The DOGE thread: irresponsible firings and related consequences

[NxNW]

Since there are so many examples of DOGE firing the wrong employees and then scrambling to rehire them, maybe we need an overall thread to keep track of it all.

Let's see,

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them​

USDA Accidentally Fires Bird Flu Response Workers​

Meanwhile, Europe has a vaccine for the birds, but the US does not because vaccine bad. Birds keep dying and egg prices keep rising. Thank you, Trump!​

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Hundreds laid off at US nuclear weapons agency​

Because who'd want to keep track of nukes?​

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Musk misreads Social Security data, millions of dead people not getting benefits, experts say​

False claims about tens of millions of deceased people receiving benefits, because they don't even understand how to read the data.​

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And yesterday DOGE cut off financial feeds to the SEC, because they confused the names of the subscriptions with similarly-named media entities. So as of now, the SEC can't even access basic banking and financial information. Thomson-Reuters & Bloomberg feeds have been shut down, because you know, those sound like media names.​

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It's amateur hour in the White House. ​

 

[wing2000]

"I gave blood, sweat and tears to this country for 20 years to continue service to the federal government, doing what I was trained to do by them," he says. "I kind of feel like I was just thrown out like a piece of trash."


"Copeland had recently retired from two decades of service in the Air Force, most of that time in canine units, running kennels and training dogs to sniff out narcotics and explosives, among other tasks.

In Georgia, his job was to train dogs and their handlers to find agricultural products that aren't supposed to come into the U.S., a critical layer of protection for the U.S. food system."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5301150/trump-federal-employees-fired-veteran-food-agriculture

 

[NxNW]

Some more illustrations of the Trump Administration's inability to understand that not all Reuters are the same. A Twitter figure posted this, getting the name and purpose wrong. (Hint: Thomson-Reuters is not the news service, and it was for cyber security and financial information.)

Also, who was President in 2018 when this program started?

Then Musk picked up on it.

Then Trump picked up on it. Everyone spewing the same incorrect information.

 

[NxNW]

Now Musk wants to blow up the International Space Station because the astronauts caught him in a lie.

Musk Blows Up at Astronaut for Calling Out His Space Station Lie​

Danish engineer and astronaut Andreas Mogensen sparred with Musk on Friday after the SpaceX founder claimed during an interview with Fox News that two astronauts who have been in low orbit at the International Space Station (ISS) for over six months had been abandoned in space for “political reasons.” Mogensen, who in 2023 piloted SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission to the ISS, responded on social media to Musk’s claim that the astronauts were abandoned: “What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”

Musk couldn’t cope, immediately resorting to slurs against a man who had piloted one of his spacecrafts to the ISS and back. “You are fully retarded,” he wrote to Mogensen. “SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused. Return WAS pushed back for political reasons. Idiot.”

The astronaut replied: “You know as well as I do, that Butch and Suni are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home. They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on ISS since last September.”

Musk wrote, “It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the Space_Station.”

Maybe he can build his own Death Star to shoot it down! By the way, what's the price of eggs today?

 

[wing2000]

Maybe he can build his own Death Star to shoot it down! By the way, what's the price of eggs today?

...or he can self-deport to Mars.

 

[essentialsaltes]

 

[Aaron112]

Since there are so many examples of DOGE firing the wrong employees and then scrambling to rehire them, maybe we need an overall thread to keep track of it all.

It is not accidental. One plan, undisclosed or published, is doing all this to further train ai to take the place of the people.