[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More details have emerged in the case of a JetBlue pilot who was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport moments before he was about to fly to Paris.
Jeremy Gudorf, 33, of Ohio was detained on board the plane at around 8:40pm on Thursday after federal authorities discovered he had a pending warrant for second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, NBC Boston reported.
Massachusetts State Police was the arresting agency and were tipped off by US Customs and Border Protection.
'In conducting their standard review of the manifest of a Boston-to-Paris flight, [Customs and Border Protection] identified an active North Carolina warrant lodged against a member of the flight crew who was detained,' the State Police said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
Gudorf was arraigned Friday in East Boston District Court, where prosecutors revealed the sexual exploitation charge originated in North Carolina. Since he was arrested for the crime elsewhere, he was also charged as fugitive from justice in Massachusetts.
Prosecutors asked the judge to hold Gudorf without bail and to order him to surrender his passport, WCVB reported.
'He is a commercial pilot, the warrant is out of North Carolina, and he resides in Ohio. So for those reasons, we ask he be held without bail and surrender his passport,' prosecutor Kyle Neyman said.
Tanvi Verma, his defense attorney, said Gudorf has 'the financial capacity to rent a car and drive to North Carolina' and 'has assured me he will do that.'
'Frankly, there is no running away from this case, judge. He's perfectly aware of that,' Verma said. 'These are serious charges. The news is here. He's not going to be able to just run away from this.'
Verma added that her client has no prior criminal history.
The judge set his bail at $10,000 with the condition that he appears in North Carolina to clear the warrant by Tuesday, though no further details were provided in court.
His next court date in Massachusetts is scheduled for March 19 but the judge agreed to waive it if he shows up in North Carolina as ordered.
The sexual exploitation charge came out of Huntersville, a suburb just north of the city of Charlotte. The Huntersville Police Department said they received a tip about Gurdorf in October from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
'Following an extensive investigation, a search warrant was obtained for Google, Inc., leading to the identification of the source of the reported images,' the department said in a statement.
'Late last year, Google complied with the warrant and provided the necessary records to law enforcement,' the statement continued. 'At the time the crime was committed, records indicate he resided in Huntersville, NC. However, during the investigation, and before he was identified as a suspect, he relocated out of state.'
In a statement to DailyMail.com, JetBlue revealed they were aware of Gurdorf's arrest and that he 'has been placed on indefinite leave as law enforcement proceeds with the matter.'
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[SportsIllustrated] MLB commissioner Rob Manfred sent a letter to all 30 owners earlier this week explaining why the league decided to "mutually" part ways with ESPN and opt out of their national television contract.
In the letter, Manfred cited ESPN's lack of baseball coverage in its programming outside of the games as one of the reasons why he agreed to terminate the deal that was set to run through the 2028 season. However, CNN Sports' Kyle Feldscher reported that the breakup perhaps wasn't completely mutual. Read the rest at the link
[JustTheNews] While geo-engineering like cloud seeding isn’t a secret, there’s not yet a consensus as to whether it will do more harm than good.
As wildfires raged in California last month, The Drudge Report mocked Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's suggestion to "make it rain" with cloud seeding.
Days later, the news aggregation website contradicted itself with the headline, "AI Drones to 'Make It Rain' in Weather-Control Breakthrough.”
The dichotomy highlighted a little-known war over climate technology, in which billions are being invested not only in cloud seeding (Utah, for example, spends about $700,000 annually spraying silver iodide to make it snow and enhance its water supply), but also more controversial practices.
At the top of the list are “geo-engineering” techniques like Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) – each designed to reduce global temperatures by reflecting a portion of the sun’s energy back into space.
While geo-engineering isn’t a secret, there’s not yet a consensus as to whether it will do more harm than good. And the processes are expected to undergo more scrutiny as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly delving into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which has funded research into geoengineering, even though it says it is not yet conducting experiments in the atmosphere.
In fact, climate scientists can’t even agree about whether geo-engineering is already in use or not by any entity, let alone the NOAA. And if it is going on, is it visible? Chemtrail activists, often dismissed as conspiracy theorists, certainly believe so.
