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Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

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[-] rayyy@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago

Total weaponization of EVERYTHING against the left, even using right wing shooters against the left.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

Blatant partisanship instead of helping Americans. woo. 🙄😒

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

The VA did the same thing in a newsletter they send out.

[-] limelight79@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Not that laws matter, but it's a pretty clear violation of the Hatch Act.

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Call me when any future Democratic AG's do anything to prosecute any of this.

I'll be holding my breath.

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Skeleton watches computer.jpg

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not from the US, nor a lawyer, but how is this not fraud?

If someone pretends to be you, without your consent, is that not fraud?

You can ask me to change my out of office email and threaten me with being fired if I don't, but if you just do it anyway, how is that not fraud?

[-] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

70% if the US is not buying this bs and wants all these idiots to start doing their damn jobs.

30% of the US is giggling with glee over these partisan statements forced on government workers while they fantasize about executions.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

that 30% is looking more and more like a sexual deviant masturbating on a playground at 3am.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In addition to everyone else here's much more pressing political concerns, this is terrible for computer security. It encourages users to install third-party programs onto government machines.

Mossad should release autoreply_writer.exe

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

this is terrible for computer security. It encourages users to install third-party programs onto government machines

I'd be more concerned about the programs the government is installing onto the machines

[-] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Definitely the sign of a healthy democracy right there.

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

This is what happens when the people exposed to the highest levels of lead are give access to all the hate they can eat and free-reign to use that lowered cognitive function in positions of power.

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

This is illegal and two things will be done about it. Jack and shit

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Hmm it's almost like the feds need a union... ... ... ... 👀

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed HR 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of HR 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

Y'all fucked. Bail now. There's way better places to live out your days on earth .

[-] nomiya@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

It seems like most countries are heading in the same direction with their own flavors of fascism. It's also not that easy to get visas for decent places to live.

[-] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The problem is that for many of the nearly retired folks a job in the government was the promise of a good wage with great benefits and good retirement options. They want it gone because it forced other companies to play catch up in pay and benefits whenever the government could pay better.

It’s also not easy to walk away from a pension program when you’re so invested in it. It’s designed to make people stay long term and put in the work.

[-] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

Have they tried all the boxes about it?

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Can they not make a legal claim given that their employer is putting words into their mouth in communications with the public, especially given that it's highly politically charged wording that would damage their reputation, plus in a normal country saying such things at work like that would get you sacked.

I don't know the legalities, but if my employer made it seem like I'd said something like that I'd demand an immediate apology, a reprimand for whomever did it, and a public redaction and apology sent to everybody that had received the fraudulent message.

That seems reasonable and fair.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Who says I want to live on EARTH???

Seems to me Mars is nice and quiet.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Did you see that "just before dawn" pic? Peaceful...

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

I wish it was as easy as just bailing. I very much want to, but I can't afford it, and with the coming depression, I especially won't be able to afford it.

Maybe you should try being more privileged.

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Gotta hope I roll better stats next campaign damn

Yeah. Dumbfuck. You totally misallocated your startinf points.

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

We can guess your dump stat!

[-] imdoneinteracting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

Yes leave GS vacancies for MAGAts to fill good plan

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

It's insane how many people think if all the rational people left the government...

That will somehow fight Trump's plan to make the government ineffective.

Fucking toddler logic, and it's widely up voted.

No wonder shit's so fucked.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They're not arguing that at all. They're saying gtfo and go to a country that isn't batshit insane.

They've made no argument it'd make the government better.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They should all go through every email exchange they had and inform every single person who received that automatic response that it was set that way without their consent.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

lol a circus run by five year olds of the worst kind. I have seen kids orders of magnitude more mature than most republicans.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The day this pedo king strokes out will become a national holiday

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I doubt it will change much, the rest of the party is still in tact. They'll just move Vance to to king dipshit and continue as they were.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Is he really capable of leading the party he's always struck me as the sort of person that would get out of depth in a slightly melted ice cube. Trump gets away with it because he just says it all does something ridiculous and then the story moves on to that. Vance doesn't really command the kind of following they need.

[-] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Dare I say Trump is the next Hitler

You cannot fucking tell me that he does shit like this and nobody gives a damn. This has to be illegal

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 2 months ago

I think we're way past what's legal or not in this shithole. His whole point from the beginning was that he could shoot someone and nothing would happen and americans were like: wow. I like guns too.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Hatch act, it is in fact illegal.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

He basically shredded the Hatch act his first term, there were no consequences, of course he's just gonna flat out ignore it this time.

[-] Heikki2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Who could have guessed, the prettiest, cry baby bitch would turn this shutdown where "he" has complete control over the US government into a petty game of the buck stops at the dems. Shocked I tell you shocked

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

File under "Free speech for me, but not for thee."

If that folder isn't full yet.

Scum of the earth.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No shame, no honor, no sense of decency at all. Just unhinged rabid dementia in a sociopathic rapist surrounded by arrogant nazis.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Should've blamed Martians. Worked for me that one time.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Why is my soup so cold? Blame the democrats!

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