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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 6h

@jeremymberg.bsky.social and @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social and @cdelawalla.bsky.social are leaders.

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 6h

Who is Russell Vought cutting at our health agencies? The data people. The scientists. The comms people.

Project 2025 is a war on truth.
We are fighting an information war.

Sources of reliable truth are who they are after.

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

More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 6h

Wow. Yes. This is the message of 2025, for nonprofits like @aaas.org and @nationalacademies.org, for Congress, for law firms, for media and journalism, and for universities.

Are the people at the top leaders, or merely managers? We are finding out who the real leaders are.

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

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things"
- Peter Drucker

You’re Fired. Just Kidding!

How much more whiplash can the CDC withstand?

www.theatlantic.com

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 17h

Yes. As we said in August, Trump is deeply unpopular— and the more Americans learn about the Trump agenda, the more unpopular he gets.

Now is the time to say that loudly. Be not afraid. Our mission is to drive public discussion, and reach every American with this message.

Democrats: Stand Up this September and Shut Trump Down
Democratic leaders can use budget negotiations to protect science — and democracy
SCIENCE AND FREEDOM ALLIANCE
SEP 01, 2025
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Approval ratings for Donald Trump are hitting new lows, as Americans push back against his increasingly fascist regime. Republicans often claim Trump's authoritarian overreach is justified by an electoral “mandate.” But with final counts showing more than half of the population (50.2%) voted for another candidate, this claim has always been dubious. As Trump’s approval sinks below 40%, the claim is downright laughable. Thus far, Congress and the courts—intended to check and balance Presidential power—have abdicated their roles, allowing Trump to run roughshod across the Constitution, infringe Americans’ freedoms, and erode the U.S. scientific enterprise.

As the Supreme Court continues t

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 1d

helen the sabbath is not just Sunday, pretty soon Elise Stefanik will be calling this antisemitic

(kidding, and ugh what a world we live in)

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Supreme Court justices are going on the Sabbath Gasbag shows now? To discuss the court’s work? What the fuck?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 2d

1. My father's funeral was this week. This morning, I attended my first @nihvigils.bsky.social with my family. I shared my father's story. My father immigrated from South Korea. This was possible with #NSF funding. I know we are sister agencies, but science is under attack in multiple departments.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2d

Phenomenal thread on immigrant stories and science

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 2d

1. My father's funeral was this week. This morning, I attended my first @nihvigils.bsky.social with my family. I shared my father's story. My father immigrated from South Korea. This was possible with #NSF funding. I know we are sister agencies, but science is under attack in multiple departments.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 3d

It is a criminally absurd assertion for anyone to make the claim that corn ethanol is even remotely energy efficient, environmentally sound, or sustainable

It is a scam perpetrated by corporate lobbying firms to capture tax dollars as corporate profits

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2d

So to summarize:

- There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests.
- They restore some people after outrage and work by us.
- But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

Vought is a small, unhappy, hateful and anti-social person.

He is also evil: opposed to Jesus‘ teachings, and exactly what Jesus warned about in the Bible.

The first step in bringing Vought down is being honest about who he is.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

And yes, Russ Vought would be absolutely nothing without billionaires. His agenda is toxic; he is a hateful person with a tiny minority of the public behind him.

He is in a position to destroy America because rightwing billionaires have funneled money into the GOP and project 2025.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

“The Death of Public Health”

Jonas Salk saved millions with a polio vaccine. He gave it away to help humanity. Today, venal and yes, evil billionaires—Koch to Musk to Peter Thiel—are fully behind destroying American society for profit. They want you poor, sick, and desperate. We must stop them.

The Death of Public Health

Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 2d

This is terrible. A brief statement from us:

Congress must stop it. We call for a provision in any CR/budget bill that explicitly declares these Vought shutdown firings to be illegal, null, and void.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

We need members of Congress to start saying that these people will be prosecuted and imprisoned when we retake power.

And/or state law-enforcement needs to start arresting ICE agents who violate civil rights. As the project 2025 people say: “let them litigate”

@joshtpm.bsky.social good on this

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

When you’ve lost Cathy Young, formerly Ed Whelan’s colleague at EPPC, you know things have gone badly wrong

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2d

I get so very tired of people who told me bullshit wasn’t bullshit when I called bullshit announcing “hey, you know what, this is bullshit!” www.thebulwark.com/p/bari-weiss...

Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance

The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.

www.thebulwark.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

Ridiculous. And lawless. And Vought did it on a Friday night of a holiday weekend.

Sure looks like he wants to scare and punish federal workers but is afraid of the public backlash. Let’s give him a public backlash.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 3d

💯 Thank you, @ramirez.house.gov for standing up for federal workers, the Constitution, and all Americans.

Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 3d

It is day 10 of the government shutdown, and instead of negotiating with Democrats, Trump is disrespecting federal workers and using them as pawns in his plan to dismantle the services Americans rely on.

Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown

Mass firings of federal workers have begun. That was the announcement Friday from the White House as Republicans worked to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers to end the government shutdown.

apnews.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

Full-time rightwing media star Jay Bhattacharya

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 3d

Every person who defended this guy and his *obvious* disinformation over the past 5 years should watch this interview and know they enabled this.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

Also, asking for a friend:

When Laura Ingraham, notorious propagandist, says you are right, is this worth bragging about?

😬😬😬

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