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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

BREAKING — Dept. of Defense civilian employees all received an email a short while ago offering them the opportunity to support ICE and CBP “as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.” Full text of email and attached memo from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:

Subject: Department of Defense (DoD) Support to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Southern Border/Internal Immigration Enforcement Activities FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES Per the attached, the Secretary of Defense has authorized DoD civilian employees to participate in details to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to contribute to its operations along the Southern Border and its internal immigration enforcement activities. Selected Department employees will have a chance to offer critical support to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system. Applications for details will be accepted at https://www.usajobs.gov/job/842956200. The process is as follows: 1. Apply at https://www.usajobs.gov/job/842956200. 2. DHS will review your application and documentation 3. Once you have been vetted, DHS will coordinate with the appointed representative from your organization to obtain the necessary approval for your detail 4. Once approval has been obtained, DHS will coordinate a start date and contact you about next steps if you have been immediately selected. 5. If qualified and not immediately selected, you will be kept in the applicant pool to fill additional needs as they arise MEMORANDUM FOR SENIOR PENTAGON LEADERSHIP COMMANDERS OF THE COMBATANT COMMANDS DEFENSE AGENCY AND DOD FIELD ACTIVITY DIRECTORS SUBJECT: Detailing of Department of Defense Civilian Employees to Support the Department of Homeland Security In support of the President's priority of securing our borders, I am authorizing the detail of Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support its operations at the United States southern border and with internal immigration enforcement. Detail assignments may be either reimbursable or non-reimbursable. Non-reimbursable details are authorized where the expected benefit of a detail would be comparable to training or development programs that otherwise would be conducted at a DoD Component's expense. When determining whether a detail may be non-reimbursable under the above standard, DoD leaders should consider factors such as whether the tasks to be carried out by employees during the detail are of a similar nature to the tasks those employees execute in the course of their normal duties; whether the detail would otherwise enhance the skills and further develop the employees professionally: the duration of the contemplated detail for each employee, including the fact that the training and professional development value might diminish over time as the employee gains experience; and the impacts to the Department from the employee's absence. DoD supervisors and civilian employees shall comply with DHS procedures for deployment detail assignments, as appropriate. The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in coordination with DHS, will provide further guidance. Thank you for your continued support of the President's National Security priorities.
aug 20, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1,508 695

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Geoffrey Hoytsman @courtjezter84.bsky.social

They keep proving South Park right

aug 20, 2025, 10:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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wattznext @wattznext.bsky.social

Not scoffing at this one as much as others, it strikes me as a low key way for them to see who at DoD is on their side. Merely applying for a detail is a way for anyone to stand up and anonymously tell the bosses "I'm here to be a Nazi"

aug 20, 2025, 10:38 pm • 7 0 • view
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Jason Gilbert @jrgilbert.bsky.social

Also, would you like to “volunteer” for DHS or do you want to see if you make it through the next round of cuts?

aug 20, 2025, 10:48 pm • 7 0 • view
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sadieClyde @sadieheartsclyde.bsky.social

They can’t get anyone to do the job. The bench of dickless a-holes with personality disorders was thin. Couldn’t even bribe with 50k. 😂Fucking Nazis. America beat you once, we’ll beat you again

aug 20, 2025, 10:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social

Don’t forget hitlerite Hegseth’s harem: bsky.app/profile/bren...

aug 20, 2025, 11:03 pm • 2 0 • view
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bruffles.bsky.social @bruffles.bsky.social

DoD employee: - goes on 6-month detail with ICE - comes back - gets told by DoD their position is no longer needed because it could be done for 6 months without them there

aug 20, 2025, 10:17 pm • 12 1 • view
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social

This needs to be amplified, yes.

aug 21, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
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rictho1966.bsky.social @rictho1966.bsky.social

I feel for every person I know and care about within the DOD and am sorry each of them are going through the nightmare of this regime. Just yuck!

aug 21, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
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BadaLex 🩷 @badalex330.bsky.social

So the no age limits or qualifications recruiting is going really well

aug 20, 2025, 11:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social

I can't imagine an employed person having the patience to fill out a usajobs application

aug 20, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
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Paige Dula @dula.me

Yup, my wife got hers today

aug 21, 2025, 12:54 am • 2 0 • view
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Laura 🫘 @judeobsc17.bsky.social

people don't want to be called Nuremberg style later on for their work with ICE and CBP - smart call

aug 21, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
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StrongOpinionsEsotericTopics @chimpgod.bsky.social

They're really struggling for employees, they are going to have to start hiring undocumented workers.

aug 20, 2025, 10:21 pm • 42 1 • view
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Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong @misscantbewrong.bsky.social

or pay a lot more and not reneg on benefits promised at hire

aug 20, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
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Tom Wilson @derelict-houseboat.bsky.social

The army cant do that. I highly doubt ICE under IOU Donny is going to be paying anyone what they’re owed ever.

aug 20, 2025, 10:55 pm • 10 0 • view
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frozen-cranberry.bsky.social @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social

