Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life...
At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff.
Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan
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At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff.
Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan
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I’m so sorry that these unhinged irresponsible idiots are forcing our loyal civil servants through these traumatic life changes.
CONGRESS WHERE ARE YOU?!?!
Procurement staff are mostly gone so that intramural research is likely to be hobbled if not completely disabled.
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Anyone with insights please reach out here or on Signal (jeremymberg.78).
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I am so sorry that you, your colleagues, and the institution that you love are being treated with such disrespect.
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Academics make excellent fascists.
Goebbels was an academic.
https://www.wired.com/story/doctor-breakthrough-parkinsons-research-nih-purge/
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
- Frederick Douglass
We gotta get everyone back in their jobs.
I hope that happens and that it doesn't take too impossibly long.
35-40% cut
Horrible.
Lawsuits, judges ordering them to be rehired or paid giant settlements. DOGE has “saved” a few million and probably cost US taxpayers 100x that.
literally
and I don't mean figuratively
It’s criminal. RFKjr is a clear and present danger: make Trump own this.
There will be catastrophic consequences on all of us.
We must stand up for our federal employees in every sector.
They are evil.
Trapped w/in the behavior patterns of their disorder, WORLD DOMINATION/ENSLAVEMENT is the agenda as *RUSSIA’S Republicans*—also cultivated over decades—destroy America/Americans to pave the way.
The free world—not in denial/delusion, as are an abundance of Americans—will continue to protect itself from NAZI/MAGA America.