SITTING! SITTING! is a complete sentence
I’m certain he meant sitting in a hanging sin chair!
Federal employees must remove pronouns from their federal employee’s E-mails. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News that cited two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office seeking to curb diversity and equity programs in the federal government.
“Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5.p.m. ET on Friday,” according to one such message sent Friday morning to CDC staff.
Federal employees with the Department of Transportation received a similar directive on Thursday, the same day the department was managing the fallout from the D.C. plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Focus a bit on that last paragraph.
Moving on (down?)…
Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, but China gets a discount. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
President Donald Trump said Friday he would place 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China effective Saturday, raising the specter of swift price increases for U.S. consumers even though he suggested he would try to blunt the impact on oil imports.
And the prospect of negotiations to stop this from happening?
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office later, Trump said there was nothing the three countries could do to prevent the tariffs from going into force Saturday.
I didn’t see this one coming. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a memo Friday to lift the collective bargaining agreements (CBA) former President Joe Biden put into effect before leaving office, Fox News Digital has learned.
The president’s memo will direct federal agencies to reject last-minute collective bargaining agreements issued by the Biden administration, which White House officials said were designed to “constrain” the Trump administration from reforming the government.
Evidently he believes in time travel. The article continues.
The memo prohibits agencies from making new collective bargaining agreements during the final 30 days of a president’s term.
And, of course, it’s personal.
It also directs agency heads to disapprove any collective bargaining agreements that Biden put through during the final 30 days of his term.
But, hey, it’s all okay. The time travel hasn’t been perfected yet. There’s a limit to its reach.
The White House said collective bargaining agreements enacted before that time period will remain in effect while the Trump administration “negotiates a better deal for the American people.”
And, who better than the man himself to decide on how to operate a damn dam. Damn! (The link goes to Yahoo.)
Acting on Trump’s order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dramatically increased the amount of water flowing from two dams in Tulare County, sending massive flows down a river channel toward farmlands in the San Joaquin Valley.
I’m really hoping folks realize how easy it would be to sabotage this by intentionally misgendering certain other folks.
I’ve noticed in a few photos that Trump is looking a bit more gaunt (minus the orange spray), with wispier hair than I’d noticed in photos from before the election.
Not sure that we could call it the beginning of the end but it is interesting.
I also find it amusing that Trump specifically courted the unions during the election and is now in the process of axing collective bargaining agreements, and getting pushback on the “pay to quit” program by the unions.
At the rate things are going, I’ll be surprised if he’s still president by March.
I’m still waiting for him to brush the grounds of the Federal parks in California, to protect against fires. LA fire be as it may, most of the problem comes during the summer in the part of the state that the state doesn’t control.
Or they were fools, or so hateful that they didn’t care about themselves as long as “those people” got hurt.
The Right has always been heavily dependent on foolish and hateful people supporting it against their own interests. The leopards never go hungry.
Fuck. Musk is running a hostile takeover of the federal government.
# Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
Think that sounds bad? It’s even worse thank you think:
The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.
“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one of the officials said. “That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications.”
I imagine Trump is throwing some ketchup tonight as another plane crash takes attention away from him. I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t say there is some conspiracy to make him look bad going on.
I wonder what President What-A-Ma-Rooooooon’s thoughts are about Musk’s latest adminstrative ploy? Or Alito’s thoughts? Thomas’s?
Never mind
AND… another one
‘You’re hurting the wrong people!’
The Chosen One blew it. (Yet another Yahoo link.)
SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.
“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a post on his social media site.
Local officials had to talk the Army Corps of Engineers down after it abruptly alerted them Thursday afternoon it was about to increase flows from two reservoirs to maximum capacity — a move the agency said was in response to Trump directing the federal government to “maximize” water supplies.
Before the Corps ratcheted down its plan, local authorities scrambled to move equipment and warn farms about possible flooding, said Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on one of the rivers, the Kaweah in Tulare County. He said the Corps gave him one hour notice on Thursday.
There is more at the link.
We appear to be entering “Mad King Ludwig” territory at this point.
Work for (what’s left of) the federal government? You just might be pr0ned! (The link goes to Yahoo.)
Turns out that putting underqualified kids in charge of the federal government’s HR agency wasn’t the smartest move. Last night, an exploit in the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) new home-cooked email server seems to have made it possible for anyone with an email address to blast messages to vast numbers of federal employees.
As a result, over 13,000 employees with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found their inboxes bombarded with spam and messages from vulgar trolls. Some users signed the NOAA up for newsletters from entities like the Church of Scientology, or the Perfect Jean — “Welcome to Jean Perfection,” a screenshot reads. One particularly vulgar email offered pointers on Trump’s alleged performance at a sexual act. An “Important Weather Alert” warned that the next four years have a 99 percent chance of fecal showers. “Aren’t you tired of working for a complete c***?” asked one sender. A missive from a sender identified as “Craig” simply reads “yo.”
‘Her My servers!’
But her emails