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THREAD: Trump's intentionally flooding the news cycle w/ a stream of outrage porn to distract, scare, & confuse. These are the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week: NIH funding cuts jeopardize ‘life-saving’ research in AL aldailynews.com/nih-funding-...

NIH funding cuts could jeopardize 'life-saving' research in Alabama

A federal judge temporarily blocked the changes in 22 states Monday after the states sued the Trump Administration over the funding cuts arguing they would be “devastating.” Alabama is not part of tha...

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These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined. Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 2y ago

The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "DEIAtruth@opm.gov." chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...

tbh i hate when people will say “just because there are ‘worse’ things doesn’t mean they can’t be hurt by something 😡😡😡” like, no one said that but sometimes some of y’all need perspective

i do think it’s kind of funny that i see a lot of people talk about the importance of building community but then also talk about how they don’t like people or need friends or want to talk to anyone they work with