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AltNIOSH

@altniosh.altgov.info

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Unofficial (but factual) account about the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its mission. We're public health folks working for the worker- that's you! We'll keep doing so come hell, high water, or bad policy. #SaveNIOSH #AltGov

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Jun 14

America was built BY WORKERS who paid with their health and lives.

By enslaved people stripped of all human rights, women in wartime factories, miners in company towns, and immigrants seeking better lives.

Not by billionaires. Not by kings.

We aren't going back.

#saveNIOSH #altGov #NoKings

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Coyote Mae (he/they) @coyotethewitch.bsky.social · 2d

AFGE dues paying members‼️

Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback.

If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.

Tell AFGE leadership to hold the line: we need a budget for the people

Tell AFGE leadership that passing a budget that protects the rights and interests of working people is more important than ending the shutdown at any cost! Please only sign if you are a dues-paying m...

actionnetwork.org

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Johnson’s “Hate Rally.”

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 4d

No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 11d

This!!! And from 1970 on, it halved further largely due to the OSH Act and NIOSH.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 11d

Tragic and catastrophic workplace accidents like the nightmare scenario in Tennessee will keep happening under a regime and within a corporate landscape that views workers as a disposable resource. There will be efforts to normalize this sort of thing, mark our words.

A massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant obliterated a building and left 18 people missing. Here’s what we know | CNN

Early Friday, a thundering blast at a military and industrial explosives plant reverberated across a tight-knit community in central Tennessee, razing an entire building on the plant’s sprawling campu...

www.cnn.com

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 11d

100% true. Power consolidating itself.

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

1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed.

💯 you do NOT deserve this.

Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice:
❌ Do not send a read receipt
❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response
✅ Forward notice to your personal email

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 11d

We don't want to go to Canada. We want our nation and our homeland that we took oaths to serve to not descend into a fascist hellscape. And many of us are working hard against that very outcome, whether current or former federal employee, RIF'd or not, furloughed or excepted.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 11d

💔💔💔

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

Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.

We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 11d

So far, no additional RIFs at NIOSH, but thousands of others in critically important programs across HHS and CDC.

Even including some folks who had been exempt from furlough and required to work without pay.

Abhorrent.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 12d

To be clear, most of us are still in administrative limbo and not able to do our vital jobs- the agency has not functioned since April, even if some personnel were returned to duty.

AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 12d

It's gonna be interesting to see whether they reissue all NIOSH's RIFs (since worker safety isn't in line with the president's priorities) and then try to say the current court injunctions suddenly don't apply.

#SaveNIOSH

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 16d

The alt gov family is large & they are strong. Thanks to our @altusds.altgov.info colleagues for telling us what happened with plain language .gov. Also thanks to @alt18f.bsky.social for backing up the original content.
Glad we are saving information together. We are stronger together.

Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info · 16d

Many people noticed plainlanguage.gov was migrated to digital.gov/topics/plain..., where it has been *consolidated*.

Our friends at @alt18f.bsky.social posted a version of the original content at plainlanguage.18f.org

Unlike other sites that have disappeared, this one just changed.

plainlanguage.gov | Home

Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.

plainlanguage.18f.org

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 15d

Very true, and a very great opportunity to remember that Black Americans were amongst the first and most extensively targeted victims of this country's history of labor exploitation.

We have made great strides since, but progress must always be safeguarded and NEVER taken for granted.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 15d

Oct. 7:

black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

ALT: black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

media.tenor.com

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Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 15d

Oct. 7:

black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

ALT: black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

media.tenor.com

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 22d

There is no time like the present to fight Facism and help save our country. October 18th! Stand Up, Fight Back!!!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21d

We stand with federal employees and families bearing the weight of the shutdown, and those feeling effects at every level of our government. You deserve better.

That said, we all know that this shutdown is a GOP distraction and self-own. Never interrupt your opponent when they’re making a mistake.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23d

CDC, your friends and colleagues have been gathering resources and networking since January. We don’t know how long we are about to go without pay or if we will be fired. But we do know we have each other. Dig deep and hold fast. DM on signal if you need to get connected.

Goodnight 💚

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24d

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 26d

Hysterical claim given how many in vitro studies, assay development projects, and novel modeling techniques they killed at NIOSH alone.

Which isn't even under NIH.

But we suppose it's par for the course when you have middling academics & science-illiterate politicals running things.

#SaveNIOSH

NIH's $87 million nonanimal testing project

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 27d

Good luck to them affording that in the coming economy

AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 27d

Planning on gutting the nation's infrastructure by firing everyone as a political bargaining chip is certainly on brand for the current powers that be.

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · Sep 20

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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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Sep 21

This is one of the best accountings we have so far of what went down with NIOSH and how it's going to change things for the worst. Huge ups to all the brave resistors that helped get this information out.

#SaveNIOSH

How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant

Businesses are begging the White House and RFK Jr. to rethink their massive cuts to Niosh, a workplace research agency that saves the US billions of dollars a year.

www.bloomberg.com

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