IRS To Begin Laying Off Employees Today

It’s a good start, though, this is making Democrats very upset (right up till the IRS audits them)

IRS layoffs expected to begin tomorrow, union official says

The IRS is expected to begin laying off employees tomorrow as part of the job cuts slicing through the federal government, a union official told workers Wednesday.

Though it could potentially disrupt tax-filing season, Shannon Ellis, a local union official, said in a video message that an indeterminate number of newer hires at the agency’s Kansas City facility will be let go.

Layoffs are also expected at other IRS facilities.

“We received notification today that employees in SB/SE who are on probation are scheduled for termination,” she said in a video message, referring to the agency’s Small Business/Self Employed Division.

In another video message, Ellis said: “Our probationary employees will be removed as of tomorrow — we don’t know what time, we don’t know how it’s going to happen, we don’t even know if it includes all of our probationary employees,” she said, adding probationary periods can be either one or two years from the time someone begins work.

OK, why would this effect tax season? These are new employees, not the ones already there. These are not replacements, for the most part. It’s just scaremongering from Democrats, who would have a completely different opinion if Trump sicced the IRS on them and their groups, right?

The IRS is especially vulnerable to the initiative because it has been on a hiring binge in recent years as part of a sweeping effort to improve services at the agency. Between 2021 and 2024, the workforce increased by one quarter, to more than 100,000.

“Improve service”. Funniest joke I’ve heard in months. We were told they would be hiring 86K to go after those icky rich folks. It’s a whole lot easier to say “one quarter in 3 years” than “yeah, we hired 25,000 employees in 3 years”, right? But, hey, here’s some pure Trump Derangement Syndrome along the same lines

Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe

(4 wackadoodle paragraphs to start)

This unprecedented sequence of events in the U.S. has left many observers in a daze, struggling to make sense of the dramatic reshaping of the bureaucracy under way.

Yet, as researchers on authoritarian politics, it is no surprise to us that a leader bent on expanding his own power, such as Trump, would see the bureaucracy as a key target. Here’s why.

Go that? Reducing the federal bureaucracy and whacking agencies, which Trump really has no intention of replacing, is going down the authoritarian route.

well-functioning bureaucracy is an organization of highly qualified civil servants who follow established rules to prevent abuses of power. Bureaucracies, in this way, are an important part of democracy that constrain executive behavior.

Except, we do not have one. We have a politicized, unaccountable one which doesn’t respond to the people and thinks they are the lords of the people. Who spend taxpayer money however they so see fit, lord knows how much ends up in their own pockets and in the pockets of their cronies. We could keep going on, but, it’s just another case of moonbats manufacturing Reasons that Trump, who is attempting to reduce the power of the federal government on citizen’s lives, is the next Hitler.

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Sweden’s Top Court Rejects St. Greta’s Climate (scam) Suit

It’s so terrible, why wouldn’t the court listen to this esteemed scientist?

Sweden’s top court rejects Greta Thunberg lawsuit on climate action

st greta carSweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other activists cannot proceed with a class action lawsuit that had sought to force the state to take stronger action against climate change.

Activists filed a lawsuit in 2022 arguing that the state violates the European Convention on Human Rights by not doing enough to limit climate change, or mitigate its effects, and the case has since been subject to review on procedural grounds.

The group of 300 plaintiffs in the case, who call themselves the Aurora group, wanted the courts to order Sweden to do more to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).

“A court cannot decide that parliament or the government should take any specific action without the democratic bodies deciding independently on those issues,” Supreme Court Justice Jonas Malmberg told Reuters.

But the court did not rule out that a climate lawsuit formulated differently could be heard in Sweden, as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has said groups meeting certain requirements may have the right to sue over climate change.

In other words, the court decided that democratically elected lawmakers have the primary responsibility for instituting any scam legislation, that it is not up to courts to unilaterally implement cult Beliefs. Too bad they didn’t ask the 300 plaintiffs if they had given up their own use of fossil fuels, stopped eating meat, and made their own lives carbon neutral.

The Aurora group said it would review its legal options.

“We will continue to desperately try to prevent planetary collapses and get Sweden to do their legal duty to respect human rights and stop making the planetary crisis worse,” Aurora’s legal and scientific coordinator Ida Edling told Reuters.

What about their own duty to practice what they preach? Seriously, would the court implement the beliefs of other cults, forcing citizens to practice, say, Scientology? Of course not. At least Scientology and other cults tend to mind their own business, rather than attempting to force everyone to believe the same.

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If All You See…

…is an area flooded by fast rising seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the Royal Society only caring about the money.

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EU Considers Spending $700 Billion On Ukraine Because Trump Won’t

So far, the U.S. has spent $120 billion. The EU has spent $52 billion, and roughly another $60 billion from various European nations directly. And now, because Trump has shut the spigot off, at least for the time being and dependent on what ends up in the next Congressional continuing resolution (pass a damned budget!)

And where’s that coming from?

EU discusses €700 billion plan for defence spending and Ukraine support

The European Union is considering a large-scale plan to increase defence spending and provide military aid to Ukraine, with funding expected to reach approximately €700 billion.