He's never paid anybody what he owes them. Really doubt he's gonna start now.

aug 21, 2025, 12:02 am • 6 0 • view
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Avery Ashen Whynott @ravenlasagna.bsky.social

I'm betting they already are.

aug 20, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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wingineer @wingineering.bsky.social

Guess the signing bonus isn't helping recruitment. Glad I don't work for the DoD anymore, I'm sure it won't be long before some people start getting 'volun-told' instead of volunteering.

aug 20, 2025, 10:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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Tim W. ☮️ @heymrwilson1.bsky.social

Begging for applicants?

aug 20, 2025, 9:57 pm • 9 0 • view
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Brett Baldridge @brettbaldridge.bsky.social

aug 20, 2025, 10:02 pm • 3 0 • view
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Special Agent Dr. Aidnos, PhD @aidnos.bsky.social

Possible explanation is that ICE and CBP positions likely require a higher level background investigation (T3 or T5). Those often take a long time. They're probably hoping DoD civs who already have T3/T5s can fill the ICE/CBP positions for the 6-12 months while the BIs are carried out.

aug 21, 2025, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Block Man @dwn-081.bsky.social

Laser focus on warfighting, this guy.

aug 20, 2025, 10:16 pm • 5 0 • view
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keenoire.bsky.social @keenoire.bsky.social

Good Lord. Maybe they should show them this video: bsky.app/profile/pale...

aug 21, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Jenny Becky W @jennybecky.bsky.social

Is this due to literally no one joining ICE?

aug 20, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sean Zadig @zadig.org

Here are the duties:

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aug 20, 2025, 11:05 pm • 4 0 • view
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Warren Shadespot @warrenwp.bsky.social

Good job y’all. Keep not doing it.

aug 20, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
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Steve G @stevewithag.bsky.social

Apparently it's only democrats who care about weird things like readiness, now.

aug 20, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jay’s Art Corner @jaysartcorner.bsky.social

Oh, the immigration crap is that unpopular that they are literally having to go to people they’ve already hired for one job and asking them to do a different job? Even a $45,000 signing bonus isn’t enough to make people sign up to be Gestapo?

aug 20, 2025, 11:23 pm • 3 0 • view
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Pro-DOG, Anti-DOGE @angold.bsky.social

The DOD employees that happen to be kidnapping-curious will turn down the role in the event it's deemed not reimbursable, especially when they see the $50k sign-on bonuses given to the fresh goons. I'd then expect some combination of firings and bonuses to sweeten the pot. What a fucking joke.

aug 20, 2025, 10:06 pm • 18 0 • view
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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social

I love how "the President's intent" or "the President's plan" becomes the end goal in all these proclamations, as if it has some intrinsic value despite accomplishing no measurable benefit

aug 21, 2025, 3:26 am • 1 0 • view
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Cajun AF @cajunasfuck.bsky.social

Fuck off notice.

aug 20, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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SpenceInAustin @spenceinaustin.bsky.social

For added enticement, they should offer expanded VA benefits for late in life care after they’ve been disowned by their children.

aug 20, 2025, 10:45 pm • 10 0 • view
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Sandy Lyle @sandylyle.bsky.social

Pentagon: "Forget protecting our country from foreign enemies, help us terrorize brown people right here at home!!!"

aug 20, 2025, 10:21 pm • 7 0 • view
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kappy71.bsky.social @kappy71.bsky.social

If it helps recruitment any they can let them know I'll happily treat anyone I encounter who works for ICE or CBP like they are crap I stepped in.

aug 21, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
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Bog Creature @facemap.bsky.social

They make it sound so appealing. "Locations will extend to other geographic areas according to the need. Conditions at some locations could be austere. Deployment locations are based on need and are not negotiable."

aug 20, 2025, 10:42 pm • 9 0 • view
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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social

Wow.

aug 20, 2025, 10:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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That Escalated Quickly @bayla5280.bsky.social

Recruiting isn't going so well

aug 20, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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sway.ricochet @swayricochet.bsky.social

We need someone to hack their servers and get the names of every fucking applicant

aug 21, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Crazy Cool Caitlin @imcaitlintho.bsky.social

While I think this is haha funny in the case that they can't recruit...I do not think it is haha funny if you think about maybe they actually just want hundreds and thousands of ICE agents all over the US. It would take a lot of agents to make every city look like DC.

aug 20, 2025, 9:59 pm • 48 1 • view
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Yaga Baba @729xhappier.bsky.social

Yep. That increase in ICE goes hand in glove with Miller’s depopulation plan to get the US population down to a controllable 100 million. This nightmare has many horrifying moving parts.

aug 20, 2025, 11:01 pm • 4 0 • view
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Real Presley Rex @realpresleyrex.bsky.social

Nightwatch episode of Babylon 5…

aug 20, 2025, 11:56 pm • 3 0 • view
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Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social

There are several, but, yeah, that whole subplot...

aug 21, 2025, 12:48 am • 1 0 • view
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James @lemurdreamer87.bsky.social

