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AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 12:58 AM Mar 3

NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment

Source: ProPublica

A high-ranking NASA official warned his employees Friday to “use discretion” in public when displaying badges or emblems that identify them as federal workers — part of an effort, the agency says, to protect its employees amid “stories of possible harassment” outside of work.

“We are all very proud to work for the space program,” wrote Dr. James Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer. “But in the current environment, with a lot of negative rhetoric coming in our direction, I want you all to please use caution.”

[...]

Polk’s warning to employees came two days later, after receiving a report about an employee who was “assaulted” at a Starbucks. “This is probably one of the saddest emails I have had to write of late,” he said in the email, which was obtained by ProPublica.

Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/nasa-official-warns-staff-trump-harassment-federal-workers



The Reptile nutters do pick the strangest agencies as targets, don't they?
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NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment (Original Post) AmericaUnderSiege Mar 3 OP
You mean agencies that regulate, constrain or compete with Musk businesses. CincyDem Mar 3 #1
Ain't it kinda weird? Dumbfuck47 tells his minions to maybe start hating on Canada. BOOM, THEY ALL HATE Leghorn21 Mar 3 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author orangecrush Mar 3 #3

Leghorn21

(13,842 posts)
2. Ain't it kinda weird? Dumbfuck47 tells his minions to maybe start hating on Canada. BOOM, THEY ALL HATE
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 08:57 AM
Mar 3

CANADA NOW!! Tell them to hate on Federal workers, BOOM, THEY ALL HATE FEDERAL WORKERS NOW

WTFF

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