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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 7h

“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

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 8h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 7h

This is just unreal. The level of panic in speech pathology groups is off the charts

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 14h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 8h

celebrities as lord of the rings characters: thread

Doja cat in a dress the same shape as the eye of Sauron.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 9h

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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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

As Kevin correctly notes, this is a template straight from the playbook of the Caesars. It's how the republic became the principate, and how the principate later became the dominate. A military dependent on no other institution except the patronage of the emperor.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 13h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Smithbrainz @smithbrainz.bsky.social · 8h

Well, now.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 9h

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.

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mrussellart.bsky.social @mrussellart.bsky.social · 13h

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 14h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 16h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15h

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

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 16h

Looks like Mass. and other Northeast states picked a good time to set up a regional public-health system.

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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Bateman Horne Center @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social · 1d

A new study sheds light on why people with ME/CFS feel worse after activity.
Findings reveal an immune system on edge, energy production that falters, and gut barrier leaks fueling inflammation.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q3i8sV
#MECFS #PEM #Research

When the Body’s Alarm Won’t Turn Off

Blog Summary Imagine if a fire alarm kept ringing long after the smoke was gone. That’s similar to what happens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), where the body seems…

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21h

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 19h

It only makes sense to shut down the CDC journal MMWR if CDC is no longer doing public health

CDC DOB: July 1, 1946
CDC died: October 10, 2025

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

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19h

“Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.”

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

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 19h

He got the COVID and flu Vaccines like every 79 year old should this is a good thing.
"Cardiovascular age validated by by ECG and found to be 14 years younger than chronological age" is a nonsensical phrase.
I am an internist this is not something we do or write in medical reports.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 21h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 20h

Coincidentally, religious delusions are a known side effect of ingesting psychedelics--a practice now apparently de rigeur among the Broligarchs.

Sources--

Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/tech/silicon...

Nature Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

There really needs to be a massive betting line on which bubble will crash first, crypto or AI.

Lucky for the billionaires who created the bubble, Trump installed the guy who started the run on SVB then wailed until he was bailed out, David Sacks, as his Crypto/AI Czar.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

Morgan Stanley drops restrictions on which wealth clients can own crypto funds

Morgan Stanley's move marks the latest expansion of access to crypto at the world's largest wealth management firm.

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