Yup.They WANT to be like the Brownshirts/SS/Gestapo (depending on who you ask) intimidating the entire nation but America is a LOT bigger than Nazi Germany, even if you include all the territory they occupied at their peak. They will *never* have the numbers, and that's gonna drive 'em even crazier.

aug 20, 2025, 11:01 pm • 29 2 • view
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Distraction @syyyyyyyyy.bsky.social

And the point they absolutely refuse to learn is that the places where people vote blue and value their immigrant neighbors are .... *checks notes* ... all the places where people outnumber cows. Whoops.

aug 21, 2025, 1:13 am • 11 0 • view
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social

Trump's ICE goons are Roundshirts these days.

aug 21, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social

Are there civilian DoD employees in roles comparable with on the ground law enforcement? Or are they trying to recruit a bunch of cooks, mechanics, and office workers?

aug 20, 2025, 10:17 pm • 6 0 • view
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Nate is waking up @nf1nk.bsky.social

Yes, there are civilian DoD police officers, as weird as that sounds.

aug 20, 2025, 10:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social

They even got multiple TV shows!

aug 20, 2025, 11:41 pm • 2 0 • view
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Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social

I'm aware of the shows. I just assumed that they still counted as military.

aug 21, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
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Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social

I guess all those shows will be turning into ICE shows for 6 months.

aug 21, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
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mtbabcock.bsky.social @mtbabcock.bsky.social

Mostly office workers though. They specify paperwork, logistics, etc.

aug 21, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social

The SS Wants You!

aug 20, 2025, 10:35 pm • 4 0 • view
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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social

What a joke, like they ever vetted the majority of the thugs they currently employ. That list of 5 qualifications would eliminate most of them immediately.

aug 20, 2025, 10:45 pm • 4 0 • view
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Chris @dragonflymsp.bsky.social

When does it become compulsory? When do they enact the draft for this evil shit? If someone doesn’t believe that’s where this is going, they’re an idiot.

aug 21, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
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patriotsrise.bsky.social @patriotsrise.bsky.social

Domestic terrorists

aug 21, 2025, 12:05 am • 1 0 • view
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Betty Ann @vegavannah.bsky.social

So recruiting is going well, huh. Everyone loving those 50k bonuses that’ll take 6 years to get the full amount. Just asking for volunteers for funsies.

aug 20, 2025, 9:57 pm • 71 1 • view
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CtK @in-prose93.bsky.social

In the recruitment for hiring a teacher at a school out here in SD it’s like $1500 to 5,000K For working in a cheese block factory it was $500 for 90 days-& after 1 year $1,000 I believe . 50K is quite the incentive You need to have a certain cognitive dissonance personality to do work.

aug 21, 2025, 3:28 am • 1 0 • view
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Betty Ann @vegavannah.bsky.social

You would have to work a full 2 years to see the first 10k. Then another 4 years to see the rest, at 10k a year. They’re not seeing an immediate 50k.

aug 21, 2025, 8:23 am • 7 0 • view
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jessi1234.bsky.social @jessi1234.bsky.social

www.threads.com/@sherry.h.be...

aug 21, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
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jessi1234.bsky.social @jessi1234.bsky.social

Looks like it’s aided by PB&J 😂🤣😂

aug 21, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Zz🪐 Luctor et emergo @zeebest1.bsky.social

All the white old Fox tv 80 yo will be lining up

aug 20, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Epstein files or bust @crackermack.bsky.social

KKK OPEN CASTING

aug 20, 2025, 10:11 pm • 10 1 • view
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Distraction @syyyyyyyyy.bsky.social

It brings me actual joy to see how nobody is willing to sign up to do this.

aug 21, 2025, 1:11 am • 1 0 • view
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schatzkin.bsky.social @schatzkin.bsky.social

Racist thugs with penis issues will excel at this important fascist function.

aug 20, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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Harriet Wright @harrietwright.bsky.social

Their intent is to make DoD the enforcement arm of the trump misadministration - the Wehrmacht.

aug 20, 2025, 10:11 pm • 18 1 • view
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Diluvian Daydreams @calnier108.bsky.social

More like the Waffen SS id say.

aug 21, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
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Cats Are Better Than Men Because @catsbetterthanmen.bsky.social

"a safe and orderly immigration system" Is THAT what they call it when they let people in here legally, then rip away their visas, violently abduct them, and ship them off to torture prisons and war zones????

aug 20, 2025, 10:53 pm • 9 0 • view
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savoia-verduzio.bsky.social @savoia-verduzio.bsky.social

Seems kinda pointless for Congress to allocate funds to DoD if its personnel can simply be "detailed" en masse to DHS.

aug 20, 2025, 11:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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Holly @spottiedoggy.bsky.social

Almost like dismantling the defense dept

aug 20, 2025, 10:00 pm • 7 0 • view
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StillNotLeia @stillnotleia.bsky.social

Are they promising free legal representation in case we are ever able to start holding people accountable for gross constitutional violations?

aug 21, 2025, 2:27 am • 1 0 • view
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MargaritaYesPlease (Mags Rice Fowler) @margaritayesplease.bsky.social

