ACLU is already suing the Trump administration to fight the deportations as well as the repeal of the DEI laws. Here’s a donate link if you would like to help
It’s important to remember that while the ACLU has a complicated history with who they represent for free speech cases, the purpose is to get robust legal precedent on the books through a very consistent legal stance so they’re more likely to win cases like these that protect very vulnerable people. Organizations that focus on specific kinds of legal strategies are more effective. They play the long game.
Legalism isn’t going to win us the whole war, but this is the administrative system we’re governed by, and it does throw big wrenches in their gears.
So I hope that people won’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good and support the ACLU’s work right now.
I adore the ACLU specifically because of who they will defend. Because that answer is everyone. When 45 got some of his posts censored in a free speech way, the ACLU offered to assist his lawsuit. They have defended Ben Shapiro and Ann Coulter. (Those are specific names I know)
They believe that civil liberties apply to everyone. Even people you disagree with. Even people you hate. They are not defending DEI because they’re liberal hippie snowflakes. They are defending it because it’s infringing on civil liberties. I trust them in a way I trust very very few organizations these days.
i simply think if you are aware you accidentally create misinformation online the least you should do is lock the post with misinformation so it cant get thousands of reblogs from people who wont fact check it lol
They’re talking about how feihua never fail to see through each other’s disguises in my notes and like yes it’s cute. But it’s also really funny to me because when you think about it they’re literally like
If you’re an American federal employee and got an email saying “it’s ok to quit your job.” Do not, for the love of everything, quit your job. This is purely a scare tactic to get rid of as many people as possible without legal consequences.
Obviously, Trump has realized firing everyone in the government will be harder than he thought because of robust legal protections so he’s trying to scare or trick people into leaving instead because he knows they can block and slow his fascist agenda. Don’t let that happen. If you’re in the civil service, your country needs you; stay in your job and protect the constitution. And if you’re not in civil service, do what you can to support the civil service, including calling your representatives and asking them to protect civil servants.
Remember that this man is infamous for NOT PAYING HIS BILLS. He has countless contractors suing him for non-payment. So if he offers you money to quit? Don’t fall for it. You’ll never see a dime.
Gonna drop the recent entry from Ask A Manager to federal workers here:
Media needs to stop calling it a ‘buyout’. It isn’t. There is no authority to pay people to leave like this, it’s all BS. Administrative leave is capped at 80 hours in most cases. The current max cap for a voluntary separation incentive is $25,000 (before taxes) which it has been since the 90s. And it requires their agency to apply for it, as does voluntary early retirement.
To top it off, the government is under a continuing resolution that expires in March. Then there is no money at all until either a budget is approved or another CR is passed, so anyone that takes this ‘deferred resignation’ may get hosed because they can change the appropriations bill to just say “Terminating any employee who replied ‘resign’”. Will it hold up in court? Probably not but it’s going to take a while to get the day in court so you’ll be S.O.L. until then. Hold the line, they can’t fire feds as easily as they thought.
“well youve had it 6 years that’s a good amount of time for that kind of thing to work”
“you should be grateful you got 3 years of use out of that thing, I’m lucky if mine last a year haha”
listen, in 1977 nasa launched the voyager spacecrafts to take advantage of a planetary alignment that takes place every 175 years. These 2 crafts were planned to flyby the outer planets of our solar system and gather data on them to send back to us. Voyager 2 launched first on the 20th of August despite its name because it was planned to reach our gas giants after its counterpart voyager 1, which launched a little later on the 5th of September.
The voyager mission was planned to end 12 years later in 1989. In that time, voyager 1 and 2 passed by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They discovered new moons, confirmed theories about Saturn’s rings, found the first active volcanoes found outside the earth, and they take close-up images of planets only seen at that point from telescopes.
On the 25th of August 1989, voyager 2 encounters Neptune, the last planet in our solar system the voyagers will meet. And that was that. End of mission. Now obsolete.
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Less than 1 year later on valentine’s day in 1990 voyager 1 looked back on the planet that had built it and sent with it a world’s worth of hopes and dreams and took a picture. We called it the solar system family portrait and in it, we see ourselves. The pale blue dot nestled in the darkness of space
And then commands were sent to shut down their cameras. Preserve fuel.
35 years after launch, in 2012 voyager 1 sent back to us data about interstellar space. The very first manmade object to enter it.
41 years after launch voyager 2 did the same. Still operational, still going. Still sending back to us invaluable data, teaching us about our own solar system and the suns influence in our local bubble of space.
They are expected to continue to operate until the year 2025 – almost 50 whole years after they were launched and 36 years after their mission was supposed to have ended.
48 years of harsh space travel, battered by solar winds, pulled by gravity but fast enough just to escape, pelted by who knows how much space dust and radiation.
And even after that, they still have a purpose. Each craft was given a golden record. A disc filled with human knowledge and knowledge of humans and the planet they live on. Greetings and well-wishes to any prospective extraterrestrial life that could potentially pick it up. Co-ordinates, an invite. Samples of our music, the things we love, sounds of the earth, a story of our world. The surf, the wind, birds and whales, images of a mother, our moon, a sunset. Long after the voyager spacecrafts go dark, probably long after we are gone, they will still be doing their job; educating a species about our very tiny corner of the galaxy.
They are nasa’s longest-running operation.
And it was all done using 70s technology.
So excuse me if I want a phone that lasts more than 2 years or a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t break down after 6, or god fucking forbid, a refrigerator that will keep my food cold my entire fucking lifetime.
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