Shande Farmisht
@pjt1919.bsky.social
#AHRQ listed FORMER Federal employees on 9/25 grant Notice of Awards
7/15 RIFd staff no longer Feds includes grants management specialists (GMS)
9/25 NoAs listed these staff as the GMS
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @nicholasbednar.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
7/15 RIFd staff no longer Feds includes grants management specialists (GMS)
9/25 NoAs listed these staff as the GMS
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @nicholasbednar.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM
#AHRQ listed FORMER Federal employees on 9/25 grant Notice of Awards
7/15 RIFd staff no longer Feds includes grants management specialists (GMS)
9/25 NoAs listed these staff as the GMS
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @nicholasbednar.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
7/15 RIFd staff no longer Feds includes grants management specialists (GMS)
9/25 NoAs listed these staff as the GMS
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @nicholasbednar.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
Please keep talking about the HHS RIF of thousands of Feds who lost their jobs on April 1st
@nicholasbednar.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info
@nicholasbednar.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info
RFK Jr. concedes “targeted cuts” at HHS “would have been better”
The Health and Human Services secretary told podcaster Theo Von that DOGE should have done its job differently when it came to job cuts at HHS.
www.ms.now
February 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Please keep talking about the HHS RIF of thousands of Feds who lost their jobs on April 1st
@nicholasbednar.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info
@nicholasbednar.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info
@hoyer.house.gov @repsuhas.bsky.social @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @democracyforward.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social
Congress gives $ to AHRQ but ignores the fact that HHS eliminated and separated all the staff that run the agency’s grant program, contracts, finance, & more…
Congress gives $ to AHRQ but ignores the fact that HHS eliminated and separated all the staff that run the agency’s grant program, contracts, finance, & more…
February 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
@hoyer.house.gov @repsuhas.bsky.social @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @democracyforward.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social
Congress gives $ to AHRQ but ignores the fact that HHS eliminated and separated all the staff that run the agency’s grant program, contracts, finance, & more…
Congress gives $ to AHRQ but ignores the fact that HHS eliminated and separated all the staff that run the agency’s grant program, contracts, finance, & more…
#AHRQ wins by losing! Dec 2025 OPM data 5 fewer Feds than Nov = 103
64% staffing decline from before early 2025
FY2026 budget $345M only 6% less than last yr
Illegally fired Feds could use some help….
@vanhollen.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @degette.house.gov @delauro.house.gov
64% staffing decline from before early 2025
FY2026 budget $345M only 6% less than last yr
Illegally fired Feds could use some help….
@vanhollen.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @degette.house.gov @delauro.house.gov
February 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
#AHRQ wins by losing! Dec 2025 OPM data 5 fewer Feds than Nov = 103
64% staffing decline from before early 2025
FY2026 budget $345M only 6% less than last yr
Illegally fired Feds could use some help….
@vanhollen.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @degette.house.gov @delauro.house.gov
64% staffing decline from before early 2025
FY2026 budget $345M only 6% less than last yr
Illegally fired Feds could use some help….
@vanhollen.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @degette.house.gov @delauro.house.gov
#AHRQ defunded PSNeT 4/25. Fired all Comms Feds - 4/25. Renewed multiple comms contracts since 4/25 adding new comms contractor staff to AHRQ as recent as last week.
Patient safety? Where is the oversight?
@donmoyn.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
Patient safety? Where is the oversight?
@donmoyn.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
#AHRQ defunded PSNeT 4/25. Fired all Comms Feds - 4/25. Renewed multiple comms contracts since 4/25 adding new comms contractor staff to AHRQ as recent as last week.
Patient safety? Where is the oversight?
@donmoyn.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
Patient safety? Where is the oversight?
@donmoyn.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Sharing one of the most powerful videos I've seen in our fight against Trump....
Watch this incredible testimony from a citizen making the case against ICE's building of a "detention" center in Surprise, Arizona. Watch, and then share, and share again.....
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-know-en...
