USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.
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Please download the app called ‘5 Calls’. It’s easy to use, gives you sample scripts and the telephone numbers for your specific Congressional reps. Then call them daily!!
The goal is to shake the foundations of this country domestically and internationally. Everything they do makes us weaker and Russia grows stronger while they get ready to privatize our government. They’re flooding the zone to distract us while they also dismantle the country.
Forewarned is forearmed. This is a small dose of reality. The even bigger dose is coming. It’s why we show up to RESIST this tsunami of destruction. We needn’t like or agree with one another to protect each other bc we sink or swim together. Pull out your life vests & oars & ROW!
If he had only turned on the TV and instead of attending the Super Bowl or the Daytona 500 - $50 million could’ve been sent to US aid and helped the most vulnerable people in the world.
They’re willfully defying the courts and have purged the government of non loyalists. Hence the problem with just throwing lawsuits at them. They need forcefully removed. SHUT IT DOWN
My friend works at a place that helps with education grants and USAID and for the first time in 70 years of going through government changes they aren't sure the company will make it. Lots of people will lose their jobs.
So no more Airport screeners for Ebola or other viruses trying to leave to USA?
Wow! We have had them every other Ebola Outbreak??
Kinda feels like Covid and China??we pulled our people 2018?
OMG 42% die from Ebola! @aoc.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social Red 🚨
I’m just not sure I’d leave. I mean what are they going to do , arrest 2,000 people? This is just unconscionable and unconstitutional and unbelievably cruel. Give up some government contracts, Elania!
The richest man in the world cut life support to the poorest in the world. Billionaires are ILLEGALLY firing govt workers &making their lives a living hell. Get DOGE out of our data - where is it going - to Putin??
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Not just horribly cruel but horribly stupid! All the time differences, varying degrees of communications access, logistics.. I have never been more embarrassed to live among these Ugly Americans.
Oh, gawd!
I feel so sorry for those hard workers!
Our country is going to be killed by March while the freaking racists GOPs in Congress are dining and wining while celebrating.
I really despise them all!
(…and all MAGAs.)
The republican congress doesn't have an issue with it. I'm guessing reality hasn't hit yet they are getting musked right out of jobs. No more checks & balances needed, no more congress.
Donald Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE have no authority nor rights to do this. And Congress being very quiet and not speaking out against this is truly disappointing. 😡 ☹️
My "like" of this is not a like, but an acknowledgment of the complete and total bullshit that Trump's administration is pulling and a sign of solidarity for all federal employees being viciously attacked right now.
One of my favorite experiences last summer was visiting Aroostook State Park (minus the deer flies) & Baxter. That area cannot afford to lose any good paying jobs!! 💙💙💙
Project 2025’s blueprint includes a personnel database of loyalists to replace 10,000’s of federal government civil servants, a private online educational tool to train them, and an unpublished 180-day playbook with transition plans for each federal agency. This must be a violation of employment law
the judge basically said that people losing jobs or finances was not irreparable harm and so he canceled the injunction, said they could always sue when they were in fact fired. so i strongly encourage all fired USAID workers to sue for wrongful termination
If you’re pissed about musk and Trump’s destruction of our democracy, and our government called 10 senators a day, never let up here are the numbers I use, print them up put them on the refrigerator. Keep the pressure on.
It doesn’t really matter. I just say I want musk out of the government. I can’t believe he has my personal information. Then I complained about all of the cuts he’s made mostly. I often read Jessica Craven on Substack. She gives you good data to complain about every day. Strategic.
A guy I know posted on FB that the grant to study turtle sweater making was canceled for USAID. Then he did a LOL and the sycophants piled on. This really is a battle against willful ignant.
So maybe they plan to do something soon. They are setting up so the military can committ violations against human rights and international law. Pay attention. WAKE UP.
The motivation is nothing more than an ecstatic joy that Trump and his criminal billionaire mafia experience in perpetrating the utmost cruelty and misery. The pain is the point.
All terminated employees proceed against this ILLEGAL action by IMMEDIATELY contacting an employment lawyer. Band together with other employees and file WRONGFUL termination lawsuits together. Take legal action now to document your experience. Exercise your employee rights and document everything.
