When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

Why isn’t every single state, university, and non profit suing Vought for intentional negligence? The guy should be flooded with suits that make him individually liable

CHAOS REIGNS!!!!!!!!!

I'm so tired of the commentary.. as if they are not talking about humans with needs and families. 🔥🔥

Stares in "not getting paid" and "potential mass firings"

Who is furloughed, and who isn’t, remains uncertain, according to agency employees and observers interviewed by High Country News; it is not being carried out in an orderly or consistent fashion across the agency.

I leave the house for six weeks and come back to this as our bathroom and shower 🤣

I never want to see another human trot across a crosswalk, hurry their stroller/kids/mobility device or rush a senior resident through an intersection or any road. It’s ridiculous, like we’ve been gifted some incredible act of patience and kindness from our auto overlords.

there are simply no words to describe the grief of this happening on yom kippur.

Ohio Nurses Association slams Trump and GOP for shutdown, warns of healthcare impact Source: WSYX ABC6 share.newsbreak.com/f9u60wvt

Senate Democrats should add the rehiring of any laid off workers as a condition of ending the shutdown.

Trump is using the government shutdown *he caused* as an excuse to fire more federal workers. Instead of working with Democrats to save healthcare and protect essential services, Republicans are gutting our government so Trump can play king. The cruelty is the point. abcnews.link/hmHTWMU

I have been bugging Wiley publishing to send me an invoice for 2 months because I have no idea if I’m gonna have a job for very much longer and I need to pay for page charges and they ended up sending me that invoice on Oct 1, the day the gov shutdown. What a joke.

Turns out I’m “exempt”, so I get to work during a shutdown. Mixed emotions on that.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Imagine working at TSA, not getting paid, and having what’s her name hovering above you all day.

Love hearing an NPR reporter repeat Vought's line about "unconstitutional DEI principles" with nary a query about what the fuck that actually means. At some point we need journalists to make this administration explain some of these batshit utterances.

This is absolutely a lie. There is no reason shutdowns trigger layoffs. They never have before. Trump is simply using the shutdown as an excuse to take federal employees hostages and to further gut the government. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

Federal employees should never be used as political pawns in shutdown negotiations.

“We are going to have to lay some people off if the shutdown continues. We don’t like that. We don’t necessarily want to do it," Vance said. "But we’re going to do what we have to keep the American people’s essential services continuing to run." That doesn’t even make any fu$&ing sense.

Trump budget chief says firings are coming in 'one to two' days due to shutdown www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Finally, some analysis on the legality of RIFs during a shutdown. According to this article it is not legal but I’d love to see other legal experts weigh in. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Day 3 of #NationalWeekWithoutDriving. Waking up to a government shutdown. I’m married to an essential federal worker, so he still has to work, and pay Metro fares, but we don’t know when he will next get paid. I’m already on trip 2 of the day. Lots of people still working hard in DC no matter what.

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Last NJ pizza with my mom before I head back home to Reno.

BREAKING: Federal agencies are blaming Democrats and leftists/liberals in Congress for the looming shutdown. That appears to violate the Hatch Act -- my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The guidance from my supervisor about a shutdown is that there is no guidance. Good luck out there.

This whole section really.

I do not know who needs to hear this (everyone on BlueSky) but mass firings of fed employees during a shutdown would 💯 be different than the firings that already occurred. Just look at USAID for proof. I still say “shut ‘er down”, but a dose of f&$king reality from yall would be nice.

EXPLAIN YOUR VOTE TO CONFIRM BURGUM AT INTERIOR, @cantwell.senate.gov.

When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety Who knows what will happen now Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC (europepmc.org )

I do not know who needs to hear this (everyone on BlueSky) but mass firings of fed employees during a shutdown would 💯 be different than the firings that already occurred. Just look at USAID for proof. I still say “shut ‘er down”, but a dose of f&$king reality from yall would be nice.

No one thinks they'll negotiate at the holidays, and the Dems won't shut us down then, so they have no leverage if they wait. Trump is giddy at the thought of a shut down, saying he'll fire masses of fed employees. He wants mass firings and to blame Dems, but that's also bs. He could simply NOT.

News: OPM has determined that federal workers handling the mass firings of other govt workers should be deemed essential during a shutdown This comes after OMB directed agencies to prep for mass firings if there's a shutdown this week By @annackramer.bsky.social: www.notus.org/trump-white-...

After reducing agencies to chaos, the General Services Administration is reversing DOGE's downsizing and hiring back workers. This shows what we already knew - federal workers are the essential and irreplaceable source for efficient public services. Read: apnews.com/article/doge... #savefederaljobs

Who will get fired? Who knows?! Not even leadership. Welcome to being a government employee in 2025. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Hegseth is summoning hundreds of the most senior US generals and admirals so he can give them a lecture on the “warrior ethos” this week.

Pinus flexilis, our Limber Pines, at the Kiwanis Cabin site today #nativeplants 🌿

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

Southern Rockies in the Fall

Democrats are saying shutdown RIFs are illegal but what are they doing to prepare for that legal battle??? My guess is not a whole lot federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...

Elon Musk, a white South African, will end up causing more misery across the African continent than anyone else in recent history

Read my full statement on the SAFE Act here: olszewski.house.gov/media/press-...

Federal workers are not political pawns. Trump’s mass firing plan would make a shutdown permanent, taking away livelihoods and harming critical services. I’m introducing the SAFE Act to safeguard federal employees during shutdowns and ensure back pay if they’re fired unlawfully.

Did everyone see that unhinged memo from OMB? If not, screen cap of the first page (via Politico) with my own highlighting of standout crazed lines below. Per Mona Burns below, even a deep red MAGA rep sees this is nuts.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Dear NPR. No. Just no. This is not how you help. One of the several thousand actual road safety experts here. We are easy to find. Maybe give one of us a call next time, ok?

if there's one thing that should tell you everything you need to know about LinkedIn, it's the sheer number of techbro MBA-heads who are posting massive and ill-informed rants about wanting a Government shutdown plus a massive RIF, and that there will never be any negative effects.

New: There was an "emergency" all-hands meeting inside part of NOAA today basically to tell people they have no idea what to expect re a potential shutdown. "Even less than usual," per one source. There is no guidance yet available and no info on what specifically the OMB memo means. So that's cool.