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Feds, take care of yourself. If you have any feelings of harming yourself, please call or text 988. Or call 1 800 273 8255! This Fed loves you guys and wants you to be here. Be kind to yourself, #altgov

submitted 16 hours ago • 153 comments

The impact the NSF has in each state (at least until DOGE shuts it down). Let your representatives know how valuable NSF is, and why it mustn’t be destroyed. #NoKings

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My administration is standing at the ready to support all Washington workers — including federal government employees impacted by chaos in the federal government. We will help you get back on your feet.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

This isn't getting enough attention. NSF is such an important resource and agency. NSF is in part why the US has had such scientific success!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 7 days ago • 230 comments

I am taking a Lyft to work this morning, and have thus been introduced to Alestorm, a band the driver explained as "heavy metal with a pirate flavor." The current song has a lot of shouting about rum. I approve.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.

submitted 8 days ago • 635 comments

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

We expect that the 18th will be a bad day for NASA. US space scientists are an amazing, diverse group, some of whom have already been suffering because of cowardly attacks on their identities. We just want to do science, really, but we are part of our larger communities and hurt like everyone else.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Solidarity to everyone affected by this. I hope as a community we can help people get soft landings elsewhere if you're affected.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 9 days ago • 359 comments

Republicans think the median civil servant is a pencil pusher at the IRS, when the median servant is a harassed, overworked clinician at the VA or a Park Service Ranger who's given 20 years of his life to frickin' Iowa all on the hope he'll get transfer to Yellowstone. -OS

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Hi BlueSky #AltFam! Thanks for the warm welcome! Thank you @altspaceforce.altgov.info for the intro! Who else is walking out of the field right now? ✊🌾🌽 #bullsonparade #altgov #unite #resist #thrive #newplayingfield #gameon

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

New guidance has been shared with coalition members. If you’re outside the coalition, please download anything you might need. Terminations will escalate this coming week.

submitted 10 days ago • 114 comments

Reliably hearing that NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs are being cut. Did you want to be a scientists? Well, thanks to Musk, now you can’t.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Working at NASA is a dream for many around the country and even the world. Positions don't just get created. They are extremely rare and highly competitive. The folks that get them are _the_ best at what they do. What do they do? 1/6

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

This forecast, and all US based forecasts, brought to you in part by @noaa.gov Folks working to ensure every American has access to weather data to protect you, your family, and property.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

submitted 11 days ago • 109 comments

Happy Elizabeth Peratrovich Day! Ḵaax̱gal.aat (1911–1958), who was Raven of the Tlingit Lukaax.ádi clan, gave a moving speech that is believed to be a large reason the first civil rights bill for Alaska Natives was passed in 1945. Read more about her here: archives.alaska.gov/education/pe...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Knowledge is power…

submitted 11 days ago • 1041 comments

ATTN probationary feds: if you’re too new to have a performance eval and your sups are friendlies, ask them for an interim evaluation and keep a hard copy.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

"Northern Light" by artist Lucy Campbell

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Got word that next week will "be challenging". Not sure what exactly is coming, but looking around we have at least a good guess at some of the "challenges" coming our way. Communities are forming to help prepare those who will likely be impacted. If you don't have such a community, reach out.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Great music video (though a bit old) celebrating women in STEM at NASA. youtu.be/FviATYWelx0?...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Germain Pican displaying number tattoo received at Auschwitz Congress of Union of French Women Robert Doisneau, 1945

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It is STILL Black History Month Y'all! Today, I celebrate THE Diahann Carroll. She starred in the groundbreaking show Julia, starring a Black woman lead in 1968. She is also one of my style icons. Her unapologetic grace & elegance in Dynasty made her character, Dominique Deveraux, a tour de force.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

“The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening. Like all federal employees in the US, I took an oath to the Constitution, not to a president…” 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 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 11 days ago • 1443 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 13 days ago • 326 comments

Happy birthday astronaut Melvin! Like many others, I stand in Awww of the greatest official portrait ever

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re a Trump voter and you’ve been fired from your job as a civil servant, contact me using the info in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.

submitted 11 days ago • 223 comments

Check in with those who choose to take lower pay, knowing they will often be belittled, put down upon, complained about, but still take the civil servant job because they have a drive to serve their country... Even when their country acts as if they despise them... They are not doing well right now.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

NASA folks in #planetaryscience - I'm trying to put together a network who can help our colleagues through RIFs on Tuesday. This is an EMERGENCY: Reports say that NASA probationary employees will be fired on Tuesday.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Dear recently fired, federal, employees, Apply for UCFE unemployment benefits ASAP !!! dol.gov

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

submitted 12 days ago • 289 comments

I was laid off this morning from USFWS as part of the sweeping DOGE cuts to probationary employees across the Dept. of Interior. To say I'm devastated doesn't even scratch the surface-I'm losing my dream job working with pallid sturgeon on the Missouri River. Solidarity with all my fed workers. 💔🐟

submitted 12 days ago • 100 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 12 days ago • 1911 comments

ATTN: HHS EMPLOYEES open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Trump is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday Officials were informed in meetings Friday morning that roughly 5,200 people on probationary employment across agencies including National Institutes of Health, CDC will be fired this afternoon www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

At the nation’s scientific and public health agencies, panic set in as officials braced for a wave of layoffs. The Trump administration is now embracing forced resignation of officials at CDC and NIH.

submitted 12 days ago • 87 comments

This is a screenshot of the CDC’s Mpox page. The government of the United States is now producing anti-science propaganda and putting it up on official webpages. This is scary as hell, friends. www.cdc.gov/mpox/hcp/vac...

submitted 12 days ago • 48 comments

On the first day of RFK Jr: 5200 HHS workers got fired; the director and much of the staff of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) got fired. At the NIH directors learned of the imminent firings - about 1500 people. At the CDC 1300 people are about to be fired. As a result...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

The Trump administration dismissed many CDC staff members today, including everyone in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, first responders to outbreaks. This leaves us ill prepared to contain and deal with future outbreaks. It makes America less healthy.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Half of EIS, the CDC's renowned "disease detectives," gone. These folks respond to emergencies in the US and around the globe, and are now in tatters.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments