February 19 News

Ran out of space in the Stack last night, so continuing with the news from yesterday:

Trump administration fires thousands for ‘performance’ without evidence, in messy rush. Excerpts from a very very long article here: “In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.”…

The firings have extended to touch employees at almost every agency, including map makers, archaeologists and cancer researchers, The Post found, in choices that some workers said contradicted a U.S. Office of Personnel Management directive to retain “mission-critical” workers…

The Trump administration will not disclose how many workers it cut since last week ahead of its Tuesday deadline…

The Federal Aviation Administration let go hundreds of technicians and engineers just weeks after a midair collision miles from the White House killed 67 people, eliciting promises from Trump officials to improve air safety, workers said in interviews. FEMA, which handles the nation’s natural disasters, is preparing to fire hundreds of probationary employees, according to four people familiar with the situation who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The agency is already stretched thin responding to fires in California and floods in Kentucky. And the administration terminated scores of employees who work to bolster America’s nuclear defense, only to realize its error and start reversing the firings…

The termination letters hitting inboxes all struck the same note: Probationary workers were getting the ax for poor job performance. But many of those fired had just received positive reviews, or had not worked in the government long enough to receive even a single rating, according to interviews with federal employees and documents obtained by The Post….

Firing employees en masse with the same claim of poor performance is illegal, said Jim Eisenmann, a partner at the Alden Law Group…Musk, whose U.S. DOGE Service is leading the drive to downsize government, over the weekend shared triumphant messages on X, the social media platform he owns. Close to 2 a.m. Monday, he reposted a picture of himself in a gladiator outfit and declared he was destroying “the woke mind virus.”…

Mistakes, miscommunication and confusion…Others were stunned to find themselves included in the probationary category, including a federal nurse with more than five years of government employment who recently moved under military orders with her spouse - and had to switch agencies as a result. Now she’s out of a job.

A veteran of the National Park Service, who had worked parks including Yosemite, Shenandoah and the Great Smoky Mountains, last year left a permanent position to accept a promotion in a new park. There, she was told she’d have to serve one year of probation. On Valentine’s Day, she was fired for “performance,” ending a quarter-century of service….

Graziani, who is 45 and has four children, had believed until this weekend that his veteran status would protect his job [at the VA]. He served 20 years in the Army, first as a supply specialist and then in public affairs, deploying for two tours in Iraq and another two in Afghanistan before retiring in 2023.”

Maga still doesn’t get it.

Jim Acosta, Rick Wilson and Molly Jong Fast had a podcast yesterday and in it they mentioned this story about Fox and Friends having corrupt Democrat NYC Mayor Eric Adams and diabolical “border czar” Tom Holman on. If you remember, Donald has dismissed the corruption charges for Eric triggering the resignations of multiple US attorneys and Justice Department officials who refused to dismiss the charges. Why, you ask would Donald want a corruption charge dismissed of a NY Democrat? With Donald it’s always about quid pro quo. And apparently that was admitted to on Fox the other day leading to an uproar: “At one point in the interview, Homan said, "If he [Adams] doesn't come through, I'll be back in New York City. And we won't be sitting on the couch. I'll be in his office, up his butt, saying, 'Where the hell is the agreement we came to?'" While Adams was chuckling during Homan's remarks, viewers on social media took the matter seriously, claiming that the border czar's comments showed an admission to a "quid pro quo."

Donald decides only he and his corrupt sycophant AG can interpret the law

How many things to you see wrong with this post?

or this one

or from the White House

Mike Pence has thoughts

Justice Sotomayor’s dissent when SCOTUS gave Donald immunity is prophetic

When Maria Bartiromo pushes back. Wow! Worth listening to what her guest says.

The approval ratings the above video is referring to

He’s systematically getting rid of any news organization that will report the truth or call out his crap. The latest…

Yikes.

Yup, this guy is “cutting waste, fraud and abuse.”

and

and…

Guessing this is the guy who will be leading Donald’s Brown Shirts?

Elon spreading propaganda again

Elon claiming Donald can unilaterally impound funds appropriated by Congress

One of Elon’s Teeny Boppers now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

ZING!

OK, I’ve hit my mental limit for today.

ACTION POINT: In addition to emails (to have a record what was said), CALL your US reps (they keep records of the number of calls coming in). We know the GOP doesn't care about illegality or the Constitution, but call anyway. My (rhetorical) questions to my reps were

1) A Reagan appointed judge said that Donald's attempts to abolish the 14th Amendment to the Constitution were "blatantly unconstitutional" and there are 50 other lawsuits re the same. Do you support the judge or Donald?

2) Do you support the GOP resolution to raise the debt ceiling $4 Trillion?

(I had previously left messages about the unelected South African and his teeny boppers with access to my personal information)

To leave a message for your US reps you can call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

If you use the email forms, copy paste what YOU said so when they give you the canned response that doesn't address your question, you have that proof.

Someone pointed out that we want to apply so much pressure to the GOP that they are screwed either way: They get primaried for not listening to their constituents, or they get primaried for not bowing the knee to the Felonious Fascist. Let's make them choose.

Pudge surveying his domain.