Conservative group’s ‘watch list’ targets federal employees for firing

The site’s founder, a former Republican congressional staffer named Tom Jones, told The Washington Post that he and his staff are seeking to add more names to the list and have sent emails to more than 500 federal employees asking for their help identifying colleagues who they believe are not committed to keeping undocumented immigrants out of the country.

Jones said his goal was to expose people whom he deemed had “long-standing and deep bias” on immigration policy. In addition to tracking social media posts and political donations, Jones said he is probing for indications of past advocacy on immigration issues as well as other clues about employees’ views, such as sharing of gender pronouns and support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

“There are a large number of people in the administration who have dedicated their life work to helping migrants settle in the United States,” Jones said. He said it was “Pollyanna-ish” to expect that those people would turn around and enforce Trump’s plan to deport tens of millions of people and close the borders, as he has vowed.

“These people are not going to do it. They are actually going to undermine it,” Jones said. He said he would endorse similar efforts to target employees in other agencies, including the Defense Department, Education Department and Department of Health and Human Services.

Jones said he hasn’t coordinated with Trump’s campaign or transition teams, but hopes any incoming administration would take notice of his work and use it to identify employees to terminate.

The list has already caught the attention of Trump allies in Congress, with four Republican House members writing to the head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services demanding that the employee accused of praising undocumented immigrants be fired.

While many top-level government officials are politically aligned and appointed by presidents, the bulk of the federal workforce consists of about 2.2 million career employees who work in agencies based in Washington and around the country, carrying out policies and tending to the day-to-day operations of the country regardless of the party in charge.

From WaPo--cant link

The watchlist

Jesus Christ, these psychos never stop.

My GOD. THIS IS FASCISM!

The GOP and their enables are utter nuts

That’s rich. It’s Congress that should be downsized and their ridiculous perks, salaries, and retirement should be analyzed and publicized.

It’s all an attempt to remove every decent thing FDR did 90 years ago.

They list every political contribution for these people, down to $10 to Obama in 2008. And they publish their salaries.

They want to punish anyone who supported same sex marriage. Gross.

I'd settle for a prohibition on members of Congress from owning, trading, or having anything to do with the stock market, R7. They're not getting rich on the salary, perks and healthcare.

Just look at multi-millionaire Ken Calvert, member of Congress for 32 years representing presently the 41t district of California (a chunk of Riverside county), Member, House Subcommittee on [bold]Financial Services[/bold] and General Government. If his salary, like all members of Congress, is $174k per year, from 2014 to present, he would have earned $1.74 million. Now, we'll assume — for the sake of this discussion — he put every penny of that salary in savings at 5%. Using the future value of an annuity, which is the closest formula applicable in this situation, by 2024, his net worth would amount to approximately $2,471,981. ​

Ken Calvert's estimated net worth, according to opensecrets.org, is between $8 and $20 million dollars. We know it's more than $8m because his real estate portfolio alone is worth $8.8M according to his own filings (2023). My guess, based on everything he's done in Congress (incusing junkets all over the world for various interests), his net worth is considerably more than $20M. But let's assume [italic]Open Secrets{/italic] is correct.

Now, we know he didn't put every penny of his Congressional salary in savings; the man had living expenses (including prostitutes: In 1993, two Corona, California, police officers found Calvert with a prostitute in his car. They observed the whore returning to an upright sitting position and Calvert putting his penis back into his unzipped pants as they approached the vehicle. He told the police that he and the woman were "just talking"). And no, he didn't start at 0 net worth in 2014; he's been in Congress since 1993. Prior to that, he was a Congressional aid (shocking!), a restaurant manager, and developed a small real estate portfolio prior to his initial run for Congress. I couldn't find a source for his net worth going that far back, so let's generously assume he had $1 million in net worth when elected to Congress as a 32-year-old recently married man.

Putting this all together, on an annual salary starting at $133k in 1993 to $174k presently, maintaining two residences (Corona, CA and Washington DC), and divorcing your wife, could you grow your net worth from $1M to $20M without some outside "assistance"?

This is what we have to look forward to