Source: German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, as reported by European Pravda

Details: The newspaper states that amid US President Donald Trump’s plans to end the war in Ukraine, the EU is discussing a large defence funding package.

There has been no official public announcement regarding the funding amount. However, Berliner Zeitung cites German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who hinted in an interview with Bloomberg at the Munich Security Conference that the package could be around €700 billion.

Quote: “We will launch a large package that has never been seen in this dimension before. Similar to the euro or the corona crisis, there is now a financial package for security in Europe. That will come in the near future,” Baerbock said in an interview conducted before the emergency Ukraine summit in Paris on 17 February.

I kinda hate using Pravda as a source, but, it was the first article that came up on the search, and the search only had a few links to come up. Anyhow, is it true? Democrats sure seem to want it to be true. Because they want to keep spending for no outcome. Why? Because Trump Derangement Syndrome. Also, the Elites continue to make quite a bit of money investing in supporting Ukraine with military weapons and such.

But, really, if they can do this now, why didn’t they do it before? If they are saying that it could help Ukraine defeat Russia then why not before when the war was started and the armies weren’t entrenched 3 years on?

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Too Bad: FEMA Disappears Docs Addressing Global Boiling

I supposed the private (scam) groups and companies will just have to get their money elsewhere

FEMA docs for addressing climate change disappear from websites

“The Trump administration has removed public documents from FEMA websites that described plans to spend $1.35 billion in federal funds this year to protect against climate impacts and promote racial equity.

The two documents, called notices of funding opportunity, were taken down Thursday as the administration moves to end government climate programs and diversity efforts. The Federal Emergency Management Agency published them shortly before President Donald Trump took office to explain its goals and priorities for two of the nation’s main disaster grant programs.

The Biden administration and Congress had vastly increased funding in recent years for both programs, which pay for mitigation projects to harden infrastructure or structures against future disasters. President Joe Biden heralded the increased funding as part of his effort to address climate change.”

Well, sadly, the rest is behind a serious pay wall. But, you get the idea. The Trump admin is just annihilating the spread of taxpayer money for the climate scam. Which is wonderful. No one should be feeding at the federal trough for this kind of mule fritters. They can hit up private companies or something if they want money.

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Today’s Media Freakout: No One To Clean Toilets At National Parks

This is a hell of a thing

‘Nobody to pump the toilets?’ Trump purge could cripple parks.

With the Trump administration culling potentially thousands of park rangers from the federal ranks, some within the National Park Service are bracing for a tough summer as crowds descend on understaffed park facilities.

The effects of the new order in Washington are already being felt across the nation’s parks with maintenance staffs cut to single digits, a major park reservation system to help slow congestion taken offline and warnings from congressional Democrats that thousands of seasonal workers need to be hired in short order. Those temporary staffers do everything from collect entry fees — a significant portion of park income — to guide tours and pump toilets.

Isn’t it great how the Credentialed Media thinks that everyone is just there to serve them? Like cleaning toilets?

It was unclear Tuesday how many National Park Service employees took the “buyout” offer, but the administration has reportedly rescinded job offers for roughly 2,000 seasonal hires and perhaps fired almost as many recently hired staffers who were in their probation periods. An email viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News indicated there were around 1,900 probationary employees within NPS, although the exact number of people who were terminated is unclear.

Sooooooo……they don’t actually know? That’s not journalism. It’s more like something from the Weekly World News. They’re making bat guano up. Anyhow, the “article” yammers with some anonymous employees fearmongering about hiring freezes and layoffs/terminations, but, weirdly, I do not remember Politico or the other outlets concerned when Obama shut all the parks down, do you?

NPS said in a statement that it was implementing the president’s executive order to freeze hiring but noted its allowances for exceptions, which included seasonal workers.

“The order does allow for exemptions for the hiring of certain positions,” NPS said in a statement. “The NPS is assessing our most critical staffing needs for park operations for the coming season and is working to hire key positions. The NPS is committed to protecting public lands, infrastructure, and communities while ensuring public access.”

So, they can still hire the seasonal workers. And this shall all pass once the deadwood is eliminated.

Another fired NPS employee said in a post on LinkedIn on Sunday that they were just 10 days short of the end of their probationary period. The Trump administration’s purge of employees will make it impossible for the NPS to fulfill its mission to protect its lands, they said.

“Yes, there will be long lines at the parks’ fee booths, closed visitor centers, overflowing toilets, and poop on the trails, but there will also be severely impaired natural and cultural resources,” they wrote.

Good grief, what is it with these people and toilets and poop? There was another mention further up in the article. Also, where was the concern when federal employees were terminated for refusing to take the worthless COVID vaccine?

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Surprise: Most Cannot Afford Net Zero Homes

It’s almost like this stuff is for the rich, and the peasants will just be shuffled off to tiny apartments in mass housing

Net-zero homes are touted as a solution for climate change, but they remain out of reach for most

Net-zero homes use natural energy sources and are designed to use less energy and, as such, are considered important in the fight against climate change. But for the average Canadian, they’re still out of reach.

