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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday it is
eliminating its research and development arm
and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
One union leader said the moves “will devastate public health in our country”.
https://www.

State Dept. layoffs led by team of outsiders willing to 'break stuff' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/19/state-department-layoffs-jeremy-lewin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p51#a250719p51

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

Whether through layoffs or resignations, Tesla has lost many of the employees that helped build the world's most valuable car company. Without them, Elon Musk is about to face his biggest challenge yet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/20…

Bay Area public radio station KQED says it is laying off 45 people and 12 are taking voluntary buyouts, a 15% staff cut; 10 vacant positions will go unfilled (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-s…

KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.

Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to nearly 10,000 job losses, Ontario Public Service Employees Union says it's 'one of the largest mass layoffs in Ontario's history'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-college-layoffs-1.7581037

US State Department fires Russia and Ukraine analysts in recent layoffs, NYT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/us-state-department-fires-russia.html

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-trump-reorganization-science-research-acf0ad3a649f940e138b2a917169405f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p143#a250718p143

Judge blocks renewed Trump plans for mass State Department layoffs | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-blocks-renewed-trump-plans-for-mass-state-department-layoffs/

Microsoft layoffs of even long-time industry vets signal video game industry brain drain #gaming

Microsoft Layoffs Signal Video Game Industry Brain Drain - Aftermath
Multiple industry veterans have left Xbox in the wake of layoffs

Game Pass is specifically designed for enshittification (obviously). https://www.ign.com/articles/in-the-wake-of-xbox-layoffs-founder-of-dishonored-and-prey-dev-arkane-slams-game-pas…

In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if "technological innovation or automation", like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

The amount of self-harm in the US is amazing., geopolitical opponents are grabbing some extra popcorn. 🍿
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/state-department-layoffs-00449590

State Dept. Layoffs Hit Russia and Ukraine Analysts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/state-department-layoffs-russia-ukraine.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p24#a250716p24

It is not AI that is driving tech layoffs. It’s the massive change in R&D writeoff rules that kicked in for TY2022, from the 2017 Trump tax bill.
The ability to “expense” R&D costs was in place for decades and arguably drove US innovation by making it cheap. Now R&D is amortized over 5 years for US work, 15 years for non-US work. The current reconciliation bill would bring back expensing of domestic R&D costs.

It's all accounting...and the first-term Trump tax cuts.
https://www.professoraxelrod.com/p/the-tech-job-meltdown

The Tech Job Meltdown
Half a million layoffs? It's all accounting.

This #GAAD and every GAAD, you can champion #accessibility by hiring accessibility specialists, paying them well, ensuring they have what they need to be successful and make a change, and by not putting their heads on the chopping block first whenever layoffs roll around.

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

This is how important tax incentives are and why countries that only reactively shape their tax systems will keep lagging behind.
https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502

The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

Supreme Court clears way for Trump to gut education department – live updates
The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education -- part of his effort to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more state control.
In the latest high court win for Trump, the justices lifted a federal judge’s order that had reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs at the department and block…

H.H.S. Finalizes Thousands of Layoffs After Supreme Court Decision (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/hhs-layoffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W08.F-bt.Bmm02h0MU6VY&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p21#a250716p21

Sources: WBD initiates a round of layoffs in its cable TV divisions, affecting well under 100 employees and largely impacting the Discovery side of the company (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/warner-bros-discovery-layoffs-tv-d…

Warner Bros. Discovery Initiates More Layoffs In Cable TV Divisions
Deadline understands that the company is set to layoff a number of people, particularly on the cable television side of its business.

I’m very tempted to speculate that this report is banned in corporate C-suite and HR:
Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/12/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried
What do you think?🤔

Just because 1000 jobs were cut doesn't mean 1000 people got fired. there were never tech-layoffs. they were all soham parekh.

Memo: Intel's manufacturing VP said Intel plans to cut 15%-20% of staff, starting in July, "to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position" (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/…

Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its factory workers, memo says
Next month’s layoffs will take place at Intel factories around the world but could have an especially big effect in Oregon.

Some agencies are walking back planned layoffs, Trump administration says (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/07/some-agencies-are-walking-back-planned-layoffs-trump-administration-says/406737/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p108#a250715p108

The State Department formally notified employees on Thursday that it was about to begin layoffs
as part of a consolidation plan that department officials say will reduce bureaucratic bloat
but that critics call a shortsighted blow to American diplomacy.
In an internal message sent to State Department workers on Thursday, Michael J. Rigas, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, said
the department would “soon” begin notifying U.S. employees who are…

State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan to downsize a “bloated” department had been on hold after a court ruling.

