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OSC tells us how to file a #HatchAct complaint. Nearly all federal sites are in violation. Do not accept this as normal. #FEDSTRONG
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Furloughed NIH worker: Left office with 'pit' in my stomach about future of our country On day three of the government shutdown, around 750,000 federal employees are furloughed as the White House threatens mass firings as early as today. Furloughed NIH Program Director Jenna Norton joins...

Shared how the greater shutdown of NIH science has been underway since January on @msnbc.com today.

We need Congress to stand firm to protect science, democracy and the American people.

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Proud that we have played some small role in this — in urge Congress to stand up to Trump, and supporting those who want to do that.

Thank you @rephuffman.bsky.social - and to @ramirez.house.gov and @ivey.house.gov who stood with us on Monday outside the Capitol.

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Team Maryland will keep working for you.

We won't back up, and we won't back down.

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time?

BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

AOC: Donald Trump is trying to play this bluffing game of, well, maybe what we're going to do is hold the entire all the federal workforce hostage and fire everybody. Donald Trump has been firing everybody.

There is an abuse of power and destruction of norms and democracy. DJT and the Republicans are weaker than they look. They are facing record levels of unpopularity. They are underwater across the board and they know it.
Via @aoc, msnbc on IG

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While hundreds of millions of dollars are being funneled into studying the cause of autism, billions are being cut from Medicaid, education, respite care, mental health, and community supports—the very programs that give autistic people and their families stability, dignity, and opportunity.

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We must invest in supports that empower autistic people across the full spectrum of needs.

Using federal time, energy, and resources to study unsubstantiated risk factors takes away from pursuing research that could help more people… faster.

The focus has been on recycling an outdated, damaging narrative that autism is only a childhood condition, erasing the reality that autistic people live to adulthood and deserve long, healthy, fulfilling lives like anyone else.

Speaking in my own personal capacity on our weekend Vigil:

This week, autism has been in the headlines—not because of science that moves us forward, but because of misinformation that drags us backward.

Powerful words on politicization of autism research by an NIH PO and autism scientist and former clinician.

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Statement from SAFA:

Friday night's Supreme Court shadow docket order is the Court lawlessly signing off on Trump admin actions that ignore our Constitution. Congress must stand up to stop this brazen attack on American freedoms. We call on Congress to use the budget to check Trump lawlessness.

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The NIH Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI) launched Monday, but its impact was buried.

With 90% of NIH’s science communication staff terminated, the rigorous science was drowned out by an administration intent on distortion.

We were muzzled.
 
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Graphs of funding curves for nine NIH institutes from fiscal year 2012.

Since there is some discussion that NIH institutes should not simply use paylines to determine which grants to fund, I thought I would share some old data.

These are plots of funding probability fas a function of percentile score for 9 institutes.

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@shaheen.senate.gov - please do not surrender. These people do not honor promises.

They don't even honor their own oaths to the Constitution.

If we - civil servants - can handle a shutdown, so can you.

Semafor screenshot “Shutdown off-ramp still intact in Senate Jeanne Shaheen Sophie Park/Reuters Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is declining to rule out supporting Republicans’ short-term spending bill if leaders promise a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies later this year. “There are a number of ways to get this done that should satisfy both sides,” Shaheen, a longtime sponsor of related legislation, told Semafor on Wednesday, following a roundtable with small business owners who rely on the subsidies. “I’m not going to draw a line in the sand and say it’s got to be this way or that way.” Her comments point to an off-ramp for lawmakers seeking to avert a government shutdown next week: Senate Majority Leader John Thune told CNN the GOP’s proposal “enables us … to have discussions about other issues, like the premium tax credit issue.” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., predicted 10 Senate Democrats would vote for the funding bill on Monday. Meanwhile, the Office of Management and Budget ordered federal agencies to prepare mass layoff plans in the event the government shuts down. — Eleanor Mueller and Burgess Everett”

Shaheen sends out signal for surrender from Schumer Dems. She will vote 4 blank checks to fund the Trump regime as long as she gets a “promise” that there will be vote on healthcare.

This is probably how Schumer’s caucus will surrender bc he doesn’t hold his member accountable 4 surrendering.

Just going to point out that Congress can easily legislate to stop this.

If there is a shutdown, and these illegal firings happen, Congress should then insist that any CR that ends the shutdown carries an explicit provision that those workers’ jobs are safe.
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Veep Vance takes Tylenol when pregnant women's screams give him headaches. #dontbelikejd

The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.

More RIFs, more heartbreak. More lives disrupted. It’s all so needless.

Just so we are all on the same page, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, whom AAAS and Research!America tapped as their keynote speaking for the National Health Research Forum *LAST WEEK* was STANDING BEHIND TRUMP AND RFK JR AT THAT TYLENOL/AUTISM PRESSER YESTERDAY.

He is not a hero, he is complicit.

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.

I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:

“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

📣📣📣 CALL TO ACTION - 🚨 🚨🚨

A thread on how you can join a growing chorus of federal workers and members of the public pressuring Congress to embrace its power and end the authoritarian takeover #FightingCR

Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...

The federal workers who take care of our veterans, inspect our food, and help people through natural disasters know Trump’s lawlessness is hurting everyday Americans and they are begging Congress to stop it.

Fascism only wins if we comply.

Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...

🇺🇸 Fed workers across the government are issuing a challenge to Congress: "We call on you to pass nothing less than a fighting CR: a funding bill that not only keeps the lights on, but that also includes statutory protections to rein in executive lawlessness."

✍️ Sign the letter. Spread the word 🔥

I am deeply saddened and angered by news that more NIH RIFs may happen next week. This is unacceptable, especially after NIH staff have worked nights & weekends to dig out from the backlog created by this admin's incompetence.

Tell your Congress people NIH needs its staff to keep delivering cures

Yes. This would be an excellent ask for the Sept 30 CR fight.

If Trump doesn’t stop his illegal actions, Republicans will get no help from Dems for passing a budget, short or long term.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.