The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55. Needed 60. Zero Democrats voted for it. SEVEN Republicans opposed it: Budd Johnson Lee Paul Moody Rick Scott Tuberville (John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)

This.

A group of Health and Human Services Departments employees can proceed in their efforts to pursue a class action lawsuit over their layoffs, a federal judge ruled Thursday evening. buff.ly/Wbdqrcn

“recent workforce reductions…created an opportunity to reset expectations and rebuild around core competencies” WTF Who will stand up for AHRQ? & FIRED FEDS @jeremymberg.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @standupforscience.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social

HHS - Nothing to rehire illegally Fired Feds (April 1 RIF) Funding for #AHRQ - w/no accountability @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info

🚨 Salmonella Outbreak: 45 people sick in 21 states with 12 hospitalizations. Do not eat Live It Up Super Greens supplement powders. Notes place sold Amazon, eBay, and Walmart.

We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!

@academyhealth.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com The irony of this crap - it’s evidence of the sham RIF that fired more than 110 AHRQ staff. Functions that were eliminated in the RIF continue & no reorg. Just more evidence for MSPB appeals!

#altgov please share @altfda.altgov.info @altcdc.altgov.info

ATTENTION! All of USA's government is under a gag order. No one with gov is allowed to commemorate and or promoting World AIDS Day, Dec 1. THE day aims to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, support those living with it, remember those lost, & promote prevention & education. What will you do?

HHS leaders are doubling down on harm. Their new “report” on gender-affirming care for minors is junk science. Skip it. Check this out instead: sph.washington.edu/news-events/... It links to real evidence-based research Bottom line: Gender-affirming care improves mental health and saves lives 🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏳️‍⚧️

And from CIDRAP, just to provide a trustworthy reference for the CNN article I just shared. Yep, no true healthcare professional should trust anything from CDC going forward.

Justice delayed is justice denied for ILLEGALLY FIRED (RIF-ED) FEDS! MSPB HAS OVER 20K APPEALS. wonder how many live in VA, Sen Kaine? @alt-hhs.altgov.info @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov www.mspb.gov/Recent%20ROF...

Getting ready for the upcoming ACIP meeting, I see. If your kids haven’t had their first MMR dose, get it as soon as you can.

Oregon retiree: My immediate concern is January 1st, 2026. My wife and I were paying $443 a month — and on January 1st, we will be paying $2,224 a month. That's a 500% increase.

You don’t speak up inside a captured agency because it’s fun. You do it because the stakes are deadly serious. Dr. Norton was placed on administrative leave for defending Americans’ health. She's a hero for saying what needs to be said. We stand with her. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

After Republicans refused to extend ACA subsidies, 4 Michigan insurers are dropping out of the ACA marketplace altogether. That’s 200,000 Michiganders who just lost their plans.

There is nothing “clean” about the Continuing Resolution that was passed tonight. 
Sure, it reopens the government—but it does nothing to address the healthcare crisis that Republicans created. (1/2)

The 2 Republicans who opposed the bill were Reps. Thomas Massie and Greg Steube. The 6 Democrats who voted yes: Reps. Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, Marie Glusenkamp Perez, Jared Golden (who's not seeking re-election next year), Adam Gray, and Tom Suozzi. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

It was “NO” yesterday. It’s “NO” today. And it’ll be “NO” when it gets to the House. I’m not voting for something that forces millions of Americans to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on their table.

Some nights we sign off with hope and inspiration. Tonight, we sign off with anger and betrayal. To the senators who caved... twice... May you have the night you deserve. And to the rest of you... Rage, rage against the dying of the light Night, folks 💚

So let's make our voices HEARD 📣 by emailing, calling, commenting on posts Heck, write a letter if that makes you happy Us feds are willing to keep sacrificing so that health care STAYS AFFORDABLE for every American Demand the Dems make our sacrifices worth it!

It’s so much more than premiums that the democrats just caved on 💔

This right here.

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

My statement on the spending legislation and Republican healthcare crisis.

Republicans are forcing us to choose between keeping healthcare costs low, feeding hungry children, and paying our dedicated federal workers. For me, it’s a false choice. It’s a NO on any bill that does not address the Republican health care crisis.

Dem Senator Ruben Gallego is a no on the CR: “I have been clear on this from the beginning: I will not turn my back on the 24 million Americans who will see their premiums more than double if we don’t extend these tax credits.”

Call them. Tell them not to surrender.

We just won a court order blocking the Dept. of Ed from violating the First Amendment rights of furloughed federal workers, whose out-of-office emails were changed – without notice or permission – to include partisan political language.

If we don't test for COVID, then there's no COVID! If there's no flights, then there's no late flights! Brilliant!

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Sorry Politico Pro - In addition to a Paywall- you got some facts wrong (from the little I can read): HHS ILLEGALLY FIRES FEDS AT AHRQ!! HHS AHRQ violates 1) RIF 2) anti-deficiency act 3) appropriations law - Ongoing…. @davidlim.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info

Nature Reviews Nephrology comment on the harms of NIH grant terminations related to kidney disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...

HHS is trying to illegally fire every single communications and policy Fed across every Agency. Many illegally fired in April 1st RIF & more on hold in shutdown RIF. Comms & Policy are not extras…. @altcdc.altgov.info @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info

🗳️ Tomorrow is Election Day. This is one of your few systematic opportunities to fight for your community. Take it. We have to stop this. ✊

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

No mention of #AHRQ & that’s NOT the AHRQ Director…. No wonder no one notices all the ways AHRQ is violating laws - from continuing all the functions that were RIFed to not spending appropriations to not publishing required reports & more…. @altcdc.altgov.info @firedbutfighting.bsky.social

This is a story that got missed, about how the White House is using the shutdown as an excuse to eliminate accountability. It has shut down Inspectors General websites, meaning that lots of reports about failures have disappeared from govt websites. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

When the rules only apply to others….

A person in Alabama was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor, and other items, intending to attack synagogues across the US South. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said. (Published Sept.)

History endures and one day emerges. Every masked ICE thug, DOJ lawyer or DHS bureaucrat today shoving people into vans, or losing children in private-prison gulags, or exporting immigrants to random countries: Masks and following-orders excuses won't be enough. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🚨ICE posing as sheriff in Hollywood, CA. Governor Newsom is going to see this and he is going to be lit with rage, as he should be. The guy asking questions on video pointing out all the illegal acts they are committing. Let’s make sure he sees what happened tonight. 1/2