This was in June (his letter). I wonder how much response there was.

aug 21, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
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ProViewer @proviewer.bsky.social

Looks like ICE is having trouble hiring.

aug 20, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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BeTheChangeDragon @fishmandy.bsky.social

And then the office they leave behind has to cover for them….sounds super efficient.

aug 21, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
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Sue from Seattle @suesea7.bsky.social

Do they need fence painting experience?

aug 20, 2025, 10:22 pm • 3 0 • view
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up-owl-night.bsky.social @up-owl-night.bsky.social

Given the hostile work environment, the abusive language like saying "they aren't showing up to work", and how many remote workers were needlessly yanked away from their families, I'm anticipating a big FU from the workforce that remains.

aug 21, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
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Shell @shelly3000.bsky.social

One would think.

aug 21, 2025, 7:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Miembro de Número @miembrodenumero.bsky.social

For context, more than 900.000 civilians work for the DoD.

aug 20, 2025, 10:02 pm • 21 1 • view
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dragonslayer240.bsky.social @dragonslayer240.bsky.social

I expected all the MAGA patriots to jump on board, apparently they are too good for that job and picking fruit.

aug 21, 2025, 1:08 am • 1 0 • view
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Tangent @tangentburns.bsky.social

My favorite part is where KegsBreath signs like he’s a PBJ. Would probably bring more value to the world if he were.

aug 20, 2025, 10:00 pm • 7 0 • view
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Zz🪐 Luctor et emergo @zeebest1.bsky.social

😂saw that too

aug 20, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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jasonc99.bsky.social @jasonc99.bsky.social

Peanut Butter & Jameson

aug 20, 2025, 10:40 pm • 7 0 • view
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Patrick @thereal1actionpat.bsky.social

We sure did. I couldn’t believe it.

aug 21, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
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Tubbles @tubbles.bsky.social

"We may or may not reimburse you because fuck you, little swine. You are lucky the god king allows you to exist." That's such a motivating message, isn't it?

aug 20, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dyamant @bluemarcus.bsky.social

Don’t do it federal employees. Don’t risk your mental health. Don’t risk your long-term pension for whatever short-term 💰 they dangle. Because as early as 2026 #ICE is going to get whacked, defunded. You’ll be branded a traitor and never get back into DoD.

aug 21, 2025, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
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Melissa @mkverson.bsky.social

Or, they are sending calls to loyalists to come forward to join the military coup unfolding (boots on the ground, taking over prosecutions, etc.) 🤷‍♀️ Guarantee not every civilian employee will be offered that transition.

aug 20, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social

Why settle for being a mere foot-soldier in the service of empire when you can become a real Nazi putting innocent people in concentration camps or sending them to their deaths in distant countries.

aug 20, 2025, 10:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social

WTF

aug 20, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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jdubz90.bsky.social @jdubz90.bsky.social

I hope they don't help those fascists nazis!

aug 20, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bessie the Cow @bovinebessie.bsky.social

Tired of serving your country? Join ICE today and help a team of illiterate halfwits zip tie grandmas!

aug 20, 2025, 10:45 pm • 19 1 • view
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Wayne Fryback @waynefryback.bsky.social

My response would read something like this: "Lol get fucked, Pete!"

aug 21, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
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AbiGezunt @abigezunt.bsky.social

Non-reimbursable? Is he encouraging workers to equate this with picnic in park? Will he fire those who don't volunteer? Employees, don't fall for it! Get GOP Senators to do dirty work. After all they voted for Hegseth. US Gestapo getting more brutal by the day, operates without legal oversight.

aug 20, 2025, 10:50 pm • 3 0 • view
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social

This is the only normal language in the whole thing - it's about which agency pays the salary of the person doing the work. Does DHS reimburse DoD, so that DoD isn't out money when no DoD work is happening, or does DoD eat that cost by paying their employee when not doing DoD work.

aug 20, 2025, 11:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cassandra of Troy @cassandraoftroy.bsky.social

KZL wachmaenner.

aug 20, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social

Let your state and local officials know they can ban selling food, water, gasoline, sewage, garbage, electricity, internet, or phone service to the federal government. Let them fly their own in to their own airfields. Not the ones our municipalities and port authorities run.

aug 20, 2025, 11:08 pm • 9 2 • view
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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social

Any of you shipmates thinking of doing this just realize you lack all honor, courage, or commitment if you help ICE or CBP for any reason at all. I think the worst of people who merely sell ICE food or water or electricity or gasoline so don’t even think about actually working with them.

aug 20, 2025, 11:06 pm • 4 0 • view
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David F. Soros @wiselineprt.bsky.social

Why are some given signing bonuses while others are asked to volunteer

aug 20, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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marcar426.bsky.social @marcar426.bsky.social

That’s a big fat NO

aug 20, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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Nick Lloyd @nicklloyd.bsky.social

“A TDY to exotic Brownsville, TX to take part in ‘it could never happen here’ fantasy camp!”

