LightNews LightNews
amy-avl.bsky.social
@amy-avl.bsky.social
16 followers 85 following 1 posts
3 standard poodles
#dogscrollingnotdoomscrolling
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
altcdc.altgov.info
Are you an HHS employee struggling with your 5 bullets? We applaud the hero that created this site, where you can input your occupation (title or job series both work) and it generates 5 bullets for you.
www.opmreply.com
OPM Reply
Automate response to OPM emails
www.opmreply.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reposted
altusfs.altgov.info
A fired Forestry Technician speaks: “A nation run like a business WILL do all of this and more, because businesses are for profit of the owners, and right now the richest man in the world owns our country.

If you feel like taking action call your representatives!“

www.congress.gov/members/find...
Terminated Forest Service employee worked as a “snow ranger.” Terminated Forest service employee responding to a wildfire. The DOGE saved us all 40k by firing me. I hope everyone is ready to clear their own trails, clean their own public bathrooms, and fight fires with our wildland fire crews. Or, better yet I hope you're not too mad when we close campgrounds, roads, or hotsprings, because everyone who had the passion to take care of those things are gone. I spent four years earning a degree in Natural Resource Management. Right after graduating. I spent 3 summers building trail management skills through nonprofits. I spent 2 more honing in those skills as a temporary seasonal employee with the USDA forest service. On December 31st, 2023 l was offered a permanent position with my Forest, finally receiving health insurance, retirement, and a guaranteed year-round job. I received a promotion to the Trail Crew Lead position and Winter Snow Ranger. In my position, I not only maintain and build trails, but I train new crew members entering the field of work; I build bridges; I have 600 miles of trail in my work zone to manage; I assist wildlife crews in surveys; I work on militia fire crews and at fire basecamps during wildfire season; I collaborate with other districts, nonprofit groups, and local recreation groups to meet the needs and wants of everyone I serve; I spread information on avalanche danger and closure areas in the winter; I clean public bathrooms free to the public to use; I do all this and so much more because I am passionate about what I do, and love serving my community and anyone who visits and recreates on our National Forest. I have met full performance on my evaluation each quarter, and I have a 12 page resume qualifying me for my position. I have 6 years of specialized experience, half of which was all with the USDA Forest Service. Yet I was fired for performance that no longer serves the public. Tell me how that makes sense. Tell me how thousands of other employees received the EXACT. SAME. TERMINATION LETTER. Most of these people having many years of experience in their field. There's a legal way to reduce the governemnt workforce, known as a RIF, and this is not it. This is not following any guidelines or agenda as outlined in our laws.My schedule A disability letter means nothing to those in power in Washington. And for the record, the Forest Service did not want to fire me - they were forced to fire me and over 3,400 others. Thousands more across the country lost their jobs in other federal agencies - many even lost housing. If we lose all of our federal workers, our public lands will be next, and if that land is sold to the private sector, they will cut off all access using the land for profi - selling it to the rich, or charging you for access to places you've had free use of for years If you voted for this don't complain about lack of services and facilities from any federal public office. Don't complain about people on unemployment (you've forced thousands of us to apply). When prices go up at the national parks, i hope you can afford it. When they start mining and drilling for oil in your favorite vacation spot - this is what you voted for.
February 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
amy-avl.bsky.social
The Democracy Index
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The Democracy Index
*An Introduction and an Invitation*
open.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Reposted
hcrichardson.bsky.social
February 8, 2025
February 8, 2025
Yesterday the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration announced a new policy that will dramatically change the way the United States funds medical research.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Reposted
dearlstephens.bsky.social
📌BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been wiped off the Web.

📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information.

📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.
www.consumerfinance.gov
February 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reposted
nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I define stupidity as behaving in a way that ignores the question: What would happen next?” David Brooks writes.
Opinion | Trump and Stupidity
I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM