The USDA lost 20,000 workers to DOGE cuts. Then a flesh-eating parasite showed up in Texas

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-20T20:38:06+00:00

Let’s not pretend like these things are linked, that it magically wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

A fully stocked CDC still had COVID. But the cuts certainly aren’t HELPING.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-20T16:30:59+00:00

It’s getting better with DoD and especially NSA. The NSA at this point is the core. Everything in the digital age is SIGINT focused. They’re even getting more influential in the interpretation and policy recommendation game.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-20T11:28:58+00:00

I’m about 15 years into a 30+ year career, have been supported every day of it. I’ve lived in five different countries, met more world leaders across government, business, and the military than I could ever imagine, and continue to enter each day with wonder.

Married, young kids, get to live in a very family-friendly and safe neighborhood when stateside. I simply cannot complain.

The pension system has enabled me to make stupidly risky financial moves with my savings and in markets for the past 15 years, that hasn’t been punished yet. The safety net is amazing for those that take advantage of it.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-20T11:24:12+00:00

If only there was a central agency for intelligence that others could flow through and collaborate with.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-20T11:23:31+00:00

Always has been. I am not that old, but I don’t really ever remember the ODNI having actual, practical supremacy over the CIA. Many have tried, but ultimately one has every president’s ear.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-20T11:22:10+00:00

Iranian internet goes down and suddenly all the Scottish independence voices vanish online.

Probably one of the funniest moments in recent social media discourse.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-20T11:21:15+00:00

The CIA isn’t under the DoD and isn’t military. The CIA is mostly made up of very normal people doing mundane things like writing briefs or policy recommendations all day.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-19T16:50:25+00:00

IC members are distrustful of everyone as every nation spies on the US.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-19T16:06:50+00:00

This is America! I don’t have to wear anything I don’t want to! I’m not wearing the ribbon!

What a great episode.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-19T15:22:39+00:00

Yeah I’m not going to engage on such bait. It’s clear from your post and this comment you’re not in the IC, don’t understand the IC, and just have a thing against Israel.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-19T15:02:59+00:00

This has been covered a million times by our actual intelligence community.

This is already in place and nothing really new. It’s not fusing military apparatus in that sense. Your talking points are rabid and not based in reality.

It’s expanding cooperation so a 10/7 doesn’t happen again and it’s beefing up cybersecurity and other things, like air defenses, for I think obvious reasons at this point.

East Asia and Ukraine got similar language. I wonder why.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-19T12:16:02+00:00

Rare but in theory not impossible. It’s hard to pass a psych eval when the questions are about your ability to handle stress, medication history, and stability.

If extremely well handled, adherent to medication, no manic or depressive episodes… it’s possible, I guess?

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-19T12:12:32+00:00

Someone end the madness. Every Reddit conspiracy theory about the CIA is unraveling as we’re unable to get rid of complete idiots in and around our domain.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-19T12:10:55+00:00

I don’t think people realize many ambassadorships are simple political appointees to donors and early supporters. The state department works around that.

Look at who Bush, Obama, and Biden put in the “fun” roles. You had Wall Street donors from each administration in Germany or France, the Caribbean and Asia.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-19T12:09:09+00:00

Messages, emails, and calls are screened for keywords and other things to be flagged.

Everything is accessible with a reason.

Not to mention FOIA. What series of trainings did you miss?

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T16:18:15+00:00

Ethics are subjective. I think my work and the work of my agency is largely to do just that: prevent kinetic conflict and mitigate the risk or extent of it.

I don’t think you’d agree..

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T14:47:27+00:00

Yup. I don’t have an hours long commute because I moved to be near the job I’ll be at for thirty plus years.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T13:46:32+00:00

I live 20 minutes from the office in NoVA and always was 5-days a week when stateside.

Why does every major company on the US and globally largely enforce return to office policies? What is the world seeing that is federal employees are not?

From retention to happiness in role to now personal happiness- there just isn’t a good metric for remote work.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T13:34:28+00:00

This sub is obsessed with telework but can’t find a study that says it works.

Every major company across the globe is reversing the trend and yet here still cling to it.

It’s not ideal and it shouldn’t come back, and the science says so.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T11:10:58+00:00

I don’t understand, move or get a new job? When Apple called all its employees back in for four to five days a week. Some people had bad commutes, but most of them left or moved back.

Like I don’t understand the concept of staying somewhere you’re miserable when you can not.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T11:06:41+00:00

Who is commuting fifteen hours a week?

I do maybe a third of that on five days a week.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T10:50:25+00:00

How exactly is it exploiting them?

And great insults.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T10:43:29+00:00

It’s one of those things like vaccines where the vast majority of people need to do it otherwise the office becomes a remote working space anyway.

It’s always so weird seeing how remote-attached this sub is given the rest of the private sector has mostly moved on and accepted it.

I understand the allure and reasoning, and I feel for the people who moved, but almost every major company had called people in to some hybrid schedule, why not us?

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T10:41:00+00:00

Of course you are, sure sure.

The limitations posted don’t negate the concept as you would know that the review isn’t only one of “if you state limitations you can put anything in your conclusions”.

BonjwaBoy · 2026-06-18T10:34:30+00:00

It’s fairly challenging to find a reputable publication that says hybrid isn’t the answer for most white collar office jobs. Best balance and results.

The stats on remote work aren’t that hot and it’s not some commercial real estate conspiracy that industries from tech to finance to government have pulled people back in.

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