Many of their rich donors rely on the exploitation of undocumented workers to make crap ton of money. So of course they don't want to actually clamp down on ICE or provide better pathways to citizenship...

Undocumented workers are cheap labor and are usually obedient out of fear. There have been plenty of reported cases of farmers and/or companies calling ICE on their workers to weasel out of paying them (wage theft). Even documented workers aren't safe, given that their green cards and/or work visas are tied to their job. So if they report poor working conditions or wage theft to authorities, they'll likely be forced to leave the U.S.

I was afraid to upvote and get banned, but then I remembered that I'm not on Reddit ;)

Live, Love, Luigi

They'd be calling for legalized pedophilia a week after the Epstein files were released.

That's a good idea! And if I get rejected, at least I'll know which new skills to focus on. In the meantime, I'll try to figure out what other career besides tech would fit my education and skill set.

I have a master's of science in atmospheric and oceanic science, which unfortunately is a very niche field. I made a miscalculation that my field would grow due to the increase in severe weather and negative affects from climate change.

Thanks for your advice :)

Yes, I'm a contractor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Atmospheric and Oceanic science has been heavily defunded this year. A quarter of my program at NOAA has been laid off this year.

If I lost my science job, I was planning on going into tech. Now where do I go??? It feels like the walls are closing in.

I should have gone to a trade school instead :/ STEM was a bad choice.

The establishment Democrats might have signed their own death sentence by attacking Zohran Mamdani

Your satire is top notch ;)

My buddy works at NOAA's GFDL, who develops the GFS model. A quarter of his team was illegally fired back in February during the DOGE bullshit, including folks who work on our hurricane models.

It's all part of project 2025. Defund and gut NOAA, then use the degradation of our products and services as an excuse to privatize everything. Currently, we are desperately trying to keep things running, but the government shutdown has only made things worse :/

American here. Our mainstream news outlets barely covers these ICE raids. We're in a full blown dictatorship. Now even Reddit is perma banning anyone who suggests that the 2nd amendment was created for situations like this.

I have MAGA family. The first thing they always mention about SNAP is how "welfare queens" are gaming the system, even though they were all on food stamps at one point. It's purely all about racism and punching down. They don't like the idea of black and brown people eating on "their" taxdollars. However, when my brother was on food stamps, it was out of "necessity" because he relied on SNAP to feed his step children.