Andrew Couts on Nostr: An important detail that I think gets lost in the madness: Federal workers are ...
An important detail that I think gets lost in the madness: Federal workers are categorized as "probationary" when they get promoted. So experts who've worked in government for 10, 20, 30 years are getting indiscriminately cut in the DOGE purge because they got promoted, not because they're new.
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