aug 20, 2025, 10:46 pm • 5 0 • view
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Our Lady of Perpetual Disappointment @rkfatheree.bsky.social

They don’t have enough loyalists to run a government.

aug 20, 2025, 10:55 pm • 7 0 • view
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joedferg.bsky.social @joedferg.bsky.social

The Nazis always were big on documentation. This makes it easier to find them all and mete out the proper punishment later.

aug 21, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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@wscotgrey @wscotgrey.bsky.social

Hey, we’re all brownshirts now! Woot!

aug 21, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
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David Butler @dvdbutler.bsky.social

One can only imagine the ‘vetting’ involves a loyalty test

aug 21, 2025, 12:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social

Those are illegal orders...don't be an Oath Breaker

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aug 20, 2025, 10:57 pm • 22 8 • view
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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social

Awful lot of detail in that one page letter about details being non-reimbursable. Are they expecting people to pay or otherwise swallow the costs for the privilege to harass, attack, and kidnap others in their community?

aug 20, 2025, 10:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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Nate is waking up @nf1nk.bsky.social

In context reimbursable refers to which agency is paying for the employee. A non-reimbursable position would be paid by the DoD.

aug 20, 2025, 10:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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Chris McKercher @systemisbroken.bsky.social

So, are they not getting enough applications for ICE, even with the sign on bonuses and crazy high pay?

aug 21, 2025, 12:47 am • 1 0 • view
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social

How far away are we from finding out that ICE is hiring undocumented workers to round up and brutalize undocumented workers (and citizens).

aug 21, 2025, 7:01 am • 16 1 • view
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squid65.bsky.social @squid65.bsky.social

o, I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed. Especially in New York.

aug 21, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bert @bertreynolds.bsky.social

That's cute, he signs with a fat marker just like daddy Trump

aug 20, 2025, 10:13 pm • 4 0 • view
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c-orus.bsky.social @c-orus.bsky.social

can't meet military physical fitness standards? failed police dept psych evaluation? like wearing worn-out jeans, T shirts, backward ball caps and face masks? enjoy beating up immigrants? old as shit? ICE has a spot for you!

aug 21, 2025, 12:42 am • 2 0 • view
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mikeconnaghan.bsky.social @mikeconnaghan.bsky.social

All government employees urgently need legal advice about what to do when their organization acts illegally.

aug 21, 2025, 4:08 am • 0 0 • view
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rollingwonder.bsky.social @rollingwonder.bsky.social

No money for schools, school lunches, hospitals, park services, FEMA, NOAA, EPA etc but plenty for paid training to take back office staff who want to cosplay Dog the Bounty Hunter?

aug 20, 2025, 11:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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🦋FightForDemocracy!🦋 @budahsbaker.bsky.social

TSA employees also received a recruitment email.

aug 20, 2025, 10:00 pm • 34 4 • view
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JWolf 🇨🇦 @wolf-45.bsky.social

Will they just go around yelling "laptops out of the bag" at citizens on the street?

aug 20, 2025, 10:21 pm • 4 0 • view
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Filth Collins @davidkelley718.bsky.social

That might actually be helpful if they can be as useless in this job as they are in their current gig.

aug 20, 2025, 10:15 pm • 30 0 • view
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Bananas @citizen12345.bsky.social

At least it would be good to get people who may not be white nationalists.

aug 21, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
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Dirty Dapper Dan @dirtydapperdan.bsky.social

Just an Email from the VA about the same thing. Yeah, hard pass.

aug 21, 2025, 4:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social

Just think of the type of people who would accept UNPAID work "enforcing the border" as a DoD civilian? Exactly the kind of person Stephen Miller WANTS doing that job, where racism comes first and qualifications are barely mentioned.

aug 21, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
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Zaia @johnnyz.bsky.social

We all know he wants nothing more than chaos

aug 21, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 0 • view
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

DoD people assume DHS is having a recruitment problem and that’s why they’re trying to recruit civilian employees. As of now it’s voluntary, but TBD once they see lack of interest.

aug 20, 2025, 9:59 pm • 737 76 • view
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404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net

Ah...soon to be voluntold to the Gestapo...what could go wrong 🙃

aug 20, 2025, 10:29 pm • 14 1 • view
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NevadaWolf @nevadawolf.bsky.social

Any insight as to why the memo is from June but the email is today?

aug 21, 2025, 12:28 am • 3 0 • view
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kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social

Memo was addressed to a different group: senior leadership, mostly about "hey, we'd like your input on doing the civilian equivalent of TDYing any of your civilian employees who're willing, if you can spare them," a necessary 1st step. Email is addressed to the target audience: civilian employees.

aug 21, 2025, 9:46 am • 2 0 • view
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kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social

Postscript: Dunno why anyone but TrueBelievers™ would voluntarilly surrender their already in-budget FTEs, at least those which survived the various purges and voluntary exits, because it's a snowball's chance in Hell to ever claw them back. 1/x

aug 21, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social

So what? If your department is decimated and folks needed for other specialised stuff are now relegated to emptying wastebaskets, ordering supplies, arranging travel, reimbursing expenses, doing payroll, resolving HR, fixing things civilians can do... etc., etc., etc.