THE POLITICAL DIVIDE
According to recent polls, approximately 85% of Democrats see climate change as a major problem, thus they are generally supportive of aggressive action. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a porgressive Democrat, said at the recent World Economic Forum, "We must explore all avenues to combat climate change, even those that seem science fiction."
Conversely, only about 30% of Republicans view climate change with the same urgency.
At a recent conservative think-tank event, Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said, "Playing God with our weather systems could lead to unintended consequences, affecting not just our environment but our sovereignty.”
Tennessee recently banned geoengineering, cloud seeding and other technologies aimed at controlling the climate, and at least 10 other states are considering similar action.
Seemingly siding with conservatives are many environmentalists and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crowd who fear the potential for misuse.
In addition to that are the so-called "chemtrail" activists who have warned for years that something nefarious is afoot, pointing to suspicious patterns in the sky that most scientists say are long-lasting condensation trails created by aircraft.
Environmentalist and health activist Nicole Shanahan posted to X on Jan. 24 that “Chemtrails are tagged as a conspiracy theory, but geoengineering, weather modification, atmospheric manipulation, etc. are the terms used in practice. Using the colloquial word ‘chemtrails' triggers gaslighting.”
Shanahan, who was Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s. running mate before he ended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump for president (he was sworn in as secretary of Health and Human Services this month), linked to her post a 2018 study dubbed, “California Wildfires: Role of Undisclosed Atmospheric Manipulation and Geoengineering.”
The study hails from a couple of scientists not easily dismissed as promoters of mere conspiracies: Dr. Mark Whiteside, the recently retired medical director for the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County, and J. Marvin Herndon, a doctor of nuclear chemistry, once dubbed a “maverick geophysicist” by The Washington Post.
Their study suggests that aerosolized coal fly ash, used in geoengineering, could increase combustibility by drying out vegetation and altering weather patterns, leading to more intense fires and droughts.
Unlike many in the scientific community, the study does not present geo-engineering as theoretical, but as ongoing. Activities include jets spraying particulates into the atmosphere to suppress solar radiation.
Whiteside has delved into what he describes as a covert operation affecting global climate: tropospheric aerosol geoengineering (TAG). He and Herndon have spent years documenting the environmental and health implications of these activities.
Geo-engineering, Whiteside told this reporter, involves large-scale environmental manipulation intended to mitigate global warming. Contrary to mainstream narratives presenting geoengineering as a future strategy, Whiteside asserts that such practices have been in operation for 75 years, evidenced by historical efforts like Project Cirrus and military operations during the Vietnam War.
He argues there's a deliberate cover-up, pointing to patents, military documents and the 1978 UN ENMOD treaty, which he describes as a "Trojan Horse” that enables environmental modifications.
The funding for these operations, he speculates, might come from misallocated public funds, including billions unaccounted for in the Pentagon's budget, which is being audited by DOGE.
Whiteside says that geo-engineering is sold as “sunscreen for the Earth,” and that the public is “bombarded with lies, misinformation, and distraction to the point they believe they are not seeing what they are seeing, and conditioned to cry ‘conspiracy theory’ when shown an obvious particulate trail.”
In a lengthy study at the European Journal of Applied Sciences published last year, he and Herndon noted that President Lyndon Johnson spoke about controlling the weather in 1962.
They say in the study that the ozone layer has been damaged and ultraviolet radiation now penetrates the Earth’s surface, adding: “This situation has been made unimaginably worse by the deliberate, covert planetary modification, euphemistically called geongineering.”
The mainstream media and the masses “look the other way and ignore the obvious atrocities,” Whiteside says.
CONTRAILS VS. CHEMTRAILS
The science behind “contrails” isn’t in dispute, described as line-shaped clouds of condensed water vapor made from aircraft engines. Chemtrails, though, are typically dismissed as the stuff of conspiracy theorists who say that aircraft are purposely dispersing chemicals.
While Whiteside and Herndon say the concept of chemtrails are real, and central to the discussion of geo-engineering, they appear at odds with most of their colleagues, and with official pronouncements from NASA and the NOAA, both of which say chemtrails are scientifically illegitimate.
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Waiting for the downside.
