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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 1d

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: No rally on Monday, come on Tuesday at 11am.

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 1d

📣📣📣 TOMORROW! We're not going to take this. Featuring Members of Congress and illegally fired feds. #IllegalRIFs #RIFs #TrumpShutdown #HoldTheLine

Fight back against illegal RIFs: Trump and Vought are hurting Americans.

Tuesday, October 14, 11 a.m.

Liberty Plaza in front of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 17th St. NW between F & G Streets.

Goal: 200 Federal workers & allies.

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 1d

Crowdsource request

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 2d

I think all federal workers can relate to this feeling lately… #TenaciousNotTraumatized

Two images:

First image: A smiling man at a laptop with a coffee mug and the caption “Project 2025 weird Russ Vought is my boss, Day 1”

Second image: A dazed looking man at a laptop with the LGBTQIA+ pride flag on his laptop, holding a coffee mug, wearing a tshirt that reads ‘I will support and defend the constitution,’ and six signs behind him that read: (1) Still here. Still fighting. Let us work! (2) NTEU is watching (3) SOS (4) Solidarity (5) Delete DOGE, an American flag, and the caption “Project 2025 weird Russ Vought is my boss, Day 246”

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 3d

NO TO ILLEGAL RIFS

TRUMP AND VOUGHT ARE HURTING AMERICA

Gather at the Office of Management and Budget (near WH, exact location to come)

Monday, October 13, 2pm

DM us if you were RIFed (or had coworkers who were RIFed) and would like to speak

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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

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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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 3d

Plus? Where is the evidence that they've actually done it?

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 5d

@fedworkersunited.bsky.social DMV Hub organizers & friends at the Senate today calling on senators to #holdtheline for a #FightingCR

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 7d

Save #FEMA! Climate disasters are on the rise and Americans need a fully staffed and funded FEMA. Don't let Kristi Noem kill it like she killed her dog.

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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 11d

Russell Vought tells Trump we need MORE COWBELL -- with cowbell meaning everything on the Project 2025 agenda! When Vought tells Trump to do something, he delivers. Who is really running the government?

Made with apologies to Saturday Night Live.

#dontfearthereaper

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 12d

If they try to pull this, we will gather at OMB. Stay tuned.

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 12d

If Vought tries to RIF federal workers, using the shutdown as an excuse, be ready to rally at OMB, his Fortress of Evil. We’ll announce it here. @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @safa-science.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 12d

"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC."

youtu.be/mdxraAC-CTk?...

Federal Workers Reaffirm their Oath on eve of Government Shutdown Showdown

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 12d

"As a federal worker, I am here to tell you that every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown—shuttering programs that Americans rely on, damaging our economy, firing federal workers—all of this is already happening."

youtu.be/jw93RKKreqY?...

Jenna Norton, PhD - (NIH, Bethesda Declaration organizer, mom) *speaking in her personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 12d

Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans:

"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."

youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...

Mark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 12d

“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.”

- @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science

President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass lay-offs across the federal government.

www.nature.com

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 13d

The DOGE vibe coders can’t even scale a clock to a screen www.whitehouse.gov/government-s...

The WHITE HOUSE website reads
Democrat Shutdown is Imminent
With a clock displaying 05:32:29 but the numbers look fuzzy because they are improperly scaled

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 13d

Sen. Van Hollen at yesterday's press conference with federal workers: "A lawless president does not get a blank check." #FightingCR

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 15d

Updated graphic -- please share and come out tomorrow to demand a #FightingCR. @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @savehealthresearch.bsky.social @safa-science.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 17d

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 17d

Join the FUN DMV Hub for some pre-shutdown solidarity tomorrow.

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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 17d

The Trump administration is refusing to release our funds for apprenticeships and other job training programs serving women because DEI or something. This grant program was targeted by the women-haters in DOGE.

Thank you @juliesulabor.bsky.social & @rbreich.bsky.social for putting the pressure on.

Julie A. Su @juliesulabor.bsky.social · 18d

#womenworkers #WheresWANTO #TradeswomenRising #InvestInWomen #shesnotwaitingshesleading

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19d

As Texans dealt with deadly flooding, acting FEMA chief David Richardson didn't immediately end his vacation and return to his D.C. office.

He stayed in his truck.

Richardson claimed during his July 23 testimony that he was on the phone with officials the whole time. 🧵⬇️

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