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You know the old comedy, the Keystone cops, you know, the police officers who bumbled and bungled their way through their jobs, maybe we are now

seeing a strain of the Keystone Doge Copts or the Keystone Downsiders or less charitably the Keystone

Authoritarians doing this in ways that grab more power from other branches of government

more than they save the

taxpayers' money. What's the context for all this? Well, there is an ever-increasing list of blunt

instrument, you know, chainsaw-type firings that are being reversed. The latest, which came yesterday,

maybe you've heard this, is a court has ordered the administration to

reinstate 6,000 agriculture department employees. Why? Well, they all got letters saying they

were being fired for poor performance when actually no performance reviews went into those

dismissals. It was just a firing of everyone in their employment category.

Imagine if that happened to you. Fired with a paper record that says you perform poorly when you

weren't evaluated that way at all. And it's not a one-off. NBC News notes the ruling effects

only the USDA, but other agencies have carried out similar mask

firings of probationary employees, meaning the order could have a wider impact.

Here's another one, also from NBC News.

Trump admin is rethinking Guantanamo immigrant detention plan amid cost issues and power struggles.

Cost issues and power struggles. So maybe that doesn't turn out to be a good deal for the

taxpayers either. And add those to the list, which already included this from Politico,

Trump administration backtracks on Forest Service firings, and this from Reuters two weeks ago,

federal workers responsible for America's nuclear weapons, scientists trying to fight a worsening

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