Watch this incredible testimony from a citizen making the case against ICE's building of a "detention" center in Surprise, Arizona. Watch, and then share, and share again.....
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-know-en...
"We Know Enough" - Powerful Testimony From Arizona Against ICE's Building Of A Massive "Detention" Center There
Watch and share this incredible video from an Arizona town meeting last night
www.hopiumchronicles.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Sharing one of the most powerful videos I've seen in our fight against Trump....
Watch this incredible testimony from a citizen making the case against ICE's building of a "detention" center in Surprise, Arizona. Watch, and then share, and share again.....
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-know-en...
Watch this incredible testimony from a citizen making the case against ICE's building of a "detention" center in Surprise, Arizona. Watch, and then share, and share again.....
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-know-en...
#AHRQ federal employees by GS series using OPM data as of Nov 2025. Running an Agency with no finance, grant, IT, contract & comms Feds. All replaced by contractors and farmed out to other agencies.
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
#AHRQ federal employees by GS series using OPM data as of Nov 2025. Running an Agency with no finance, grant, IT, contract & comms Feds. All replaced by contractors and farmed out to other agencies.
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social
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The Government Accountability Office found in a Monday report that the Education Department spent $28.5 million to $38 million on nine months of paid leave for employees in its Office for Civil Rights before ultimately reinstating them to their positions. buff.ly/VUw20qC
Education Department spent up to $38M paying employees not to work before reinstating them, watchdog reports
The Government Accountability Office also reported that the caseload for the department’s Office for Civil Rights increased by an average of 98 cases per week during part of the time that these…
www.govexec.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:11 PM
The Government Accountability Office found in a Monday report that the Education Department spent $28.5 million to $38 million on nine months of paid leave for employees in its Office for Civil Rights before ultimately reinstating them to their positions. buff.ly/VUw20qC
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"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:45 AM
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Reposted by Shande Farmisht
CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:
February 2, 2026 at 4:12 AM
CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:
Reposted by Shande Farmisht
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...
the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Purge the Public Servants
The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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...
the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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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.)
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.)
January 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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.)
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.)
AHRQ FY26 = $0
FY 25 = using FDA to process continuation grants in Sept with FDA as authorizing official and no longer federal employees from AHRQ as grants management specialists.
FY 25 = using FDA to process continuation grants in Sept with FDA as authorizing official and no longer federal employees from AHRQ as grants management specialists.
January 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM
AHRQ FY26 = $0
FY 25 = using FDA to process continuation grants in Sept with FDA as authorizing official and no longer federal employees from AHRQ as grants management specialists.
FY 25 = using FDA to process continuation grants in Sept with FDA as authorizing official and no longer federal employees from AHRQ as grants management specialists.
@crampell.bsky.social
This is the guy now running AHRQ into the ground.. After firing more than 1/2 the staff- Fired so many they used FDA in Sept to process grants & kept the names of the fired grants staff on the Notice of Awards.
This is the guy now running AHRQ into the ground.. After firing more than 1/2 the staff- Fired so many they used FDA in Sept to process grants & kept the names of the fired grants staff on the Notice of Awards.
Federal Health Research Agency Refocuses on Patient Safety After Ideological Shift - Chicago's Morning Answer with Dan Proft
Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Roger Klein: After Decade of Drift, Trump Returns Health Agency to Core Mission
morninganswerchicago.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
@crampell.bsky.social
This is the guy now running AHRQ into the ground.. After firing more than 1/2 the staff- Fired so many they used FDA in Sept to process grants & kept the names of the fired grants staff on the Notice of Awards.
This is the guy now running AHRQ into the ground.. After firing more than 1/2 the staff- Fired so many they used FDA in Sept to process grants & kept the names of the fired grants staff on the Notice of Awards.
Nope, now you are just a puppet? BS.
Also, she needs to go read about the Nuremberg trials…. Taking orders doesn’t get you a pass… (though don’t buy it).
Also, she needs to go read about the Nuremberg trials…. Taking orders doesn’t get you a pass… (though don’t buy it).
