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     On January 20, President Trump reorganized the United State Digital Service into the Department of Government Efficiency and ordered it to begin “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize efficiency and productivity.” The task list soon became much larger to include, in the President’s words, “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cute wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal agencies.”

     Make some calls and write your elected officials express your concerns and remember elections have consequences.

     Trump claimed that the mass firings were necessary to save money and make the government more efficient. But the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, Everett Kelley, retorted that the firings were really “about power,” with Trump “gutting the federal government, silencing workers, and forcing agencies into submission to a radical agenda that prioritizes cronyism over competence.”

     Thus begins one of the most stunning letters I have ever read, written almost four years ago by former U.S. Attorney James H. Reynolds to President Joe Biden, pleading with him to exonerate former American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier, who had been convicted of murdering two FBI agents at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975.

We need to know eggxactly what’s going on

       Later, I realized that extreme cruelty is not uniquely German. The potential lurks in all races, a latent trait in human nature. It is plain in American history with slavery and the genocide of native Americans; in French history during the bloody Revolution of 1789, in English history during the Crusades; in Ottoman history with the massacre of the Armenians and in Russia with Stalin’s carnage of his own people.

    President Trump, leading up to his swearing-in as America’s 47th President, assertively voiced his reformation plans to MAGA. Reform refers to the improvement or amendment of what’s wrong, corrupt, and immoral. Highlighting only specific reformation plans shouldn’t be considered cherry-picking. Political reform isn’t new! Remember, the Political Reform Act of 1974, targeted campaign disclosures.

Put thousands of hardworking Americans out of work, including 1000 people at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, 4,400 public lands workers, forest service workers, firefighters, and park rangers; 388 EPA workers with 1,100 more receiving termination warnings; 1,300 Center For Disease Control workers; 1,500 National Institutes of Health workers; and half the NNSA workers who do safety work on nuclear radioactive waste.

If we can make it a Blackout can we at least do Charcoal Gray?

       We are in a collective grief process. The old normal passed away. We are not getting it back, at least not anytime soon. And so, the destabilization we are feeling right now is two-fold. First, the destabilization that we feel from the flooding of the zone, which is by design, and part of a playbook we knew was coming. They told us. But what we did not expect was another destabilization—that is, the destabilization that comes with grief.