Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

    • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      15 小时前

      I doubt it will change much, the rest of the party is still in tact. They’ll just move Vance to to king dipshit and continue as they were.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        11 小时前

        Is he really capable of leading the party he’s always struck me as the sort of person that would get out of depth in a slightly melted ice cube. Trump gets away with it because he just says it all does something ridiculous and then the story moves on to that. Vance doesn’t really command the kind of following they need.

    • Dorkyd68@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      21 小时前

      Pedo king is fitting.

      Trump the King of the pedophilia, protector of corruption, leader of the racist white army.

  • regedit@lemmy.zipEnglish
    53·
    1 天前

    This is what happens when the people exposed to the highest levels of lead are give access to all the hate they can eat and free-reign to use that lowered cognitive function in positions of power.

  • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    251·
    24 小时前

    I’m addition to everyone else here’s much more pressing political concerns, this is terrible for computer security. It encourages users to install third-party programs onto government machines.

    Mossad should release autoreply_writer.exe

    • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
      131·
      21 小时前

      this is terrible for computer security. It encourages users to install third-party programs onto government machines

      I’d be more concerned about the programs the government is installing onto the machines

  • UltraBlack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    108·
    1 天前

    Dare I say Trump is the next Hitler

    You cannot fucking tell me that he does shit like this and nobody gives a damn. This has to be illegal

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      79·
      1 天前

      I think we’re way past what’s legal or not in this shithole. His whole point from the beginning was that he could shoot someone and nothing would happen and americans were like: wow. I like guns too.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      18 小时前

      Does anyone have the article or at least what the wording was changed to ? Blocked by paywall for me

        • smeenz@lemmy.nzEnglish
          2·
          14 小时前

          I’m reading lemmy using the Android voyager client, which seems to open the default Samsung browser which is quite limited in what it can do. I don’t see any options in the settings to force it to use Firefox, or any other browser unfortunately.

          So googling for “remove paywall” is not helpful

          • Zink@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            11 小时前

            I have no idea how similar the settings screens are, but in the iOS voyager client there is some kind of option if you go to:

            settings

            general

            other

            open links in…

            • smeenz@lemmy.nzEnglish
              1·
              1 小时前

              Thanks, but unless I’m blind, there’s no such option in the android one.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      13·
      1 天前

      He’s too dumb, also near death, but mostly, he’s just too dumb. All of them are. Our saving grace is that the evil isn’t smart enough to succeed at evil.

      • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgEnglish
        51·
        1 天前

        I wouldn’t call him dumb. If he was literally stupid he wouldn’t have made it this far. He knows exactly what he does and doesn’t care. Hes evil as hell, but not dumb.

        • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          7·
          21 小时前

          The man himself is absolutely dense. Just listen to one of his speeches or interviews for five minutes. But the really smart (and dangerous) people are the ones whispering into his ear.

          • wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            18 小时前

            This is my impression. Kinda like Dick Cheney whispering into George W. Bush’s ear, just… even more openly evil. And that’s saying something.

  • rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish
    1661·
    2 天前

    Total weaponization of EVERYTHING against the left, even using right wing shooters against the left.

    • regedit@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      1 天前

      This pissed me off until I remembered that all these positions were replaced by partisan shit-suckers and opted to ignore it instead. The fact that republican mouthpieces can lie to the faces of their supporters and still get believed means they’re hopeless to learn anything else. They live in a reality that is going to crash and burn in a few months, and they can blame none of it on any opposition but their own rejection of reality.

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1518·
    2 天前

    Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed HR 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of HR 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

    Y’all fucked. Bail now. There’s way better places to live out your days on earth .

    • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 天前

      The problem is that for many of the nearly retired folks a job in the government was the promise of a good wage with great benefits and good retirement options. They want it gone because it forced other companies to play catch up in pay and benefits whenever the government could pay better.

      It’s also not easy to walk away from a pension program when you’re so invested in it. It’s designed to make people stay long term and put in the work.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 天前

        I don’t think it was designed as that at all. But like anything long-term with no protection or regulation, it will be exploited. This is as guaranteed as sunrise.

        • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          24 小时前

          It wasn’t designed that way, but it turned into a system that forced private enterprise to play pay and benefits catch up.

