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White House announces federal worker layoffs as government shutdown nears third week
No official numbers have been announced but treasury, HHS, DHS and education departments among agencies confirming cuts
https://www.theguardian.com…

The Pulse: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame?
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-amazon-layoffs/

Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.

DHS says shutdown layoffs at CISA will proceed despite court injunction
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/dhs-says-shutdown-layoffs-cisa-will-proceed-despite-court-injunction/409332/?oref=ng-homepa…

DHS says shutdown layoffs at CISA will proceed despite court injunction
The cybersecurity agency says it has complied with the court’s order because the firing of 54 people in its Stakeholder Engagement Division was planned beforehand and doesn’t affect unionized employees.

I am so glad I am no longer working in the tech industry. It was kinda fun in the "princes of labor" era, but with all the layoffs and mow the AI race to the bottom I can’t imagine it being a good environment.
Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane
by @…

Layoffs rise to recession-like levels through October, new report says (Abha Bhattarai/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/job-cuts-accelerate-october-layoffs-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p10#a251106p10

Last Month Was the Worst October for Layoffs Since 2003, Outplacement Firm Reports https://ground.news/article/trumps-economy-breaks-new-record-with-surge-in-layoffs

it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.

State Department blocked from impending layoffs, for now | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/state-department-blocked-from-impending-layoffs-for-now/

McClatchy is eliminating its real-time national news operation, closing its Washington bureau, and withdrawing from the White House press pool (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-layoffs-dc-bureau

McClatchy’s Quiet Cuts
McClatchy, the 168-year-old newspaper chain, has gutted its national news operation—another reminder of how once-towering newspaper giants are struggling to survive.

U.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year.
It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024.
Recent Layoffs:
UPS: 48,000 employees
Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
Intel: 24,000 employees
Microsoft: 15,000 employees
2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.
https…

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com (@thefinancenewsletter.com)
U.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year. It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024. Recent Layoffs: UPS: 48,000 employees Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees Intel: 24,000 employees Microsoft: 15,000 employees 2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice strike again! https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-employees-open-letter-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/?emci=8691…

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

Amazon laid off 14K people, and commentators rush to blame #AI. But not even Jassy claims that Amazon has replaced jobs with #LLM tools (because it is impossible).
Big tech believed that AI would lead to higher velocity, somehow. Jassy has given up on it, and instead thinks that *culture* will lead to …

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI
Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubis…

Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after devs vote to unionize
Workers at the Canadian studio voted to unionize in December in search of security in an era of 'studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability.

[OT] Companies are blaming #AI for layoffs. The real reason... https://medium.com/@mattlar.jari/companies-are-blaming-ai-for-layoffs-the-real-rea…

Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. The Real Reason Will Piss You Off.
180,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2025. Companies say it’s because of AI. Oxford researchers call BS.

Word of the day: AI-washing
"Where management wants to cut labor costs a la Amazon, shift to cheaper contract labor a la Klarna, or execute layoffs for ideological reasons, a la DOGE, “AI” is an extremely potent justification. Some business professors and analysts have taken to calling this practice “AI-washing.””
From Brian Merchants excellent Blood in the Machine newsletter/substack.

Sources: YouTube reorganizes its leadership team, with three product teams reporting to CEO Neal Mohan, and announces a "voluntary exit program" for US staff (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/youtube-announces-ai-reorg-and-layoffs

YouTube announces AI reorg and layoffs
Neal Mohan's internal memo about YouTube's "next frontier" and opt-in layoffs.

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/amazon-to-announce-sweeping-corporate-job-cuts-starting-tuesday.html

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon's corporate workforce in the company's history, according to a person familiar with the matter.

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs under new leader Bari Weiss.
All of them are women
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cbs-news-layoffs-eight-women-b2855655.html

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs under new leader Bari Weiss. All of them are women
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

Feds drop appeal challenging court order halting federal layoffs | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-drop-appeal-challenging-court-order-halting-federal-layoffs/

My previous company has started the standard startup holiday layoffs.

