It's a reminder that federal workers are people with amibitions who strive to be productive, meaningful members of society.

She worked for years to get a federal job. Within a month, she was fired Rose is one of thousands of federal workers who have been terminated by the Trump administration. At 26, she's left wondering what to do now.

About 275,000 federal employees have been fired so far. 75,000 of those employees took the deferred resignation offer and *hopefully* will receive pay and benefits through 09/30/2025 (There isn't any funding set aside for the buyouts). This is a particularly sad story.

www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

NYT Tomorrow: As Trump Announces Plan To Eat Immigrant Babies, It’s Time To Ask: Did You Get Lunch? I Didn’t Get Lunch, I Could Eat. My Doctor Says To Try To Get More Protein.

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Unelected Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept. & Other Agencies

Elon Musk is doing a coup. Full Stop. This isn't some reforming of the treasury department. Democrats will do nothing substantial. There is so little media coverage about this. youtu.be/UBmFx5rUglA?...

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.

There’s not.

The Trump Administration’s whole vibe is “well I lost my job and we got a foreclosure notice, better get a Punisher t-shirt.”

Very thankful for the hard work of the firefighters under terrible conditions, and for the firefighters coming in now from out of state.