cakes wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 7:45 pm

Wood Goblin wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 7:13 pm Removing my original post. I’m so unbelievably angry right now.

Trump wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza. He is stating it openly.

What do you mean? He said he wants to move them out of a dump to somewhere beautiful, and that the deal was bad from the beginning.

I'm being sarcastic, of course.

Frankie99 wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:54 am Haha the board notifies you even if someone you ignore quotes you. How silly.

If confirmed, I will work to restore confidence and integrity to the Department of Justice and each of its components," she said. "Under my watch, the partisanship, the weaponization, will be gone. America will have one tier of justice for all.

Krev wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:14 pm Can you imagine working at USAID or GSA right now, and dealing with the bullshit from him and his coder young boys?

Doge staffers enter NOAA headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called 'harmful to US prosperity'

Michael Sainato
Tue 4 Feb 2025 20.11 EST

Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency.

“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former Noaa official who is now a fellow at the University of New Hampshire. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”

Project 2025, written by several former Trump staffers, has called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to US prosperity” for its role in climate science.

Rosenberg noted it’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services.

He also argued there is no legal authority to abolish Noaa or reduce its budget, outside of reducing it through Congress.

“There’s no real transparency. They just show up wherever they want, do whatever they want. They’re following through on major budget cuts and major staffing cuts,” Rosenberg added. “I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

By Corbin Hiar | 02/04/2025 04:17 PM EST

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday.

The comments by Assistant Director Susan Margulies came at an all-hands meeting of the NSF’s Engineering Directorate, according to two program managers who attended.

Marguiles, NSF and the White House didn’t respond to detailed questions about the layoffs and their potential implications.

“A large-scale reduction, in response to the President’s workforce executive orders, is already happening,” a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management said in an email. “The government is restructuring, and unfortunately, many employees will later realize they missed a valuable, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the deferred resignation offer.”

The NSF announcement comes amid reports of planned layoffs at the General Services Administration and with a Thursday deadline looming for federal workers to accept buyouts from the Trump administration that some former government officials have warned are legally dubious.

The Trump administration is trying to “scare the shit out of people so they take advantage of the resignation offers out of fear,” said one NSF program manager who asked not to be identified to avoid retribution.