US applications for jobless benefits fell below 200,000 last week with layoffs historically low (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-5e0ab36c477fdb0e4924c3851b852725
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p32#a251231p32

US judge extends block on Trump's mass layoffs during shutdown
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-extends-block-trumps-mass-layoffs-during-shutdown-2025-10-28/

We can't trust Trump with regard to BigTech, we can't trust BigTech itself and the USA is breaking down it's cybersecurity capabilities, plenty of reasons to start walking away from hyperscalers where you can....
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/ne…

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA
Some CISA staffers have been pushed out, while others are being told to move across the country for jobs outside their skill sets.

Boston's GBH plans to cut 15 positions by January, the fourth round of layoffs in 2025; GBH was set to receive 8% of its budget, or ~$18M, in federal funding (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/gbh-plans-to-cut-15-positions-by-january/

GBH plans to cut 15 positions by January
The station plans to eliminate jobs in its finance, marketing, technology and children’s programming departments.

Research: US companies announced 153,074 job cuts in October, the most in 20 years and up 3x on October 2024, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting rises (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Condé Nast Accused of ‘Illegal Firings’ of #Union Employees Who ‘Demanded Answers’ About Dozens Of Staff #Layoffs And The Once #Woke Voice #TeenVogue …

The era of mega AI layoffs is here: Amazon's full-throttle layoffs are a warning sign for white-collar workers everywhere. - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-ai-job-apocalypse-white-collar-workers-2025-10

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs under new leader Bari Weiss. All of them are women (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cbs-news-layoffs-eight-women-b2855655.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p127#a251030p127

Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K ; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/entertainment-media-l…

Entertainment and Media Layoffs Up 18% With Over 17,000 Jobs Slashed in 2025
A wave of consolidation, AI-driven change and cost-cutting pushed entertainment and media layoffs sharply higher in 2025

„By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact.“
By reducing team size we’ll increase workload across the now smaller team. LOL??! 😵‍💫
https://www.theverge.com/ne…

Meta is reportedly downsizing its legacy AI research team
Meta is still hiring for its team tasked with achieving superintelligence, according to a report from Axios.

“a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.”
Teen Vogue To Merge With Vogue Website; Condé Union Condemns Move
https://deadline.com/2025/11/teen-vogue-merger-vogue-conde-union-condemns-layoffs-1236606081/

Employers slashed more than 150,000 jobs in October,
the largest wave of layoffs in more than 20 years,
a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Nov. 6.
From tech to Hollywood, retailers and utilities,
U.S. companies are intensifying job cuts and workforce reductions that began in 2024,
as they focus on cost savings and leaner operations amid a challenging economic environment.
Firms have pointed to a myriad of causes for their layoffs,
fr…

Layoffs are hitting. See the major companies cutting jobs in 2025.
Verizon, Amazon, Target and Paramount are just a few of the many companies to have announced layoffs in 2025.

Bell with another round of layoffs. The r/bell thread seems to think 10% across the country. It’s can't actually remember a time when Bell announced they were 'hiring'.
How is this company one of the 'big’ telecoms and yet continues to offload people?
#Bell
https://flipboard.com/@dailyhive/daily-hive-vancouver-ar91atkoz/-/a-IvwInjurQyG1YqTyz8NjVg:a:3765800918-/0

CBS has cut two streaming shows, disbanded its race and culture unit, eliminated the Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cbs-news-l…

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs under new leader Bari Weiss. All of them are women
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/14/amazon-layoffs-pxt-hr-andy-jassy/

Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say
Amazon's 10,000-plus employee HR division, which includes recruiters, is expected to be among the hardest hit in the job cuts.

Layoffs are in season and I'm reminded (again) that losing your job doesn't have to be an existential crisis. If we had universal health care in the United States, managers and business owners could "right-size" their operations without kicking someone off their health insurance. And entrepreneurs without family to support them could try to start businesses without worrying one health crisis would mean bankruptcy. Scarcity is a condition we create, not an inevitable consequ…

THE PLAN:
Remove anything gold.
Recreate the art deco.
Clear out the "Walk of Fame".
Rebuild the rose garden.
Tear down the ballroom.
Restore the East Wing.
Rehire Federal layoffs.
Restore defunded institutions.
Repeal the Big Dumb Bill.
Pack the Supreme Court.
Fire anyone hired by him.
END PART 1.

