Officials in US health agencies fear ‘people will get sick’ as programmes are slashed and scientists are fired under the constant surveillance of DOGE

Zoom meetings are avoided out of fear they are being secretly recorded. Conversations about budgets and policies are held in soundproof offices, as if they were matters of national security. Many employees carry small notebooks with them, jotting down notes instead of logging them on a computer. The desks of several sacked colleagues are empty — save for the few who have left family photos and possessions behind in case a judge rules they can return.

“There is a constant sense that we’re being watched and monitored,” the source said. “DOGE leadership are located several floors above but they have this omnipotent presence … We’re counted when we swipe our badges into the building.”

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    The point is that the Democrats aren’t doing anywhere near enough to resist the fascist takeover and that had been true pretty much since day one. They are so hell bent on preserving the status quo that they’ll rather hand the country to the fascists than support any meaningful change.

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      The point is that you want to discourage/split the vote for next election.

      You’re doing the same the Fox News and talk radio did to Hillary Clinton over 20 years.

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      They should be calling for impeachment every single day. Obviously it’ll never pass, but it’ll gum up the works and at least show that Trump’s shitshow it’s unacceptable.

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        I’m hoping they’ve quietly been working on individual Republicans. It’d make sense to do this very quietly.

        I have no evidence of this. Of course we wouldn’t. But it also seems like it should have happened by now. Was shoving the military into LA not enough?