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Dear @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov I am an ATL CDC employee who received my RIF notice last night. I am 8 mo. pregnant in a high risk pregnancy. I wont have paid parental leave now. I bring home the majority of our income & carry our family’s health insurance. Please, please do something.
October 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Dear @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov I am an ATL CDC employee who received my RIF notice last night. I am 8 mo. pregnant in a high risk pregnancy. I wont have paid parental leave now. I bring home the majority of our income & carry our family’s health insurance. Please, please do something.
@meidastouch.com I just got RIFed from CDC
October 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
@meidastouch.com I just got RIFed from CDC
I’m a federal employee with CDC. I just got RIFed. I’m 8 months pregnant. WTF do I do?! @altcdc.altgov.info
October 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’m a federal employee with CDC. I just got RIFed. I’m 8 months pregnant. WTF do I do?! @altcdc.altgov.info
Imagine leaving DC for a four days when you’re getting paid for NOT solving a major budget issue while your armed forces and federal employees are not getting paid… wild. We’re not bargaining chips, we’re constituents…
@schumer.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov
They should ALL be embarrassed. Privileged, educated adults, and they cant negotiate. Instead they use constituents’ livelihoods as bargaining chips, people who need affordable healthcare & employees of a government unwilling to work for them. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
Government shutdown live updates as military poised to miss first paychecks next week
The government shutdown entered its 10th day Friday as Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse over a spending plan. Follow live updates.
www.cbsnews.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Imagine leaving DC for a four days when you’re getting paid for NOT solving a major budget issue while your armed forces and federal employees are not getting paid… wild. We’re not bargaining chips, we’re constituents…
@schumer.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov
They should ALL be embarrassed. Privileged, educated adults, and they cant negotiate. Instead they use constituents’ livelihoods as bargaining chips, people who need affordable healthcare & employees of a government unwilling to work for them. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
Government shutdown live updates as military poised to miss first paychecks next week
The government shutdown entered its 10th day Friday as Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse over a spending plan. Follow live updates.
www.cbsnews.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
They should ALL be embarrassed. Privileged, educated adults, and they cant negotiate. Instead they use constituents’ livelihoods as bargaining chips, people who need affordable healthcare & employees of a government unwilling to work for them. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
Doesn’t this violate the hatch act? #governmentshutdown
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Doesn’t this violate the hatch act? #governmentshutdown
@warnock.senate.gov fed employee from Marietta. I am 8 mo pregnant and so concerned about threats of another RIF if the government shuts down. Worried about losing my job at a vulnerable time. Any way to sign a temp budget w/ the caveat that Medicare & premiums are addressed in the next budget.
September 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
@warnock.senate.gov fed employee from Marietta. I am 8 mo pregnant and so concerned about threats of another RIF if the government shuts down. Worried about losing my job at a vulnerable time. Any way to sign a temp budget w/ the caveat that Medicare & premiums are addressed in the next budget.
@ossoff.senate.gov fed employee from Marietta. I am 8 mo pregnant and so concerned about threats f another RIF if the government shuts down. Worried about losing my job at such a vulnerable time. Any way to sign a temp budget w/ the caveat that Medicare & premiums are addressed in the next budget.
September 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@ossoff.senate.gov fed employee from Marietta. I am 8 mo pregnant and so concerned about threats f another RIF if the government shuts down. Worried about losing my job at such a vulnerable time. Any way to sign a temp budget w/ the caveat that Medicare & premiums are addressed in the next budget.
An example of public health in action.
Federal, state, and local response to Lassa fever case in Iowa - the first such case in the U.S. in eight years - helps inform preparedness for future outbreaks. bit.ly/4jiR05f #publichealthmatters
April 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
An example of public health in action.
You can follow this thread of people reporting RIF receipt in HHS on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/DeptHHS/co...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You can follow this thread of people reporting RIF receipt in HHS on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/DeptHHS/co...
Hearing the entire FOIA team at CDC was RIFed. Meaning if American people want to request information they are legally entitled to, there’s no one to process those requests…
April 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Hearing the entire FOIA team at CDC was RIFed. Meaning if American people want to request information they are legally entitled to, there’s no one to process those requests…
Thinking of my fellow federal FTEs today. CDC RIFs started going out at 5 a.m. This is terrible.
April 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Thinking of my fellow federal FTEs today. CDC RIFs started going out at 5 a.m. This is terrible.
Got asked four times at my stepdaughter’s birthday party when we’re going to have a baby. 😮💨 Soon? Never? We’re trying? We’re trying. #infertility
March 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Got asked four times at my stepdaughter’s birthday party when we’re going to have a baby. 😮💨 Soon? Never? We’re trying? We’re trying. #infertility
Had a dental descaling done today for my top teeth. The past 6 years, I’ve developed near-debilitating dental #anxiety: putting appts off for years, hyperventilating/crying in the chair. It’s a sensory nightmare: noises, smells, tastes, touching. But I did it, thanks to my husband & laughing gas.
February 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Had a dental descaling done today for my top teeth. The past 6 years, I’ve developed near-debilitating dental #anxiety: putting appts off for years, hyperventilating/crying in the chair. It’s a sensory nightmare: noises, smells, tastes, touching. But I did it, thanks to my husband & laughing gas.
My night stand TBR has about 5 books on it 📚. It’s time to work my way through them. I think I can finish this one today! Then onto the tandem read of Empire of Storm and Tower of Dawn. #BookSky
February 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My night stand TBR has about 5 books on it 📚. It’s time to work my way through them. I think I can finish this one today! Then onto the tandem read of Empire of Storm and Tower of Dawn. #BookSky
Dear Walmart and Target, please start selling full length girl shirts again. Sincerely, a parent who can only find crop tops and still needs clothes her 8 y/o kid can wear to school without breaking dress code.
February 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Dear Walmart and Target, please start selling full length girl shirts again. Sincerely, a parent who can only find crop tops and still needs clothes her 8 y/o kid can wear to school without breaking dress code.
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In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from 'a presidential appointee.'
Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications
In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from 'a presidential appointee.'
www.npr.org
January 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from 'a presidential appointee.'
For 7 years I got to love on my best friend, my soul dog. He passed away so suddenly, last month. I still find myself grappling with the grief. He was SUCH a good boy. It feels like a piece of my heart is missing. 🌈💕🐾 #dogsofbluesky #rainbowbridge
January 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For 7 years I got to love on my best friend, my soul dog. He passed away so suddenly, last month. I still find myself grappling with the grief. He was SUCH a good boy. It feels like a piece of my heart is missing. 🌈💕🐾 #dogsofbluesky #rainbowbridge
My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for 15 months. No luck so far. This past cycle is the first time we’ve been able to confirm ovulation. I am 10 DPO and just so nervous. #infertility #twoweekwait
January 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for 15 months. No luck so far. This past cycle is the first time we’ve been able to confirm ovulation. I am 10 DPO and just so nervous. #infertility #twoweekwait
Meet Chase! He’s a 7 month old rescue boxer/mastiff mix who we adopted from Mostly Mutts this month after our 7 y/o mini schnauzer suddenly passed in December. The switch from a small dog to big dog is wild! But I’m so happy we found this sweet boy. #RescueDog #DogsOfBlueSky
January 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Meet Chase! He’s a 7 month old rescue boxer/mastiff mix who we adopted from Mostly Mutts this month after our 7 y/o mini schnauzer suddenly passed in December. The switch from a small dog to big dog is wild! But I’m so happy we found this sweet boy. #RescueDog #DogsOfBlueSky