We keep going round and round about what censorship is and whether the private sector can do it or not. This often gets subsumed into a free speech absolutes debate. Well right here right now in Mississippi we have a GLARING example of government censorship. I look forward to the “well you have to understands”
No one is impossible to fire in the federal system. It happens routinely even if the numbers are small. Like everything g else it’s a process and as long as it’s followed it’s actually pretty effective. It just takes time and business people refuse to take time.
Your sons - and mine - still live in a world where they are statistically more likely to gain advantage then my white daughters or my black nieces and nephews. It’s like the tech bro rage about feminizing corporations which are 90% Helen’s by men. Frankly until the situation for my daughters and nieces and nephew gets to the place our sons enjoy you can take you sanctimonious rage and go sit in the corner.
Something to ponder - by firing all the probationary Feds using lies about performance one creates the veneer of “cause” to the terminations. And guess what type of firing prevents you from getting unemployment benefits?
It means that Russia and the US don’t get to ram snap elections down Ukraine’s throat in a “peace accord” that is being negotiated without Ukraine’s being present.
I’ve spent year talking about how you can’t cut your way to solvency in the discretionary side of the account. I guess it’s a good thing someone finally listened.
Beth d that this is all a big graft. Dennis Kucinich talks about how DOGE is gonna bring g sanity to the defense industrial complex. Which is laughable because Elon now controls payments for his defense contractor competitors. No way that ends well.
The savings part is the most pernicious amusing part - DOGE’s X feed is supposedly littered with statements about contracts being abrogated but the Savings table of the website still says the receipts are coming. Good coders they may be - but a simple adding function that dumps to the website seems to evade them.
They expected 10% to take the buyout. They got 3.75%. And considering how much of the dismantling appears to be following Project 2025 this is just what’s next.
We’ve had COI regulations in place for all of the 23 years I’ve been a fed. A scientist, for instance, can’t serve on a selection panel for a program she has been funded by in the prior 5 years. It’s already routine.
Since the “Dork in the Road” deferred “resignation” email got nowhere near 5% to 10% of the federal workforce to leave, firings started yesterday. While an exact count is not yet available, agencies are working to fire close to 200,000 probationary federal employees who are less then two years in as Feds. While easier to fire they still must be dismissed for cause which is usually performance related. This includes seasonal wildland firefighters in the Forrest Service and a significant number of staff at OPM.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025”
An editorial calling you out as a politician for acting in bad faith isn’t hate speech.
But that’s for proving my point.
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We keep going round and round about what censorship is and whether the private sector can do it or not. This often gets subsumed into a free speech absolutes debate. Well right here right now in Mississippi we have a GLARING example of government censorship. I look forward to the “well you have to understands”
https://mississippitoday.org/2025/02/20/hinds-county-judge-orders-clarksdale-newspaper-to-remove-editorial-alarming-press-advocates/?utm_source=Mississippi+Today+Supporters&utm_campaign=09e556524b-The_Today_2_7_2025_15_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2ac1d8600e-09e556524b-169036478&mc_cid=09e556524b&mc_eid=dac5637214
On “Musk vs Gore”
No one is impossible to fire in the federal system. It happens routinely even if the numbers are small. Like everything g else it’s a process and as long as it’s followed it’s actually pretty effective. It just takes time and business people refuse to take time.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025”
Tolls are charged on federal highways all the time.
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Typo
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I was actually being sarcastic about the bishops since a good many of them have made gay out of telling g the pope quite publicly why he is wrong.
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From out here in the cheap seats it looks like an attempt to codify ignoring the courts.
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Your sons - and mine - still live in a world where they are statistically more likely to gain advantage then my white daughters or my black nieces and nephews. It’s like the tech bro rage about feminizing corporations which are 90% Helen’s by men. Frankly until the situation for my daughters and nieces and nephew gets to the place our sons enjoy you can take you sanctimonious rage and go sit in the corner.
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Too bad they mostly won’t listen.
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Something to ponder - by firing all the probationary Feds using lies about performance one creates the veneer of “cause” to the terminations. And guess what type of firing prevents you from getting unemployment benefits?
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Considering the animus to FDR that conservative business people held back in the day so are on to something.
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And what do you take away from these polls?
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It means that Russia and the US don’t get to ram snap elections down Ukraine’s throat in a “peace accord” that is being negotiated without Ukraine’s being present.
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Or we let countries decide when to have elections and make when a war is ongoing is not the best time?
On “Bull-DOGEing Government”
I’ve spent year talking about how you can’t cut your way to solvency in the discretionary side of the account. I guess it’s a good thing someone finally listened.
Beth d that this is all a big graft. Dennis Kucinich talks about how DOGE is gonna bring g sanity to the defense industrial complex. Which is laughable because Elon now controls payments for his defense contractor competitors. No way that ends well.
The savings part is the most pernicious amusing part - DOGE’s X feed is supposedly littered with statements about contracts being abrogated but the Savings table of the website still says the receipts are coming. Good coders they may be - but a simple adding function that dumps to the website seems to evade them.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025”
If only the Democrats had a spine - or a brain.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-party-that-refuses-to-take-shots-loses/?
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/10/2025”
They expected 10% to take the buyout. They got 3.75%. And considering how much of the dismantling appears to be following Project 2025 this is just what’s next.
On “Thursday Throughput: Doomsday Rock Edition”
We’ve had COI regulations in place for all of the 23 years I’ve been a fed. A scientist, for instance, can’t serve on a selection panel for a program she has been funded by in the prior 5 years. It’s already routine.
On “The USAID Fight Is About Power, Not Spending”
6+ percent after COVID. Who was president after COVID?
On “Beware: Promises Being Kept”
He’s definitely keeping his promise to drain the swamp. Tens of thousands of probationary federal employees are being fired as I type.
The only problem is most of them don't sit in DC. Which means there will be real impacts elsewhere.
To say nothing of the economic devastation being wrought by ending grants and clawing back infrastructure funding.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/10/2025”
OPM folks were reportedly told they were being fired for not taking the deferred resignation.
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Since the “Dork in the Road” deferred “resignation” email got nowhere near 5% to 10% of the federal workforce to leave, firings started yesterday. While an exact count is not yet available, agencies are working to fire close to 200,000 probationary federal employees who are less then two years in as Feds. While easier to fire they still must be dismissed for cause which is usually performance related. This includes seasonal wildland firefighters in the Forrest Service and a significant number of staff at OPM.
On “The USAID Fight Is About Power, Not Spending”
No tax cut since Reagan has grown the economy at the rates advertised at the time of the cut.
Nice try though.
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And yet
On “Deficits, Debt, and DOGE”
Define correctly.