"When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops, the FDA relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday."
Call your Congrescritters and demand they stop DOGE's illegal activities, because they put us ALL at immediate risk.
Here is the impact map, showing the soon-to-be-felt effects of all the Trump/Musk/DOGE firings and defunding and closing of public/federal agencies.
https://theimpactproject.org/the-impact-map/
This is a crowdsourced project, you can help here:
Musk firing thousands of federal employees to "save" money for the government, while his enlisted coding monkeys are making six figures working for a...thing that is not a government agency, has no Congress-approved budget, and so forth: they're stealing our tax money in the open.
#USPolitics #DOGE #FederalEmployeesFirings #Theft
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/
#CallToAction via @Celeste_pewter:
"Soes this mean that every federal employee fired, including the probationary staff, will get their jobs back? This is a question to pose to your reps NOW.
What actually happened: Senate GOP and lawyers finally broke through Trump's idiotic skull.
But that doesn't negate the damage already done. PUSH your electeds on this)"
#CallToAction URGENT: call your representatives--especially Republicans. The firing of thousands of NOAA staffers will fuck up ALL weather forecasting services, from weather.com to your favorite TV channel meteorologist to the app in your phone: they ALL grab their data from NOAA.
#USPolitics #FederalEmployeesFirings #NOAA #WeatherService
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5167978-noaa-firings-probationary-workers-doge/
Via Talking Points Memo: A federal judge finds some DOGE firings illegal--which could spread to many more, and which could land the people signing off on those firings criminally responsible.
#USPolitics #FederalEmployeesFirings
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-doge-firings-found-unlawful-by-office-of-special-counsel
A reason to break the government is to convince the public that privatization will "save" those services--when in fact, it would just cost you more and be worse.
Example: social security administration/Medicaid/Medicare.
#USPolitics #FederalEmployeesFirings
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/setting-the-record-straight-on-social-security
Via Marc Elias of Democracy Docket: "Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution." This is a win for Democracy Forward (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mrzkurwfkul52ofdvpp7esgf) and its clients.
#USPolitics #FederalEmployeesFirings #DEI #TumpExecutiveOrders
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Beware the piss-poor reporting: Steve Ammidown: "They didn’t blink worth shit. “Oh you want temps we don’t have to pay benefits? Have as many as you want!”
Following a loud public outcry, and relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts, the Trump administration has reversed course on a plan to eliminate thousands of seasonal workers at the National Park Service.
This is a post on what the VA does, how it's being destroyed (and the lives that will cost), and what we all can do about it (call your electeds, and yes, that very much includes every single republican, and give them hell, for they're very much complicit here)
#USPolitics #FederalEmployeesFirings #VeteranAffairs
https://www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-department-of-veterans-affairs-gets-well-and-truly-fucked
Sometime in the late 1980s when I was a teenager, I accompanied my dad to the mall. Dad had gotten a pair of un-torn, un-used tickets to Woodstock as a gift and he wanted to put them on display - so we went to an art store and picked out the mats, the frame, and so forth. The woman who helped us p
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