aug 21, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

unclear. employees say they hadn’t seen it until now. possible it was written then but held til now.

aug 21, 2025, 12:42 am • 11 0 • view
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NevadaWolf @nevadawolf.bsky.social

Thank you. And thanks to your sources as well.

aug 21, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
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AltAirForce @altairforce.altgov.info

The initial “approval” or “authorization” was sent out a few months ago. Now it appears that there’s an actual avenue for DoD employees to apply. No idea why some of us receive this shit and some of us don’t.

aug 21, 2025, 3:57 am • 7 0 • view
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Mom Cow @albatex.bsky.social

I didn't see the original one you mentioned, just the one from yesterday 🤔

aug 21, 2025, 10:29 am • 0 0 • view
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AltAirForce @altairforce.altgov.info

bsky.app/profile/alta... I think I was a little speechless so may not have done a very good job with the post itself but here it is :)

aug 21, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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bebe1960.bsky.social @bebe1960.bsky.social

We had another jet fall into the ocean off the coast in virginia.

aug 21, 2025, 1:14 pm • 4 0 • view
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Mom Cow @albatex.bsky.social

What ship?

aug 21, 2025, 1:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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bebe1960.bsky.social @bebe1960.bsky.social

The pilot ejected over the Atlantic

aug 21, 2025, 1:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mom Cow @albatex.bsky.social

Just wondering if it was related to ship operations or was the pilot from the Air Base there.

aug 21, 2025, 1:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mom Cow @albatex.bsky.social

Can you follow me?

aug 21, 2025, 1:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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bebe1960.bsky.social @bebe1960.bsky.social

Check out this video from this search, jet pilot ejects off virginia coast share.google/iJ0fKPKGe4rm...

aug 21, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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AltAirForce @altairforce.altgov.info

I’m relieved to hear that the pilot was rescued & is alive. I hope he isn’t injured. Very scary.

aug 21, 2025, 3:23 pm • 6 0 • view
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AltAirForce @altairforce.altgov.info

Direct link to the USAJOBS announcement www.usajobs.gov/job/842956200 Be on the lookout for some Good Trouble in the next day or two. This announcement includes a FEMA email and we’ll be asking for people to send their support for FEMA to that address 💕

aug 21, 2025, 4:09 am • 20 4 • view
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info

😈😈😈😈😈😈

aug 21, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

aug 21, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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JTMLX @jtmlx.bsky.social

BASE PAY FOR TRUMP REGIME TOADIES [FLOORS, NOT CEILINGS, WITHOUT COUNTING PRIVATE ANNUAL INCOME] #AltGov Are the Republican radicals required to pay kickbacks? What sources do we have for other amounts of income? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executi...

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Joanne ⁷ 💜 @jmcport.bsky.social

The non-reimbursable jobs are essentially slavery. But it’s not that bad, really!

aug 20, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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Leigh @astragalomancer.bsky.social

Non-reimbursable means that DHS doesn't reimburse the DoD for the employee's salary and benefits. The detailee gets paid the same.

aug 21, 2025, 1:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ziyyigo-Tipyigo @ziyyigo-tipyigo.bsky.social

That "nonreimbursible" bit catches my eye...

aug 20, 2025, 10:20 pm • 6 0 • view
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Pat @parisdog.bsky.social

that's not what you are implying. it's about who pays them, their current agency or DHS

aug 20, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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Joanne ⁷ 💜 @jmcport.bsky.social

It says these jobs will be considered compensated by the training received. Like telling artists to work free for the exposure.

aug 20, 2025, 10:57 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social

No, this part is bog standard government financing. It's only about if DoD pays the salary (non-reimbursable) or DHS pays DoD for the salary (reimbursable) for the employee during the time worked at DHS. This is how multiagency coordination works constantly. No one is working for free.

aug 20, 2025, 11:39 pm • 6 0 • view
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Joanne ⁷ 💜 @jmcport.bsky.social

Ok, but not sure why they define compensation as skills acquired.

aug 20, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social

DoD can decide that it is worth not having work done (person gone) because the value of the skills acquired by the work the person is doing is equivalent to if DoD had sent that person to a multiweek training DoD'd otherwise have paid for. (This is not a great scenario for that outcome.)

aug 20, 2025, 11:49 pm • 6 0 • view
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Joanne ⁷ 💜 @jmcport.bsky.social

Got it. Thanks for the translation of govspeak!

aug 20, 2025, 11:50 pm • 3 0 • view
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maurastories @maurastories.bsky.social

Yes. But I also think it's a low effort email push on contacts they already had and with the knowledge that these workers are more likely to be laid off or overworked/low morale since the DOGE department cuts earlier in the year and it might be easy pickings

aug 20, 2025, 10:25 pm • 7 0 • view
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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social

When I saw that email:

aug 20, 2025, 10:01 pm • 135 0 • view
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BZMac @bzmac.bsky.social

