@hacks4pancakes "Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander, JD, MPA
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) -National Airspace Defense Programs
URGENT- NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT
I work(ed) for the #FAA #NationalDefense Programs (#NDP). My position is/was a national security critical-designated job that was supposed to be exempted from the massive (and unlawful) firings of probationary employees.
On Saturday morning at 12:43AM CST, while I was actively working on an extremely important and classified project in response to a credible threat to America's national security, I was fired.
Before I was fired, the official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account after I criticized Tesla and Twitter. Less than a week later, I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.
For those who do not know, FAA NDP is tasked with protecting the National Air Space from threats such as missiles, enemy drones, aircraft used as weapons (think 9-11), and so forth.
FAA NDP is a small, yet critical part of protecting the American public and many of our border states that are at risk of attack from our foreign adversaries such as China and Russia.
In March 2024 - I was recruited from my job as Legislative Director at the DC Government to the FAA NDP for the purpose of working on a critical national defense project and in response to a grave and credible threat to the American Air Space.
While working for the FAA NDP, I served as the FAA Lead to the DoD for Open Mission Systems and Data Rights on an urgent project underway in response to a credible national defense threat to America's National Air Space.
When DOGE fired me, they turned off my computer and wiped all of my files without warning. I had just finished a classified meeting at Hill AFB in SLC and was on my way home when I was fired. I was also scheduled to be at Hanscom AFB this upcoming week for additional briefings.
I will be appealing my termination based on political retaliation - which happened in the same unsigned form letter others received - and which my boss and FAA leadership appear to have had no idea of, thought was exempted, and vehemently disagreed with.
My boss and FAA leadership had actively advocated for my position to be excluded from DOGE terminations due to the grave national security implications of my work and believed that such an exemption had been granted.
I had also received excellent performance evaluations and even received a valuing for performance pay raise in January as the FAA is one of the only federal agencies that gives pay raises based on merit and performance.
I decided over the weekend that I want to talk publicly about what happened - especially the harassment I received from DOGE on my personal social media accounts prior to my being fired simply for criticizing Tesla and Twitter (X).
I’m also deeply concerned about DOGE's disregard of the national security implications of my termination.
I believe that the public has a right to know that America's national security has been made less safe"
this is so wrong, #Trump is the enemy from within
I really appreciate watching Adam Curtis' documentary Traumazone. So much strong material speaking for itself.
But there is one deeply disturbing thing, namely the subtitle: "Russia 1985–1999".
It's very misleading, because #Traumazone is only partly a story about Russia.
A large part of the time (maybe 1/3) is spent telling parallel post-war histories about Kazakstan, Ukraine, etc. Countries which are NOT parts of Russia.
In effect, the framing serves to normalize Russian colonialism. Even though much of the content works in the opposite direction.
A new article https://avtonom.org/blog/chem-ploh-telegram on why Telegram should be avoided by activists under authoritarian regimes and similar situations, as well as some mitigation measures for when it can't be avoided,
in Russian from Autonomous Action, an organization of anarchists and libertarian communists in Russia.
In particular if you know any dissidents, mobilization refuers, etc in Russia, please share this information with them.
Note that the link in the article to Partisan-Telegram Android is missing a colon so won't work clicking on.
It should have been:
https://github.com/wrwrabbit/Partisan-Telegram-Android
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