Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system
When ideological targeting becomes cronyism
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-a-new
"Trump, via #Musk, is engaged in #impoundment, which is #illegal & #unconstitutional. It also vastly weakens #Congress. & yet, the #Trump pitch to get Congress to pass appropriations is that he will ignore what they actually pass! Impoundment is a feature, not a bug, in their model for governing."
"Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning."
-E Higgins
The Trump-Musk admin is operating like the mob, but in the open, defying the law. Democratic leaders should inform the public as to their brazenness & contempt for the #Constitution.
What's more, #Musk & others in the admin are proud to defund an agency that saves lives around the world. They're sadists. Children are dying
bc med treatments, meds, food... are being withheld, intentionally.
#USAID #Illegal #Courts #DOGE #Trump #USPol
The nonchalant attitude with which the "P.R." #China runs #illegal "#PoliceStation|s" is just appauling.
But they ain't, and instead they are used for "#ExtraordinaryRendition" aka. forced #Disappearance|s of #Dissidents.
@SrRochardBunson that basically makes #sociology and #pychology papers #illegal, even if all they say "we cannot find disparities between black / latino people or between genders based off our data"
Today is #InternationalWomensDay and whilst there is a lot to celebrate, it is the most dark IWD day in my lifetime because:
- In the US, female #ReproductiveHealthcare has largely been stopped.
- In the UK, there is active campaigning to follow the US model and stop abortion.
- In Poland, #abortion is already #illegal - unless you are about to die.
Keep yourself #safe and keep your period data #private because it may save your life one day. 
Trump promises tariffs on certain dates driving the markets down. Then he pivots, waffles and delays. This, of course, drives markets back up.
What he’s doing is an illegal form of market manipulation to enrich himself and his rich friends.
**Interestingly, **the one area where #Trump has been less vocal and #draconian than anticipated is expelling #illegal #immigrants. He has tightened #security and dramatically reduced illegal crossings — but his plans have run into the reality of existing laws, limited #government resources and legal challenges, as #Axios has reported. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/05/trump-white-house-tariffs-enemies
In a shocking reversal, Trump is reversing a directive to fire thousands of probationary federal employees.
The Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal workforce, issued a memo Tuesday to all federal agency heads
saying that they don’t have to comply with previous instructions to fire employees who have held their jobs for one year or less.
The memo states that instead, federal offices now have until September 13 to determine how to reduce staff.
The shift comes only a few days after a federal judge ruled that OPM’s instructions to federal agencies to fire probationary employees was #illegal,
stating on Friday that “
[t]he Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency.”
What this means to the many federal workers who have already been axed is unclear,
although several federal agencies have scrambled to rehire workers working in critical areas since last week’s court ruling.
These employees include bird flu experts and people working with nuclear weapons.
Federal workers have been put through the wringer ever since Trump was sworn in, being subject to ultimatums from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, which now plans to track them.
Even with this latest reversal, many of them may still get axed in “large-scale” reductions. But now, at least some of them will get to keep their jobs.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192301/trump-opm-order-mass-firings-federal-probationary-employees
Trump Administration Makes a New Push to Speed Up Deportations
From the beginning, the idea of deporting “millions and millions of criminal aliens” was deceiving. (Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than US citizens.) Of the 7.6 million immigrants on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s national docket for potential deportation, the agency reported that about 8 percent had a conviction or pending charges.
#trump #racsist #white #illegal
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-administration-expedited-removal/
#Impeach #dictators & #bullies Trump & Vance, & sue Musk for all his #illegal actions! Are you listening, Senators Kirsten #Gillibrand & Chuck #Schumer and Representative Nick #LaLota?! https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/28/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.zpTp.6o9Na6YBICOw&smid=url-share
Elon Musk Gets His Most Brutal Smackdown Yet on #DOGE Firings
The judge slammed the #MassFirings as “illegal.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/192142/elon-musk-brutal-smackdown-doge-firings
"A federal #judge has ordered the Office of Personnel Mgmt to rescind #illegal instructions to cull the workforce of federal agencies...
““The #OPM does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the #history of the universe, to hire & fire employees within another agency”"
New DOGE/Elon Threat Email Incoming
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-doge-elon-threat-email-incoming
Sect of #Defense #PeteHegseth just sent an email to all #Pentagon civilian employees informing them that OPM/#DOGE will be sending a new “accomplishments” demand #email on Monday... they now must reply with their 5 bullet points of accomplishments within 48 hrs. “Non-compliance may lead to further review.”
This is #illegal, see
beginning at: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/114070826736950155
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Le fanatisme des israéliens est aussi dangereux que celui des islamistes: “Gaza est à nous !” : les colons israéliens n’en démordent pas. Objectif, concrétiser le “projet divin” 
de coloniser la bande de #Gaza 
#obscurantisme #colonisation #ILLEGAL #CrimesAgainsHumanity #Palestine https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/reportage-gaza-est-a-nous-les-colons-israeliens-n-en-demordent-pas_227797
Judge blocks #Trump admin’s #MassFirings of #FederalWorkers
A federal judge ruled that the terminations at several #FederalAgencies, including the Dept of #Defense, were likely #illegal.
A federal judge on Thurs ordered #OPM to rescind directives that initiated the mass firing of probationary govt workers in several agencies across the government, ruling that the terminations were probably illegal, as a group of labor #unions argued in court.
#law #Musk #DOGE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/27/judge-probationary-federal-employee-firings-lawsuit/
"Members of the Judge Advocates General [ #JAG] Corps... are military lawyers whose core functions involve military justice and #law of war. They offer advice on questions including what constitutes an #illegal order, what is a #WarCrime, what is a constitutional violation. Replacing their leadership with Trump loyalists could have serious implications for how the #military reacts in a number of situations"
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/friday-night-massacre-in-the-military
“The…payback?…her office reviewed his first administration’s abrupt and chaotic relocation of the #USDA Economic Research Service and… Institute of Food and Agriculture from…DC to Kansas City…The move decimated these…agencies, causing half their staffs to quit…In a 2019 report, Fong…concluded the relocation was…#illegal…violated a law that prohibits spending money on…reorganizations without approval from congressional appropriators (…echoed by the Government Accountability Office in 2023). “
Cartoonist and illustrator Ann Telnaes is the most reliable pundit in America - speaking truth to lies. #trump #maga #russia #corruption #politics #government #constitution #democracy #lies #federal #employees #firing ##illegal #courts
Fire the Muskrat. Now.
Call 202-224-3121
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fire-the-muskrat-now
"Musk is drunk with power. His messages are #illegal. He had no authority to send them and has no authority to fire or threaten to fire anyone.
...Officials at the Depts of #Defense, #State, #Health & Human Services, Homeland #Security; the #FBI; & the office coordinating America’s #intelligence agencies also told their employees not to respond.
#Musk is out of his gourd."
