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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 7h

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 8h

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 13h

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, specifically playing as Symbiote-suit Spider-Man 🛹

a spider man hanging upside down with a skateboard in front of him

Alt: Spider-Man in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19h

If you were recently terminated as part of the layoff, please reach out to www.centerforemploymentjustice.com.

Terminating federal employees for purely political reasons is illegal.

CEJ- Advocates in the Workplace

www.centerforemploymentjustice.com

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 18h

Not enough news outlets are making it absolutely clear that last night’s RIFs are unlawful

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 13h

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Alt: SpongeBob facepalm GIF

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 14h

MMWR published a report in 1981 about five men with unusual cases of pneumonia in Los Angeles. In retrospect, it was the first publication to detect and inform the wider scientific community of the presence of HIV.

Last night, everyone working on MMWR was fired.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 14h

You're in for a treat! By far one of my favorite books on gaming history! @aidanmoher.com is stellar 😄

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 15h

Congrats!!

Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 15h

Great game, and it had both a movie and TV show adaptation as well!

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gail 💖 🔜 GATEway FATE 🌱✨ @notgodzilla.bsky.social · 18h

oh btw if you guys liked Silent Hill f may I suggest Detention. It's by the same studio that made Devotion. It takes place during White Terror in Taiwan and has some really great horror elements from Taiwanese mythology.

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 1d

Writing hand-optimized implementations of the C standard library's routines for the Sega #Dreamcast's SH4, because the implementations we get from Newlib are using slow bit arithmetic on a platform with a baller FPU... ain't nobody got time!

#gamedev #retrocomputing #cplusplus

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 15h

Welcome to the old people's club 👴

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 1d

Proud of my colleagues for speaking out!

There is so much power when people come together.

Trump knows that, and that’s why everything he does aims to divide us.

But we see through that and are growing stronger together!

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Shut down but not silenced: Federal workers find their voice

After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.

www.npr.org

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18h

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Retro Game Books @retrogamebooks.com · 3d

🚨 Free book giveaway contest 📙

Win a free copy of Video Game Maps: SNES - Vol 2. To enter, tell us which of Link's items you'd like to have in real life.

Contest ends Sunday October 12th.

Reskeets appreciated.

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#retrogaming 💌

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19h

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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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19h

Before us are illegal and unnecessary Republican mass firings, which they will own; behind us, millions of Americans whose health care Republicans attack, and will own.

We stand our ground.

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

Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h

This should be shown to medical students for years about how doctors, entranced by power and fancy titles, lent the legitimacy of the medical profession to a deranged authoritarian.

Can doctors sink lower than this?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 19h

This is a massive deal. But it’s not a done deal. Workers have been barred from their offices, but there is still time to protect their jobs. Only your Reps can do it though. Don’t let up!

Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · 19h

RIFs at CDC.

Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.

Call your Reps about it.

Then call them again.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 19h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 19h

@angierasmussen.bsky.social @saskiapopescu.bsky.social tagging you two just in case you know folks who might be interested

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 19h

I'd love to hear from anyone who has been at agencies protecting public health this year (eg CDC, HHS, HRSA, HUD, NIH, OSHA). Privacy respected. Signal is AmyMaxmen.25

🧵Here's a thread of some of my stories this year on the impact of the Trump administration on America's public health.

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hi! I'm a public health reporter moving from THERE to here. Give me a follow if you're interested in my writing & take:

Public health isn't only about outbreaks & vaccines. It's about making society healthier outside of clinics. It requires systemic change, equity, a belief in the common good.

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