Wisconsin Public Radio is being destroyed by the current administration…
➡️ https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-public-radio-layoffs-cut-programs-federal-funding

Citing budget concerns, WPR lays off staff, cuts programs
Amid ongoing budget shortages and facing potential federal funding cuts, Wisconsin Public Radio has notified at least 15 staff members that they will be laid off.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/nsf-director-resigns-amid-55-budget-cut-mass-layoffs-from-trump-admin/

NSF director resigns amid 55% budget cut, mass layoffs from Trump admin
The director did not state a reason for the resignation.

An interview with Henry Blodget on BI's layoffs, media market changes in the past five years, why the future is direct distribution and subscriptions, and more (Andy Meek/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2025

Henry Blodget On Business Insider Layoffs: 'The Market Has Changed'
Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget weighs in on the site's layoffs and how AI is reshaping the future of journalism.

After contractor cuts, Voice of America staffers brace for further layoffs - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/05/28/voice-of-america-layoffs/

The Trump administration rescinds VOA layoff notices due to document errors that could have delayed or nullified the layoffs, plans to attempt the layoffs again (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-voa-layoffs…

Trump Administration Rescinds Voice of America Layoffs After Errors in Notices
The errors in the layoff notices could have derailed President Trump’s effort to dismantle the news organization. The administration said it would attempt the layoffs again.

@… whew, my brain is thinking about widespread layoffs but *yes*

State Department ‘appears’ to be violating court order by issuing layoffs as soon as June 13, judge says - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/state-department-appears-be-violating-court-order-issuing-layoffs-soon-june-13-judge-says/405811/

Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750 taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts…

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-education-layoffs-9370415531185092341b16a6bfea9344
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p112#a250714p112

Sources: Disney is laying off several hundred employees globally across multiple teams, including TV and film (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-mass-layoffs-tv-film-finance-departments-1236415786/

Disney Mass Layoffs Cut Across TV, Film, Finance and Other Departments
Disney is laying off several hundred employees globally across multiple teams.

The administration is terminating leases for 11 OSHA offices, including the one in Houston. Trump has cut 10 percent of its workforce, and more layoffs could be coming. See Will Texas Workers Ever Get a Break from the Summer Heat? https://ground.news/article/will-texas-workers-ever-get-a-break-from-the-summer-heat

Microsoft cuts hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, sources say including Halo Studios and King, and cancels games like Perfect Dark and Everwild (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/all-the-x

All The Xbox Games Cancelled And Studios Closed In Microsoft's Latest Mass Layoffs
Microsoft has made more dramatic cuts to the Xbox business.

State Department tells employees mass layoffs are imminent (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/07/state-department-tells-employees-mass-layoffs-are-imminent/406654/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p154#a250710p154

Semiconductor giant Intel has officially begun a new round of layoffs, following through on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's warning two months ago that job cuts were "inevitable" as part of a wider restructuring strategy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/inte

Intel begins laying off 10,000 under CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Plus: Microsoft readies another wave of Xbox cuts

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow mass federal layoffs
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/02/trump-supreme-court-federal-layoffs/83991774007/

Judge halts Rubio's plan to lay off almost 2,000 State Dept. employees (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/13/state-department-layoffs-rubio/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p141#a250613p141

Wow, they're cancelling that Perfect Dark reboot? It looked so good, though?
https://kotaku.com/xbox-reportedly-cancels-that-cool-looking-perfect-dark-1851785531

Xbox Reportedly Cancels That Cool-Looking Perfect Dark Reboot
Perfect Dark studio The Initiative has also been shut down as part of ongoing layoffs at Microsoft

Any CEO (especially those that are Billionaires) should be seen as failures if they have to do layoffs.
You fucked up. You're supposed to be the smart one, able to run things properly, but you made a mistake (or many) along the way, and you make others pay for it by destroying their livelihood.
CEO need to be made to pay for their mistakes.

“I just couldn’t cut people. And that’s what we should have done,” Tomelden says of the minimum-wage-related pressures that ultimately forced his hand to close the restaurant on Sunday. “I thought things would change.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/202…

