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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 29m

Great statement.

Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 31m

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 7h

9 days to go:
* 2 x open positions!
* Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package
* University of Toronto appointments
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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

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Please repost!

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 1h

some of it is eugenic thinking — the MAHA agenda overlaps with the historically American form: quackery, miracle cures, “better genes” coupled to “better morals”

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 2h

I've yet to see this properly analysed from a psychological point of view. Obviously RFK is a nut, but there's also a broader pattern in the GOP ranks that seems deeply peculiar, of wanting positively to welcome the threat of disease and death. It feels like a collective psychosis.

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 6h

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 2h

The data is from April but holy moly

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 3h

impact—
“1)Outbreaks go unseen…
2)Doctors lose guidance…
3)States lose coordination…like trying to fight a wildfire w/o radios
4)Americans lose time. The time btwn an emerging threat & a public warning stretches from hrs to days to weeks.In public health, time saves lives”🛟🧪 @kkjetelina.bsky.social

“But here's what happens next:
1. Outbreaks go unseen. When data stops flowing, early warnings disappear. The "invisible shield" that keeps us safe from measles, flu, and the next unknown virus begins to crack.
2. Doctors lose guidance. The experts who turn raw data into actionable guidance (how to treat, what to look for)
are gone.
3. States lose coordination. When states can't share information through the CDC, it's like trying to fight a wildfire without radios.
4. Americans lose time. The time between an emerging threat and a public warning stretches from hours to days to weeks. In public health, time saves lives.”

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 6h

Trump, Vought, Millet, RFK — all of these folks treat anyone outside of their circle as nonpersons, whose interests and even lives are irrelevant except to the extent they help the Trump crowd achieve its ends. If that’s not evil, I don’t know what is.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 6h

It’s considered impolite to use language like this, but “evil” is the best word for what these folks are doing. It’s bad enough to screw over workers to attack political enemies. But here, doing so will literally kill people and lead to avoidable disease.

open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

open.substack.com

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NPR @npr.org · 7h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h

The people who voted for Trump didn’t think they were driving a truck over a street full of people, but in effect they were. Many, many Americans will die because of the Trump regime’s destruction of our public health system.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 12h

“A man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the HQ of CDC broke into a locked safe to get his father's weapons & wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines. The bullets pierced ‘blast-resistant’ windows across the campus, pinning employees down.”

the cruelty is the point

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 13h

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
#GiftLink

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

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

same – the entire point of baseball is that you have to complete a discrete task (get 27 outs and 1 more run than your opponent)

if you want a game of seconds, watch 4th quarter basketball (which I love too)

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

Not me. Take it to 20 innings fuck to the ghostrunner bsky.app/profile/leve...

Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 14h

At the end I was just hoping SOMEONE would win

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

LOFL

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14h

Treasuries advanced Friday as traders reacted to evidence the US government shutdown may be curtailing economic activity

Treasuries Climb After Trump Threatens Higher Tariffs on China

Treasuries rallied on Friday, pushing yields to the lowest in weeks, after US President Donald Trump threatened “a massive increase” in tariffs on Chinese imports, sparking declines in stocks and some commodities.

bloom.bg

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

I hate the lame-ass runner-on-2nd farce

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

Mariners getting a shot at a franchise best is something special, whether they're your time or not

the romance of baseball is that there's always next year, when the grass grows back, because hope springs eternal

as they say around here, you gotta believe

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17h

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

I will never give up on this game

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

🙏🏽

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

sticky wicket?

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

yes -- that is an important point

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

agreed but most folks don't know that instinctually

personally I'd like a group of physicians (Surgeon General perhaps should organize?) to review and explain the findings

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

all good questions

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

I don't like any of these reports for public figures, but his are especially unsatisfying. The public is not well served by this way of conveying the most salient information.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

big picture point: maybe it makes sense to look for ECG-age > chronological age for surveillance purposes, but there's zero evidence to suggest one should treat ECG-age as an indicator of low age-adjusted risk

that would be huge but it's not where we are right now

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14h

I would not call this level of evidence "validated"

maybe that's me, but I don't think so

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