[Regnum] Scientists from the University of Bristol have used a supercomputer to model the Earth in 250 years. According to the forecast, the planet will face a global catastrophe.
The study was published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience. In the model of the Earth of the future, all the continents have merged into one supercontinent, called Pangea Ultima. At the same time, the air temperature on it fluctuates between 40 and 60 °C, and the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 1.5 times higher than in modern times.
The cause of extreme temperatures in the future was said to be increased activity of the Sun, which is heating up more and more each year. This will also be facilitated by excessive activity of volcanoes, awakened by the merger of continents, and the greenhouse effect provoked by this.
According to scientists, 8-16% of land will remain habitable for humans. At the same time, the expected changes will lead to the extinction of many mammal species. It is noted that they survived by adapting to the cold, and it will be difficult for them to survive extreme heat. The researchers also concluded that over time, the Earth will still become unsuitable for life.
Earlier, Vladimir Semenov, head of the climatology laboratory at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told IA Regnum that predictions about a death sentence for humanity due to the rise in average global temperatures should be understood as an exaggeration and a figure of speech. So far, there is no threshold in sight in the near future beyond which there will be irreversible catastrophic consequences, he noted.
Impressive. Not only common sense about climate modelling, but common sense in the journalist who looked for that quote to give balance to the hysteria.
Biophysicist and senior researcher at the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexey Karnaukhov also called the gloomy forecasts an exaggeration. At the same time, he believes that warnings should not be brushed aside. According to the scientist, with sharp warming, the World Ocean will begin to release carbon dioxide and methane at an accelerated rate, which could lead to consequences worse than other cataclysms.
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Warthog, these computer models have dozens of parameters for which even the range of the parameter values are unknown. The work of computer simulants consists of trying different values of parameters until the desired result is obtained.
[IsraelTimes] Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them
Argentinian President Javier Milei promised officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center his full cooperation in granting access to documents related to the financing of so-called "ratlines" that helped Nazis escape Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... after the Holocaust. The promise was made in Buenos Aires at the presidential palace, Casa Rosada, during a meeting with Milei and activists on Tuesday.
That man is repeatedly a delightful surprise — he keeps doing things that we wanted but that somehow until him could not be done. And President Trump is another — and they seem to be inspiring each other to greater heights. Truly we live in a time of miracles!
For decades, organizations including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named after the famed Nazi hunter, have sought records related to unofficial escape routes taken by thousands of Nazis during the years after World War II. Up to 10,000 Nazis and other fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... war criminals escaped justice by fleeing to Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... and other countries.
"While some previous leaders promised full cooperation to get to the hard truths that involved Argentina’s past, Milei is the first to act with lightning speed to enable the SWC to uncover important pieces of the historic puzzle, especially as it related to involvement with Nazis before, during and after the Holocaust," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Times of Israel.
Milei also made headlines last week for declaring two days of national mourning for the slain Bibas hostages — Shira Bibas and her children, Ariel and Kfir. An image of the trio was projected onto a central obelisk in Buenos Aires on Thursday night.
During the SWC meeting on Tuesday, Jonathan Missner, managing partner at Stein, Mitchell, Beato & Missner, brought a letter from US Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. The letter — which was handed to Milei — requested the Argentinian leader’s assistance in uncovering how the ratlines were organized and funded. A copy of the letter was sent to US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... For many years, Missner and his firm have sought justice for victims of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its terror proxies, including Hezbollah. The firm represents SWC in the Argentinian ratline matter and other concerns.
NAZIS’ ESCAPE ROUTES
Several countries in the Americas received Nazis, including Canada, the US, and Mexico. Nazis also fled to Australia, Spain, and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... . In some cases, US intelligence officials used ratlines to pluck top Nazi scientists away from Soviet orbits.
One of two primary escape routes went through Germany and Spain, then across the Atlantic to Argentina. The second route went from Germany to Rome, then Genoa, and then across the Atlantic. The elaborate routes developed with unofficial support from several Vatican officials in 1942, initially as an escape path for Catholics fleeing Europe.
"People should understand that for many decades after the Holocaust, governments and multinational corporations helped Nazis hide their stolen money, avoid prosecution, and live the free lives that their victims deserved," Missner told The Times of Israel.
