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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(130,072 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 04:08 PM Tuesday

When Public Office Becomes Private Property

At the beginning of 2025, Mark Greenblatt, then Inspector General at the Department of the Interior, opened his inbox to find an email that ended his 23-year career in public service. No explanation. No notice. Just “thank you for your service.”

Within hours, 16 other inspectors general across federal agencies got the same message.

These are the watchdogs of the executive branch — nonpartisan officials placed in these roles at the direction of Congress — whose only loyalty is to the taxpayer. Their job is to root out waste, fraud, and abuse. Firing them all at once isn’t just strange. It’s dangerous.

Because without watchdogs, you don’t get oversight. You get cover-ups.

https://www.brightamerica.org/p/when-public-office-becomes-private

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When Public Office Becomes Private Property (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday OP
It's Trump...n/t the nelm Tuesday #1
fuck everyone who voted for Trump Skittles Tuesday #2
We need to get the vote out so large KS Toronado Tuesday #3
Abso-tively!!!!! BurnDoubt Tuesday #4
This is a Crime Spree. yellow dahlia Tuesday #5

KS Toronado

(21,658 posts)
3. We need to get the vote out so large
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 06:37 PM
Tuesday

that the reQublicOns have so few members in Congress that we can do anything and
everything we want.

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