January 28, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Nope, now you are just a puppet? BS.
Also, she needs to go read about the Nuremberg trials…. Taking orders doesn’t get you a pass… (though don’t buy it).
Also, she needs to go read about the Nuremberg trials…. Taking orders doesn’t get you a pass… (though don’t buy it).
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This.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 27, 2026 at 1:01 AM
This.
Opinion | Local Prosecution Is the Answer to Federal Lawlessness
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM
how is a RIF bona fide w/ no reorg yet was the basis for the RIF? Can abolished competitive areas be ‘abolished except for SES who stay in their positions? Is it only an admin error d
If some people who should be RIFd are not & only caught because of mspb appeal 8 months later, still no problem?
If some people who should be RIFd are not & only caught because of mspb appeal 8 months later, still no problem?
January 25, 2026 at 11:07 PM
how is a RIF bona fide w/ no reorg yet was the basis for the RIF? Can abolished competitive areas be ‘abolished except for SES who stay in their positions? Is it only an admin error d
If some people who should be RIFd are not & only caught because of mspb appeal 8 months later, still no problem?
If some people who should be RIFd are not & only caught because of mspb appeal 8 months later, still no problem?
NY v Kennedy PI keeps some HHS Feds on admin leave since April 1 instead of having them return to work while case is ongoing. These are people the Admin wants to get rid of so won’t let work get done since they can’t fire them…yet.
We want to fire you -admin leave.
Kill someone, go back to work.
We want to fire you -admin leave.
Kill someone, go back to work.
January 25, 2026 at 10:43 PM
NY v Kennedy PI keeps some HHS Feds on admin leave since April 1 instead of having them return to work while case is ongoing. These are people the Admin wants to get rid of so won’t let work get done since they can’t fire them…yet.
We want to fire you -admin leave.
Kill someone, go back to work.
We want to fire you -admin leave.
Kill someone, go back to work.
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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
Laid off HHS employees win judge approval to seek class action suit
Employees say they are entitled to financial compensation for the errors HHS made when trying to force them out.
www.govexec.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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
Who will stand up for AHRQ? & FIRED FEDS
@jeremymberg.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov
@standupforscience.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social
Federal Health Research Agency Refocuses on Patient Safety After Ideological Shift - Chicago's Morning Answer with Dan Proft
Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Roger Klein: After Decade of Drift, Trump Returns Health Agency to Core Mission
morninganswerchicago.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:27 AM
“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
Who will stand up for AHRQ? & FIRED FEDS
@jeremymberg.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov
@standupforscience.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social
#AHRQ is also a Science Agency. 64% staff loss. No new grants funded since before April 2025. $ for continuation grants awarded after April 2025 not disbursed. T32s cancelled.
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info
Wish Nature had included AHRQ in their great piece.
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info
Wish Nature had included AHRQ in their great piece.
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 PM
#AHRQ is also a Science Agency. 64% staff loss. No new grants funded since before April 2025. $ for continuation grants awarded after April 2025 not disbursed. T32s cancelled.
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info
Wish Nature had included AHRQ in their great piece.
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info
Wish Nature had included AHRQ in their great piece.
How about checking the unemployment roles.
So many unemployment. So many earning less.
So now we were fired because the work was boring?
So many unemployment. So many earning less.
So now we were fired because the work was boring?
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 AM
How about checking the unemployment roles.
So many unemployment. So many earning less.
So now we were fired because the work was boring?
So many unemployment. So many earning less.
So now we were fired because the work was boring?
With no help for illegally fired Feds. Nothing to require agencies like HHS to follow the rules and rehire fired Feds, not continue violating RIF regs - leaving people to rely on the unpredictable and lengthy MSPB appeal process. Many still unemployed and struggling.
January 20, 2026 at 8:57 PM
With no help for illegally fired Feds. Nothing to require agencies like HHS to follow the rules and rehire fired Feds, not continue violating RIF regs - leaving people to rely on the unpredictable and lengthy MSPB appeal process. Many still unemployed and struggling.