Up to 5,000 Nazis are said to have settled in Argentina, including Holocaust "architect" Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, one of the most recognizable — and wanted — Nazis. Traveling along a ratline in 1948, the notorious Auschwitz physician used the new identity of Helmut Gregor when fleeing Europe.
"These files will be instrumental in obtaining justice, which is instrumental to honoring the memory of those who suffered and died in the Holocaust," said Cooper. "Especially in a post-October 7 world, those who financed, facilitated, or otherwise assisted these ratlines must be held accountable," he said.
’WILL ONLY HELP HISTORIANS, IF AT ALL’
Not all advocates for Holocaust justice agree that Argentina’s decision was particularly monumental.
"My impression is that the decision to open all the archives regarding the entry to Argentina of Nazi criminals will only help historians, if at all. To the best of my knowledge, all the perpetrators are already dead, as well as the individuals who assisted their escape," Efraim Zuroff told The Times of Israel.
As a protégé of late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, Zuroff directed the SWC office in Jerusalem until last year. From Israel, he specialized in bringing eastern European Holocaust perpetrators to justice.
According to Zuroff, author Uki Goni’s "The Real Odessa" book previously "revealed the identity of the criminals, and those who assisted their escape and entry into Argentina," he said.
But from Missner’s point of view, factors other than securing convictions and revealing names are involved in the matter.
"Words are one thing — actions are another. President Milei’s historic decision signals his unequivocal allyship with the Jewish community while reinforcing his commitment to accountability and transparency at home," Missner told The Times of Israel.
Support for harboring Nazi war criminals went right to the top in Argentina, according to historians. President Juan Peron was angered by the Nuremberg Trials and authorized key facets of the escape routes, making them a state affair. In addition to German Nazis, the Peron regime and other South American governments aided war criminals from Hungary, Croatia and elsewhere.
"President Milei is a staunch ally of the global Jewish community and was eager to open these archives. He knows that confronting Argentina’s history of Nazi collaboration requires nothing less than full transparency, and the same principle undergirds his pursuit of justice for the AMIA bombing," said Missner.
[BusinessToday] Microsoft has reportedly cancelled several U.S. data center leases amounting to hundreds of megawatts (MW) and has pulled back on converting Statements of Qualification (SOQ) into signed leases, according to an industry update by TD Cowen. The move suggests a possible oversupply issue in the data center market and a shift in Microsoft’s expansion strategy, including a reallocation of international spending toward U.S. operations.
According to TD Cowen’s channel checks, Microsoft terminated multiple lease agreements across the U.S. with at least two private data center operators, affecting leases totalling “a couple of hundred MW.” Some of these terminations were reportedly justified by facility power delays.
In addition to outright cancellations, Microsoft has also scaled back on converting SOQs into final lease agreements. SOQs serve as pre-approvals for data center leases, and converting them into signed agreements is a key indicator of imminent construction activity. The report suggests that Microsoft may either be delaying the conversion process or choosing not to move forward with certain lease agreements at all.
Furthermore, the tech giant is shifting a significant portion of its international investments back to the U.S., signalling a potential slowdown in overseas data centre expansion.
While Microsoft has not officially commented on the reasons for these cancellations and delays, TD Cowen analysts speculate that the move could be linked to an oversupply of data center capacity.
A previous report from TD Cowen had indicated that Microsoft walked away from multiple +100MW deals in early- and mid-stage negotiations across key Tier 1 markets in 2023. Additionally, the company abandoned plans for at least five major land acquisitions meant for data center development.
On the last call, the company had already spoken about shifting CapEx from long-lived assets like data centers to short-lived assets like servers.
Microsoft’s revised demand forecast for AI infrastructure may also be a contributing factor. The company had previously planned aggressive expansion to support OpenAI, but recent reports suggest a potential excess of AI data center capacity relative to its revised focus.
[Breitbart] A church in Highland Park, New Jersey, is in a tough spot after receiving millions of dollars in USAID relief funds to assist illegals.
Leaders with the Reformed Church of Highland Park told Shore News Network they laid off 195 workers after President Donald Trump’s administration stopped federal money from going to migrant resettlement programs, the website reported Sunday.
