@wdlindsy@toad.social"These are longterm contract positions for people whose brief is to shepherd aid deliveries abroad. They serve as the U.S. government’s eyes and ears to make sure the money is used for what it’s meant to be used for, that it gets to the intended recipients."
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
/6
@wdlindsy@toad.social"They abolished the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the Office of the CIS Ombudsman. ...
Just a few moments ago I heard that USAID had terminated about 160 personal service contractors."
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
/6
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Fridays are becoming bloodbath day in the federal workforce. In the same way that bad news stories used to be held for Friday late afternoon, that’s when we now hear about a lot of these firings. Midafternoon, I heard that the Department of Homeland Security had essentially abolished all its international civil rights and detention abuse agencies."
~ Josh Marshall
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
/5
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/friday-firings-becoming-the-norm
@wdlindsy@toad.social"To be clear, the executive order is unconstitutional. The Department of Education was created by congressional mandate and is funded each year through congressional appropriations. Trump has no authority to shut down the Department of Education. Doing so should result in his impeachment and conviction."
~Robert B. Hubbell
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #DepartmentofEducation #education
/6
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/protests-are-working-keep-it-up
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Formally closing the department requires an act of Congress. But even without formally shutting it down, the Trump administration could effectively make it nearly impossible for employees to carry out their work, as it has done with the U.S. Agency for International Development."
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #DepartmentofEducation #education
/5
@wdlindsy@toad.social"President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday to close the Education Department, fulfilling a yearslong pledge to dismantle the federal agency, the White House confirmed."
~ Garrett Haake, Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Tyler Kingkade
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #DepartmentofEducation #education
/4
@wdlindsy@toad.social"These cuts, both to staff and grants, reflect a broader move to shift how the NIH allocates its $48 billion dollar research budget, from processes governed by scientific expertise, to processes governed by partisan judgements."
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #research #NIH #healthcare
/2
@wdlindsy@toad.social"There is widespread reporting of hundreds of grant cancellations at the National Institutes for Health (NIH)—with significantly more coming. This is in the context of ongoing funding freezes and chaotic layoffs of its expert staff, most of whom have PhDs in the fields for which they oversee review and funding processes."
~ Pamela Herd
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #research #NIH #healthcare
/1
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizing-science-the-national
Another aspect of the housing crisis:
For newly qualified teachers & nurses living in a flat share is often the only viable option; across England in around half of Council areas, a one-bedroom flat is unaffordable on their pay.
If you want to retain newly qualified staff, they need to be able to move from a model of student accommodation (a shared house) to something reflecting their privacy & welfare needs... we need better (affordable) housing for key workers.
@wdlindsy@toad.social"In two months, federal workers who protect public health, enforce federal laws on education, justice, defense, the arts, labor relations, and administering global aid and anti-poverty efforts have been summarily fired or furloughed, without cause and contrary to federal laws."
#Musk #Trump #PublicHealth #workers #firings #FederalGovernment #RuleofLaw #education #justice
/4
Let's fucking go!
#UnionStrong, baby!
Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
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Das #Video meines #Winterkongress Vortrags bei der @digiges is online 
#Danke an alle, die den #Kongress & die Aufzeichnung ermöglicht haben!
#Vortrag "Zauberhafte #KI #Welt ?" zur #Geschichte, #Arbeitsbedingungen, Auswirkungen auf #Umwelt & #Gesellschaft von sog. #künstlicheintelligenz
My #talk about " #Magic #AI ?" is online :) About implications of ai on #workers #environment & #society
https://media.ccc.de/v/dgwk2025-56334-zauberhafte-ki-welt-energ
“Alarmingly, #water consumption in resource production surpassed #sustainable levels with 24% of global demand exceeding the carrying capacities of resources. This threatens to restrict the availability of #minerals necessary for advancing green technologies”
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-planetary-boundary-geological-resources-exploring.amp
What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.
Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-13-amazon-uses-arsenal-of-ai-weapons-against-workers/
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Where do Elon Musk’s business interests end and Donald Trump’s political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one and the same. ...
Trump reading off a literal list of Tesla retail prices is the purest distillation yet of a dynamic that won’t end well."
~ Brian Barrett
#Musk #Trump #Putin #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Tesla
/10
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-congress-takeover/
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Musk and his backers, Putin and Xi, desire nothing less than a total reconfiguration of American power."
~ Dave Troy
#Musk #Trump #Putin #Xi #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
/9
https://america2.news/to-survive-this-we-must-break-the-fourth-wall/
@wdlindsy@toad.social"The technology-focused Nasdaq Composite also closed in correction last Thursday, while the Dow is over 9% down from its peak in December."
#Musk #Trump #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
/2
@wdlindsy@toad.social"The S&P 500, a key US stock market index, closed in correction territory on Thursday as the volatility of Donald Trump’s trade wars rattled investors.
The index closed more than 10% down from its 19 February peak as Wall Street approaches the end of a second week of pressure."
~ Lauren Aratani
#Musk #Trump #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/13/sp-500-wall-street-trump-tariffs
At the root of many contemporary economic problems (the UK's productivity puzzle, deterioration in the terms & conditions of employment) is one simple issue:
Managers too often see workers not as a 'resource' to be invested in & nurtured for the long-term good of the organisation, but rather as a cost which can be reduced for short-term gain while the longer term consequences will be fixed (in some way) by technology.
The de-humanisaton of economics is a major problem!
