Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.
Republicans want you and your loved ones to suffer and die from preventable illnesses.
Fkg lunatics running the asylum.
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No words.
Wonder how many of these now former HHS staff voted for Trump. I am genuinely interested in how many voted for Trump and are surprised that they are unemployed.
Probabaly not many, that's why trump is targeting them, they're mostly liberals
What civilized country does this to its people who took an oath to serve?!? Watch out, military.
THIS IS MADNESS!! AMERICA HAS TO END THIS ILLEGAL NIGHTMARE!
Dictator at work
What is America coming to?
NO money will be saved by this action, but many lives will be lost. Countries like China and Russia will try to poach these brilliant scientists and we will have huge brain loss in America.
A lot are being offered work in Canada and Europe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Brain drain on an epic scale
Sadly only some, not a lot.
1930's - US becomes a refuge for scientists fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe. 2020's - Europe becomes a refuge for scientists fleeing the rise of fascism in US.
Exactly.
I hope these talented people all get a job in Canada so that they will be able to still vote in the next election.
Ouch!
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If they actually want to go to Russia then, bye!
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Most Americans are monolingual and scared of travel, and that includes "scientists." We're trapped in this insane asylum Long with everyone else, and being able to think critically puts a bullseye on us. 👩🏽🔬🎯
The fact this BS is even happening at ALL IN AMERICA shows there apparently has already been A HUGE BRAIN LOSS IN AMERICA SOOOO too late!!
This is in project25. Its there a game plan. The heritage foundation & the tech Reich billionaires wants to dismantle this country & rebuilt it as a far right evangelical country where tech billionaires are kings and were the peasants with no rights. theplotagainstamerica.com
They’re breaking the country
On purpose.
Yes
How long until the last of the good people of America understand that this won‘t end well?
All our Dems need to be on the floor right now. Let the country/world know what they are doing! @smith.senate.gov (love you let’s gooo!) @amyklobuchar.com
Shut this country down. Millions must march and strike before they get us killed. They will start WW3 but their families won’t be drafted. Find protests in your area here. theblop.org
Efficiency...
⛔️Devestating gutting of the Department of Health and Human Services! It’s not about efficiency, waste or fraud and it never was. Gutting Fact Sheet below!👇 www.murray.senate.gov/fact-sheet-t...
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We the PEOPLE... not them the BILLIONAIRES!
There will be more treason until morale improves
OMG
Between RFK and Joe Rogan I'm beginning to think steroids and push-ups are not a deterrent to being chronically stupid.
I hear France is looking for scientists.
Shameful
FYI to @booker.senate.gov staff
How many of these people in line voted for a ‘smaller’ government? How many of them voted for trump? 🤔
Sickening. Hope Bobby Brain worms suffers some shit.
Unpopular opinion here!!! Well, I don’t support the mass firings at all. I do support an overhaul of the FDA.. RFKjr has really been the only politician to address the poisons fda allows in our food. Sick people equals profit.
So…you support RFK Jr.? Think he was a good choice for head of the HHS? 🤔
There also have been true studies on the harms of vaccines… I’m sure I will get blow back for that. I used to be absolutely pro vaccine… until I started really reading about it. Health insurance is a for profit organization. So is big pharma.
No. Not for hhs. But I do think that when he talks about big pharma and the fda he is right!! You don’t notice how obese Americans are? Really think hard about how much pharma makes on sick people. We have more cancer cases in this country and any other country put together. Why is that?
It's unpopular because it's stupid and you should seriously rethink that position. Hope this helps.
I would love to have a conversation about it and why I feel that way. But you really don’t need to be condescending. Not cool
Seriously?? Rude much??? The hell?!? You realize that so much of what the FDA allows in our food is absolutely outlawed in other countries??
FFS. I hate that asshole and what he’s doing to our country. This will take decades to recover from, if at all.
One word Bastard!🤬
Dehumanizing.
I’d bet my bottom dollar that Trump voters didn’t sign up for THIS. They might say otherwise now but he did NOT run on even a smidge of this mess
The dumbest - and truest - statement that you'll never hear any MAGAt say is: "I voted for Trump because I didn't believe any of what he said he was going to do." You're never going to hear a MAGAt say that, because even they know how stupid they'll sound if they say that.
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No way to tread fellow American workers; with no respect, no dignity. No wonder scientists and researchers are moving overseas.
*treat*
R's in Congress could have ( and still can ) stop all this and refuse. Instead they only repeat Bullshit lines word for word, there constituents see and know the truth and they didn't vote for any of this.
