Rebok's Randoms

8 months pay with the ability to get a new job is very tempting, especially for lower-paid workers. All that extra money could really cover some gaps and relieve financial pressures. It’s tempting. I get it.

ITS ALSO NOT LIKELY LEGAL AS WRITTEN AND YOUR AGREEMENT COULD ACTUALLY SCREW YOU. There’s a reason so many of the recent EOs and initial memorandums are getting halted or rewritten - no thought or research was given to what they can do given actual regulations and union contracts. Because many are coming from Musk via DOGE, and Musk has NEVER had to deal with unions, federal employee regulations, and strong opponents capable of fighting back HARD with decades of legal precedent at their back.

Right now, r/fednews is the biggest social media hub for federal employees anywhere; you can find resources, advice, news, memes, and encouragement there.

If you're not a federal employee, feel free to pop over anyway for information, and please send well-wishes! They really need it right now, as their jobs are so so so important but not very popular or prestigious, and now the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world are trying to take their livelihoods.

The architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, is now Trump's director for the Office of Managenent and Budget -

ie, the main guy who created Project 2025 is now the topmost-level manager and coordinator of all federal agencies.

His vision for federal civil servants, in his own words:

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.

We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

We want to put them in trauma."

Project 2025 specifically targets federal civil servants for a reason. They are the essential first and second lines of defense of the US democracy and the fascists know it.

Support civil servants, support your rights!

Under the parts on company discrimination policy, there's a section on US Customs and Border Protection checks (in both English and Spanish).

Greyhound Lines, Inc. does not consent to warrantless immigration enforcement checks on its buses or in non-public areas of its terminals.

That's a very clearly written policy, so yay the post is true! But what really got me, is that it's followed by a list of rights people have if they are questioned, searched, or detained, so people can protect themselves as well.

That is then followed by a brief explanation of discrimination law around race and ethnicity being used as a reason to stop and search, and how to submit a civil rights complaint if you are being stopped for discriminatory reasons.

They then provide links to places people can get help if they need it, like the ACLU and the National Immigrant Justice Centre.

How do you worship your military industrial complex AND call every gender-nonconforming thing a perverted act against god and children when. Like. LOOK.

Happy Threshold Day one and all! 🦎🦎🖖‼️💚

Lwaxana Troi BLEW UP the screen whenever she showed up. Awesome, funny, sharp, unhinged in the best way.