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HELLody SchreiBOO

@melodyschreiber.com

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Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast. Email: [email protected] Signal: melodyschreiber.06 Newsletter: notadoctor.news

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · Aug 21

I have never seen federal workers and outside experts speak so forcefully about anyone in power. But RFK Jr. poses an unprecedented threat to American health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘An existential threat’: US health workers call Robert F Kennedy Jr a risk to public health

More than 750 health workers say Kennedy’s misinformation fuels violence and endangers lives

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 4h

There's nothing stopping Congress from deauthorizing/defunding the OMB Director and his office.

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 5h

This is good. The next step is to impeach him or defund his office.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 8h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 9h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 18h

Nightmare

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 20h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 18h

It's such an interesting place to be, always questioning whether an image is real or not

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 19h

Bez Smug indeed

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 19h

No, it's cleaner 🥁

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 19h

I'm doing a health and safety course to co-op at our preschool and either we're using stock images in other languages or AI

Three spray bottles - the first one, which looks like Windex, says "W5: Plyn Do Mycia Szyb, 1 litr"

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 20h

This @lopatto.bsky.social banger completely changed my view of the Bari Weiss CBS takeover www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Zackary Berger שלום בערגער @drberger.bsky.social · 21h

In the Baltimore Sun today we ask Governor Wes Moore to cancel Avelo Airlines' contract with BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. He can do it today. It doesn't require the assembly. It will help stop ICE & help our patients and neighbors.

Please share widely.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/11/w...

How Wes Moore can deal a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda | GUEST COMMENTARY

Guest commentary: Gov. Wes Moore has a novel opportunity to undermine Trump’s immigration agenda by targeting an airline participating in ICE’s deportations.

www.baltimoresun.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 20h

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 20h

frog

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 21h

Her kids get age-appropriate socialization and education

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22h

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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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-vaccine activists: children get too many vaccines.

Also anti-vaccine activists: let's give children three needles instead of one, for no good reason. Just to make it harder to fully vaccinate, I guess? via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.theguardian.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

It depends. It can be paid or unpaid.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

It's so widespread