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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 21d

The CDC RIFs are terrible in more ways than just immediate impact to people’s health.

It’s bad enough that we will lose access to our own health data. It’s worse that these data can and will be weaponized against us.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-health-d...

A Health Data Surveillance State that Dominates

It's a short trip from "data modernization" to national eugenics registries

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22d

Finally, a good explainer of Dems' other shutdown demand, via @citizencohn.bsky.social. It's about trying to make it harder for the Trump admin to continue unilaterally (and illegally) cutting funding for government programs substack.com/home/post/p-...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

substack.com

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 21d

CDC Library staff and the larger Office of Science Quality and Library Services have yet to be re-hired at the CDC!!! Please contact your elected reps to advocate for the reinstatement of the CDC Library. Every little bit helps!
#medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC

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Public health librarian @healthlibrarian.bsky.social · 21d

The CDC Library performs the behind-the-scenes work that enables timely, effective public health responses.

Without the library, the administration has placed a massive, unnecessary time tax on CDC staff, forcing them to spend hours searching for information instead of saving lives.

#medlibs

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Quetzal1234 @quetzal1234.bsky.social · 21d

Hi, Every Library (a political group that advocates for libraries) just launched a petition and a way to email your reps to support the CDC librarians:
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...

Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...

Please share!

PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library

Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.

action.everylibrary.org

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 22d

“A horrifying read.”

Thank you for the kind words.🙏

Chris Hickie mud fud @cphickie.bsky.social · 22d

His first book meticulously documented the lies & disinformation of anti-science contrarian physicians during the pandemic. Dr. Howard now documents in "Everyone Else is Lying to You” how they parlayed their prevarications into positions of power within the HHS. A well-written but horrifying read.

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · Oct 3

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 25d

My op-ed just came out discussing how NIH leadership is failing early career researchers and, importantly, how we can push back and take our future into our own hands.

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25d

The thing we have learned very clearly about Jay Bhattacharya in the last six months is:

He wants to be a podcaster.

He seems to have no interest in running NIH or learning about science. He’s the leader of #darkscicomm

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25d

Bhattacharya is busy tweeting from his personal account about how he was right about lockdowns.

This is where he seems to want to spend his time, rather than doing his day job.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 22d

Battlefields are changing, as Ukraine has showed us. I suspect that instead of building proxy militias with RPGs and rockets, Iran will rearm new fighters with FPV suicide drones and If they can do that into the millions... and if they dig in to avoid IDF bombs... Israel will have a big problem.

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sjh65.bsky.social @sjh65.bsky.social · 22d

SAMHSA funds "are the backbone of behavioral health in this country," Rachel Winograd, a psychologist at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis, told NPR earlier this year. "If those grants were to go away, we'd be screwed."

apple.news/A-qPCmN8WRbu...

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on — NPR

Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

apple.news

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NPR @npr.org · 22d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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maggiemaythegreat.bsky.social @maggiemaythegreat.bsky.social · 22d

Anyone know if CDC Library firings were rescinded? Can’t find anything on their status

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22d

Does the public has a good sense of just how radical are the Trump/Project 2025 claims of presidential power?

"In effect, OPM has asked the courts to invalidate any provision that restricts the president’s ability to remove [civil servants]" - @nicholasbednar.bsky.social

A Primer on the Senior Executive Service | Lawfare

The Trump administration argues that the removal power extends to top career executives, endangering civil service tenure protections.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 22d

There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.”

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

The Irredeemable DOJ

Why James has an even stronger case of selective prosecution than Comey.

open.substack.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22d

This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing.

undark.org/2025/10/09/o...

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NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation

The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.

undark.org

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Alt The National Institute on Aging @altthenia.bsky.social · 22d

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From our colleagues @27unihted.bsky.social
On October 1st, four #NIH directors and one high ranking official were all terminated. This is a devastating loss for our agency and our country. We spoke to some of their colleagues to learn about them and their amazing work.

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 22d

Reporting on conversations with four, fired, infectious disease scientists, including two from USAID, about "their work, their lives now and the state of the nation’s pandemic preparedness".

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 24d

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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maggiemaythegreat.bsky.social @maggiemaythegreat.bsky.social · 24d

That’s so typical of this circus…I want to know HOW they became officers?! what did they do for it? And then refused to divest their financial conflicts of interest-that’s despicable!

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Veterans Against Trump @vetsat.bsky.social · 24d

Why would they recuse themselves when that was exactly why they were inserted into the military?

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 24d

“Tech Executives [From Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI] Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings” 6/27/25 www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings

The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting tale...

www.military.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 24d

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Edgeoforever🗽 @edgeoforever.bsky.social · 24d

Reminds me of his answers on cutting pandemic prevention during COVID

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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · 24d

Climate folks, emergency management folks, USACE folks, NOAA folks. Most federal agencies are FEMA’s partners in response & recovery!

Come show support for FEMA.
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