Net-zero homes are important for tackling climate change. This includes both net-zero energy (NZE) homes, which produce as much energy as they use each year, and net-zero carbon (NZC) homes, which don’t release any carbon dioxide.

Important to whom? The elites and brainwashed disciples of the climate cult?

Released in the summer of 2024, the Canada Green Buildings Strategy outlines a bold vision to transform the country’s building sector, aiming for net-zero emissions and enhanced resilience by 2050. This is a bold step forward, but transforming the sector will require sustained collaboration across all levels of government, industry and communities.

You will comply, whether you want to or not. Sounds rather authoritarian, eh?

Net-zero homes use green energy sources and efficient designs to match the amount of energy they produce with the amount they use. They use strategies like thermal shells that use less energy, high-performance components and the addition of green energy systems.

Who thinks the Government will monitor your energy usage and cut you off after a certain point?

Net-zero homes are becoming more popular in Canada. To speed up building processes and reduce costs, builders are trying out pre-fabricated and modular building techniques.

In 2024, the Canadian federal government announced a $600 million package of loans and funding to help make it easier and cheaper to build homes. This funding will support innovative technologies like pre-fabricated and modular construction, robotics, 3D-printing and mass timber to build homes faster and cheaper.

So, every home will like every home and you won’t really have a choice. Plus, crappy construction.

There are several reasons that owning a net-zero home has not yet become widespread. These include: high initial costslimited awareness and educationgaps in policy and regulation and market challenges including difficulties in scaling up and integrating net-zero technologies.

Fortunately, the Government wants to get heavily involved, hence, they’ll have a voice in what happens with your home. Sounds fun!

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If All You See…

…is a horrible fossil fueled engine, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on Tom Hanks going full Moonbat TDS.

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DOGE Finds Some Pretty Damned Interesting Information On Social Security Recipients

It is very interesting. But, what are the majority of Credentialed Media outlets running with?

Social Security head resigns over DOGE data push

The Social Security Administration’s top official resigned over the weekend in the latest clash over the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to sensitive government records, the Washington Post reports.

Why it matters: The agency is quickly becoming a target of Elon Musk, who has claimed without conclusive evidence that there’s rampant fraud from improper payments to dead people.

No evidence, eh?

Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159

Elon Musk indicated in a post on X that millions of people listed in a Social Security database are recorded as centenarians “with the death field set to FALSE!”

“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE! Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk posted, adding a couple of rolling on the floor laughing emojis.

His post features a chart indicating there are more than 20 million listed with ages 100 and higher, including more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age range, more than 3.5 million in the 140-149 range and more than 1.3 million in the 150-159 range.

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One would think that the head of Social Security would want to root out the improper payments to people who are dead (or do not exist). Does she actually want this fraud on her watch? It may not be her fault, but, wouldn’t it be great if she was involved in stream-lining the agency so it works best for Americans on Social Security? If all those payments were stopped wouldn’t that mean more available money? Same with the other agency heads who are freaking out.

“The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE. No one person actually knows how it works. The payment files that move between Social Security and Treasury have significant inconsistencies that are not reconciled. It’s wild,” Musk declared in a post on X.

Should that not be concerning? How about that the Treasury Department often leaving their symbol blank so there is no accounting for money?

It’s now required for every line to be coded.

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Bummer: Asset Managers Have Low Interest In Climate (scam) Proposals

It was bound to happen, because investors and companies were going to get tired of all these global boiling plans that most have little to no return on investment

Plans to tackle environmental risks ‘got record-low support from asset managers’

Proposals aimed at tackling environmental and social risks saw record-low support from asset managers at shareholder meetings last year, according to an analysis.

ShareAction, which campaigns for responsible investment, found that only 1.4% – four of the 279 shareholder resolutions it assessed – received majority support in 2024, down from 21% in 2021.

Resolutions can be put forward by company shareholders, asking the board to take certain actions on issues like corporate governance, environmental and human rights risks, diversity and inclusion, and bosses’ pay.

They are then voted on at a shareholder meeting, usually annual general meetings (AGMs), and while not legally binding, significant support can put pressure on the board to respond to the matters raised.

ShareAction’s annual Voting Matters report, released on Tuesday, found that four of the world’s largest asset managers – BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, State Street Global Advisors and Vanguard – voted against shareholder proposals aimed at protecting human rights, nature and climate last year.

Do those make money? Do those reward investors and shareholders? Heck, do they reward the bigwigs who run the companies? Who are the people putting these proposals up for a vote? Why can’t they use their own money? Do they use they their own money at any time, or, just demand that the companies use their money, ie, the investors/shareholders money? Sadly, the climate cult has mixed their cult with human rights and nature, ruining those for the people who need it?

ShareAction claim that had asset managers supported shareholder proposals put forward at 190 companies, it may have helped to improve conditions for low-paid workers struggling with the global cost-of-living crisis and driven climate action at a time when impacts from warming are devastating communities worldwide.

See? They’re mixing various real issues with the scam. Also, why can’t ShareAction raise their own money to do these projects.

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