The Stakeholder Engagement Division, the Infrastructure Security Division, and likely the Integrated Operations Division are believed to have been impacted.
Multiple CISA divisions targeted in shutdown layoffs, people familiar say
https://www.

Multiple CISA divisions targeted in shutdown layoffs, people familiar say
CISA units including its Stakeholder Engagement division are believed to have been hit. A DHS spokesperson said that the RIFs are meant to help get CISA “back on mission.”

49ers streaking into the playoffs: Why Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco look primed to break Super Bowl drought

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-playoffs-kyle-shanaha…

A look at Bari Weiss' first month at CBS News, as staffers express concern over unclear lines between the Free Press and CBS, disparate layoff impacts, and more (Washington Post)

Bari Weiss’s first month at CBS News unfolds in a newsroom culture clash
Bari Weiss took over as editor in chief in October, launching a new era for CBS News amid layoffs, confusion and shifting expectations.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to "culture" and "removing layers" from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/its-cultu…

Trump administration’s shutdown layoffs remain on hold, following court ruling
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/trump-administrations-shutdown-layoffs-remain-on-hold-following-court-ruling/

From Covid-19, we learned that a somewhat coordinated global response is (would be) required, because people travel. Forget about that under the Trump regime and his antivaxx buddy RFK jr.
This will first hurt Americans, but in Europe, we're bound to feel the impact too.
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftA…

Sources: Meta does not plan to abandon building the metaverse, and expects to shift the savings from the layoffs into investments in its AR glasses (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/meta-cuts-metaverse-unit.html

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

Trump administration fires at least 4.1K federal workers in shutdown layoffs https://ground.news/article/trump-administration-fires-at-least-41k-federal-workers-in-shutdown-layoffs_caffc2

In case you missed it, my piece yesterday on the 176 CISA employees fired last Friday, which will not go behind the customary archive paywall.
It's critical to note that sources told me more RIFs are in store for the nation's embattled cybersecurity agency.
https://www.

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

Sources: Paramount Skydance plans to begin mass layoffs the week of October 27, cutting around 2,000 US jobs as part of its $2B cost-cutting initiative (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-skydance-mass-layoffs-date-oct-2…

Paramount Skydance Mass Layoffs to Start Week of Oct. 27
Paramount Skydance will lay off about 2,000 U.S. employees under David Ellison's new management regime starting the week of Oct. 27.

Sources: Meta plans deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s…

Vought promised to use the shutdown to shutter the bureaucracy. It didn't go as planned. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/hhs-shutdown-layoffs-doge-vought-00620786
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p38#a251025p38

Education Department layoffs illegally burden students with disabilities, advocates say • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/10/22/repub/education-layoffs-disabilities/

Wow, a lot happened in the cybersecurity world over the weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared,
--Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records,
--Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team,
--Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks,
--Breach of crypto betting…

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

Sources: the Trump administration cut 176 CISA jobs last week as part of laying off 4,000 US federal workers, and is likely to make further mass CISA layoffs (Cynthia B Brumfield/Metacurity)
https://www.metacurity.com/the-white-house-f…

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

Judge blocks Trump's shutdown layoffs, calling them illegal (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-blocks-trumps-shutdown-layoffs-calling-illegal-rcna237837
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p105#a251015p105

Sources: WaPo is planning newsroom cuts to the audio, sports, and metro teams, and Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal said WaPo is in "severe financial distress" (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-morale

Pain at The Post
As morale sinks and top talent exits, staffers at The Washington Post are bracing for more pain ahead of the holidays—raising questions about Will Lewis’ leadership, nearly two years into his tenure as chief executive.

