Imagine being an idealistic staff member who was part of an insurgent progressive senate campaign and winning. Then, just a short time after, you’re being asked to draft a memo on how torturing Palestinians either didn’t happen or is justified if it did, because the senator himself demands it.
I’d resign too.
This week, the three sources told NBC News, career employees at high managerial levels, namely Senior Executive Service and General Schedule 15 employees, may be removed from agencies across DHS — not to reduce the size of the workforce but to remove employees whom the administration sees as potentially standing in the way of goals the Trump administration has for the agency.
In case you’re wondering, they aren’t firing the DHS agents looking at dick pics and reading private messages. It’s the ones pushing back against that.
Trump is and always has been Putin’s bitch. We all know this. Don’t be surprised. It makes things harder, but it’s not the end.
Russia has destroyed itself fighting this war, and Europe is waking up to the fact that it needs to defend itself collectively.
“Russian warship… Go fuck yourself.”