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'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (www.msnbc.com)

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Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The smart grift would be to make more offices and departments and administrations, and then start contracting that work out to private shell corporations. I’m not quite sure how this is supposed to work.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 16 points 2 days ago

Trump is a puppet, Stephen Miller wants to be Stalin and make a white Christofascist ethnostate, and Peter Thiel wants to literally buy pieces of the country to start network states.

Anyone that is trying to grift is not in on it.