CFordUNC
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No freaking kidding!
Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All
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sringwal
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Eh. That is very much a "true, but..." claim
Three charts on diversity in the federal government's workforce
A new Office of Personnel Management report reveals that the proportions of white workers and men in the government are higher than their proportions of the US population overall. This is especially true at the senior level.
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gtyellowjacket
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This was what was crazy to me. I fully believe he tried to have people murdered, but that's not nearly the same as proving it. Could he even mount a defense if he wasn't charged? How in the world could that be part of sentencing when it wasn't even proven? That seems crazy to me.
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There are already laws against discrimination. DEI isn't preventing discrimination, it's creating a different kind of discrimination.
4thgenheel
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once again, GTFOH. you are living on earth 2.
trump is the head of the republican party and republican politicians all over this country have been passing anti-lgbtq legislation at every opportunity at increasingly breakneck speeds. right wing SC talisman clarence thomas wants to overturn obergfell.
no one on the right is an ally to the lgbtq community, full stop.
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It may seem crazy to you, but apparently it isn't to lawyers.
Also, why is there this reflexive reaction to defend a well documented arbiter of drug trafficking, computer hacking, fraud, illegal gun running, and criminal conspiracy? When combine these are life sentence worthy (per my understanding). Set aside the evidence he sought contract killings (can't believe I have to say that); he still facilitated unquestionable crimes against society.
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Yep this dude has the Karen Hill "babe in the woods" routine working overtime. It just spiraled out of control on me, I really didn't mean for it to get so big! The federal officers made me go along with murder for hire, I would never normally do something like that!
The grants are useless in an emergency. You don't need money until you are in the recovery phase. In the response phase, you need highly trained rescuers and their equipment. There is not a single state that has enough of both to manage a major disaster on their own. That's why during Helene we had FEMA teams from as far away as California show up. If FEMA ceases to exist, those teams are not coming anymore.
gtyellowjacket
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I get that but I don't think facilitating that is the same as doing it. Its illegal and should be, like a bank laundering drug money, but I don't think its worthy of a life sentence. The contract murder would be, but again, it needs to be proven.
EyeballKid
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Meh, to me it’s as though he ran an organized crime ring. He didn’t launder the money, distribute the kiddie porn, sell the fentanyl, or smuggle and sell humans…he just created and ran the platform on which all of that took place, and was largely untraceable.
That, to me, is certainly worthy of a life sentence.
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Exactly.
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Trump Halts Offshore Wind Leasing and Federal Permitting for Wind Projects
Insight | January 23, 2025
In a memorandum issued Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump halted federal offshore wind energy leasing and directed federal administrative agencies to cease the issuance and renewal of permits and approvals for onshore and offshore wind projects. The memorandum is sure to disrupt the wind energy generation development industry, at least until its scope is better understood.As it relates to offshore leases, the memorandum withdrew all areas within the Outer Continental Shelf from new or renewed wind energy leasing, effective Jan. 21, 2025, and continuing until the memorandum is revoked. The memorandum does not alter existing leases, however, it directs the secretary of the interior to “conduct a comprehensive review of the ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases.”
Applicable to offshore and onshore wind projects, the memorandum orders a comprehensive assessment of federal wind leasing and permitting practices, considering environmental impacts to wildlife and “the economic costs associated with the intermittent generation of electricity and the effect of subsidies on the viability of the wind industry.” The memorandum does not specify a timeframe for completion of the assessment. However, until the assessment has been conducted, the memorandum requires that “relevant agencies … not issue new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore or offshore wind projects.”
It is too early to grasp the full impact of this pause in federal leasing, permitting and other agency action, even for projects that require only state and local permits and authorizations. However, the broadly written memorandum signals the new administration’s stark policy shift related to wind projects.
Trump Halts Offshore Wind Leasing and Federal Permitting for Wind Projects @McGuireWoodsLLP
In a memorandum issued Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump halted federal offshore wind energy leasing and directed federal administrative agencies to cease the issuance and renewal of permits and approvals for both onshore and offshore wind projects. The memorandum is sure to disrupt the wind...
insights.mcguirewoods.net
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Dude fucking hates windmills, but this is still absurd.
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It’s not illogical to hypothesize that ttump and the billionaire class are actively trying to accelerate global warming.Trump Halts Offshore Wind Leasing and Federal Permitting for Wind Projects
Insight | January 23, 2025
In a memorandum issued Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump halted federal offshore wind energy leasing and directed federal administrative agencies to cease the issuance and renewal of permits and approvals for onshore and offshore wind projects. The memorandum is sure to disrupt the wind energy generation development industry, at least until its scope is better understood.
As it relates to offshore leases, the memorandum withdrew all areas within the Outer Continental Shelf from new or renewed wind energy leasing, effective Jan. 21, 2025, and continuing until the memorandum is revoked. The memorandum does not alter existing leases, however, it directs the secretary of the interior to “conduct a comprehensive review of the ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases.”
Applicable to offshore and onshore wind projects, the memorandum orders a comprehensive assessment of federal wind leasing and permitting practices, considering environmental impacts to wildlife and “the economic costs associated with the intermittent generation of electricity and the effect of subsidies on the viability of the wind industry.” The memorandum does not specify a timeframe for completion of the assessment. However, until the assessment has been conducted, the memorandum requires that “relevant agencies … not issue new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore or offshore wind projects.”
It is too early to grasp the full impact of this pause in federal leasing, permitting and other agency action, even for projects that require only state and local permits and authorizations. However, the broadly written memorandum signals the new administration’s stark policy shift related to wind projects.
