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To be fair there have been a bunch of headlines about a great many things, like office closures without mentioning the minor detail that the offices haven’t bee

To be fair there have been a bunch of headlines about a great many things, like office closures without mentioning the minor detail that the offices haven’t been used in years, the workforce is remote, and there is no impact on service delivery or staffing. Doesn’t stop journalists from dancing around the implication if it makes the orange man and mars man look bad though.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 2y ago
Yeah? Is that why this list went from 400+ to 10? https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-property-disposition/assets-identified-for-accelerated-disposition https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-pr... Are these the journalists you have an issue with for reporting on it? https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-doj-aa123e9c3b12e38c8fa511c2a727f880 https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-do...
guelo 2y ago
how do you know that the offices haven't been used in years and there is no impact unless a journalist told you? Is there any reason to trust rando twitter accounts besides the fact that it makes you feel better about "your side".
- dingnuts 2y ago
  he probably just believes a source that didn't turn out to be directly funded by the US government, one you would likely dismiss as not a real journalist I'm all for free media but the legacy outlets currently screaming about cuts are primarily upset because THEY just lost a ton of government funding but that's good because I don't want government run news, even if it comes in a bunch of brand names, and it's funny that all the "reputable" outlets just happen to be the ones with the closest relationships to the CIA and FBI and historically have covered for their worst injustices. no, I do not shed a tear for what is happening to the old government controlled legacy media.
  - DrillShopper 2y ago
    > he probably just believes a source that didn't turn out to be directly funded by the US government One probably sponsored by the Russian government: https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential-election-influencers-trump-999435273dd39edf7468c6aa34fad5dd https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential...
    - MikePlacid 2y ago
      These days if something isn’t labeled as Russian propaganda it’s probably not true.
- ForOldHack 2y ago
  Simple. There is photographic evidence, and eyewitness accounts, by a celebrated journalist ego happens to be a friend of mine.
croes 2y ago
Musk is suddenly a fan of remote work?
- dylan604 2y ago
  Musk is suddenly a fan of anything that directly benefits him even if it directly contradicts previously made comments. I thought this was pretty much self-evident at this point
arunabha 2y ago
I think you're trying to impart a political motive where it can be argued that none existed. I understand that your mind is made up, however consider that the whole initial effort by DOGE was clearly poorly planned and resulted in a lot of chaos. For a journalistic perspective, when events are moving fast, you report what is known at a given time. Hindsight is always 20/20 and no doubt there are some cases like you point out. However, are you sure that those are the only cases? The fact that the govt is scrambling to hire back fired people would suggest otherwise. The desire to impute political bias to everything is not a useful way of viewing the world.
- ForOldHack 2y ago
  It is a realistic and accurate way to see the politicization of climate science. Bush, and the head of NASA Goddard is the documented and publicized example sans vacuum of disinformation.
agolsme 2y ago
No one cares about the physical offices. It's NOAA employees along with employees from many offices of the executive branch going on social media to talk about sudden loss of their email access or termination notices with no prior warning that's raising alarms.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 2y ago

Yeah? Is that why this list went from 400+ to 10? https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-property-disposition/assets-identified-for-accelerated-disposition https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-pr... Are these the journalists you have an issue with for reporting on it? https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-doj-aa123e9c3b12e38c8fa511c2a727f880 https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-do...

guelo 2y ago

how do you know that the offices haven't been used in years and there is no impact unless a journalist told you? Is there any reason to trust rando twitter accounts besides the fact that it makes you feel better about "your side".

dingnuts 2y ago
he probably just believes a source that didn't turn out to be directly funded by the US government, one you would likely dismiss as not a real journalist I'm all for free media but the legacy outlets currently screaming about cuts are primarily upset because THEY just lost a ton of government funding but that's good because I don't want government run news, even if it comes in a bunch of brand names, and it's funny that all the "reputable" outlets just happen to be the ones with the closest relationships to the CIA and FBI and historically have covered for their worst injustices. no, I do not shed a tear for what is happening to the old government controlled legacy media.
- DrillShopper 2y ago
  > he probably just believes a source that didn't turn out to be directly funded by the US government One probably sponsored by the Russian government: https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential-election-influencers-trump-999435273dd39edf7468c6aa34fad5dd https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential...
  - MikePlacid 2y ago
    These days if something isn’t labeled as Russian propaganda it’s probably not true.
ForOldHack 2y ago
Simple. There is photographic evidence, and eyewitness accounts, by a celebrated journalist ego happens to be a friend of mine.

croes 2y ago

Musk is suddenly a fan of remote work?

dylan604 2y ago
Musk is suddenly a fan of anything that directly benefits him even if it directly contradicts previously made comments. I thought this was pretty much self-evident at this point

arunabha 2y ago

I think you're trying to impart a political motive where it can be argued that none existed. I understand that your mind is made up, however consider that the whole initial effort by DOGE was clearly poorly planned and resulted in a lot of chaos. For a journalistic perspective, when events are moving fast, you report what is known at a given time. Hindsight is always 20/20 and no doubt there are some cases like you point out. However, are you sure that those are the only cases? The fact that the govt is scrambling to hire back fired people would suggest otherwise. The desire to impute political bias to everything is not a useful way of viewing the world.

ForOldHack 2y ago
It is a realistic and accurate way to see the politicization of climate science. Bush, and the head of NASA Goddard is the documented and publicized example sans vacuum of disinformation.

agolsme 2y ago

No one cares about the physical offices. It's NOAA employees along with employees from many offices of the executive branch going on social media to talk about sudden loss of their email access or termination notices with no prior warning that's raising alarms.