🤌🏼

aug 20, 2025, 11:10 pm • 7 0 • view
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Welsh rarebit @welshrarebit.bsky.social

A certain smell of panic about this.

aug 20, 2025, 10:38 pm • 7 0 • view
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Nate @natediesel.bsky.social

Ok FINE Marisa here you go you incredible stupid journalist ~~Signed, a stupid journalist (not incredible)

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Vince @jalapenopants18.bsky.social

How much longer until they start messaging random people who applied for government jobs in the past few years SMH

aug 20, 2025, 10:22 pm • 18 1 • view
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kirstybrook.bsky.social @kirstybrook.bsky.social

Coming to a blue state near you autumn 2025 edition

aug 20, 2025, 10:04 pm • 7 0 • view
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grabarr.bsky.social @grabarr.bsky.social

Folks in fbi and Cia are being moved to ICE in MI.

aug 21, 2025, 6:18 am • 0 0 • view
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thesmileymonkey.bsky.social @thesmileymonkey.bsky.social

That’s how I read it.

aug 20, 2025, 11:00 pm • 3 0 • view
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Estee @esteeland.bsky.social

For folks that can stomach it: you can take the job and sabotage efforts from the inside.

aug 21, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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Athena Virago @deltoidguppy.bsky.social

Thought of that as well

aug 22, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
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lordofthe7s.bsky.social @lordofthe7s.bsky.social

NOboDy waNtS tO woRK AnYmORe!

aug 20, 2025, 11:21 pm • 4 0 • view
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Smedley Darlington Butler Warned You @sdbwarnedyou.bsky.social

Cute. Baby’s first Volkssturm.

aug 20, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Hailey @haileycolp.bsky.social

It’s giving “we can’t hire anyone”

aug 20, 2025, 9:56 pm • 152 2 • view
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CtK @in-prose93.bsky.social

You know what’s going to happen It will be bringing in some outside the US recruits The British had the Hessians. Who’d they recruit from outside US Russians, South Africans More proud boys?

aug 21, 2025, 3:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Vulpes Novella @vulpesnovella.bsky.social

Even with the 45,000 cash bonus. Even with the forgiveness of student loans. Even with all these other supposed benefits. This is a good sign, even as scary as it is.

aug 20, 2025, 10:46 pm • 121 2 • view
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Real Presley Rex @realpresleyrex.bsky.social

How many that have loans outstanding would take the job?

aug 20, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blake Mitchell @blake.bsky.social

Would any of us do it for $1 million? $5 million?

aug 20, 2025, 10:56 pm • 11 0 • view
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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social

For a million dollars I could engage in some malicious compliance

aug 21, 2025, 1:57 am • 3 0 • view
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Julie (she/her) @litterboxing.bsky.social

Not personally. I can't speak to another's situation.

aug 21, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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sfjulio415.bsky.social @sfjulio415.bsky.social

No dollar amount in the world is enough to be a fucking nazi. No good person would willingly join up for this garbage horrible Nazi shit. Hence why every single one of these motherfuckers in the administration and law enforcement are fucking scum of the earth. The worst people on the planet.

aug 20, 2025, 11:22 pm • 4 0 • view
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zota @zota.bsky.social

Apart from that, how many might sign up and deliberately be the laziest, incompetent employee? When you can only get people to work for you with coercion and bribes, you are going to get some dogshit work.

aug 20, 2025, 11:30 pm • 56 1 • view
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Bronco Von Rockie @samthom64.bsky.social

Or even just sign up and be a whistleblower. We know how evil it is, imagine the stuff we don’t know. Would be useful

aug 20, 2025, 11:38 pm • 32 1 • view
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Ben Buchanan @benlbuchanan.bsky.social

I'm not here to blow any whistles. I'm just here to have a weird penchant for going to the bathroom with my phone after I learn where we're going to round up immigrants that day and before we arrive at yet another mysteriously abandoned site.

aug 21, 2025, 12:57 am • 35 0 • view
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Bronco Von Rockie @samthom64.bsky.social

😂😭

aug 21, 2025, 1:01 am • 2 0 • view
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Julie (she/her) @litterboxing.bsky.social

And you need that high paying job to cover medical expenses for your IBD, Ulcerative Colitis, intestinal lymphoma, etc ...

aug 21, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Knancy 🛸 @knancy.bsky.social

Oh no, I too hit my head on the ground. Ouchie. Looks like permanent disability (or 3yrs), and maybe still getting the ICE location emails to share?

aug 21, 2025, 12:47 am • 2 0 • view
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bobwheeler.bsky.social @bobwheeler.bsky.social

I was going to say, I'd take that $5M and be the world's worst employee but the world's best whistleblower. And keep it up 'till they finally, eventually, figure out that I'm doing what they hired me to do. It would be a nice position from which to alert people, y'know.

aug 21, 2025, 1:02 am • 1 0 • view
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Chris Tierney @readyuser.one

Yea sign up then start sharing your live location to a protest / warning group do that ICE can't surprise anyone.

aug 20, 2025, 11:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bananas @citizen12345.bsky.social

Hoping people take the job with express purpose of fcking it up

aug 21, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Gordus Elkor @elkor.bsky.social

Man on the inside, put my body up on the gears and the wheels, put my fish in the breakroom microwave,

aug 21, 2025, 6:19 am • 2 0 • view
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bklynskater.bsky.social @bklynskater.bsky.social

Never for me. NEVER

aug 21, 2025, 3:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social

Feels like conscription tied to government employment / contract work is just around the corner.