Of course they’re going to choose today of all days to do this.
Not a morsel of respect. And the ones that watch only Fix News hear nothing.
Our media is loving this chaos. A RIF is the ending of a process, not the beginning.
That’s just fucking cruel. Course that’s the point isn’t it
Shameful
Performative cruelty too.
Despicable!
Imagine seeing/reading this about another country. No one elected Elon Musk.
So utterly stupid
Just awful
Terrible
Having RFK-lite in charge of US health is the perfect recipe for reducing the excess population so the MAGA Messiah, King Donald I & his billionaire oligarchs won't have to pay any taxes. MAGA is a plague on humanity. www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics...
This administration is just a daily cruelty show. I believe the person that said talking about the Trump regime : “Cruelty is the point.”
How utterly cruel
What madness is this?
This is so wrong
What is “doge” and how is that even possible and by what legal authority other than that of brute force?
If you were ever wondering what a government run by ridiculous, heartless, incompetent people would look like…here you go!
Our country is actually being run by psycho and sociopaths.
What % fired?
*VA - 14.5% *FDA - 17.2% *CDC - 24.6% *Education - 51.2% *HUD Community Planning and Development - 83.3% *Agency for International Development - 100% FIRED (CNN)
Insane. Thanks for the data.
Feel so bad for these folks who have children, mortgages, car payments, health insurance payments, grocery bills, phone bills, tax bills......And then there's the world's richest man crybabying about his Tesla losses. How sickening.
Every day this regime brings a new source of National Shame. Just an utter dismantling of people’s lives, with an utter disregard for the consequences.
This administration will kill more people this time around than last time. I can’t even imagine how history will cover this insane timeline
And their health insurance. Horrific.
And we’ll spend the next four years *fighting* and expending energy for stuff that should be no-brainer, while *actual* problems (climate change, AI, housing, healthcare) just continues to fester. What a colossal waste.
hi dan! people who are blind or rely on text readers for navigating bluesky really would appreciate if your breaking news on the future of health care regulation had alt text. thanks in advance!
Again: Democrats need a BIG electronic billboard on Capitol Hill with a running tally of the costs to American taxpayers of Trump's golf outings. Just since Jan. 20, it's $26 MILLION & counting. Trump is WASTING our money while Elon is firing our U.S. scientists. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Fabulous idea.
Billboards across the country, where all the people see the info.
Agreed! And TV ads all over too! I was disappointed in the lack of info out there about the great things Biden got done, they should have ran tons of ads- as they should now about the current clown show failures!
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the cruelty and incompetence these people have been subject to is unfathomable-- I hope they can all sue and get their jobs back with damages
So how long until unemployment is destroyed?
Take our country back.
Devastating ripple effects
it's so much easier to destroy than to build
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Be prepared. A lot of us are going to die. This is NOT hyperbole.
I’m going to keep reposting this every day until something is done. Project 2025 must be destroyed. Demolished. Wiped from the face of the earth. "He who acts to save his country from tyranny, domestic terrorism, Project 2025, and radical right wing criminals, violates no laws.”
Goddamned trump.
What a pathetic reflection on this current Republican Administration. If I wasn't such a nice person, I'd wish a horrible, fatal disease on all of these "leaders" -- that could have easily been prevented by the work of these fired HHS workers.
Scientists will go where they are welcome. Not in USA. America, once a leader, has decided to revert to a pre-science age. Choosing to be backwards and stupid. History has seen something like this before, when the Golden Age of Persia, yielded to theology. This will not be "great".
These quislings do not even have the moral courage or fiber to let them go during the day. This is a blatant disrespect of the individuals who were maliciously released from their employment. This is repugnant on so many levels.
A friend's daughter was just fired from the FDA...though she has already been recruited for another job in the private sector. Her take...without oversight, e. coli and salmonella will be real threats, along with measles and other contagious diseases. They are really determined to cull us.
So, don’t do raw vegetables and cook the fire out of meat?
Which sucks, but it’s what we need to do since Elon and the GOP hates food safety?
The least educated w the least access to real news and science will be the most vulnerable. ugh
Has Senator Cassidy weighed in?
He’s acoward
Ugh… this is freakin BS!
Sounds like their form of eugenics is seeing who can survive preventable diseases, while their families are vaccinated
First empire that will fall because it fired its civil servants and dismantled its bureaucracy. 'Good' job, 'Murica!
