Thanks for this reporting! Many of the “voluntary” retirements were coerced. Not allowing telework from home reduces access to care in more remote areas, reduces availability of evening clinics, limits access to specialty care and consultation, and makes coverage of absent clinicians less reliable.

As an ousted federal employee, I noticed that among my colleagues, minoritized individuals tended to be the most fearful and most likely to “obey in advance”. They felt more vulnerable. Doesn’t excuse the behavior but makes it more understandable.

Part of the reason is that the threats, coercion, and other indirect methods worked on so many people that fewer need to be directly fired.

Highly relevant - thanks! Until today I was Medical Director of Reproductive Mental Health for VA - a position that no longer exists. Among many other things, I taught VA clinicians nationwide about COVID, pregnancy and mental health, and patient-centered vaccine discussions. Lifesaving!

SO appreciative that you’re fighting back!

So sorry that people need to feel retraumatized by these malicious attacks after such tough losses.

As a reproductive mental health psychiatrist, I can’t emphasize enough how important PRAMS data have been in shaping evidence-based clinical practice and policy for perinatal women.

Even more dangerous for them is that Amber Ruffin is very funny and very honest.

Often remote work in federal government was not due to the pandemic, but for serving people efficiently in remote areas and for recruiting the best and brightest employees from around the country. It’s not “return” to office.

News is so siloed that many Trump voters don’t know what’s really happening unless others tell them. My Trump-voting relatives have been aghast when I give them actual facts and eye-witness accounts of consequences. Please communicate with them any chance you get!

Is this why she publicized killing her dog and her goat - to imply what happens to those she deems “untrainable”?

Awesome! When we made the switch, the line for new memberships at Costco was satisfyingly long. Also useful to use the Goods Unite Us app to see different companies’ political donations.

Similar word searches have curtailed trainings for health professionals about social determinants of health, one of the leading contributors to suicide risk per a recent meta-analysis.