The outlet said it “confirmed layoffs through a WARN notice filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor.”
It continued:
The church, which had received $18 million in aid from USAID to place migrants in jobs across New Jersey, is now struggling to keep its programs running. Reverend Seth Kaper-Dale said his organization is owed more than $1.3 million for services rendered in January alone and warned that without immediate support, key programs could collapse.
“For the past 3.5 years, we have experienced that refugees and immigrants are a blessing,” Kaper-Dale said. “Since January 20th, everything has collapsed.”
They’re still a blessing in the exact same way, Reverend. It’s time to make sacrifices to prove the depths of your convictions now that it’s just the teensiest bit difficult. Though you may find that you needn’t dig as deep as you thought, given that there somehow aren't as many in need as there were before January 20th. We’ve passed peak illegals.
According to the church’s website, it has had an “active immigration committee since 2002, when our members first started sharing their experiences of trouble with the U.S. Immigration System.”
The church also noted, “We are considered a leading congregation in the fight for immigration justice.”
The Shore News Network report said that, in the past, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) backed the church’s stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. Now, Kaper-Dale wants him to do the same against Trump.
Meanwhile, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is preparing for big cuts after Trump cut funding for mass migration into the nation’s communities, Breitbart News reported February 7.
“CRS is one of the biggest recipients of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding, but with Trump’s spending freeze, the charity is quickly moving to scale back its organization, lay off employees, and retool, according to the National Catholic Reporter,” the outlet said.
The potential closure of USAID drew anger from Democrat lawmakers and the media, Breitbart News reported February 3. from Democrat lawmakers and the media, BIRM?
“MAGA Republicans believe USAID is one of the most egregious cudgels of the administrative state, accusing it of corrupting humanitarian aid, facilitating contractor fraud, wasting taxpayer funds, and bending to the wishes of the CIA,” the article said.
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[FoxNews] Under former President Joe Biden, the NCI spent 3% annually to increase representation of 'underrepresented' groups in the cancer workforce
A watchdog group focused on getting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) out of medicine found that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is actively spending millions of grant dollars to boost the number of racial minorities in the cancer workforce.
This funding, uncovered by the nonprofit watchdog Do No Harm, shows that $218 million in NCI grants for "underrepresented" groups – mainly racial minorities – is actively dispersed by the NCI. Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, during the Biden administration, around 3% of the NCI's total grant funding every year went to institutions so that they can hire more faculty members and scientists who are minorities, according to Do No Harm.
The revelation comes as Elon Musk's DOGE puts a slew of funds related to DEI on the chopping block amid efforts to slim down government spending. Trump and fellow Republicans have pushed hard against DEI policies throughout the government in recent weeks, making the case that public programs should instead focus on meritocracy.
[FoxNews] DOD is the latest federal agency to tell employees to ignore Musk's request to report productivity
The Department of Defense (DOD) told its civilian workforce to ignore billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk’s request to report their productivity.
In a letter to DOD personnel, Darin S. Selnick, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, provided guidance on how to handle Musk’s demand through the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
"DoD personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information. The Department of Defense is responsible for reviewing the performance of its personnel and it will conduct any review in accordance with its own procedures," Selnick wrote. "When and if required, the Department will coordinate responses to the email you have received from OPM. For now, please pause any response to the OPM email titled, ‘What did you do last week.’"
Musk, a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, said earlier on Saturday that employees would receive an email giving them a chance to explain how productive they were the previous week. If an employee fails to respond to the email, Musk said the government will interpret that as a resignation.
"Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week," Musk wrote on X. "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation."
Later that day, Musk said the report should take under five minutes for employees to write. The deadline for responding to the email is 11:59 p.m. on Monday.
"To be clear, the bar is very low here. An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable! Should take less than 5 mins to write," Musk wrote on X.
A spokesperson from OPM confirmed Musk's plans.
"As part of the Trump Administration's commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce, OPM is asking employees to provide a brief summary of what they did last week by the end of Monday, CC'ing their manager," the spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Agencies will determine any next steps."
Also telling employees to stand down was Kash Patel, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
"FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information," Patel told employees, according to The Associated Press. "The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses."
The State Department also reportedly issued a similar message to employees on Saturday, informing them that department officials "will respond on behalf of the Department," according to a message sent by Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy, who serves as acting under secretary of state for management.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump invoked Spongebob Squarepants to mock federal employees who are outraged by a Department of Government Efficiency email asking what they 'accomplished' over the course of the week.
The commander-in-chief took to his Truth Social platform on Sunday to share an edited screenshot from the Nickelodeon cartoon, showing the titular yellow sponge pondering over a notepad with a pencil in his hand.
The second image showed a list entitled 'Got done last week' and included items like 'cried about Trump,' 'cried about Elon' and 'made it to the office for once.'
Trump's post came as DOGE chief Elon Musk defended his late Saturday night email to all federal employees, asking them to list five things they did this week.
It was sent by the Office of Personnel Management's human resources department, and gave federal workers a deadline of Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST to send back their explanation of work.
Musk said in a post to X that if workers fail or refuse to respond it would be 'taken as a resignation.'
Some federal employees have since claimed the emails are 'harassment' and say the requirement to justify their weekly tasks amounts to a 'hostile work environment.'
'This is the ultimate d**k boss move from Musk - except he isn't even the boss, he's just a d**k,' Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) posted in response to the directive from Trump's 'first buddy.'
'It feels like harassment, especially sending it out on a Saturday and boasting about it in advance on X so that everyone could be checking their email [that] afternoon in anticipation of its arrival,' another federal employee told Business Insider.
A third, who works for the Centers for Disease Control, said they 'can only imagine how many people they'll fire based on the responses/non-responses to this.'
Several unions representing federal workers have even objected to the email, with the National Treasury Employees Union calling it 'yet another attempt by the administration to scare hardworking civil servants who deliver for the American people every day.'
In a letter on Sunday, the American Federation of Government Employees also argued that the email 'fails to identify any legal authority permitting OPM to demand the requested information.
'Federal employees report to their respective agencies through their established chains of command; they do not report to OPM,' the letter says.
'The email was nothing more than an irresponsible and sophomoric attempt to create confusion and bully the hard-working federal employees that serve our country.
'By issuing this directive, OPM is actively pulling federal employees away from their critical duties without regard for the consequences,' it added.
'As just two examples: a VA surgeon's attention belongs in the operating room and an air traffic controller's attention on keeping the skies safe, not on dealing with this unclear and unlawful distraction.
'The request and the resulting confusion is not just inappropriate - it is disruptive to essential government functions,' the union argued.
Newly-appointed FBI Director Kash Patel has even urged agents to 'pause any responses' until the bureau can come up with a coordinated response.
'All FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information,' he wrote in an email obtained by NBC News.
'The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures,' he said.
'When and if information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses.'
Supervisors at the Department of Justice similarly told employees to leave Musk's email unanswered while they await further clarity on the situation, Newsweek reports.
At the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - which houses the National Weather Service, some managers initially cautioned against replying to the email, apparently thinking it was a phishing attempt.
One NOAA employee even told WIRED they were cautioned not to log onto their work email after receiving it.
But Musk has called his request 'a trivial task,' and noted that his DOGE workers have already received a 'large number of good responses.'
'These are the people who should be considered for promotion,' he insisted.
Nonprofit President of Brownstone Institute Jeffrey Tucker also said the email from DOGE 'is completely conventional in the service industry when there's new management.'
'It is only causing screams and panics because it is government,' he added.
Another post Musk highlighted on his X account detailed how the task to detail their accomplishments from the week is common in the 'private sector.'
'It's standard practice to report what you've accomplished to your manager,' Ana Mostarac posted. 'And if you've been a manager, you know how crucial it is to clarify expectations and priorities on a regular cadence.'
'Now, government sector employees are being asked to do the same,' she continued. 'The request is being labeled 'harassment' and described as creating a 'hostile work environment,' with some even suggesting a class action lawsuit for 'undue stress and financial harm.'
'Why should government sector employees be held to a different standard? If anything, shouldn't they be held to a higher standard, given the importance of their work?' she questioned.