People just do not understand the often boring, but vital work performed by the Federal government. If we ever recover our Democracy, and I certainly hope we do, I hope we can do a better job of appreciating Federal government workers and our Democracy.
“Turned away when badges didn’t work”— the twisted cruelty of DOGE, just booting people without notice. Human Resources? Ha, no way with these monsters. Thousands out of work across multiple agencies and zero regard for any of those people.
Not just turned away, taken aside and told by security they had been fired. It's unacceptable and dehumanizing
Jesus wept! I thought us Brits were stupid voting for the cockwomble Boris Johnson but you guys have us beat in the “stupid voting” category. On the plus side it is now nice not to be known as the stupidest people on Earth and to pass that baton over to the USA, who are now sprinting away with it.
mother f'ers
Oh my goodness ☹️
White supremacist rage toward a society that tries to treat everyone as equals is quite a sight to behold. They will burn a country to the ground before allowing that impulse to flower. This is titled Operation: Cauterize All Progress and Hope.
See Tom Nichols death of expertise
This is impossible to comprehend.
I am still confused at what is the actual end goal here with all this - , and it’s not to create chaos for chaos sake or because someone is cruel or hate that’s not what they are doing, t- there is an end goal here - however that is being obscured by the chaos
They are freeing up tax dollars currently spent at/for government agencies so they can fund tax breaks for million and billionaires. Cutting these agencies will hurt us common folk, but not rich people. Chaos is just a side benefit, because we can't deal with all the balls in the air.
That’s to simple - there is more at work here - How does Trump benefit - cause we both know he is always working an angle to get more $
Tax breaks benefit him and his entire grifting family.
Don’t blame the voters when the so called opposition helped usher this in.
Alt-text: a long line of people on the sidewalk on a DC street, photo taken from inside a building a floor above them
All these guns, a 2nd amendment and nothing going.
This should help produce the brain drain that Putin demanded of Trump.
The unemployment figures, if they even release them or don't fudge them, will be astonishing. how is the private sector supposed to absorb this many unemployed at once?
Greater Depression, here we come
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We knew they would try. But how are all these people being fired without cause? Where are the courts?
what a fucking disgrace
Those are the people who work for our well-being. Trump is a monster, and he wants us all to suffer.
serious question here, if their badges were deactivated, were their emails also deactivated shortly after that 5:16 a.m. email telling them they were laid off?
laid off is almost certainly not the correct term. It was just the one that came to mind as I was typing this
Probably not but most employees don't have any way to check emails out of hours unless they have a government device - laptop that you took home or a government cellphone - which most don't. Then you only check emails when you get to work in the morning.This is true across the government.
I realize this may be true in some cases, but I also see these jackholes setting people up for failure by sending the email first thing in the morning and then locking them out
That may well also be true. Cruelty is definitely the name of the game.
The sadism is the point.
My God!!
Utter chaos.
How about an email from Toven at AHRQ, there will be a “dignified departure” & then out of the blue access to emails, systems & laptop cut off for fired AHRQ staff. After some were denied entry to bldg & had their IDs taken. No one is getting back to anyone relying on fired staff either.
The fabric of our nation is being destroyed without Congress’ authorization & in defiance of court orders by an Apartheid-raised SA billionaire who has decided he wants to live in a radically different America than the one We The People have built bit by bit, working together for 2 centuries.😤
he wants to live on Mars and destroy America
If Congressional republicans had any moral courage they would impeach Kennedy this week.
They don’t and they won’t
More traumatizing of workers - people - makes me sick and angry
An embarrassed Trump voter told me that she voted for him because she didn't like Kamala as VP, thought he was a good businessman and doesn't want men in her granddaughter's locker room because they're allowed on girls teams. SMH.
Misinformation will destroy the US
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Science and tech, funded by government, helped us win Cold war, now we're in one with China and key industries HHS spurs like biotech are going to die. What morons.
America the leader and innovator >>> becomes America the laggard. Absolute dumbest set of policy decision(s) ever.
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How many years is it going to take our country to recover from the damage to our public health infrastructure? Innumerable.
Is this their version of making America great again? What a joke. Trump lied during the entire campaign. Americans fell for his lies again. Vote blue in every future election to restore American democracy. Electing Trump was a mistake that will have rippling effects for years to come. Act now! 💙
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Yes, I do
It’s the my ignorance is as valid as your scientific knowledge approach. It won’t end well. The US will fall decades behind the developed world in a few years.
