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beSpacific

1) #Forced #Recruting #Federal #Employees w Federal #Emergency Management Agency #FEMA were informed via email late on Tuesday that they have been reassigned, effective immediately, to #Immigration and #Customs Enforcement #ICE. Workers had 7 days to accept reassignment under threat of being removed from #civilservice - #fired prospect.org/labor/2025-08-06- #threats #jobs #deportation #immigrants #migrants #legal #law #government #trump #maga #civilservice >Plus any every applicant will be accepted.

The American Prospect · FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICEProbationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.
Nonilex

The #State Dept began firing >1,350 #US based employees Friday as the #Trump admin goes ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its #DiplomaticCorps, undermining US ability to defend & promote interests abroad.

The #layoffs, which affect 1,107 #CivilService & 246 #ForeignService officers in the US, come as the US faces multiple global #crises: #Russia's war in #Ukraine, the #Gaza conflict, & the #MiddleEast on edge due to tensions between #Israel & #Iran.

#SoftPower
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joe•iuculano :mastodon:

«DOJ on Friday fired @ least 3 prosecutors involved in US #CapitolRiot criminal cases, latest moves by the #Trump admin targeting attorneys connected 2 massive prosecution of #Jan6, 2021, attack, according to 2 people familiar w/ the matter
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The terminations marked yet another escalation of norm-shattering moves that have raised alarm over the Trump admin’s disregard 4 #CivilService protections 4 career lawyers & erosion of #DOJ's independence from the #WhiteHouse»

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Nonilex

The terminations marked yet another escalation of norm-shattering moves raising alarm over the #Trump admin’s disregard for #CivilService protections for #career #lawyers & the erosion of the #DOJ’s #independence from the White House. Top *leaders* [thugs] at the Justice Dept have also fired employees who worked on the prosecutions against Trump & demoted a slew of career supervisors in what has been seen as an effort to #purge the agency of lawyers seen as insufficiently loyal [& #law abiding].

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A.Stringer

"The #government seems genuinely to care about the #state working well. And, it still has the time – and the parliamentary majority – to make real changes to help it do so. If there was ever a moment for a positive vision for #regulatoryreform that goes beyond a bonfire of the quangos or a chainsaw to #redtape, it is now. "

#Regulatoryreform: systemic thinking, not tinkering | Institute for Government
instituteforgovernment.org.uk/

#UKpol
#LabourGov
#IndustrialStrategy
#CivilService
#UKTreasury

Institute for GovernmentRegulatory reform: systemic thinking, not tinkering | Institute for GovernmentThe government’s aspirations to streamline regulation cannot be achieved piecemeal.
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Trina Corey

from Don Moynihan

"Take the time you would have spent complaining about politics online, or rubbernecking the Musk/Trump bunfight, and use it to write a comment opposing the proposed Office of Personnel Management rule to politicize public services. You can do it in 5 minutes. Deadline is midnight on June 7! (So tomorrow, Saturday is the last day)."

open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni

Can We Still Govern? · Last chance to weigh in on Trump's plan to politicize the civil serviceBy Don Moynihan
#trump#government#civilservice
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Nonilex

In a letter sent on Thurs to employees who had been fired, the #Trump admin cited “the government’s convenience” as a reason for the terminations. The employees were under so-called personal services contracts, making them easier to let go than regular full-time employees with full #CivilService protections.

#VOA#journalism#FourthEstate
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[PSA] OPM Proposed Rule Could Politicize the Civil Service — Public Comments Due by May 23

Heads up: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule (OPM–2025–0004) that would let the President fire career federal employees in certain policy-related roles at will—with no due process and no right to appeal.This is basically a rebranded version of Trump’s old “Schedule F” plan, now called Schedule Policy/Career. These jobs would technically remain “career” positions, but the people in them could be fired for any reason—or no reason at all.These are not political appointees. These are career professionals—scientists, policy analysts, economists, legal experts—who implement laws passed by Congress and serve across multiple administrations. They swear an oath to the Constitution, not to a president.🚩 If this rule goes into effect, we’re talking about:A major rollback of civil service protectionsA pathway to loyalty-based hiring/firingIncreased fear of retaliation among whistleblowersInstability in long-term governance (especially across transitions)This opens the door to political purges of the federal workforce—something the U.S. has historically rejected in favor of a merit-based, nonpartisan civil service.🗣️ You can submit a public comment through May 23. Even a short comment helps show public concern.📍 Link to comment: regulations.gov/document/OPM-2 keep career public servants focused on the law and the Constitution—not partisan loyalty.OPM #ScheduleF #CivilService #Politics #Rulemaking #Democracy #PublicComment #MeritNotLoyalty

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Does shifting civil servants out of London help alleviate London-centrism in the UK's governance?

Labour will move another 12,000 jobs out, following the 18,000 moved by the Tories, but perhaps the bigger issue is whether moving civil servants out of London also moves London out of civil servants' mind-set?

Eventually this cultural shift may help shift perceptions in the civil service, but its a long-term project.... and won't be effective if they just commute!

#CivilService #politics
h/t FT

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Estelle Platini

"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

braveneweurope.com/aurelien-th

Brave New Europe · Aurelien - The End? - Brave New EuropeThere must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that [...]
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