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submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

submitted 20 hours ago • 167 comments

🌈💫Did you know that government jobs used to be awarded through a patronage/spoils system? This changed in 1895 when Teddy Roosevelt implemented merit-based civil service positions.

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

VACCINES SAVE LIVES Vaccines ended the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines and other public health measures save the lives of millions of children worldwide. Do not let RFKJr and the Trump admin take us back to a time when 5 in 10 children died before the age of 5. theconversation.com/infectious-d...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I repeat, if you or a loved one was recently fired from the federal government during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at www.centerforemploymentjustice.com. We have a plan and may be able to help you.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Some good interviews and information in here (Gift Link). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 2 days ago • 877 comments

Some updates: 1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction. 2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.

submitted 2 days ago • 808 comments

There's this. But there's also this: let's "hypothetically" say the CyberTruck has a fatal flaw. In normal times, government regulators would discover it and tell Tesla to recall all the DePloreans with it to fix it. But DODE removes the regulators. So fatal flaw goes unfixed, Tesla saves billions.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

📣 Attention terminated CDC employees! "I was a fed" on Instagram shares stories of affected federal employees. We want to amplify CDC voices too (anonymously)! Our platform reaches ~100K. 📣 Send your story to our tip line. Let's help people understand the impact. #SeeCDC #fedstrong

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

#Vaccine development is regulated and monitored at every stage. A vaccine is only approved if it is deemed safe and effective, following a rigorous assessment of its benefits and risks. Read more from @sandylaping.bsky.social here: thosenerdygirls.org/vaccine-deve...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

How are your egg prices doing? Costs have gone up 153% from this time last year. We'll offer an eggsplanation: the ongoing outbreak of bird flu. It's highly contagious, and 97% lethal in chickens. Unfortunately the best method to prevent spread is culling. www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/am...

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

The resistance will bring down Musk and Trump. Congress, wake up before your power is gone. The GOP begging Trump to release money to their states is pathetic—stand up to this tyranny. Congress controls the purse strings.

submitted 4 days ago • 240 comments

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to reverse the “accidental” firing of several employees responding to an avian influenza outbreak. While the CDC says the public risk is low, the crisis is hitting the agriculture sector hard, driving egg prices to record highs.

submitted 4 days ago • 197 comments

It is vitally important that if you feel you have been harmed in anyway, especially financially, by the actions of "DOGE" that you immediately report yourself as a victim to your state's Attorney General!

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

I’m deeply disturbed by the widespread reports of layoffs across the federal government and I am fighting back. If you’re an impacted federal worker in Virginia, I want to hear from you. Please take a moment to share what’s going on here: www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

CDC’s public health associate program (PHAP) was destroyed this weekend. All trainees terminated. PHAP stations young public health workers in state, local, territorial, and tribal health departments to train in and provide technical assistance for surveillance, communications, lab work, and more.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

submitted 7 days ago • 987 comments

Ready…set…GO!!

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

This. Especially Senate Republicans.

submitted 7 days ago • 147 comments

I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.

submitted 8 days ago • 415 comments

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

submitted 8 days ago • 1446 comments

Elon Musk’s staffers have been going through data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees healthcare coverage for over 160 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.

submitted 8 days ago • 163 comments

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.