USAID was one of their subsidies. Like WIC, which is having trouble with funding. The farm bill is delayed and has cuts proposed. Migrant labor is targeted. Farmer contacts with USDA are not getting paid. And the researchers looking at h5n1 are fired. Our food system is under attack
I'm suddenly so grateful that the one thing I retained from my Mormon upbringing was food and water storage plus growing a garden every year. Add my flock of chickens, who I'm desperate to keep healthy, and I think we'd be ok, but... Sigh.
So now people, children and pregnant women are starving, not receiving medical care, suffering because the richest man in the world is literally taking food out their mouths and letting it rot on the docks. America, there's no time like the present, it's Revolution Time!!! Let's Go!!💪😡
Keeping fucking over people. There are bound to be some in House districts NY-21, FL-1, and FL-6. Yes, those are the special elections, to be conducted in April. If the Democrats sweep them, they win the House. And that will put the brakes on any legislative action The Grifter wants to do.
Those hurt need to share their stories. Not as a PR moment, but we need to know where our caprices lead. Neoliberalism rigged the game against much of Africa. We’ve lost clout—but our clout too long helped extractive industries, global finance and self-serving leaders. The human price is too great.
A third of Americans wanted just this - to punish and destroy people for having good educations and secure jobs that these…low-info folks don’t understand. They’ll never admit the mass unemployment (and insane disruption of federal functioning) is a problem.
It's not balancing anything, it's funding the next round of tax cuts for the rich, increased funding to SpaceX, and Trump's golf trips for the next four years. It's the great bait-and-switch, and America just got swindled by a couple of business men.
It's about weakening the government enough that it will be incapable of regulating and holding to account bad actors. It's also about terrorizing and traumatizing civil servants.
This administration disgusts me. This lapdog Congress disgusts me. What they cannot achieve democratically, they simply do through Musk and his minions, knowing the courts cannot keep up with their wanton destruction. Its sickening.
But they were told by tue courts several times they can't proceed and must unfreeze funds immediately... time for the courts to start clamping down hard...
If an opportunity were to present itself, I would not blame someone who isn't me using whatever happened to be available at the time to bring about a better world.
Sooner or later, *they* are going to create a very desperate, very pissed off person with nothing 'else' left to lose after their life is utterly destroyed by these feckless fuckwits.
But there will probably be so many, the line will be miles long 🤷♀️
It's the women who have romanticized this killer, just like they did John Dillinger after his Crown Point Jailbreak in 1932. He killed 4 and wounded 7. Even Charlie Manson got love letters and eventually married. Women's hormones are attracted to killers; even ones that shoot people in the back.
For those overseas employees, the paid leave will help a little bit, but it is outrageous that an administration does this! We already know a little about those DOGEs and they need to be chained and muzzled!
These emails need forwarded to IT specialists to do a security audit because OPM had a hostile takeover on 2/1 by Musk staff and they are probably coming from a server outside of the government. Please forward them also to your attorney and congressional representatives and news media
Every time I read about the latest Musk/Trump fiasco,
all I can think is F*CK TRUMP - F*CK MUSK.
I know it doesn't change anything,
but it's kind of my mantra these days.
Why did the judge allow him to do this?
Does anyone know ?
Does anyone know how to stop him ?
Has anyone seen how ugly and horrible the people on X are ?
What is the deal with the hate and lies …… it is truly going to cause a war
I love the bustle of big city living, but there’s nothing like an escape to our parks. Project 2025 wants to privatize them. The Parks are already understaffed. There’s nothing like a Grand Canyon sunrise, or the grandeur of Sequoia trees, the Bryce hoodoos or Mt. Ranier air. Voice your concerns!
As someone said, National parks are America’s greatest idea. The thought that these precious sites could be sold off to the highest bidder sickens me. The NPS is consistently ranked the most popular agency by Americans. I think destroying our parks would enrage many, so we must speak up NOW!
Thanks. I could be a poster child for the Parks, as some of my best memories come from exploring their beauty. Paris is great, but watching the sunset at GC is equally great.
