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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · 12d

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · 12d

My Equity Research Is Being Censored. I Knew This Day Was Coming. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Opinion | My Equity Research Is Being Censored. I Knew This Day Was Coming.

Ending DEI in public health research and practice is harmful

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 25d

Vaccines remain one of our most powerful tools to protect public health and America’s future generations. Every child deserves the right to vaccines. #SaveCDC #ACIP #SavePublicHealth #VaccinesSaveLives

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Aug 12

🚨 Trigger warning 🚨

To 🧠🪱, various politicians, and reporters who are mis-reporting and minimizing the CDC shooting (some innocently, & others clearly not):

A shooting "near" CDC instead of *at* CDC is like
an abusive partner saying: “I didn’t hit you — I just punched the wall next to your head.”

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · Jul 31

The 17 experts who were ousted from an HHS vaccine committee have published a commentary on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, saying that Robert Kennedy, Jr., and his self-picked panel are abandoning rigorous scientific review and open deliberation.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · May 25

Best read as a reasoned call to action, not a question. And we will need vivid terms for where we are going — oligarchy and fascism — as well as what we are seeking — freedom and equality.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · May 16

As upset as I am that RAINN caved (with seemingly public awareness), I’m livid that they were placed in this position in the first place. newrepublic.com/post/195327/...

Top Sexual Assault Hotline RAINN Caves to Trump in Chilling Move

RAINN has given in to Donald Trump’s war on DEI.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · May 13

Good morning 🌞 – some inspo to start your day:

It’s people like Dr. Brittany Charlton, a Harvard professor and public health researcher, who remind us that science, equity, and truth are worth fighting for. 💪🏽🌍

Her lawsuit is protecting LGBTQ+ health, science, and democracy. 🏳️‍🌈⚖️

Science is under attack. So I’m taking RFK Jr. to court

“After losing every one of my grants — and seeing the human cost to my team, patients, and society — I knew silence was not an option,” writes Brittany Charlton.

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · May 14

#PublicHealthMalpratice

Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · May 12

#PublicHealthMalpractice

RFK Jr. wastes taxpayer money by chasing down conspiracy theories. He pledged the support of HHS for a fight involving chemtrails, a debunked theory that the white condensation lines streaming behind airplanes are toxic

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Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · Apr 9

Please see below strong Statement from @apha.org Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD: "I ask my colleagues to join me and speak up. Secretary Robert Kennedy is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired."
#PublicHealth #EpiSky #SocialEpi

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Secretary Kennedy and his policies are a danger to the public’s health

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · Apr 8

Go @nickmetheny.bsky.social and colleagues!

Nick Metheny @nickmetheny.bsky.social · Apr 8

So proud to join colleagues in refusing to abandon our science and the communities we serve in the face of cruelty and chaos:

KL Dunkle, MPH PhD @kldunkle.bsky.social · Apr 8

I'm pleased to join @abigailmhatcher.bsky.social @nickmetheny.bsky.social and @rebeccafieldingmiller.com in suggesting a few strategies for a collective rufusal to abandon HIV science, patients, and vulnerable communities in these chaotic times.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · Apr 5

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Apr 2

@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
is right. You can humiliate and fire us. But we will not stay down. Because we truly believe in our mission. We fight for people. We fight for kids. For the right to survive and the hope to thrive.

Goodnight friends. Get some rest.

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Why we keep going

Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Why we keep going

Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Apr 1

There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
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The CDC Has Been Gutted

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · Apr 1

Today’s carnage has let me to change my professional goals from researching partner violence solutions to a) supporting younger, more talented researchers so they can do that work, and b) teaching public health students the skills and knowledge they will need to rebuild what we’ve just broken.

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · Mar 28

Making America Healthy?!! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence

Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.

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Dick Powis @dtpowis.bsky.social · Feb 23

Tl;dr: PRAMS asks “DEI” questions

Lol these people aren’t pro-life

Why PRAMS Got Shuttered

Yesterday I broke the news that the CDC has indefinitely shuttered the...

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Bob Collins @mylittlebloggie.bsky.social · Feb 17

Just wonderful writing on the 60 Minutes piece on President aMusk dismantling of USAID

"The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people."

Well done.

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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · Feb 14

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer?

She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · Feb 12

Statement from @joanalker1.bsky.social CCF's executive director on the #Medicaid cuts included in the House GOP's budget resolution: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/12/s...

Statement by Joan Alker on Released Draft House Budget Resolution

The following is a statement by Joan Alker, Executive Director of the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center for Children and Families, on the release of the House Budget Reso…

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NPR @npr.org · Feb 8

Staff at the CDC are bracing for a significant reduction in the work force that appears to be targeting staff with the fewest worker protections.

Morale plummets at the CDC as staff fear job losses

Staff at the CDC are bracing for a significant reduction in the work force that appears to be targeting staff with the fewest worker protections.

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · Feb 2

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EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

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Alisa Velonis @alisajv.bsky.social · Feb 2

I (personally) am not familiar with the author, nor do I have any idea how to fact check this, but given all that has happened in the past 12 days, I will believe this is true unless shown evidence to the contrary. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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Everything is Public Health @everythingisph.bsky.social · Jan 27

This is mass murder with extra steps.

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CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

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