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Unions & Civil Rights Groups Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by Trump
1,000+ lawyers in 42 states have completed training to offer their services as Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network
Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/business/economy/federal-workers-trump-network-unions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU8.SHky.NM3WSqcG40Px&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by Trump
Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation.
The New York TimesI'm case you're wondering, @skullvalanche's Arthur A. Allen pioneered and perfected a modeling program that predicts where people lost at sea will be found, cutting search and rescue times and saving thousands of lives during his 35-year career with the Federal government.
https://servicetoamericamedals.org/honorees/arthur-a-allen/
#TrumpMuskPurge #DogePurge #TrumpPurge #MuskPurge

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Samuel J. Heyman Service to America MedalsGreat interview tonight on 11th Hour with author Michael Lewis
Helping us understand who these people are that Trump/Musk have been firing with such wanton abandon & what a treasure Federal bureaucrats actually are.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis
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#DOGE #TrumpMuskPurge

Michael Lewis - Wikipedia
Cheap & dirty - the error-riddled, chain-saw, #AI-driven methods used by Trump/Musk/GOP are exemplified in #DEIpurge of #DoD photos, incl photos of the Enola Gay & mbrs of the military w/last name "Gay."
https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074
The mess Trump/Musk/#GOP are making of running the US is just a reflection of their infamous, widely publicized & well-known track record.
What were voters thinking????
#DEI #MuskTrumpPurge #TrumpMuskPurge

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content. That's according to a database obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by U.S. officials. It includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch. But the eventual total could be much higher when considering social media pages and other websites that are also being culled for DEI content.
AP News#CIA scrambles after White House email compromises undercover officers' names
Yet another #TrumpMuskPurge screw-up.
https://www.rawstory.com/cia-officers-exposed/

CIA scrambles after White House email compromises undercover officers' names: report
The Central Intelligence Agency is conducting an assessment of their own security after a White House email about civil service layoffs appeared to compromise the names of certain undercover officers, reported CNN on Monday.This damage control, reported CNN, is "just one of multiple aftershocks from...
Raw StoryJake Auchincloss to Ayman:
#DOGE firing employees is misdirection: it does NOT reduce the budget.
Federal employees account for about 5% of the federal budget.
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Seen on 🦋:
"Power always thinks it has a great Soul, and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws."
- John Adams
#TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #TrumpFreeze #MuskCoup #MuskPurge #MuskFreeze #TrumpMuskPurge #TrumpMuskChaos #MuskTrumpPurge #MuskTrumpChaos

The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun
It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.
The BulwarkOopsie!
#TrumpMuskPurge just wrecked an NIH org championed by #GOPers, who once lavished praise on #NIH center that deals w/#Alzheimers. Donald Trump & Elon Musk are hobbling it.
What will those Republicans say now?
Hope you like the sound of crickets. https://newrepublic.com/article/191702/trump-musk-national-institutes-health-wrecked
#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #MushTrumpPurge

Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will those Republicans say now?
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