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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

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Props to Chinese officials for transparency. Why not tell the press how Trump got all limp-wristed on tariffs while helpfully giving away all of America's other influence? Since the Republican party won't say it, the CCP gets to do it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

🧑‍💼 Are you a lawyer or have legal expertise and want to assist federal workers? Visit "We The Action". They are recruiting volunteers lawyers now and hope to soon open a webpage to link federal workers with legal assistance.

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

From the Grand Canyon to the Rocky Mountains to Yellowstone and beyond, thousands gathered at national parks across the country on Saturday to protest sweeping federal cuts to the United States’ historic public lands. nbcnews.to/4h0hWoR

submitted 14 hours ago • 20 comments

“The Trump administration has begun to dismantle efforts to warn about Russian propaganda, and the order by the Pentagon would halt further Cyber Command efforts to interrupt future Russian influence campaigns.” Trump wants Russian influence in 2026 and 2028. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 131 comments

Reposting this example. If you want to engage local elected officials then economic data can be helpful. This post was about the impact of federal employee (spending) for one community.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

I cannot stress how true this is; remember, many of these are young democracies. Many of these journalists will be unable to continue their work without support from the US. It's harder to target a journalist if it will get you sanctioned. Now? Open season. www.euractiv.com/section/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...

submitted 20 hours ago • 228 comments

Joining @ayesharascoe.bsky.social on NPR after 9 to talk about USAID - tune in!

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Former Trump appointee Samah Norquist speaks out. #saveforeignassistance #USAIDSavesLives thehill.com/opinion/cong...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Thank you Cate Klepacki for your courage and your service! "My colleagues at USAID are the kind of people who run toward the fire. Around the world, in the midst of humanitarian crises, they provide lifesaving aid to those most in need." #saveforeignassistance www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

Now that the Demographic and Health Surveys and PMA are dead, how do we measure the effects of the catastrophe caused by the sudden loss of USAID? #USAID @altusaid.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

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Thousands Gather at National Parks Across U.S. to Protest Job Cuts From Acadia in Maine to Joshua Tree in Southern California, protesters turned out to stand up against what they see as threats to public lands. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

The abrupt nature of the Trump cuts to @altusaid.bsky.social is going to have a profound impact on some of the most vulnerable people in the world, with those who rely on HIV antivirals being immediately affected. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Well done, Vermont.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Dellinger Order released. Judge Jackson rules in favor of Dellinger and issues a permanent injunction. It'll go to DC Circuit and then SCOTUS, but a huge win for federal workers for now. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Excellent @propublica.org article describing the facts and consequences of the #USAID freeze www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Hundreds of workers at the CDC. More than 1,000 at the NIH. Scores of staffers at the FDA. Trump’s purge of federal employees includes those doing lifesaving work. Many of them expressed fear at what would happen to the projects they left behind. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

The AP seems to be saying it like it is. Worth a read. Maybe being booted from the press corps helped them recover from both-sides-ism. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

18F staffers- who were summarily fired en masse overnight- issue statement expressing shock, bewilderment: "18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated."

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

Since February 26, an additional 1,322 adults (from 14,482 to 15,804) and 141 infants (from 1,541 to 1,682) have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Keep the pressure on. These reps have a choice: Save themselves from their own constituency or continue to burn themselves at the stake for almighty Trump. Hint to reps: The districts will outlive the president. Will your career?

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 1 day ago • 409 comments

Brutal.

submitted 1 day ago • 1065 comments

Common sense from Judge Chuang in J Does 1-26 vs. Musk/Doge: "If USAID can't respond to lawsuits, maybe they need more people."

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Many court victories for democracy this week incl a ruling that OPM's firing of employees at multiple agencies is unlawful We are fighting vs. Trump overreach & for federal workers' rights I’ll discuss all that w/ @katiephang.bsky.social at noon on @msnbc.com (pretaped yesterday) -TN

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Now would be the time to pile on wrongful firing suits.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

A few years ago Britain was spending 0.7% of its GNP on international assistance. Now the plan is 0.3%. Meanwhile, USAID is being gutted. Beyond the suffering this will cause, the decline of western aid will help China and Russia expand their influence. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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This is not an effort to roll back "DEI" It's an effort to roll back civil rights "Agencies across the federal government are dismantling offices that enforce civil rights and antidiscrimination laws...weakening the government’s ability to deliver on legal obligations to protect workers’ rights"

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Francis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Just like 1984's Winston Smith after Big Brother declared "we have always been at war with Eastasia," GOP senators are frantically tossing their past statements down the memory hole

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