Judge blocks shutdown layoffs after finding Trump's actions are likely illegal (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/10/judge-blocks-shutdown-layoffs-after-finding-trumps-actions-are-likely-illegal/408828/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p104#a251015p104

Journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti-DEI push:
It's not just a coincidence
Black and brown former employees from CBS, NBC and Teen Vogue talk about the effects of being let go
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

Meta cuts roles in its Risk unit citing a shift from manual reviews to a "consistent and automated process" that is delivering "reliable compliance outcomes" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-job-cut…

Meta told some employees their jobs are being replaced by tech
An internal memo explaining the cuts said "many routine decisions can now be handled efficiently by technology."

Judge orders Trump administration to pause shutdown layoffs (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/15/trump-administration-shutdown-layoffs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p92#a251015p92

This is what a source warned me about over the weekend, specifically as it relates to CISA.
Federal firings could reach 10,000 during shutdown, Vought says
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/15/federal-layoffs-russell-vought-government-shutdown

Federal firings could reach 10,000 during shutdown, Vought says
That's more than twice as many terminations as the White House said it was conducting.

Another Major Tech Company Just Announced Thousands of Layoffs
https://gizmodo.com/another-major-tech-company-just-announced-thousands-of-layoffs-2000685222

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration.
Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/health/trump-…

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.
Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay.

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs (Caroline Kitchener/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-birth-control-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p1#a251016p1

Vox hires Astead Herndon from the NYT to host a new video podcast and serve as editorial director starting on October 20, a significant loss for the NYT (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/nbc-news-layoffs-cuts

Rattled at 30 Rock
NBC News is reeling from its biggest round of cuts in years, cutting about 150 staffers as it divorces itself from MSNBC and CNBC.

Source: NBC News cuts about 150 jobs, or about 2% of its workforce, ahead of the spinoff of MSNBC and CNBC into Versant (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/…

Layoffs Hit NBC News: 150 Jobs Cut Ahead of Versant Split
The cuts come ahead of Comcast's Versant spinoff, which will see MSNBC and CNBC cleaved off from the rest of the NBC News Group.

"Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to disease outbreaks and running an influential journal. Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded.
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.Csoi.tzJ4vEYyJVTY

CDC union blasts lack of transparency from HHS in layoffs (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5555773-trump-cdc-layoffs-impact/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p166#a251014p166

More than 1,000 staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received layoff notices,
including in units that respond to infectious-disease outbreaks,
analyze science and health data to develop policy,
and monitor the safety of employees

Among those who initially received lay off notices were leaders of CDC’s response to the growing number of measles cases in the United States and abroad,
including one official who has more than 28 years experience ov…

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown
Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-restructures-…

WSJ restructures health, science and education, makes layoffs - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday: Dear all, Today we are announcing changes to how we structure our health, science and education teams at The Wall Street Journal. The health group is returning to the business team after becoming a separate coverage area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Coverage of […]

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/10/13/cdc-layoffs-reversed-aspr-samhsa/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYwMzI4MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYxNzEwMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjAzMjgwMDAsImp0aSI6IjZkMjFhYjE2LTdmYWYtNDZhMS05YzkzLWNjMjBmYWRkMGM1NSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyNS8xMC8xMy9jZGMtbGF5b2Zmcy1yZXZlcnNlZC1hc3ByLXNhbWhzYS8ifQ.7Dd1h1o5xCS0EyVwTf1liLs52VswTM_Cbja8uY4AcrQ&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p112#a251013p112

Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff, or ~30,000 people, its largest layoffs since 2022, to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-…

A historic wave of retirements and other departures has swept through the federal workforce in recent months, putting enormous strain on agencies as they cope with a new government shutdown and administration layoffs.

This mass exodus
— unprecedented in its scale
— includes 154,000 federal employees who accepted buyout offers and were largely removed from the payroll as of the end of last month.
Some of those are among nearly 105,000 employees who took regular retire…

Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government
Tens of thousands of federal employees have taken retirement or other voluntary departures on top of the Trump administration’s latest layoffs.