Stop this
So insulting and abusive of people just trying to do their jobs keeping us healthy.
What's HHS?
Health and human services
Reminder of Bread Lines from🇺🇸great depression.
Call me stupid but how is this happening . There is no power in those asinine EO..wtf . Are there people helping the orange turd to do these things?
Surely it's not a problem. MAGA supporter Bubba from Louisiana can work on a cure for cancer & surely MAGA Karen from Kentucky can solve COPD & other respiratory diseases?
ivermectin
Omg
I am hoping that BigBalls and his creepy brotherhood of tech idiots all simultaneously come down with raging cases of mumps. IYKYK
Preferably something that burns when they pee
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AIDS since we just completely stripped that too.
IT'S AMERICAN SUICIDE.
“Make America Healthy Again”
Nazi musk & traitor trump & all who continue to support these deranged, incompetent, power hungry subhumans can rot, in a hell of their own making, on Earth.
No Christian nation would fire employees and they find out at the door. Clearly this is done by someone who likes to hurt people. Who does not want to give people dignity. Doesn’t sound like Jesus would do that. But who would?🤔
naw. if this were a dictatorship, they'd be taking away people's rights without due process.
Huh? There is no "due process." DOGE and deportations are not doing any due process.
I was being sarcastic
Wondering how many regrets voting for the orange guy
Omg!!!!! This NOT what are country is!!!!!
Actually, this IS what the country has turned into.
This is humiliating not only for the Federal employees but for the whole nation. Shame on those who voted for these people running our government.
Every one of these people should be voting Democrat in the next two elections. None of this will stop otherwise.
No one should ever forget the way these dedicated employees were treated - as if it's some episode of The Apprentice and not the actual lives of professionals.
I'm so tired of all this. It's bad when "American Pie" comes on the playlist & you burst into tears. I hope all those workers will be ok.
The day science died
I’m with you. 😢
I was listening to Black Eyed Peas “Where is the Love” last night with tears in my eyes.
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How can career federal employees be fired?
Because Congress is acted like it was business as normal and confirmed Trump's picks and the majority act like DOGE has the authority to break and enter, copy and alter computer data, to fire federal employees and close government agencies and the EOs are laws. They gave away their power.
because the people who could stop this illegal action are...not
RIF actions are perfectly legal. Impounding Congressional funds is not, but 🤷♂️
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and RFKjr are mass murderers.
The ripple effects from all these cuts will be felt in every corner of this country.
I don’t understand why anyone would agree with the way this downsizing of our government agencies is being handled. Totally unprofessional and degrading to our citizens who have dedicated themselves to protecting and serving the American people! I am kind of surprised that we haven’t had any
killing by those fired in this chaotic and brutal manner! But I guess those who are inflicting the damage are not speaking directly to the employees. They hide at the end of a computer line and never has to actually see in person, the damage they are doing to their victims! Fired by video game!
What a fucking mess the trump government has become
Absolutely awful for public health and the country overall
People also need to know that employees’ performance evals were tampered with. Pretty much everyone is reporting at least one incorrect “3” on their RIF letter when they actually received a 4 or a 5.
I'm almost starting to think, the rest of the world will need to quarantine US travelers in future. It's awful.
Quarantine or travel ban. If USA refuses to implement appropriate public health it cannot expect its citizens to be welcomed with open arms. At the moment it seems like a prime location for the start of the next pandemic, probably hoping to cull 000’s of the weakest & poorest into the bargain.
it's inhumane
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Republicans are scum.
I’m going to keep reposting this every day until something is done. Project 2025 must be destroyed. Demolished. Wiped from the face of the earth. "He who acts to save his country from tyranny, domestic terrorism, Project 2025, and radical right wing criminals, violates no laws.”
How can the Republican Senate look at these photos and not act? Absolute cowards!
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That’s just brutal.
That looks efficient.
Americans need to get on the streets.
I’ve just heard of RIFs at the CDC as well. Entire offices, by the sounds of it.
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As Trump takes us back to the pre-vaccine era. Should companies look at at restarting the manufacturing of iron lung machines for polio victims? And Samoa, when one out of every 150 babies died from the measles, is a preview of coming attractions if the MMR vaccination rate keeps falling,
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It's bad enough that they are firing all these people, but do they have to be such DICKS about iut?
They’re sadists.
Yep. They literally changed my team’s out of office settings. If you email us now the reply is: “Greetings, I am currently out of the office,” as if we’re just taking a week off or something. “HHS leadership appreciates your service,” says the email (implying no one else does.) Just juvenile.