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So they don't want to play his game?
Then each of their own games should produce their KPIs and Balanced Scorecards. With each of their bonuses and job retention at risk.
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The super efficient, effective and busy fed employees can hardly spare the five minutes to type up five whole bullet points of accomplishments. Ridiculous. It's why they can't make it in the private sector and have to depend on political connections, unions, and civil servant protections to prevent them from dying in a ditch in a pool of their own urine.
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Sorry, but OPM is the only gov’t personnel office, not some autistic conceited rich guy that nobody elected. And Trump is too stupid in this regard to see he is being played.
Too bad Manchin chose not to run.
1) Federal employees are crying about someone asking what they did last week. That is not going to sell well with the Normies. Every indoor job I ever had, there was either a weekly status report or a timesheet with hours for whatever projects you worked on.
2) Clarification of the chain of command
Elon: So what is it, exactly, that you do here?
FedEmp: Waaah! You're not the boss of me!
NewBoss: Ignore Elon. You work for me.
FedEmp: Yeah! Neener, neener, neener!
NewBoss: Now get to work.
FedEmp: You're not the... oh, wait.
[X] Personnel is policy. Mr. Bongino brings four years as a police officer in New York City, followed by a dozen years in the US Secret Service, including protecting president George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and of course his media and news agglomeration sites.
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump’s White House is looking to sell two prominent federal buildings in San Francisco, including the recently dubbed Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, according to local reports.
The Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, a two-decade-old, 18-story tower known as the San Francisco Federal Building until its formal dedication to the former House speaker in December, sits on Mission and 7th streets in an area that has been for years plagued by open-air drug dealing, illegal markets reselling stolen goods and other crime.
In addition to Pelosi’s namesake building, the Trump administration is reportedly also considering selling the 1930s-era federal building at 50 United Nations Plaza, which currently serves as the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) regional headquarters. The potential sales were reported by KGO-TV, as well as the San Francisco Chronicle, which cited a GSA document earmarking both federal properties in San Francisco as "non-core" assets to possibly be sold off.
In 2023, hundreds of federal employees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assigned to the building were instructed to work from home amid worsening safety concerns, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. At the time, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, demanded its closure due to the drug dealing at the building’s doorstep.
In a 2020 executive order, Trump described the 7th Street federal building – an energy-efficient "green" structure opened in 2007 at a cost of $144 million – as being considered by San Franciscans as "one of the ugliest structures in their city."
Andy Ball, a developer who worked as a concrete subcontractor on the building two decades ago, told the Chronicle the project was a "waste of taxpayer money from day one."
"No investor would have built this building," Ball said, estimating the costs were about "50% greater" than if the project had been funded by the private sector. "In this market, it will represent the greatest difference between cost to build and its sale value."
Last year, the overall vacancy for downtown San Francisco reached 37%, with the vacancy rate specifically in the Mid-Market area sitting at 55%, according to the Chronicle.
As of December, the Federal Protective Service ramped up security at the corner since the 7th Street federal building was formally named after Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco for more than 37 years in Congress. Residents who spoke to KGO-TV lamented that the problems just seemed to have been moved a block over, as federal employees would now enjoy the benefit of armed security, while everyday citizens do not. The building, which can accommodate roughly 2,000 workers, currently houses offices for Pelosi, HHS, as well as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Labor, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
[TWZ] For the first time, the U.S. Space Force has released a photo of Earth taken by one of its secretive X-37B mini-shuttles. The image appears to be the first in-orbit shot from the craft of any kind to be officially released by the Pentagon. However, a brief video clip published in 2023 did show the service-module-equipped X-37B separating from its launch rocket after being lofted into space in 2020.
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Yes, my faith was shaken by eight years of Barack Obama and four years of Joe Biden. There can be no denying this is a society in decline. The inflation and all the woke bullcrap was getting me down. But, if we're going back into space, that's encouraging.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump invoked Spongebob Squarepants to mock federal employees who are outraged by a Department of Government Efficiency email asking what they 'accomplished' over the course of the week.
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump’s White House is looking to sell two prominent federal buildings in San Francisco, including the recently dubbed Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, according to local reports.
