Hannah Vollmer

I was briefly a part of the Northern Research Station. Congrats! Wish I could join you.

Like an old-timey company town but, somehow, worse?

What The Hell Is Going On? Part 2 Who Are These Freaks? What Do They Want?

We've heard about the freak shows working for DOGE: Ed "Big Balls" Coristine, Marko "racist before it was cool" Elez -- but what about the other 50 people whose names we now know?

By looking at the factions inside DOGE, we can get a picture of where all this is going

It's not good

🧵

I've never eaten so much frozen food, store bought canned food, precut packaged vegetables. I've forgotten who I was, who foraged and gardened and ate fresh food like a peasant

Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

The goal here is clear. Weaken ESA and NEPA to get the cut out.

I would expect major legal challenges. Support your local environmental organization.

Also, we have been and will continue to cut employees and are spending much of our time responding to data requests. Who will do this work?

Subject to change

Oh no

The other idea is that he is weeding out people who have been promoting civil rights, coded as DEI, his personal bogeyman.

Any other ideas?

numbers of people reporting to each "manager." This would provide a quick way to identify nodes on the tree that, when eliminated, would make the greatest impact. Or maybe that tree gets sold off to an enemy?

One idea is that by having us cc our "managers" (we have supervisors not managers, he must've just copy/pasted from when he did this to Twitter) he will be able to, using his beloved AI, quickly make a tree of the chain of command of the whole government, with names attached and

Apparently tonight another "5 bullet" email went out to all federal employees from OPM overridden by DOGE OPM has no authority or reason to require this, we report to our own agencies. However, Musk has reasons for gathering this data, reasons which are decidedly nefarious but as yet unknown.

5️⃣ 🔫 📧
It arrived. From OPM.

Demanding 5 bullets every Monday going forward.

This week a federal judge ruled “[OPM] does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency.”

You do not report to OPM.

WOW

CONFIRMED

We received notification Tuesday (2/25) our performance appraisals (EPAPs) for this year would be removed from the system. This was apparently to remove language related to DEIA.

Secretarial Order 3416 (Dept of Interior).

If not gone yet, I encourage you to get online and download.

Unforgivable

This is aimed at reporters who are getting information from coalition members, I believe. As for the social media posts, share away!

DOGE will use AI to assess the responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond to an email from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they'd accomplished over the past week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

A complete clusterfuck, with the latest being that OPM has now told agencies that what was, formally, an OPM directive to all employees on Saturday is now a voluntary option on Monday.

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt Forestry technicians pile and ignite woody debris to reduce fuel load at Plumas National Forest around the mountain community of La Porte, California, and near Little Grass Valley Reservoir in Plumas County December 5th-6th. In total 631 acres were burned as part of a larger effort to reduce wildfire risk to communities like La Porte.

Probationary employees were our most vulnerable:

Young people starting out. Older workers, seeking a change. All chasing a dream.

The most common new USFS hire is Technician: Forestry, Biological Science, Timber, Recreation, etc.

The pay? Low. The work, hard. Rarely glamorous.

A labor of love.

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

Another fork email. Here are the 4 pillars of DOGE:

1. Return to the office and live there with your wife and child.
2. Performance culture makes imposter syndrome question itself
3. Streamlined and flexible enough to fit into a cybertruck
4. Enhanced standards of conduct: illegal actions only

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

*sad science noises*

OPM is planning to fire all employees on probation (less than one year of employment). Agencies have until noon on Wednesday to submit a list of probationary employees to the OPM and indicate whether they wish to retain them—though it has been stated that this will not make a difference.

A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...

Unaccountable bro has read AND WRITE access to all our shit.

"If you would have asked me a week ago, I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck knows."

All terms being used to flagged in NSF research. Notably “women” but not “men”, “disability”, and “trauma”.

Stalin would approve.
Mao would approve.
Our founding fathers would not.