New: Widespread RIFs/layoffs could come to the State Department as soon as Friday, though one source notes the department is expected to wait for a Supreme Court ruling on its reorganization plan (which is expected imminently) -https://t.co/Q4oDIFNvTQ
— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) June 25, 2025
The OPSEC fans among us, looking for observables and indicators, noticed that most of the large conference rooms at HST and Rosslyn annexes - where processing of RIF'ed employees would be likely to take place - were reserved today.
I, personally, was headed to an early morning meeting today in a large conference room in SA-6 when I noticed that the meeting venue had been changed to another building at the last minute. It made me feel a chill as if the Angel of Death were circling over my good friends in OBO.
Don't give in to despair. Wait and see, and be assured that the worst is usually not as bad as you'd imagined it would be.
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Not you or your friends
Probably not me, I think. But some of my OBO friends have already gone, and more might go yet.
This is getting out of hand!
It's easy to start a revolution but guiding it is a completely different proposition. Mamdani is NOT an aberration.
It's easy to start a revolution but guiding it is a completely different proposition!
NYC uses a ranked-choice voting system which might have given an exagerrated impression of how much support Mamdani got in that primary, but even so he looks like a contender at least for now. I'm just amused to think that government-owned grocery stores is the kind of campaign promise that will turn out the voters today.
On how revolutions work, just as an academic interest, a 1950's history by Crane Brinton called "Anatomy of Revolution" is still the premier work on the topic. They follow a predictable pattern. You can find a good summary on Wikipedia.
Did I say 1950s? First published in the '30s and then reissued in the '50s. Mine is an early 1970s paperback.
It is very good
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