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FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE
Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs.
It could signal problems with ICE recruitment
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-08-06-fema-employees-reassigned…

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE
Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.

NFL employee injured in shooting 'doing incredibly well,' per commissioner Roger Goodell https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6538617/2025/08/06/nfl-employee-injured-in-shooting-doing-incredibly-well-per…

You don't want to miss today's extra-packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Microsoft enabled Israeli spy agency's mass surveillance of Palestinians' mobile calls,
--Cisco's registered web users disclosed in a likely Salesforce breach-related vishing attack,
--Google confirms customer theft in Salesforce breach-related incident,
--Broadcom chip flaw exposes millions of Dell laptops to attack, …

Microsoft enabled Israeli spy agency's mass surveillance of Palestinians' mobile calls
Cisco's registered web users disclosed in a likely Salesforce breach-related vishing attack, Google confirms customer theft in Salesforce breach-related incident, Broadcom chip flaw exposes millions of Dell laptops to attack, MSFT's Project Ire can ID malware with AI, much more

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ...
in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent
to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who
have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
-- Dr. Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle"

Kapitalistische Abgründe.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000278233/microsoft-manager-empfiehlt-gekuendigten-mitarbeitern-sucht-trost-bei-der-ki

Source: OpenAI awards bonuses to ~1,000 research and engineering employees, or ~30% of its staff, ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers
OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company, ranging from the low hundreds of thousands to millions, as the company gears up to release its latest flagship GPT-5 model and faces an ever-rising battle for AI talent, according to a person with knowledge of the bonuses. The size of the bonuses will be

But that’s not the endpoint. Oh no.
In a move alarmingly close to outright chattel slavery, there is talk of ICE capturing immigrants and then •selling them back to their former employers•, presumably under much-worsened employment conditions.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-5-2025
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#Enpal ist ja jetzt auch nicht so der Superprofi-Club, oder? Den Kram haben sie heute in unserer Gegend eingeworfen. Mal abgesehen von der unbeholfenen Sprache: Unsere Straße ist wegen umpfangreichem Baumbestand besonders *ungeeignet* für Solaranlagen. Mindestens die Hälfte aller Häuser haben wandernde Schatten auf den Dächern, viele Dauerschatten. Auf Satellitenfotos kann man unser Haus nicht mal S…

Registered nurses are appalled by this latest executive order that seeks to strip federal employees
-- including 15,000 registered nurses with National Nurses United
-- of their protected union rights.
As union nurses, we know this is union busting

NNU statement on executive order seeking to strip federal employees of their protected union rights
"Registered nurses are appalled by this latest executive order that seeks to strip federal employees of their protected union rights. As union nurses, we know this is union busting. Our nurses have been on the front lines, calling out this administration's attempts to dismantle and privatize our VA system."

And the most recent jobs report has many hints that ICE is indeed having that desired effect: in an otherwise stagnant or contracting labor market, there was job group in leisure and hospitality, private health care, and (somewhat less) construction — all job markets with a concentration of immigrant labor.
I am not an economist and this is not a proper analysis — grain of salt, please! — but a quick skim of these stats is at least superficially consistent with a good chunk of current job growth coming from decreased immigrant participation in the labor force.
https://www.bls.gov/ces/publications/highlights/2025/current-employment-statistics-highlights-06-2025.pdf
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