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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2m

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17m

With this HHS RIF, everyone is aggressively “calling” what data sources or government functions are dead, and I’m a bit uncomfortable. Not every team is zeroed out. Many people still doing their jobs. Reporters still need to substantiate claims about e.g. unreliable data. Not sure this is helping

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

vaxxed?

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 1h

Shamelessly sharing.

JAMA @jama.com · 2h

💬 Viewpoint: To address rural hospital closures, a cohesive framework is needed that simplifies program enrollment, aligns financing with clinical needs, and streamlines accountability.

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A JAMA article titled "Rural Hospitals Deserve More Than Patchwork Policies," published online September 3, 2025. A table outlines a path toward supporting rural hospitals with a modern framework, comparing current state and modernized proposals.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2h

anyone know how much more halloween candy costs this year over last?

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 14h

Fact remains hundreds of #CDC staff doing critical work lost their jobs this weekend in the administration’s ongoing destruction of what was the world’s premier public health agency.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 4h

You probably haven’t heard about these demands

And Democrats aren’t really talking about them

But after last week’s news, they’re more important than ever open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

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

open.substack.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h

gandalf: I am not trying to rob you!
I'm trying to help you.

[small dog holding tennis ball in its mouth stares back]

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h

still got some odd weeks left in the season, but god, out of all the years to have an unusually light season when it comes to CONUS landfalls

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h

i’m kind of worried the white house is going to see this as proof that we don’t need NOAA and FEMA because they really are that dumb

Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 6h

No lack of storms this hurricane season, and certainly no shortage of major hurricanes -- but they've thankfully managed to avoid land for the most part.
The most impactful storm so far was Imelda's landfall on Bermuda.
But it's not over yet...

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 16h

P E T T I N G T I M E

Pasta the gray cat with white tuxedo markings pawing my hand.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h

it’s auburn v georgia, what were y’all expecting

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h

kirby smart can play scumbag football with the best of them lol. go dawgs

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 15h

Sean McDonough and Greg McElroy try to make sense of Kirby Smart getting off the hook for calling a timeout here.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h

this thread goes back seven months

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16h

You're fired!

Oops, please come back!
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 16h

CDC lays off, then rapidly un-lays off, the people in charge of responding to measles www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h

thank you thank you

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20h

caturday

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr, resign

I’m wearing a mint green hoodie that says THE LIFE OF AN NIH-FUNDED SCIENTIST in orange on the back

I’m at a protest and giving a thumbs up

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 19h

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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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 16h

Georgia radio call: “Auburn fans are incensed, and I’m here for that, Scott.”

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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 18h

Our public health heroes don't deserve this rollercoaster of cruelty and incompetence

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18h

Update from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error. Gift link: nyti.ms/48JjSSf

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17h

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 19h

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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Stephanie Elms @stephelms.bsky.social · 17h

My chonk sees your chonk.

A chonky black & white cat lying on an orange & white checkered blanket.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17h

sorry @brianlyman.bsky.social

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18h

it also happened at CDC earlier this year a couple times. still a good thread

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