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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 12h

Check out the thread about.... inflatable protest safety by @altfda.altgov.info
I'm gonna add that you should:
1. Leave your personal cell at home
1a. Take it but leave it turned off
2. Sharpie an emergency contact # on both arms
3. Don't do dumm. They really want you to so Don't.

AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 14h

I absolutely love how the inflatable costume is taking off for protest! It offers protection in so many fucking ways but if they go into battle, we will need to level the costumes up for extended dancing in tear gas smoke. Let’s talk 🧵🧵🧵🧵

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18h

💉Reminder! Don't forget to get your yearly Flu and COVID vaccine. Cases of both will start increasing soon 📈

Check with your medical providers, local pharmacies, and/or local health departments for COVID vaccine availability.

#wildtomild

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 15h

Sorry it finally got you, but yes yay vaccines

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16h

✍️Voter PSA! ✍️

On Nov 4th, across the country, there are 1000s of local elections. Early voting starts today in some places. From school board to mayor every one of these elections matters. This is how we take our country back

Got to your state "my voter" page (or equivalent) to find your elections

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Mt. Rainier 🏔(təqʷuʔmaʔ) @altmtrainier.com · 15h

Make sure to take a moment today and appreciate the beauty in life. ❤️

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Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner @oicwa.bsky.social · 1d

This Indigenous People’s Day we’re proud of our tribal health and tribal liaison resources – please share!

www.insurance.wa.gov/insurance-re... #indigenouspeoplesday

This Indigenous People’s Day we’re proud of our tribal health and tribal liaison resources – please share!

More details in caption

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 1d

Edited with the small win bsky.app/profile/altc...

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Small win: #CDC privacy office survived the weekend chaos. Big concerns remain about how HHS, Palantir & others may use STLT data. If agencies must share, we recommend the bare minimum—aggregate if possible—and use high caution and good judgement to protect residents against unsanctioned data use.

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

⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️

HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk.

Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 2d

Blogged to signal boost for #publichealth #medlibs eagledawg.blogspot.com/2025/10/cdc-...

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

⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️

HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk.

Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 2d

Blogged to signal boost for #publichealth #medlibs eagledawg.blogspot.com/2025/10/cdc-...

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

⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️

HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk.

Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 2d

🎃 Spooky Season PSA: When public health gets ghosted,👻 we all feel it.
Don’t let science become a skeleton 💀 of its former self.

Not just a Halloween prop. It's a warning. We have a skeleton crew holding it all together. Public health isn’t scary: it’s essential.

Spread the word.

Halloween decoration skeleton holding a sign states Save Public Health

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 3d

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 4d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 3d

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

Fustiliarian Friday: Trump/Kennedy/GOP use the shutdown as an excuse to destroy the CDC’s elite field epidemiology team and one of the most important epidemiology journals in the world.

Gift link.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so sorry. Academic public health is fighting! ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4d

RIFed:
Office of Science - CDC Library

They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research.

You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.

About Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library

The CDC library provides resources and services to support research, communication, and learning.<br></br>

www.cdc.gov

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 3d

So effed up, I'm sorry.

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #FieldworkFriday Mariners fans! Cal Raleigh said he could feel the ground shaking in Game 2, so PNSN came to take a closer look! We installed a seismometer right here in T-Mobile Park to record seismic energy during game 5. Seattle, we want to feel this place rocking! #SeizeTheMoment

PNSN install team standing along dugout with the empty green seats of TMobile Park behind them.

PNSN Field Engineer installing seismic instrument on concrete ground. Tool bag in foreground, black wall in background.

Looking over the right shoulder of PNSN Field Engineer working on laptop with green seismic instrument in background.

Green seismic instrument on ground, Grey and blue cable extending from rear.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 5d

#publichealth #medlibs

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 5d

🖥️Most CDC data dashboards are not being updated during the shutdown. Go to your state (or local/county) health department for up to date information on respiratory viruses, food borne outbreaks, and other health information.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 6d

It’s flu season! Get your shot today 💉

🔗 getmyflushot.org

💉💚💉

(Remember when “get your flu shot” came with great PSAs instead of conspiracy threads?)

This was SUCH a great campaign from the CDC. It’s the Wild to mild vaccine. This poster shows a tiger and a cute little cat. The wording says “A flu vaccine can take flu from Wild to mild”
More info here about this fabulous campaign: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/whats-new/2023-2024-new-campaign-wild-to-mild.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fflu-resources%2Fphp%2Fshareable-resources%2Findex.html

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7d

6 out of 6 Surgeons General confirm that RFKJ is bad for America’s health.

Seriously, though, what’s it gonna take to get him fired? So many organizations and individuals have called for his resignation.

Maybe we need to donate a gold-plated bust of Mussolini for the new White House ballroom?

Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 7d

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 8d

Tales of the corresponding author, 2nd revision due today: Just caught myself making similar hand motions as I was painstakingly checking our references order. #2 is now #11, several new ones added to the mix, etc.

a man is leading an orchestra with his arms outstretched while they play violins

Alt: a man is leading an orchestra with his arms outstretched & waving above his head enthusiastically while they play violins

media.tenor.com

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 8d

Some weeks feel just like this.
Embrace the suck & kick ass anyway.

Hot air balloons kick ass. Are they safe? Not really. Can you stop if you don't like it? Think again. BUT can you steer? Listen don't bring that negative energy into this wicker basket ok I'm gonna light this flamethrower.

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Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe it's just our wimpy northern ones that death slime!

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