I’m curious as to who is going into the system and installing all these out of office greetings and turning off badge access. Doge dudes?
Yep. My letter was sent and signed by a dogebro, not my agency. All the HR staff were fired, too, so we have no one to contact except a generic email at OPM.
I appreciate the reply and best of luck to you. Ever since it all started happening I’ve been trying to wrap my head around how outsiders can just take over a large gov’t organization and eliminate it. You’d think there would be safeguards in place.
There are. It’s called Congress and the courts. The problem is that this takeover has been a long time in planning and implementing and Heritage knew exactly what they were doing.
This is absolutely disgraceful. Have they offered careers assistance / re-training programs or anything similar?
Sure. Those programs are great if you don’t know how to do basic things, but I’ve got 25+ years of learning to do things, and am not a Luddite. I don’t really need to be told about job boards— what is needed is not a job for *me* — we need a functioning democracy!
Absolutely get that. I just wondered - considering they fired the HR dept too - if they were following a standard HR model
Because cruelty is a feature, not a bug of DOGE
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If there is no CDC or HHS, Conald won’t have to worry about them reporting on measles or the new Covid/flu, or bird flu being transmitted to humans 54% of humans infected will DIE
I can hardly stand to witness this cruelty.
That fucking flag should be upside down and at half mast. 😡
This is destroying our health and sciences.
That's their game plan.It's all in project25. theplotagainstamerica.com
This is insanity.
And, they made all these people come back to the office full time, only to then do this.
An early AM email on a Tuesday is how they informed people dedicated to helping Americans live longer that they’re fired. Unforgivable.
What cruel a-holes fire people via email on April Fool’s Day? So feeble of the leadership within Doge to treat our federal workers without decency and respect. It’s just weak.
I am still shocked every time I see these reports. Mentally I know it's happening, but I still can't believe it.
Said the exact same thing. I am shocked our friends, family & neighbors voted for this.We tried to warn them.The writing was on the wall. No critical thinking skills, only 🦊 Entertainment.
I can't begin to understand it. All I can imagine is that people living in the US, who voted for this, were unaware of the full implications.
So food safety, gone? This will have a huge ripple effect. If people perceive that food is unsafe they won’t buy. Boars Head meat, anyone?
It’s disgraceful.
RFK Jr decimating public health destroying people’s lives Senator Cassidy this is on you
Why did he fall for his lies? He gave pause and then face in.
*gave in-need coffee
Me, too. It’s still early ☕️
He didn’t fall for anything. He knew exactly what he was voting for. He didn’t want Elon to fund a primary against him. Better mass deaths than one man lose political power. But don’t pretend he didn’t understand the trade off, because he absolutely did.
Um ok. I wasn’t pretending.
I hope people in Louisiana are working on a strong plan to oust Cassidy. He, out of all the members of Congress, knew better and still voted to confirm RFK Jr. Shameful, to say the least.
They are not. It's deep red and most are oblivious to anything not on Fox News. Like many states, they vote for the incumbent consistently no matter what kind of job the incumbent is doing.
RFK, Jr. told us what he thought, and now he is carrying out his anti-vaccination agenda.
I. Can’t. Even.
Cowards all. Anyone involved should be ashamed of treating people that way.
I thought it was a bread queue. Or an egg queue.
That's where they are referred after their badges are denied entry
Horrifying!
Disgusting!
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Waiting for that Kennedy curse to kick in.
This time it's going to be millions of Americans killed from him
The fired employees all need to be re-hired, stat.
will take decades to undo, even if dems ever even have the chance to again.
This is also happening outside DC —5 regional offices shuttered (Boston, NYC, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco). Glad to help connect you to people who can speak to impacts (eg, Head Start, child care, states & communities) @crampell.bsky.social @dandiamond.bsky.social @citizencohn.bsky.social
It’s also reaching stage and local offices that rely on federal funds. The shit show has only just begun.
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Not even any notice. This is atrocious
These cuts by Trump admin will primarily hurt not only the workers families, the neighborhoods where they live and lower income workers across our nation. This is not about making a trim efficient government. This is about freeing up money so Trump and his cronies get their trillions in tax cuts.
It’s about privatization. More business for the oligarchs. Same as Russia.
this will hurt everyone. the mummified lizard is gutting public health.
What a miserable dumb fuck dumpty js
#KoupKlutzKlan must go!👹
It is true
