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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3h

When you get a government shut down, many people are furloughed (=told they may not work during the shutdown).

Others are excepted because their work is crucial and significant harm if they were furloughed.

(All of our work is important but stick with me here.)

SOME EXCEPTED STAFF - just RIFfed.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 8d

Government Shutdown 101 📚

What's furlough?
Are all gov employees furloughed?
And what does it mean for CDC?

Well, because #MMWR staff are furloughed, no #AltComms tonight 😢

Short thread 👇

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2h

Reduction in force (RIF, I.e. firing) email and page 1 of the RIF memo.

CDC, this is absolutely illegal and our union (AFGE) will be suing.

afge2883ga.org

The union is asking that you send your RIF notice to: [email protected] with

Name
CIO/division/branch
FTE status & tenure

Dear [name redacted],

I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action. Please find attached a notice memorandum explaining the RIF and next steps. This RIF action does not reflect directly on your service, performance, or conduct. It is being taken solely for the reasons stated in the memorandum.

After you receive this notice, you will be placed on administrative leave and will no longer have building access beginning Friday, October 10, unless directed otherwise by your leadership. Additionally, please save this email and its attachments, or forward them to a personal email address, for your records.

Leadership at HHS appreciates your service.

Sincerely,
Tom Nagy

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is executing this Reduction in Force (RIF) to maximize efficiency and funding priorities. This memorandum constitutes a specific notice of a RIF.

I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a RIF action. This RIF is necessary to reshape the workforce of HHS.

This is your specific notice of the RIF. In accordance with the RIF procedures specified in Chapter 35 of Title 5 of the United States Code and Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 351, and HHS policy, you are being released from your competitive level based on your retention standing. Consequently, you will be separated from the Federal service effective December 8, 2025. In the event you are qualified and have assignment rights to a position that becomes available during the notice period, you will be informed via a specific, subsequent notice. Should the circumstances of the RIF notice change, this notice will be updated.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2h

✅Our union is requesting that RIF notices be sent to [email protected] with your name, CIO/division/branch, FTE status and tenure
✅you can join the union here: www.afge2883ga.org
✅See resources from previously fired colleagues: firedbutfighting.org

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1h

Typos aside, there is simply no such thing.

ECGs are not an indicator of age.

They literally do not contain that information, either directly or indirectly.

This is just made up gobbledygook.

So, my question is: why?

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 3h

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.

www.bloomberg.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 9d

“For years, the right has vilified federal workers as nameless, faceless bureaucrats.
But the truth is … they’re the people who live and work in our communities and they are being hurt.”

Sara Nelson, President of @afacwa.org in 2019 when Trump et al shut down the government.

Workers have power.

Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · Feb 3

Posts about a General Strike, too. It was the threat of General Strike during 2019 Government Shutdown that led to resolution. GOP leadership is AFRAID for workers to know their own STRENGTH!

Listen to @realnewsnobs.bsky.social interview with AFA President Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 9h

He has no honor. Who can trust a single word he says unless he’s spewing vindictive rhetoric & lies?
“For the most part, we’re going to take care of our people, there’s some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of and we’ll take care of them in a different way”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 7d

A relentless propaganda campaign, combined with MAGA politicians, billionaires, media complicity, and institutional cowardice placed these buffoons in charge.

With the crucial contributions of @walkerbragman.bsky.social that’s the story I tell.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 7d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!

The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 14h

ICYMI

Highlights from @abigailspanberger.com debate. Virginia, you know what to do!
#VoteBlue 💙

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 10h

Firing federal employees during a shutdown is not only illegal but must be seen for what it is: blatant extortion.

The Trump Administration is using working people and their families as pawns in a power play with no concern for who gets hurt.

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 9h

He has no honor. Who can trust a single word he says unless he’s spewing vindictive rhetoric & lies?
“For the most part, we’re going to take care of our people, there’s some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of and we’ll take care of them in a different way”

bsky.app/profile/jkin...

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 10h

And this is why guardrails that provide greater confidence that funds Congress provides on a bipartisan basis will reach the communities they are intended to assist are so crucial to resolving the 2026 funding impasse.

www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

New Proposal Shows Congress Can Enact Guardrails to Ensure a Deal Is a Deal for 2026 Funding | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Republicans in Congress should be willing to include proposals like these in a 2026 funding agreement to ensure it is implemented consistent with the deal they reach.

www.cbpp.org

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 10h

The Admin’s actions have created an enormous roadblock for Congress to reach a bipartisan 2026 funding deal because lawmakers justifiably need to know that if they reach a deal that the President won’t unilaterally and unlawfully undo it.

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 10h

And these firings are only one way that the Admin has shredded the last bipartisan funding bill; it has also illegally canceled & frozen funding– eg for medical research, education, or mental health treatment -keeping it from reaching the people & communities it’s meant to serve.

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 10h

It’s worth remembering that the Administration has already engaged in large-scale firings, undermining the functioning of critical services that people depend on.

The 2025 bipartisan funding bill provided the $ needed for staff—the Admin chose to fire people anyway.

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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 9h

#Biomimicry Nature’s Lessons

•Life runs on sunlight
•Life does chemistry in water
•Life depends on local expertise
•Life banks on diversity and rewards cooperation
•Life wastes nothing

Most importantly,
•Life does not foul its nest

asknature.org 50+ inspiring examples
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12h

I think we need to be crystal clear about how Trump's creation of a nationwide police force—loyal only to him—threatens to create a feedback loop of lawlessness in which our constitutional right to dissent may vanish. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It is now beyond debate that one of Donald Trump’s key goals is the creation of a national police force that is loyal to him alone. To that end, the president has repeatedly federalized the National Guard—often over governors’ objections—and deployed troops to invade blue cities whose residents oppose his administration. He has also transformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a kind of secret police that targets, with especially sadistic brutality, journalists, protesters, and others exercising their First Amendment rights. Trump’s multifaceted attack on the Constitution creates a feedback loop of lawlessness: He first erodes the structural limits on his authority, then exploits his newly unchecked power to trample the people’s freedom to dissent.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10h

A new report reveals that an upcoming Supreme Court case could eliminate:

❌ 27 blue congressional districts
❌ 30% of Congressional Black Caucus seats
❌ 11% of Hispanic Caucus seats

And the effects could ripple for over a generation.

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns