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beSpacific<p>Consequences of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Firing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firing</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/mission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mission</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/critical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>critical</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/employees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>employees</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> - <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEMA</span></a> Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show. Two days after deadly <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, the agency struggled to answer calls from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/survivors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>survivors</span></a> because of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/callcenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>callcenter</span></a> contracts that weren’t extended. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gop</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republicans</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disasters</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/flood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flood</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flooding</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/jdvance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jdvance</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/homelandsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelandsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/failed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>failed</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/searchandrescue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchandrescue</span></a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate</span><span class="invisible">/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html</span></a></p>
US<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/us/19369/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/us/19369/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Job openings for private-sector contractors plummet 25x the rate of all other jobs after DOGE cuts <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Employment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Indeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indeed</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JobHunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JobHunting</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>Hmm, when did "ghosting" become the normal thing for contractors/small businesses/etc. (vs. "sorry, we're too busy to take your job" or "sorry, you're out of our coverage area" or "sorry, the job's too small for us" or "we don't carry those products anymore" etc. etc. ?) <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>FWIW this thread will make sense if you stop normalizing the very <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> practice ―started under George Bush I, for the first Persian Gulf War― of privatizing the US military through <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mercenaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercenaries</span></a> </p><p>once you look at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> as a privatized mob of enforcers, then you will see how Trump and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> are using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> to shred not just the Constitution, but the 3rd 4th and 5th amendments before they come for the ammosexual <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2A</span></a> </p><p>can’t have armed citizens against a dictatorship</p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>LET ME REPEAT </p><p>there is no evidence the people concealing their identities while working for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> under Trump’s orders are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USGOV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USGOV</span></a> federal workers. if they are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>, they are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mercenaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercenaries</span></a> and, as such, AN INVADING ARMY.</p><p>the 2nd amendment <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2A</span></a> of the USA Constitution was written to handle invading armies.</p><p><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa/114602735767578025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journa.host/@w7voa/11460273576</span><span class="invisible">7578025</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114603429873754062" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114</span><span class="invisible">603429873754062</span></a></p><p>1. where is the evidence these kidnappers took an oath to protect the constitution as federal employees?</p><p>2. if they are not <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> employees, who do they work for? if they are “contractors”, are they <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>, aka <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mercenaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercenaries</span></a>?</p><p>if the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kidnappers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kidnappers</span></a> working for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> are mercenaries, THEY ARE AN INVADING ARMY. </p><p>USA citizens and localities have a CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT to shoot to kill invading armies</p>
Nonilex<p>In a cable dated May 30 &amp; sent to all US diplomatic &amp; consular posts, US Secy of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> instructed the immediate start of "additional vetting of any non-immigrant <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visa</span></a> applicant seeking to travel to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarvardUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarvardUniversity</span></a> for any purpose."</p><p>Such applicants include but are not limited to prospective <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a>, students, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>faculty</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/employees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>employees</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GuestSpeakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GuestSpeakers</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tourists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tourists</span></a>, the cable said. The word "any" in the cable text is written in bold format &amp; underlined.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Los Angeles Times: Surge AI is latest San Francisco startup accused of misclassifying its workers. “The proposed class action lawsuit alleges that ‘data annotators’ — hired by Surge AI to ensure that powerful AI systems run by Meta and OpenAI can properly generate text responses that are accurate and capable of mimicking human expressions — were ‘deliberately’ classified as independent […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/los-angeles-times-surge-ai-is-latest-san-francisco-startup-accused-of-misclassifying-its-workers/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/los-angeles-times-surge-ai-is-latest-san-francisco-startup-accused-of-misclassifying-its-workers/</a></p>
eicker.news ᳇ tech news<p>»The <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/AIjobscrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIjobscrisis</span></a> is here: <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Duolingo</span></a> will “gradually stop using <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> to do work that <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> can handle.” The CEO took pains to note that “this isn’t about replacing Duos with AI.”« <a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai</span><span class="invisible">-jobs-crisis-is-here-now?eicker.news</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
Zhian N. Kamvar<p>For <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>developers</span></a> in the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> who are working as independent <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>, do you have any resources regarding how to handle <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxes</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/healthInsurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthInsurance</span></a>?</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>HarriettMB</span></a></span> I do expect <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@antidiskriminierung" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antidiskriminierung</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@AuswaertigesAmt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AuswaertigesAmt</span></a></span> to affirm <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AntiDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a> and either force the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> embassy &amp; consulates to comply with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>'s laws or close and cease operations.</p><ul><li>After all, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ambassadors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ambassadors</span></a> are guests and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Embassies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Embassies</span></a> are to be operated with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/acceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acceptance</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>respect</span></a> of the host country as per <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ViennaConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ViennaConvention</span></a>.</li></ul><p>If the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> refuses to acknowledge that, they there is no basis for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diplomacy</span></a> and I urge <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> to press charges for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/blackmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackmail</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/coercion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coercion</span></a> if they get approached to fulfill for such <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sexist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sexist</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ableist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ableist</span></a> and otherwise <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/discriminatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discriminatory</span></a> demands because doing so violates national and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NotLegalAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotLegalAdvice</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a></p>
Lisa Gets Politik<p>Contractors need to be held accountable for mindless cutting of trees. </p><p>Contact SKANSKA and tell them that you are outraged that they cut a grove trees without permission, causing erosion and flooding. </p><p>Contractors need to be held accountable and heavily fined. </p><p>Boston, MA<br>+1 617 574 1400<br>101 Seaport Blvd<br>Boston, Massachusetts 02210</p><p>You can also contact RIDOT to see if they will fine them Phone: (401) 222-2450</p><p><a href="https://www.abc6.com/ridot-says-contractors-cut-down-grove-of-trees-in-providence-without-permission/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc6.com/ridot-says-contractor</span><span class="invisible">s-cut-down-grove-of-trees-in-providence-without-permission/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://union.place/tags/Erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Erosion</span></a> <br><a href="https://union.place/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <br><a href="https://union.place/tags/Contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Contractors</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1905710/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1905710/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Energize Delaware expands home energy checkup program statewide | News <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CarbonFootprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonFootprint</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/coasttv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coasttv</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/delaware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>delaware</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DrewSlater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrewSlater</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DuskToDawnLights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuskToDawnLights</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EnergizeDelaware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergizeDelaware</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EnergyEfficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyEfficiency</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EnergySavingServices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergySavingServices</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeConsultation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeConsultation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FurnaceFilters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FurnaceFilters</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HomeEnergyCheckupAndCounseling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeEnergyCheckupAndCounseling</span></a>(hec2) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InHomeAppointment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InHomeAppointment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LEDLighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LEDLighting</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LimitedIncomeHouseholds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LimitedIncomeHouseholds</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LocalNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/showerheads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showerheads</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SmartPowerStrips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartPowerStrips</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/StatewideExpansion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StatewideExpansion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SustainableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SustainableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UtilityBills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UtilityBills</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>Janis Kluge, German Institute for Int'l &amp; Security Affairs - American <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> are about to lose <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/billions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billions</span></a> in business from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> after US disabled jamming equipment in F-16s, withholding maintenance and parts for systems already purchased:“US weapons are toxic, just as Europeans are making plans to spend hundreds of billions on arms procurement. This is against US interests on so many levels. But for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, the end of US supremacy just can't come soon enough.” <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"reducing staff is a bad way to save money... Unlike a private company, the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> is required to carry out certain functions by law... the govt wound up merely handing over more jobs to private-sector contractors. “Replacing govt workers to do these <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> tended not to save money, and, of course, hiring the same employees back tended to cost govt even more, because govt paid twice—once for the buyout, once for hiring them as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>”"<br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-democrats/681829/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/politics/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-democrats/681829/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p>BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID. 🤔 </p><p>One of the top officials at the Treasury Dept QUIT over a dispute re: the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElongatedMuskrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElongatedMuskrat</span></a> demanding access to "The Government Payment System" that disperses money to every person receiving a check from the government (from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> payments to Federal Employees to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GovernmentContractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentContractors</span></a>.) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MafiaDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaDon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonTheCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonTheCon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConvictedFelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConvictedFelon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crypto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CryptoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CryptoBros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Contractors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fraud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordHelpUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LordHelpUs</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/top-treasury-official-exits-as-musk-makes-grab-for-federal-payment-system-230849605588" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/</span><span class="invisible">top-treasury-official-exits-as-musk-makes-grab-for-federal-payment-system-230849605588</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Typically only a small number of career ofcls control <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treasury</span></a>’s payment systems. Run by the Bureau of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fiscal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fiscal</span></a> Service, the sensitive systems control the flow of &gt;$6T annually to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/households" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>households</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/businesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>businesses</span></a> &amp; more nationwide. …Hundreds of millions of people across the country rely on the systems, which…distribute <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> benefits, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/salaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>salaries</span></a> for federal personnel, payments to govt <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/grant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grant</span></a> recipients &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TaxRefunds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaxRefunds</span></a>, among tens of thousands of other functions.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
earthling<p>US-based security firm UG Solutions is specifically targeting the recruitment of US special forces veterans to work as armed security guards at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Netzarim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netzarim</span></a> Corridor checkpoint, located just south of Gaza City.</p><p>US contractors will be paid a daily rate starting at $1,100, with a $10,000 advance, and will be armed with M4 assault rifles and Glock pistols. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration never realized how much money the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OMB</span></a> memo would hold up... the number of civil servants working in the administrative state today is about the same as it was in the 1950s &amp; 1960s... Federal spending has grown tremendously... but that growth has been managed not by federal <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bureaucrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucrats</span></a> but by federal <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>, who outnumber federal employees more than two to one... we need more civil servants... not fewer."<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/190838/trump-funding-crisis-chaos-shutdown" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/190838</span><span class="invisible">/trump-funding-crisis-chaos-shutdown</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WhiteSupremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>President</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Revokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revokes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Workplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Workplace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Rules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rules</span></a> Enacted By <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LBJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LBJ</span></a> In #1965 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ExecutiveOrder11246" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder11246</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/forbade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forbade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/discriminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discriminating</span></a> on the basis of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/color" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>color</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nationalorigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalorigin</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sex</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sexualorientation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sexualorientation</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/genderidentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genderidentity</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revokes-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613947.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revoke</span><span class="invisible">s-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613947.html</span></a></p>
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