A digital menu from Starship Troopers. “Federal, Galaxy, Top News, Enlist, Exit” menu items are shown along the top; the phrase “Would You Lie To Know More?” is along the bottom; a large “Mobile Infantry” flag takes up the middle space.
aug 20, 2025, 10:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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KB @sorrykb.bsky.social

Fucking sharpies everywhere. Can’t any of these people use a normal pen.

aug 20, 2025, 10:16 pm • 11 0 • view
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Glenn A @raksiam.bsky.social

Probably to compensate for their small penises

aug 20, 2025, 10:19 pm • 3 0 • view
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Jonathan @dierksen.net

Whiskey Pete trying to see who wants to join the Bitch Corps and be hated by the rest of the country for the rest of their lives.

aug 20, 2025, 10:01 pm • 13 1 • view
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ajkp4227.bsky.social @ajkp4227.bsky.social

And get reimbursed $0.70 every mile while you're driving your personal vehicle around DC and causing Terror!

aug 20, 2025, 10:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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kennethgray.bsky.social @kennethgray.bsky.social

Up next, the President's Council on Physical Fitness gets invited to join the Navy SEALs. Because it's going so well. 😡

aug 20, 2025, 11:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Diesel Bug Has An Irrational Amount Of Freedom @dieselbug1137.bsky.social

The non-reimbursable bit sounds like unpaid training.

aug 21, 2025, 5:36 am • 1 0 • view
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Casey Jones @caseyjonesinc.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/case...

aug 21, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
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Glenn A @raksiam.bsky.social

Maybe some good people could take ICE down from the inside

aug 20, 2025, 10:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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heathenly.bsky.social @heathenly.bsky.social

Can anyone explain the reimbursement thing?

aug 20, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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hooked on persephonics @amphote.bsky.social

It's about whether DoD keeps paying their salary or DHS does.

aug 20, 2025, 10:42 pm • 4 0 • view
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heathenly.bsky.social @heathenly.bsky.social

Gotcha- thanks

aug 20, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social

It’s about as much about an immigration system as projectile vomiting is about absorbing nutrients.

aug 21, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cynical Scotsman @cynicalscotsman.bsky.social

I'm sure the emphasis on "may be...non-reimbursable" part will be reassuring to potential applicants.

aug 20, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social

That's a DoD problem. That's bog standard phrasing (the only normal thing in that memo) about whether DHS or DoD is paying the salary of the person doing DHS work during the period they do the DHS work. Reimbursable means by DHS to DoD for that salary money since DHS was the beneficiary of the work.

aug 20, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cynical Scotsman @cynicalscotsman.bsky.social

Boy you really took my snarky little comment and ran with it! Right on.

aug 21, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
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Kristin @klberts.bsky.social

This is batshit insane.

aug 20, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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galaxydreams70.bsky.social @galaxydreams70.bsky.social

Cushy job at the Navy Yard or hanging out at the Washington Monument? Gee, what a deal!

aug 20, 2025, 10:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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CascadiaCoug @cascadiacoug.bsky.social

Kind of confused how this job isn’t appealing to young, angry loser white right wing men?

aug 21, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
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Timurid @timurid.bsky.social

Jesus Christ

aug 20, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Black.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.bsky.social

Seems like the recruitment drive is going well

aug 20, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sandy Lyle @sandylyle.bsky.social

It's going great, why do you ask?

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Neal "Anealia" Kortkamp @the-k-syndicate.bsky.social

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Aunt Jules @japulver.bsky.social

#IFoundSomeGovWaste #DOGEIsTheFraud

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Lilly of Copper Island @lillysrouter.bsky.social

The MAGAt party is out on the back 40 shooting themselves in the foot w/ fully automatic weapons while the house is unlocked and the barn is wide open. China, Russia and Iran must be having a field day pillaging everything in our government.

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Bananas @citizen12345.bsky.social

I like how they’re making it sound like they have some standards and you might not get chosen.

aug 21, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
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☭ Lᴇꜰтwинг Дᴇvиʟ ☭ @leftwingdevil.bsky.social

Safe for who, exactly?

aug 20, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
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Cecilia J @cecijess.bsky.social

They also sent an email to veterans with a video saying they've reduced the hiring process to two and a half weeks (no way they can vet people that fast). $50k signing bonus and student loan forgiveness.

aug 20, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 0 • view
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TheBaroness @thebaroness.bsky.social

Pete, there, can scratch my pubes.

aug 20, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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wioozyi @swozey.bsky.social

From RTO to KKK no thanks

aug 20, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view