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Nonilex<p>Judge Joun said the plaintiffs painted a “stark picture of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IrreparableHarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IrreparableHarm</span></a> that will result from financial uncertainty & delay, impeded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/access" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>access</span></a> to vital <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledge</span></a> on which <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/educators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>educators</span></a> rely, & loss of essential services for America’s most vulnerable student populations.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Layoffs</span></a> of that scale, he added, “will likely cripple the Department.”</p><p>Joun ordered the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> Dept to reinstate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> who were terminated as part of the Mar 11 layoff announcement.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, though, wanted a new plane while he was still in office. But how?</p><p>“We’re the United States of America,” Trump said this month. “I believe that we should have the most impressive plane.” [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> are getting fired, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> offices are being closed & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> is being cut, but <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumptyDumpty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumptyDumpty</span></a> needs a fancy new plane to feel important.]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FactCheck</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/emoluments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emoluments</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>😢 Rep. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GerryConnolly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GerryConnolly</span></a>, the top <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrat</span></a> on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Oversight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oversight</span></a> & Government Reform Committee, will step down from his leadership post on the panel & will not run for reelection.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Virginia</span></a> Democrat, whose constituency includes many <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a>, cited the return of his esophageal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> — first diagnosed in late 2024 — as the reason for his planned departure.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/28/congress/connolly-to-step-down-as-top-oversight-dem-00312360" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/live-updates/2025</span><span class="invisible">/04/28/congress/connolly-to-step-down-as-top-oversight-dem-00312360</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The decision further clears the way for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> to re-fire probationary employees. Those are typically <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> in their 1st or 2nd year on the job, or who have been recently promoted.</p><p>In a 2-to-1 decision, the appeals court said the Trump admin was likely to succeed in showing that the lower court lacked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jurisdiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jurisdiction</span></a> in the case brought by 19 states & DC. The court did not rule on whether the firings were <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawful</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>🤬 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/4thCircuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4thCircuit</span></a> clears the way for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> to fire <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> again </p><p>In a win for Trump, a panel of judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a lower court ruling ordering 20 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a> to reinstate tens of thousands of employees they had fired.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357415/trump-federal-probationary-employees-firings" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-53574</span><span class="invisible">15/trump-federal-probationary-employees-firings</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Don't forget who's defending this: "pro-life" Catholics are doing so. And don't listen to the spin of those who want to keep pretending that the Roberts Supreme Court has not anointed Trump a quasi-king and will overturn every precedent and invent every legal loophole to allow him to continue trampling on people's rights and lives.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ProLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProLife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>And now that same "pro-life" Supreme Court dominated by a bloc of right-wing Catholics is going to bat for Trump as he and Musk remove thousands of workers from jobs, from livelihoods, from wages to pay bills, pay for housing, put food on the table, provide healthcare coverage for themselves and family members, etc.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ProLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProLife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>The treatment being afforded to immigrants who are, it appears, innocent but are being shipped to lethal foreign prisons contradicts Catholic "pro-life" values in the grossest way possible.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ProLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProLife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Something we shouldn't allow ourselves to forget or unsee as the Roberts Supreme Court invents legal fictions to provide cover for Donald Trump as he rounds up and deports immigrants who are afforded no due process:</p><p>The Roberts Supreme Court is controlled by a bloc of right-wing "pro-life" Catholics, Roberts himself included in their number.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ProLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProLife</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <br>/1</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> on Tues blocked a ruling from a federal judge in California that had ordered the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin to rehire 16k of fired <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> who had been on probationary status.</p><p>The court’s brief order said the nonprofit groups that had sued to challenge the dismissals had not suffered the sort of injury that gave them standing to sue.</p><p><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040825zr_1b8e.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">supremecourt.gov/orders/courto</span><span class="invisible">rders/040825zr_1b8e.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivistCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PartisanCourt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CorruptCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorruptCourt</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Something’s not adding up </p><p>The report is: US employers added 228k jobs in March. About 2X the number added in Feb. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1% in Feb, as 232k people joined or rejoined the workforce.</p><p>But the report also says: Feb–March, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> signaled cuts of >280k <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> & contractors in 27 agencies, acc/to a count kept by the outsourcing firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5349661/jobs-economy-trump-tariffs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-53496</span><span class="invisible">61/jobs-economy-trump-tariffs</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Nonprofits challenging the February mass-firing of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> urged <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Thurs to leave in place a federal judge’s order that would require the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin to reinstate 16k fired employees from 6 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/nonprofits-urge-justices-to-leave-judges-reinstatement-of-federal-employees-in-place/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scotusblog.com/2025/04/nonprof</span><span class="invisible">its-urge-justices-to-leave-judges-reinstatement-of-federal-employees-in-place/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"Authorizing a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>-controlled agency like <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OPM</span></a> to hire a driver while slashing essential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> who actually help Americans in need is a good example."</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>, Musk & Ezell did not respond to requests for comment. An OPM spox said in a statement that the agency "has ongoing security concerns" requiring a driver, w/o providing further detail.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>He says he's witnessing "something big"</p><p>Da has followed the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin's firing of many US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> & its dismantling of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>. As a past visitor to Washington, he knows people who have been fired.</p><p>"Having said that," he added, "I don't want to be too critical to the Trump administration just from this personal level. As a scholar, I try to be neutral. I think there is something big happening in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>. It could be bad. It could be good."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Whoa, yesterday, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> illegally stripped <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CollectiveBargaining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollectiveBargaining</span></a> rights from hundreds of thousands of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> in 18 different departments across multiple <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>.</p><p>The admin stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared *<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a>* on President Trump’s agenda.”</p><p>Is he going to use <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wartime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wartime</span></a> powers against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> members now?</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LaborLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gaslighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaslighting</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaziState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaziState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-exempts-agencies-with-national-security-missions-from-federal-collective-bargaining-requirements/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-exempts-agencies-with-national-security-missions-from-federal-collective-bargaining-requirements/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>This is the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new admin that are squandering America’s strength & threatening our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a>. Firing hundreds of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> charged w/protecting our nation’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> weapons is also <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dumb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dumb</span></a>. So is shutting down efforts to fight <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pandemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pandemics</span></a> just as a deadly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ebola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ebola</span></a> outbreak is spreading in Africa. It makes no sense to purge talented generals, diplomats & spies at a time when rivals like China & Russia are trying to expand their…reach.</p>
Nonilex<p>Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a></p><p>A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> government workers, according to job ads & a researcher who uncovered the campaign.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/secretive-chinese-network-tries-lure-fired-federal-workers-research-shows-2025-03-25/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/china/secret</span><span class="invisible">ive-chinese-network-tries-lure-fired-federal-workers-research-shows-2025-03-25/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, as the architect of a group he called the Dept of Govt *Efficiency*, has taken a chain saw to the apparatus of governing, spurring <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> & dread by pushing out some 100k <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> & shutting down various agencies, though the govt has not been consistent in explaining the expanse of his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a>.</p><p>But in selected spots across the govt, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> is positioning itself to see billions in new federal contracts or other support….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The 4th Circuit rejected the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin’s motion for a stay of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TRO</span></a> ordering the rehiring of probationary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> in State of Maryland v. USDA.</p><p>“Given the district court's stated intention to hold a hearing on March 26, 2025, & to promptly grant or deny preliminary injunctive relief thereafter, the court denies the appellant's request for an administrative stay or a stay pending the resolution of the appeal.”</p><p><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69746454/state-of-maryland-v-usda/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">courtlistener.com/docket/69746</span><span class="invisible">454/state-of-maryland-v-usda/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> ruled in 1935 to uphold a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> that allows <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FTC</span></a> commissioners to be fired ONLY for good <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cause</span></a>, such as neglecting their duties. The ruling shields a number of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independent</span></a>, bipartisan multi-member agencies from direct control by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a></p>
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