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  • DOGE releases updated "wall of receipts" with more discrepancies

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  • The list also needs to include and track the amount of money spent on lawsuits from fired employees and contractors/departments/states whose contracts were cancelled.

    This is finances 101 from Wall Street. Show short term cost reduction which makes the shareholders giddy despite the reductions causing long term and secondary losses. And just like the institutional shareholders, the orange and nazi buffoons and their lackeys are in cahoots lining their pockets through self interest dealings while the public will be covering the eventual losses through their taxes.

  • Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses following 5% layoffs

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  • Not only is it perfectly legal but the executives would argue that they are bound by their fiduciary duty to their shareholders. Layoffs increase stock price => shareholders make money => shareholders approve bonus for executives.

  • Donald Trump's Gen Z popularity plunges

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  • Social media and their engagement maximizing algorithms.

    GenZ don’t watch TV or read print media so almost 100% of their news is getting filtered through an algorithm that has the sole purpose to keep them hooked. Hell, even search results are biased. One really has to go out of their way to get facts outside of a personalized feed.

    GenZ are definitely not the reason we have a buffoon as a president and a psychopath as his controller. This article about GenZs changing their views says more about their willingness to think critically than all the older voters who have chosen not to despite the 2017-21 hell.

  • At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams

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  • I wouldn’t blame anyone resigning voluntarily over this. Can you imagine the energy, dedication and countless hours they’d have put into building this case only to have it thrown away on a whim?! It would be close to impossible to stay motivated in any job after something like this. Honestly, good on them for prioritizing their safety and mental health over a thankless job.

    This is how the Republicans are really gutting the government - by breaking the spirits of the most dedicated employees. This regime is going to be the biggest shock to US government since Reagan and the American people will be suffering from its impacts for decades.

  • Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.

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  • That is indeed a problem that needs to be resolved, and likely through ranked choice voting. But as a country, we tend to focus too much on the presidential election. Change will have to start in the congressional elections - both at federal and state levels. The issue of votes splitting will be a lesser issue in these elections except in a few large districts. That will also be where smaller fundraising campaigns would go further.

  • Donald Trump may just cost Canada’s Conservatives the election

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  • In the last 2 decades, the major English bloc of US, Canada, UK and Australia has been in lock step toward the shift to the right. I think it is no coincidence that it aligns with the meteoric rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. To satiate his incredible greed, his media organizations have fed into people’s fears and laid down the groundwork for today’s social media companies promoting inflammatory content to maximize engagement. I don’t know if democracy can survive without reining in popular media and significantly reducing biased and false reporting.

  • Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.

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  • Progressives need to start their own party. The establishment DNC is so entrenched with big donors and lobbyists that it is unable to serve the people. Their balancing act of appeasing both the right and the left is just serving to alienate everyone because the final policies get so diluted. They have become too stuck in the quagmire of their own doing. I don’t see the DNC being able to change any time soon and through their inaction, will only enable more devastation of the country.

    The new Progressive party should align with the DNC as the opposition during this administration but simultaneously run more like minded candidates in the next elections with their own separate fundraising campaigns. That’s the only hope I have for meaningful change to happen.

  • Elon Musk demands firing of ‘disgusting and cruel’ WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE employee’s racist tweets

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  • He may be an actual villain.

  • Jeff Bezos fund ends support for climate group amid fears billionaires ‘bowing down’ to Trump

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  • The super rich have only one goal - to become richer.

    It always requires labor exploitation.

    Sometimes to improve their public perception, their PR teams suggest philanthropy, which they then use for tax evasion.

    Other times like now, they don’t give a fuck about public perception because the public has chosen racism and bigotry.

  • FBI sues Trump’s DOJ in stunning double whammy of lawsuits

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  • How is the justice department funded? That’s right, our taxes.

    Our taxes are going to be used to fight these lawsuits in court and when the department loses, our taxes will be used to pay for the damages to the FBI agents.

    There are no real consequences from this to the Justice Department or the buffoon and his lackeys. The only loser is us.

  • How can I repair these dents my Ikea couch has been making in my hardwood floor?

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  • Depending on the state you live in, and whether the lease specifically mentioned taking special care of the hardwood floors, this could very well be considered regular wear and tear. There does not appear to be intentional damage here.

    The landlord will also need to provide documentation prior to getting work done if they want you to cover the bill, at which point you’ll have the option to contest it.

    Check out tenant rights for your state to verify. Hopefully, you’ll also be more careful with hardwood floors in the future. Couches on wheels are no-bueno.

  • 13,000 Federal Employees Receive Abusive Email in Comms System Exploit: ‘Tired of Working for a Complete C*nt?’

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  • Since Reagan’s neoliberal policies, Republicans have created a vicious cycle of: government inefficient so reduce funding -> not enough resources to hire good talent and provide services -> government inefficient so reduce funding.

    IRS is the perfect example where they can only afford to go after the mid-income, while the wealthy get to openly dodge taxes.

    All this while promoting the idea that the private sector can do it better, which has led to increasing inequality in resource access, and has only contributed to more money in the pockets of executives and those same Republicans.

    We need someone like FDR again to expand government programs and show how good a well run government can be for everyone. Current Democratic leadership’s half assed policies only help to reduce their favorability because neither the left nor the right is happy.

  • Trump gets no jail time or penalties in sentence for hush money

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  • The only jobs that convicted criminals can get in the US are in the White House.

  • Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase

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  • The way this article is written though makes it appear like a domestic vs foreign worker issue. You can just look at all the comments here shitting on foreign workers.

    An employer only posting jobs internally is definitely against the law so the entire focus here should be on

    1. Employers doing illegal shit
    2. USCIS rules that make it possible for this exploitation to occur - through role responsibility misrepresentations, starting a ticking clock of 60 days for laid off H1B workers to find a new job, and not allowing them to start their own businesses (unless ofc you have daddy’s money to lie on your visa applications).

  • Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase

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  • It’s not about the 100k number. That’s just to say that we are not talking about minimum wage level salaries here. H1B requirements are very strict about equivalent pay for domestic and foreign workers. In my career, I have never been in a situation where at the same title, role responsibilities, and company tenure, there were significant differences in salary levels.

    This is 100% about employers laying off workers

    • hired at much higher salaries than the minimum (like 500k TC for a minimum 180k role) when the job market was competitive and now lowering them because the market has tilted to be employer friendly.
    • releasing unvested stock from experienced employees so they can grant much lower stocks to new employees.

    It affects both US and domestic workers equally.

    However it is the case that H1B workers have no other choice but to find themselves in these exploitative situations since they were also included in earlier layoffs and now have a clock ticking for them to leave the country in 60 days or find a new job. While domestic workers can spend more time exploring options or even starting their own businesses, which is an option not available to H1B workers.

    Ultimately, it’s misguided to make this a domestic vs foreign worker issue when it’s the employers who are being exploitative and taking advantage of the situation because they can.

  • Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase

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  • I would love to see a source of this claim from the article for high skilled jobs. The H1B application requirements are so strict that you cannot hire them at lower wages than US workers.

    This has more to do with replacing experienced workers in “senior roles” with new workers in “junior roles”, except with the same role expectations.

    But yes, it is the case that H1B holders are more willing to be knowingly exploited to work in junior roles and lower salaries despite being fully aware of the shitty company practices. They are simply trying to live in a country they moved to legally, often studied in universities here, were included in the same layoffs, have to pay off the same mortgages, and often pay more taxes than equivalent domestic workers because none of the tax loopholes are available to them.

    So why blame them when it’s the employers who are skirting the law by misrepresenting role requirements rather than H1B workers stealing jobs?

  • Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase

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  • Not the case for highly skilled roles that are likely the ones affected here.

    Each H1B application must include a DOL certification stating that the foreign worker will be paid a DOL specified minimum salary for the role, often exceeding 100k.

    In fact since no such certification is necessary for domestic workers, in theory, they could have been paid less than foreign workers.

    This has more to do with laying off experienced employees in senior roles and higher salary brackets and replacing them with “junior” roles at lower salaries, with the same work expectation.

    Layoffs are also a way to take back unvested stock from senior long-serving employees and granting new employees a fraction of that released stock. Just making it a requirement to automatically vest all stocks during layoffs will massively reduce the layoffs.

  • Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase

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  • That is definitely a rule that

    • a job must be advertised and,
    • DOL certification attached to every H1B application stating that
      • the foreign worker is needed to be hired due to unavailability of domestic workers
      • the minimum salary at which that job will be filled.

    Additionally, when filing PERM, employers are required to prioritize domestic workers for 6 months after layoffs for the same role. Reference

    But this guy is notorious for finding loopholes and sucking off any dick/teet to skirt the law so here we are.

    This is not unique to Tesla either. With the job market tightening over the last 2-3 years, tech companies have been laying off experienced, higher paid workers (especially who were hired at highly competitive salaries during early pandemic) to replace them with new lower paid ones for the same role.

    The article misrepresents this as a domestic vs foreign workers issue instead of calling out the employer for lying about role responsibilities and exploiting junior employees for doing the same work as was expected from senior employees in the past.

  • Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death

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  • In the handful of first person whistleblowing stories that have been reported, the whistleblower has always mentioned how hard their and their family’s lives became as a result and how close they came to suicide.

    Anyone who chooses to whistleblow has the biggest balls among us and deserve our utmost respect. Now if only law enforcement weren’t working on behalf of the owner class…