The #DOJ since January has been purging employees who worked on matters involving #Trump or his supporters.

Fourteen attorneys who worked on #JackSmith's team were fired on January 27 because of work on cases against Trump, becoming some of the department's earliest casualties in the #purge.

The terminations marked yet another escalation of norm-shattering moves raising alarm over the #Trump admin’s disregard for #CivilService protections for #career #lawyers & the erosion of the #DOJ’s #independence from the White House. Top *leaders* [thugs] at the Justice Dept have also fired employees who worked on the prosecutions against Trump & demoted a slew of career supervisors in what has been seen as an effort to #purge the agency of lawyers seen as insufficiently loyal [& #law abiding].

@old_hippie Fascist consolidation of power. The purge is coming.

#fascism
#NightOfTheLongKnives
#purge
#uspol

@JesseSkinner I don't know #Redis but was even easier in Cobol #Purge = all gone.

The actions are the latest #purge by #TulsiGabbard, who has said she is fighting *politicization* [non-#racist operations] of the #intelligence community but has removed or sidelined officials perceived to not support #Trump’s political agenda.

In the latest edition of the Skinny I took advantage of the two day Easter truce with reality the Trump regime undertook to catch up on a couple of stories that had fallen by the wayside. Talking Climate Crisis, ideological purges in Trump's federal government, and why RFK Jr is starting to scare the heck out of me.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/23/the-skinny-stop-and-breathe/2/

The Skinny: Stop and Breathe

"It is shockingly disingenuous and absurd for the Trump regime to argue that regulations on air quality, fossil fuel production, environmental pollution control, and nuclear fucking waste are “contrary to the public interest.” Unfortunately that really doesn’t matter because once again it’s clear that the public interest was never the point of the president’s order. The crass level of corruption and self-serving exercise of power the Klepto Kaiser regularly partakes in makes it obvious that this is all just a way to reward his capitalist donors; without having to tolerate pushback from a public that cares very much about clean air to breath, clean water to drink, and a world on fire. Fascist is as fascist does I guess."

As I've mentioned a few times, the Trump regime is undoubtedly aware that there will be opposition inside the US federal workforce to its plans to repurpose the machinery of state to accomplish objectively fascist objectives. Which is of course why they're also working to give Der Leader the power to purge anyone who won't enact their heinous ideology in government, and presumably replace them with Heritage Foundation-trained obedient little nazis; as was leaked during Trump's 2024 election campaign.

As this Common Dreams article notes, this plan was originally called Schedule F when Trump tried to enact it near the end of his first term, but the fascists haven't abandoned the project because it's a vital step in enacting their reactionary, Christian Nationalist agenda. Now Trump is attempting to progress this ideological purge and restacking scheme forward under a new title, "Schedule Policy/Career," to ensure nobody with a conscience inside the government sticks around long enough to object to their fascist activities.

Trump Advances Plan to Fill Federal Government With 'Political Cronies'

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-schedule-f-plan

"Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said Friday's announcement was the latest "in a series of deliberate moves by this administration to corrupt the federal government and replace qualified public servants with political cronies."

"President Trump's action to politicize the work of tens of thousands of career federal employees will erode the government's merit-based hiring system and undermine the professional civil service that Americans rely on," said Kelley. "Politicizing the career civil service is a threat to our democracy and to the integrity of all the programs and services Americans rely on."

On some level, what the regime is attempting to do here amounts to a "jobs for cracker Republicans, and nobody else" program. But none of the stories about Trump politicizing the American government can be properly contextualized in a vacuum. The fact is that this is a fascist regime, attempting to force the entire US government to enforce a fascist "unreality" on society that would justify and enable their Christian Nationalist plans and intentions. Every single horrible thing Trump wants to do, every single idea the nazis want to turn in its head to harm rather than help people, becomes easier if the regime can purge opposition from the government and stack thousands of civil service positions with folks who ideologically support all this fascist bullshit.

Archived: https://archive.ph/swEG3

In court filings ahead of the hearing, Mark Paoletta, the bureau’s chief legal officer, defended the #purge, which he said would “right-size” an agency filled w/ “vast waste.” Paoletta said he & others had determined that it needed only 200 workers. Many legally required units — including those that focus on #FairLending, #StudentLoans & protections for older Americans — need only one! employee, he said.

The #Trump admin has fired a top #Navy admiral assigned to #NATO HQ in Brussels, …the latest ouster in an ongoing #purge of senior #military officers that has disproportionately targeted #women.

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the US military rep to the NATO Military Cmte, was notified of her removal over the weekend…. Chatfield’s abrupt dismissal marks at least the 9th firing of a senior US military officer, including 4 women, since Trump returned to office <3 months ago.

“And once again they’re breaking the #law to take money that has been granted to the states. These programs keep #Michigan healthy &, in some cases, help save lives, & that’s worth standing up & fighting for,” Nessel added.