Toronto Star: “New numbers reveal 10,000-plus Ontario college layoffs, 600 programs cancelled or suspended over past year”
The bloodbath in our higher education system in Canada has gotten NO press even though provincial governments and likely federal KNOW. This is the first in depth article I have seen. ALL governments micro-manage university and college policy/finances, no matter what they might say to the contrary.
Here are some truths you need to know:
Yes, I am biased as a 25 year employee of a University.
Yes, my University has also had completely unprecedented cuts in the past 12-24 months, with more coming.
Yes, it is because of the loss of International Students and their tuition revenue. Without that loss, many domestic enrollment numbers have actually been growing, but the money per student is orders of magnitude less. (ie. International was a cash cow)
Yes, faculty and even many admin, have been warning about the government downloading funding onto International tuitions for decades.
Yes, government will claim they are “investing more than ever”, but this is usually about Capital expenses (buildings, residences, infrastructure) or meeting contractual increases for staff salaries, *not* operating expenses.
Yes, in BC in the 1980s 80-90% of a University or College operating budget was covered by “base funding” from the province. Now, it is often below 50%. (If this makes you ask… is it still a “public University system”, please do!!)
And finally, yes, if we want to consider ourselves a modern country, we cannot possibly think this kind of contraction in educational opportunity (while domestic tuitions continue to increase!) is at all healthy for our society as a whole.
Toronto Star: #canpoli #cdnpoli #education #internationalEd #immigration #postsecondary #educationShouldBeFree

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"Hit hardest in Microsoft layoffs? Developers, product managers, morale" - Seattle Times
https://archive.ph/cvKtd

Direi algo meio besta, talvez, mas eu boicoto tudo o que envolve #IAs e essas novas tecnologias, tudo o que descarta pessoas.
E jš boicoto a #Microsoft hš mais de 10 anos.

Microsoft employee's wife who was laid off with 6000 others: 'Worked 25 years, laid off by a computer algorithm' - The Times of India
Social News: Microsoft's recent layoffs, impacting nearly 6000 employees, have sparked controversy. A Reddit post revealed a 25-year veteran, autistic and with mul

The Portland Tribune and two sister papers will cease their print editions after major newsroom layoffs, while the Gresham Outlook will reduce its print output (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/0

Portland Tribune will cease print publication after major newsroom layoffs
Papers in Milwaukie and Oregon City will stop printing, too, while the Gresham Outlook will move from two editions a week to one.

Hundreds of CDC staff rehired by HHS after earlier layoffs from DOGE | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hhs-brings-back-hundreds-staff-following-force-reduction-latest-rehiring-move

I wonder how this can be leveraged in our #VFX industry.
Can you position a company as the guys who’ll fix stuff that another team messed up because they thought they can do an effects shot with Midjourney but then ended up with nothing to show once the director wanted a simple revision like turning that object a tiny bit more or making the cool explosion more „swooosh“ instead of „wooosh“?

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
After the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to Signal group chats and anxious phone calls, trying to figure out what it meant for them.
Some federal workers cried. Some shook their heads and began updating their resumes. Others — including union leaders — vowed to fight, determined to hang on to the government jobs that …

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
The ruling could usher in a more professionalized round of layoffs, compared to the erratic rush of firings carried out by Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service.

Veterans Affairs reverses course on large-scale layoffs (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/07/veterans-affairs-layoffs-doge-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p100#a250707p100

"When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin's layoffs, budget cuts - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-is-cancer-political-medical-researchers-patients-decry-trump-admins-layoffs-budget-cuts/

In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says a "culture of fear", with performance reviews and layoffs, is spreading like "a metastatic cancer" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me…

Meta AI Researcher Warns of ‘Metastatic Cancer’ Afflicting Company Culture
Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much ...

Supreme Court allows deep layoffs at Education Department for now (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/14/supreme-court-education-department-/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p137#a250714p137

#Tennessee 's top tier #hospital facing hundreds of layoffs in key positions as #GOP and #Drumpf appointee

Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces up to 650 layoffs due to fed funding cuts
Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces up to 650 layoffs after federal cuts, including to research grants.

The Supreme Court on July 8 lifted a federal judge's order pausing the Trump administration's large-scale staffing cuts and agency restructuring,
boosting the president's campaign to bleed the federal bureaucracy to death
In an unsigned and brief opininon, the justices said they are not ruling on the legality of a specific reorganization plan.
But, the court said, the judge was wrong to stop the administration from moving ahead with such plans.
The mass fe…

Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with large-scale staff cuts for now — USA TODAY
A U.S. district judge in San Francisco had temporarily blocked large-scale federal layoffs known as "reductions in force."

Sources: four senior BBC journalists have lodged ageism complaints as they face layoffs under plans to merge the BBC's Home and Foreign newsdesks (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-news-journalists-age-discriminat…

BBC News Journalists Lodge Ageism Complaint As They Face Being Fired Under Newsdesk Merger
A group of seasoned BBC News journalists have claimed that they are being forced out of the corporation because of their age.

