cjfarls.bsky.social
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It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.
When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
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DOGE is not a govt efficiency project. Firing 1 in 4 fed employees would cut govt spending by 1%. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation & strengthening a personalist presidency donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...
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The US population won’t stand for that…. For all the idiocy, the US has closer affection for Europe than they do Russia and Trump can’t change that in the near term. such deployment would result in defections from the military and a Constitutional crisis/civil war (which may be coming anyway).
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Yes…. This is all the people that would have retired this year anyway, as well as the early career, probationary, etc. folks that know they will be on the bottom of a RIF anyway. This is hardly a significant exodus.
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Who is organizing these actions? Will there be medical/legal/observers for the protests? The organization is as important as the direct action.
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Every accusation is a confession
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Yes. Federal employees generally have a 1 to 2 year probationary period before the full merit system protections kick in. Trump is misusing that status for general downsizing (and basing the action on loyalty tests is illegal)…. But mostly it is legal to fire new hires without having to give cause
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Go Beavs!!!
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I guess he’s serious about going to war with Canada? Otherwise not sure who he thinks is gonna be lobbing rockets at us…
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I mean…. We’re in the “or else” phase of things. That literally is what we’re dealing with now.
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These folks will all be getting hefty wrongful termination settlements, as the don’t serve the “administration”, they serve the Constitution. As civil servants, they have those protections.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean they will be reinstated.
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That’s exactly the point. THERE ARE NO SAVIORS. Dems give competent, but far from “savior” governing. Since Clinton in the 1990s, the Dems triangulated the center and basically are the status quo. It’s not good, but it is reality based and better than the fool alternative.
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This is exactly the problem. Our “on demand” society demands instant saviors. Simple competence and incremental improvement aren’t enough. This is why Trump won, both in 2016 and 2024…. He promised to be a savior. It’s also why he lost in 2024- he’s a fool and can’t do anything. 2028 is coming
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Every single one of these is a pump and dump scheme. The rubes will lose everything, while Trump and the tech bros laugh all the way to the bank
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Follow Nick on Bluesky here: nickkorte.bsky.social
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How about all of the above?
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Tiktok will involuntarily and secretly take your personal info and use it against you and the rest of US society. The latter does the same thing, but you volunteer for it and they do it openly. Basically “freedom”.
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Pointless shiny rocks are probably more stable than the upcoming US political leadership.
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Sadly, we’re no where close to stopping adding carbon GHGs to the atmosphere…. That really is the crux of the problem.
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Climate models do include many feedback loops. As more data is gained on others, they are included. These are 2nd order effects, so probably were underrepresented in early, computationally constrained models…. But as more info and capacity to include them becomes available, they are included.
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I’ve always found the tipping point framing unhelpful because 1) while tipping points can change the relative damage of the marginal ton, we know there is ALWAYS current benefit to avoiding the next marginal ton…. And 2) the uncertainty around the tipping points just confuses folks….
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Yeah, GS should have just said Trump “sexually assaulted” Carrol, rather than using the word “rape”. Then it would have been legally correct.
Like Clinton getting away with it by saying “sexual relations”, Trump gets off on semantics….
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Don’t really care whether we stay at DST or at standard time.. but we definitely should stop switching.
No need to fuss when he actually gloms onto a decent idea.
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Even a lot of our key supporting players are locked up for multiple years. Moss and McMillian at CB. Got Cooper/Ellis at OLB. Got Vele/Mims/Franklin at WR for multiple years.
The big questions for next year are DL depth if we don’t bring Jones back, ILB, TE, safety depth, and RB. And upgrades.
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I’d be more worried about this, but for the fact that some very lefty internet security folks I know absolutely warn folks to avoid the TikTok app. It harvests EVERYTHING. It very much is a Trojan horse for folks’ personal info, which absolutely could be exploited by hostile government.
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So your argument that CC acknowledging the folks before her is "woke" and is going to turn folks away? Are you saying folks will only pay attention to CC's game if she pisses all over the court, tells the world that everyone but her sucks, etc.? You're weird....
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Do I like the idea of pre-emotive pardons? Not at all.
But really, the worst thing that can happen here is the GOP nonsense is slowed down. Even better would be legislation or judicial rulings making such actions illegal or limited in the future.