Reposted by AlanNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The corporate coup is global. Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it. They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule. They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth. 352553545
Reposted by AlanMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Last year, we talked to air traffic controllers and found out they’re working 10-hour shifts, 6 days a week, with mandatory overtime. Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce and push to privatize air traffic control could make matters even worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyN6...youtube.comWe Talked To Air Traffic Controllers. What We Heard Will Shock You.YouTube video by More Perfect Union 261244438
Reposted by AlanJoseph A. McCartin @josephamccartin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Three days ago, all air traffic controllers, NTSB investigators, and other federally employed first aviation responders received Trump's e-mail urging them to resign. The system is already stretched thin. He'd like to thin it further--and no doubt privatize replacements tinyurl.com/mrywfn5kfederalnewsnetwork.comFederal air crash responders all got the ‘resign’ emailNot cool: Responding to a tragic accident in the dark and cold, while knowing your inbox has an email asking to resign from federal service. 0133
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 31/01/2025These Project 2025 authors are unfortunately still alive and not impossible to track down. Why don't we make their lives more miserable? 020
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025If you actually read through all of this, thank you for reading. I hope this leads to more research into Project 2025, the authors, the history of the Heritage Foundation, and related organizations and think tanks. Some Project 2025 authors, like Devine, have been pursuing this agenda for decades. 000
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025... remembered history." His reduction methodology is also explained in detail. Devine was responsible for cutting grant funding, and he worked to remove abortions from federal employee insurance coverage. No wonder Donald Devine is an author of Project 2025. 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025In the April 15, 1982 issue of the Diamondback, Donald Devine was profiled as a Reagan loyalist and a "pivotal man in Reagan's New Federalism plan." As the head of OPM, Devine presided over what he believed to be "the first reduction in the number of employees in recorded history, or at least in... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025... recently fired workers might be hired by the Defense Department, where 20,000 jobs were expected to open at a time of employee reductions across the federal government. This might be a good time to do a keyword search for "restructuring" in the Project 2025 pdf, idk. 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025... wrote this article as a student, about Devine's OPM nomination. Devine acknowledged cutbacks aimed at "government efficiency," noting that OPM has a "direct managerial effect" over the federal bureaucracy. After Reagan fired 11,500 air traffic controllers in 1981, Devine suggested that the... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Devine, a staunch Reagan supporter, was appointed to "to study OPM from top to bottom and make recommendations." A few months later, in February of 1981, Devine was nominated by President Reagan to head OPM. In this Diamondback article from February 16, 1981, David Simon (yep, The Wire, etc)... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025..."Prohibition is back." On October 29, 1980, less than a week before Reagan was elected, Devine wrote an op-ed in the Diamondback titled "A time for action." It's worth reading. A month after being elected, President Reagan appointed Devine to head the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025After the Campus Senate passed a regulation banning smoking in classrooms in 1979, Donald Devine continued smoking while teaching, claiming to be unaware of the ban. Devine quit smoking while teaching within a week, saying, "The Puritans have won and chased us evil smokers from the classroom... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025...ran again, this time to chair the party, and he was again rejected by the Republican state central committee. In defeat, Devine said, "The Maryland Republican party is in poor condition," attributing his defeat to icy road conditions that prevented Eastern Shore delegations from attending. 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025In 1978, Devine ran for MD state comptroller against Louis Goldstein and lost by a lot, returning to teaching at UMD after losing. This article highlights his campaign and some of his political views, which I'd say are aligned with some of the overarching aims of Project 2025. In 1979, Devine... 110
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025"...and the other was interested in supporting Reagan." This is coming from a future author of Project 2025. Also, please note the poorly-clipped article above. Moving on, on October 12, 1977, Donald Devine was on a symposium on the Bakke case, where he opposed quotas. 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025..."I work behind the scenes." When asked about the Reagan campaign proposed rule to require the president to disclose their VP nominee before balloting began, Devine said, "I was down there with two hats on. One group of people was interested in the rules for the future of the Republican party..." 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025...needs as opposed to political action." Quick editorial note that free markets require political action. Moving on. On August 23, 1976, Devine was interviewed after attending the Republican National Convention for the third time, saying, "It was pretty much like all the others," adding... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025...problems," adding, "what goes on here in Washington is being done by elitists. Most people don't have politics on their mind." Sound familiar? Devine went on to describe his political philosophy as "libertarian conservatism," saying that a free market is more likely to serve individual's... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025...an associate professor in government and politics, as well as a member of the Republican National Committee and parliamentarian for the Maryland Republican State Central Committee. In the article, Devine is quoted saying, "The people are not thinking of the government as the answer to their... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Devine, after lecturing on conservatism, debated a Black student who challenged him to explain the "disparity between the American value system and the way Blacks were treated in the south." On June 5, 1975, Devine predicted a Reagan win in 1976. At the time of writing, Devine was... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025...At the orientation meeting, YAF members tried to censor Argus, another student newspaper, and YAF chairman, Dave Havelka, argued that SGA financial support for the Black Student Union's Black tutoring plan is an "instance of abuse," and a tutoring program should be available for "all students." 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025..."which economic system do you think is best for the country?", and "do you sympathize with campus protestors?" On September 22, 1970, the Young Americans for Freedom held an orientation meeting in the Stamp Student Union. Donald Devine spoke on "Conservatism--philosophy, theory, principles."... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025...president of the Campus Coalition Against Racism, in a poll of about 450 students, designed to "test students' basic attitudes on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, as well as their ideas on issues of importance." Questions included, "should you stand for the national anthem?".. 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/20251979, while Hogan (Larry's Dad) was the Prince George's County Executive. Unsatisfied, I turned to the digitized student newspapers database, searching "Donald Devine," in the Diamondback, which yielded 52 results. The results span from 1968 to 1994. In 1970, Devine advised Gene Wasserman, ... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Donald Devine was a professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland. As a reference archivist who worked in University Archives for a year in grad school, I immediately did a keyword search for "Devine," and only found one letter in the Lawrence Joseph Hogan, Sr., papers, dated... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025...Managing the Bureaucracy. Devine is also a senior scholar at the Fund for American Studies, which is, of course, endorsed by the Heritage Foundation. Maybe this is all common knowledge, anyway. What sparked further interest, as someone with 3 degrees from the University of Maryland, is that... 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025...and that's when I feel like I found something interesting. Of all the mentions of "personnel management," found in Project 2025, many of them telling and chilling, one stood out to me in the authors' section: Donald Devine. Donald Devine coauthored Section 1.3 of P25: "Central Personnel Agencies: 100
Alan @awierdspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Tonight, I decided to do some research into Project 2025, doing different keyword searches in the full-text pdf document. I started with "restructuring," and my next keyword search was "opm," yielding countless mentions of "development." Seeing this, I spelled out "personnel management,"... 131
Reposted by AlanStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 28/01/2025BREAKING: Allies are being arrested in NYC after staging peaceful sit-in to support union baristas' fight for a contract. It is shameful that Starbucks let it get to this point. We need CEO Brian Niccol to bargain a fair economic offer with our union NOW. 5320116
Reposted by AlanNPR @npr.org · 28/01/2025President Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. In an unprecedented move, he also ousted Democratic board member Gwynne Wilcox, leaving the board with no quorum.npr.orgTrump fires labor board officials, setting up legal fightPresident Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. In an unprecedented move, he also ousted Democratic board member Gwynne Wilcox, leaving the board with no quorum. 71873324