Mass layoffs likely to remain blocked, for now, thanks to a Supreme Court footnote - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/mass-layoffs-likely-remain-blocked-now-thanks-supreme-court-footnote/406381/

Source: Microsoft's Chief Commercial Officer said during a presentation that AI saved Microsoft $500M last year in its call centers and increased satisfaction (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it move forward with mass layoffs of federal workforce (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-supreme-court-reductions-in-force-layoffs-federal-workers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p113#a250602p113

The UK's Reach plans to merge its national and regional sports journalism teams into one central hub, resulting in around 50 layoffs (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-to-streamline-sports-team…

Reach to 'streamline' sports teams into one hub with 'around 50' redundancies
Reach has proposed major changes to how its sports journalists work, bringing many of the national and regional teams into one.

Bumble plans to cut 30% of its workforce, or about 240 roles, and invest the ~$40M saved annually into new product and tech development; BMBL rises 20% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/bumble-layoffs.html

Bumble jumps 26% as dating company plans to axe 30% of workforce
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, returned to the role earlier this year.

'Embarrassment:' Trump admin asks judge to hide it's tactics for mass layoffs - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-doge-layoffs-judge/

As always... truth-in-comedy from the #Beaverton
Who's looking forward to mass layoffs for efficiency and AI!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberals #Austerity #Conservatives

McClatchy will shutter In Touch, Life & Style, Closer, and First for Women in June, laying off their staffs, after acquiring the titles in a December merger (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreport…

In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women Magazines to Shutter, Lay Off Entire Staffs
“Despite the best efforts of many of our talented colleagues, we have been unable to develop a profitable business model for four of our magazine titles,” a McClatchy spokesperson tells THR.

Morale craters at State Department as mass layoffs loom (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/28/state-department-layoffs-trump-rubio/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p10#a250628p10

Internal memo: Paramount Global is cutting its US-based staff by 3.5% and may also reduce its workforce outside of the US over time (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/paramount-to-cut-3percent-of-us-workfo…

Paramount to cut 3% of U.S. workforce as it deepens cost-cutting
It's the latest round of layoffs at Paramount as it contends with cord-cutting and prepares to merge with Skydance Media.

Following Supreme Court Order on Federal Employee Layoffs, Ranking Member Markey Introduces Legislation to Prevent Workforce Cuts at the Small Business Administration (Bill Text/U.S. Committee on Small Business ...)
https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=005D76A0-BF59-4406-B83F-1F85BA0AC2CD
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p89#a250711p89

CDC sources say its funding is coming at 'eyedropper' pace, hurting states and cities : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/28/nx-s1-5442689/cdc-trump-layoffs-public-health-rescission

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits last week rises to highest level in eight months (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-795ec07804ed3f35eb702af27c4983d0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p53#a250605p53

TikTok lays off workers from the US division of TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for the team since April, after a year of missing internal sales targets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

In a note to staff, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait announces a major newsroom reorganization, which includes staff layoffs (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1942626239069536595

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
In a note to staff, Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait announced a major newsroom reorg/cuts, merging credit/finance groups, legal/financial reg groups. "We have sadly had to say goodbye to some colleagues," but Bloomberg will "end this year with a bigger newsroom than we started

State Dept. layoffs could start as soon as Friday, as Supreme Court decision looms (Camilla Schick/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-dept-reduction-in-force-layoffs-supreme-court-decision/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p90#a250626p90

Nearly 80 BBC journalists, including presenter Martine Croxall, call on the NUJ to schedule a vote on a strike over colleagues facing compulsory layoffs (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-news-presenters-strike-vote-mar…

BBC News Presenters Back Demand For Strike Vote As Colleagues Face Compulsory Layoffs
BBC News anchors, including Martine Croxall, are among those calling on the NUJ to hold a strike ballot over colleagues facing compulsory redundancy.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift judge's order blocking federal overhaul (Maureen Groppe/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/02/trump-supreme-court-federal-layoffs/83991774007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p80#a250602p80

Weather Service rehiring at offices left ‘critically understaffed’ by layoffs
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5329625-nws-seeks-hire-126-people/

Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

A profile of Kari Lake, a former TV anchor who won two regional Emmy Awards for her work in Cambodia and is now tasked with dismantling the USAGM (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Kari Lake won awards for overseas reporting. Now she has the job of cutting it.
Kari Lake won TV news Emmys years ago for work she did in Cambodia, one of the countries affected by sweeping layoffs at Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.

Layoff notices delivered to hundreds of Voice of America employees (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-layoffs-trump-global-media-7a862bdc530dd3d48657c00d2df54539
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p80#a250620p80

Hundreds of Federal Workers at Voice of America Receive Layoff Notices (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/voice-america-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p76#a250620p76

Wisconsin Public Radio announces layoffs and ends four shows, citing funding pressure; report: 15 people were cut and WPR won't be filling several vacancies (Mike Janssen/Current)
https://current.org/2025/06/wisconsin-public-radi…