Trump Halts Offshore Wind Leasing and Federal Permitting for Wind Projects @McGuireWoodsLLP
In a memorandum issued Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump halted federal offshore wind energy leasing and directed federal administrative agencies to cease the issuance and renewal of permits and approvals for both onshore and offshore wind projects. The memorandum is sure to disrupt the wind...insights.mcguirewoods.net
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Dude fucking hates windmills, but this is still absurd.
lawtig02
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Wow! That’s just 1% less than the percentage of attorneys in your firm who are felons. See, stats are fun!
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It takes years to develop these projects and by the time they are into permitting they are pretty far along. I just closed a wind construction facility end of last year and now, though the permitting is mostly local, wondering if FERC is going to quite cooperating with even basic things for wind projects? We're not just talking about front-end situations like developers seeking to lease federal land onshore or offshore for a new project, we're talking about everything that is in process/under construction being impacted by uncertainty, at a minimum. Nuts.
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Trump Halts Offshore Wind Leasing and Federal Permitting for Wind Projects
Insight | January 23, 2025
In a memorandum issued Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump halted federal offshore wind energy leasing and directed federal administrative agencies to cease the issuance and renewal of permits and approvals for onshore and offshore wind projects. The memorandum is sure to disrupt the wind energy generation development industry, at least until its scope is better understood.
As it relates to offshore leases, the memorandum withdrew all areas within the Outer Continental Shelf from new or renewed wind energy leasing, effective Jan. 21, 2025, and continuing until the memorandum is revoked. The memorandum does not alter existing leases, however, it directs the secretary of the interior to “conduct a comprehensive review of the ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases.”
Applicable to offshore and onshore wind projects, the memorandum orders a comprehensive assessment of federal wind leasing and permitting practices, considering environmental impacts to wildlife and “the economic costs associated with the intermittent generation of electricity and the effect of subsidies on the viability of the wind industry.” The memorandum does not specify a timeframe for completion of the assessment. However, until the assessment has been conducted, the memorandum requires that “relevant agencies … not issue new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore or offshore wind projects.”
It is too early to grasp the full impact of this pause in federal leasing, permitting and other agency action, even for projects that require only state and local permits and authorizations. However, the broadly written memorandum signals the new administration’s stark policy shift related to wind projects.
Trump Halts Offshore Wind Leasing and Federal Permitting for Wind Projects @McGuireWoodsLLP
In a memorandum issued Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump halted federal offshore wind energy leasing and directed federal administrative agencies to cease the issuance and renewal of permits and approvals for both onshore and offshore wind projects. The memorandum is sure to disrupt the wind...insights.mcguirewoods.net
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Dude fucking hates windmills, but this is still absurd.
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Drill down a bit ...
"... Nearly 19% of the federal workforce identified as Black and 10% identified as Hispanic compared to 13% and 19% of the U.S. labor force, respectively.
... While 40% of the federal workforce was comprised of individuals who identify as part of a racial or ethnic minority group, this number diminishes significantly at higher levels on the General Schedule scale. People of color make up much of the federal workforce in positions from the GS-2 to GS-6 level, these grade levels typically comprise lower and entry-level administrative positions. White employees make up much of the workforce above the GS-7 level, which consists of mid-level technical and first-level supervisory positions and top-level technical and supervisory positions.
Twenty-six percent of career Senior Executive Service members identified as a person of color in fiscal 2023, a small increase from 25% in the previous year. Of the federal workforce that was not on the GS scale, 37% identified as a person of color.
... The overall federal workforce was 55% male and 45% female, compared to 53% male and 47% female in the total U.S. labor force. ... Women made up the majority of the federal workforce in GS-3 to GS-9 positions, while men made up the majority of the workforce above the GS-10 level, the SES and positions not on the GS pay scale.
... At the end of fiscal 2023, 30% of federal employees were veterans compared to 5% of the total employed U.S. civilian labor force. In the same year, 25% of new federal hires were veterans. ..."
Also, 20% of the Federal workforce is in Washington D.C. (the rest spread across the country, though quite a lot are in the surrounding Virginia/Maryland area). But the 20% in D.C. creates upward engagement of Black employees due to the racial makeup of the District (and people of color are concentrated in the lower paying jobs).
A Profile of the 2023 Federal Workforce
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working towards effective government for the American people.
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"Black jobs"Drill down a bit ...
"... Nearly 19% of the federal workforce identified as Black and 10% identified as Hispanic compared to 13% and 19% of the U.S. labor force, respectively.
... While 40% of the federal workforce was comprised of individuals who identify as part of a racial or ethnic minority group, this number diminishes significantly at higher levels on the General Schedule scale. People of color make up much of the federal workforce in positions from the GS-2 to GS-6 level, these grade levels typically comprise lower and entry-level administrative positions. White employees make up much of the workforce above the GS-7 level, which consists of mid-level technical and first-level supervisory positions and top-level technical and supervisory positions.
Twenty-six percent of career Senior Executive Service members identified as a person of color in fiscal 2023, a small increase from 25% in the previous year. Of the federal workforce that was not on the GS scale, 37% identified as a person of color.
... The overall federal workforce was 55% male and 45% female, compared to 53% male and 47% female in the total U.S. labor force. ... Women made up the majority of the federal workforce in GS-3 to GS-9 positions, while men made up the majority of the workforce above the GS-10 level, the SES and positions not on the GS pay scale.
... At the end of fiscal 2023, 30% of federal employees were veterans compared to 5% of the total employed U.S. civilian labor force. In the same year, 25% of new federal hires were veterans. ..."
Also, 20% of the Federal workforce is in Washington D.C. (the rest spread across the country, though quite a lot are in the surrounding Virginia/Maryland area). But the 20% in D.C. creates upward engagement of Black employees due to the racial makeup of the District (and people of color are concentrated in the lower paying jobs).
A Profile of the 2023 Federal Workforce
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working towards effective government for the American people.
ZenMode
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Two sides of the same coin.