          Also, it was protected and had regulations, but when the people in power simply ignore those regulations it doesn’t matter. The problem here is that people have lived in relative comfort for the last 70 years and were throwing it away to remember what a history book could have taught us.

    • nomiya@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      632·
      2 天前

      It seems like most countries are heading in the same direction with their own flavors of fascism. It’s also not that easy to get visas for decent places to live.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        21 小时前

        The fascists in other countries are taking g notes after seeing how easily Trump and the MAGAts are managing to get away with this bullshit.

        The rest of us need to wake the fuck up and push back agaist thw faccists before it gets too late in our countries.

      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 天前

        It’s also not that easy to get visas for decent places to live.

        The American passport is incredibly strong, we get Visa On Arrival to Japan and Korea, 3 month e-visa for Vietnam, and the application is a pain in the ass, but americans get a 90 day/10 year tourist visa for China if you apply in America (but you have to be near one of the visa centers), and 60 day/10 year if you apply in Vietnam, Seoul, or Tokyo.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 天前

        I can understand immigration restrictions because they’ve always been in the interest of maintaining a healthy economy that can contribute plenty toward future infrastructure. This is just the play for as long as history is recorded. As long as we’ve had borders, and walls, fences, guards… It’s common for countries to go through periods of restriction to only skilled workers, specific industries, etc. otherwise it’s working internally on itself for a period.

        But when you’ve got a booming GDP, restricting visas makes as much sense as having substantial poverty among citizens. Like sovereignty and protection of those within was never on the cards, it’s just straight up fascism, as you said. You get the same idiots saying they’re the most powerful military in the world capable of destroying anything—which isn’t far from true—also saying a brown family is going to destroy the nation… Uh-huh. Sure… One of these things has to be a lie for both cannot be true.

    • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 天前

      Can they not make a legal claim given that their employer is putting words into their mouth in communications with the public, especially given that it’s highly politically charged wording that would damage their reputation, plus in a normal country saying such things at work like that would get you sacked.

      I don’t know the legalities, but if my employer made it seem like I’d said something like that I’d demand an immediate apology, a reprimand for whomever did it, and a public redaction and apology sent to everybody that had received the fraudulent message.

      That seems reasonable and fair.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 天前

        I know in my country, such a thing is illegal af and there’d be very damaging outcry from the public if a gov tried it. But this country and the ones I’ve lived in, the governments seem to understand they’re in service of the public. This is one of the reasons why governments came to exist and why they are still relevent, after all.

      • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
        21·
        1 天前

        First I’m 100% with you, Azure audits who set those messages and they do need to be reported.

        Conspiracy time: Every furloughed employee with that message set could be considered in violation of the Hatch Act and that carries with it a possible penalty of removal from federal employment, debarment from federal employment for up to 5 years, and possibly up to a $1,000 civil penalty. I’m really hoping the plan isn’t to start firing these workers from agencies the current administration doesn’t like to begin with.

    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
      39·
      2 天前

      I wish it was as easy as just bailing. I very much want to, but I can’t afford it, and with the coming depression, I especially won’t be able to afford it.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 天前

        Only gets worse the longer you leave it. Myself and many friends I have met along the way one day just did it, with nothing. Within two years, things are so much better than if they were spent in the same situation. The worse that can happen is you just go back to what you have now. So what you have now is the worse-case scenario.

        Edit: Oh, I mean there’s cavets to that, obviously. Like you could get ruined. But that’s why less likely than getting ruined by a drunk driver or something. Point is, what you have control of will always end up how you imagined.

        • ObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          13 小时前

          Nowhere in could get in would have my unskilled trans ass. Some of us genuinely have no choice but to sit and wait to either win or die

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        1 天前

        if you’re planning to leave the country, why not

        if you’re planning to stay, do everything in your power to stop them

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        137·
        2 天前

        It’s insane how many people think if all the rational people left the government…

        That will somehow fight Trump’s plan to make the government ineffective.

        Fucking toddler logic, and it’s widely up voted.

        No wonder shit’s so fucked.

        • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          151·
          2 天前

          They’re not arguing that at all. They’re saying gtfo and go to a country that isn’t batshit insane.

          They’ve made no argument it’d make the government better.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 天前

        Not only is Mars a frigid desert without enough air, at this point any Mars colony is pretty likely to be Elon Musk’s company town/fiefdom/slave plantation, which is obviously even worse.