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p48#a251011p48

Emergency hearing set over potential Trump admin violations
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-drags-trump-admin-into-court-for-emergency-hearing-after-credible-sources-say-layoffs-will-continue-despite-restraining-order/

Over 4K federal workers hit with shutdown-related layoffs, so far (Aris Folley/Roll Call)
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/10/over-4k-federal-workers-hit-with-shutdown-related-layoffs-so-far/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p45#a251011p45

Amazon Laid Off Some Employees Via Early-Morning Text Messages - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-employees-early-morning-text-messages-2025-10

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says (Zachary Schermele/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/10/11/education-department-special-ed-office-layoffs-shutdown/86646104007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p65#a251011p65

Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global workforce and expects the layoffs to cost $160M to $180M; it had 36,100 employees as of the end of July (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

No Education Department? No Problem, Trump's Education Secretary Says. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/education-department-shutdown-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p88#a251021p88

Sources detail how Canadian media company Valnet gutted Military.com, including layoffs and a reduction of in-depth journalism, while facing new Pentagon rules (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/military-dot-c…

The vanquishing of Military.com.
Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most.

Among those who joined Jeff Merkly
on the Senate floor was
Cory Booker, who said:
“We are seeing a time now that if we do not ring the alarm bells,
more and more Americans will be hurt by a president
who is acting more like an authoritarian leader than a democratically elected executive.”
Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal likened Trump’s partial demolition of the White House East Wing
to layoffs and funding cuts he has ordered across the government.

Trump cuts jobs at nation's mental health agency and some jobs at CDC : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/11/nx-s1-5571948/trump-mental-health-substance-abuse-cdc-layoffs-jobs

Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000 employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/ver…

Jim Beam,
the country’s largest maker of bourbon,
has announced a one-year pause in production at its flagship facility in Clermont, Ky.,
a stunning move that underlines the immense challenges facing the American whiskey industry after more than two decades of rapid growth.
The decision by the brand, owned by the Japanese conglomerate 🔸Suntory Holdings,
is the latest in a series of production cuts, layoffs and financial crises across the wine, beer and spirits s…

Jim Beam Halts Production at Flagship Distillery as Whiskey and Bourbon Markets Struggle
The bourbon giant is closing its flagship distilling operation for all of 2026.

Education Dept. wipes out special ed office, union says: the agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/10/11/education-department-special-ed-office-layoffs-shutdown/86646104007/

Judge extends order barring the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the shutdown (Janie Har/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-layoffs-judge-trump-fdcb16f91c94d7bf73977e8968210b0e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p118#a251028p118

Quarter of CDC staff targeted by layoff notices: Union (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5556514-federal-layoffs-cdc-union/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p88#a251015p88

Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.

Shutdown Firings Paused by US Judge as Vought Vows More to Come (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/white-house-budget-chief-sees-federal-layoffs-exceeding-10-000
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p98#a251015p98

Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments.
It has very clear institutional reasons to do so.
But obeying to Trump rules all,
and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening
while opining on Bad Bunny."
-- Don Moynihan

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts? MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off - report (Maya Yang/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/13/special-education-department-layoffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p104#a251013p104

The Labor Department says it will release a key report on the September job market next Thursday, almost seven weeks behind schedule.
The jobs report is one of many closely-watched economic indicators that were held up by the government shutdown.
The report — which details hiring, layoffs and the unemployment rate for September — was almost complete when the government economists who tally jobs were abruptly furloughed by the shutdown.
Since the data was already in hand, th…

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (Brandy Zadrozny/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/cdc-rfk-jr-shutdown-layoffs-goal-rcna237035
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p67#a251011p67

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the…

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

Mass CDC cuts hit staff dealing with measles, Ebola and disease forecasting (Lena H. Sun/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/10/11/cdc-layoffs-public-health-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p62#a251011p62

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.weH4.JVERdl5xaqbP
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p3#a251011p3

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/11/nx-s1-5571948/trump-mental-health-substance-abuse-cdc-layoffs-jobs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p71#a251011p71

Trump admin broke spending deal agreement to halt mass layoffs, judge says (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/government-mass-lawyoffs-hearing-00695923
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p117#a251217p117

Spooked by AI and Layoffs, White-Collar Workers See Their Security Slip Away (Rachel Louise Ensign/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/white-collar-workers-job-anxiety-d8f83885
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p152#a251216p152