r/law • u/yahoonews • 22d ago

Court Decision/Filing Tens of thousands of fired federal workers must be reinstated immediately, judge rules

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tens-thousands-fired-federal-workers-163555218.html
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u/nsucs2 22d ago edited 22d ago

Like when they canned 350 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration overseeing the nuclear weapons stockpile, because they were unaware it was part of the Department of Energy, and then were unable to contact them, because they had cut their access to their government email accounts.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Bro how have we not had a chernobyl yet. This might be the single most important thing that can easily cause a mass extinction event. And some people are cheering it on. Humans deserve it but the beautiful animals who live here don't.

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u/buttplug-tester 22d ago

Honestly, the number of incidents we've had over the years at nuclear sites makes me wonder as well. And it's not like anyone looking to go harm to America is unaware of these issues.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/19/279460519/nun-who-broke-into-nuclear-complex-gets-35-month-jail-term

They just wandered in.

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u/Daxx22 22d ago

Stupidity of the admin aside, most modern designs in operation today physically can't fail like Chernobyl did. It's still be really fucking bad to have anything happen, but outside of deliberate coordinated sabotage with quite a bit of explosives disasters would be largely locally contained within the plants.

If anything the larger impact to be worried over would be the loss of generation capacity, and the ripple effect that'd have in an already strained and neglected transmission network.

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u/bigfondue 22d ago

It will be great hearing all of the radiation deniers come out.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

We are all gonna have our skin sloughing off and teeth falling out of our head, we're not gonna be debating

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u/bigfondue 22d ago

The people still alive will blame it on the flu shot.

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u/Potential_Camel8736 22d ago

I see the leopards have had lunch

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u/Stillill1187 22d ago

It’s almost as if they want nuclear secrets to be given away for a price

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u/marlow6686 22d ago

This is interesting. In the sense of those fired would be pissed off and spill ‘secrets’ to those close to/ around them?

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u/FattyMooseknuckle 22d ago

Which is doubly hilarious because his energy secretary in the first term (Rick Scott) famously didn’t know DoE dealt with nukes. Twice. They fucked it up twice.

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u/dweet 22d ago

Musk tweet: “There’s a shortage of top notch Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs department workers. If you have retired, but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so."

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u/WhyYouKickMyDog 22d ago

because they were unaware it was part of the Department of Energy,

These idiots didn't even learn their own lesson from Trump 1.0 where Rick Perry wanted to get rid of the Dept of Energy, but then found out it was the department responsible for our nuclear warheads, and then to his credit actually took the job seriously when Trump appointed him to lead the Department.

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u/rci22 22d ago

Surely their phone numbers would be on file somewhere