TRAVESTY!!! I am so beyond angry. This is a part of the “ lAmerica First” nonsense which completely misunderstands soft power, global economy and what happens on the other side of the ocean does indeed “matter”. Now our highly trained foreign based agency employees are getting shafted. 😡😡
“At the gate of Saint-Antoine, an immense aqueduct has been built for the purpose of carrying off the bloodshed at the executions. Every day, four men were employed in taking it up in buckets and conveying it to this horrid reservoir of butchery.”
A report on the Terror, 1794
Start at the top, and regardless of the chosen "resolutions," apply them to Donald Trump JD Vance, Elon Musk, and Mike Johnson first. The very last one to hold accountable is the homeless guy with the Trump sign on his grocery cart
It’s gonna be rough on China having to come into all these countries with food and medical aid and demonstrate they’re the reliable ally and the US is actually a monstrous, murderous empire, but they’ll somehow manage.
As more budget cuts and mass firings occur, it's evermore important to find who you know that will be effected by it. What can we do to help each other?
Mutual aid is the groundfloor necessary for resistance.
It's CLEARLY SUBVERSION and the DEMOLITION of U.S. DEMOCRACY. Trump is the Manchurian candidate planted to kill democracy. They are dissolving overseeing bodies that would stop them. They've gained control of the MILITARY. Left or Right WE LOSE. Nazis win.
I only give this a like because we have to keep informed. This is horrible. "Stable genius" and the other one who thinks he is the "smartest person in the world" are both stupid. And that's the kindest thing I can say.
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Wow! We have had them every other Ebola Outbreak??
Kinda feels like Covid and China??we pulled our people 2018?
OMG 42% die from Ebola! @aoc.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social Red 🚨
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I feel so sorry for those hard workers!
Our country is going to be killed by March while the freaking racists GOPs in Congress are dining and wining while celebrating.
I really despise them all!
(…and all MAGAs.)
#Resist
I want to know the demographics of who they are getting rid of - POC, women, DEMOCRAT VOTERS?
Probably has a few maga mixed in and fired now only to be rehired later but overall...what are the demographics?
Media can you talk about the effects of these decisions
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sounds inefficient...
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/judge-denies-bid-to-block-trump-from-placing-usaid-workers-on-leave/
https://hemibill.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/word-salad-gish-gallop/
My heart. USAID
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-dissolves-order-preventing-trump-administration-overhauling-usaid/story?id=119062350
We’re going to need more reaction buttons…
What if you need that help from USAID?
What are you supposed to do?
If Jesus came back tomorrow the first think he would do would lighting bolt Trump to the face.
Trump is pure evil 😈
Elon is Trump Quasimodo 💀
#USProtests
#3E
#R50501
Is there no one to stand up to them!
so they've confirmed it isn't about the money, it's about shutting down the service delivery
Another despicable, thoughtless decision.
Just fire ‘em and leave ‘em stranded??
What does Elon think this is—a Tя☭mp rally in the California desert?
But there will probably be so many, the line will be miles long 🤷♀️
This is beyond stupid.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-staffing-cuts-lawsuits-d1ec029b4d14c37c25abc5dc07066471
all I can think is F*CK TRUMP - F*CK MUSK.
I know it doesn't change anything,
but it's kind of my mantra these days.
Does anyone know ?
Does anyone know how to stop him ?
Has anyone seen how ugly and horrible the people on X are ?
What is the deal with the hate and lies …… it is truly going to cause a war
“At the gate of Saint-Antoine, an immense aqueduct has been built for the purpose of carrying off the bloodshed at the executions. Every day, four men were employed in taking it up in buckets and conveying it to this horrid reservoir of butchery.”
A report on the Terror, 1794
Mutual aid is the groundfloor necessary for resistance.
It's CLEARLY SUBVERSION and the DEMOLITION of U.S. DEMOCRACY. Trump is the Manchurian candidate planted to kill democracy. They are dissolving overseeing bodies that would stop them. They've gained control of the MILITARY. Left or Right WE LOSE. Nazis win.