fuck’em, let them hurt… it’s the only way this won’t happen again.
@democrats.org