Alt CDC (they/them)
@altcdc.altgov.info
Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email [email protected] or DM
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email [email protected] or DM
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
Do what you can.
❤️🩹Take care of yourself.
🫂Take care of each other.
☎️Call 5calls.org
🧑💻Write democracy.io#!/thanks
🚫Boycott ICE: www.boycottcitizens.org/ice
✊Support MN: www.standwithminnesota.com
❤️🩹Take care of yourself.
🫂Take care of each other.
☎️Call 5calls.org
🧑💻Write democracy.io#!/thanks
🚫Boycott ICE: www.boycottcitizens.org/ice
✊Support MN: www.standwithminnesota.com
Good Morning!
Many have sung the Italian resistance song 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗼 because freedom depends on people who refuse to stay silent.
If you’re tired, scared, or angry: you’re not alone. Lift your voice.
What’s your favorite anti-fascism song?
tntlab.carterschool.gmu.edu/discover/rab...
Many have sung the Italian resistance song 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗼 because freedom depends on people who refuse to stay silent.
If you’re tired, scared, or angry: you’re not alone. Lift your voice.
What’s your favorite anti-fascism song?
tntlab.carterschool.gmu.edu/discover/rab...
The Many Lives and Meanings of “Bella Ciao” – Page 2 – The Narrative Transformation Lab
Is it a work song, sung by women mondine (“weeders”) in the rice fields of northeast Italy to bemoan the hard conditions of their work?
tntlab.carterschool.gmu.edu
January 29, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Good Morning!
Many have sung the Italian resistance song 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗼 because freedom depends on people who refuse to stay silent.
If you’re tired, scared, or angry: you’re not alone. Lift your voice.
What’s your favorite anti-fascism song?
tntlab.carterschool.gmu.edu/discover/rab...
Many have sung the Italian resistance song 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗼 because freedom depends on people who refuse to stay silent.
If you’re tired, scared, or angry: you’re not alone. Lift your voice.
What’s your favorite anti-fascism song?
tntlab.carterschool.gmu.edu/discover/rab...
⚠️CDC leaders continue to unlawfully deny disability accommodations to employees. These rights are guaranteed by law (see below). Affected staff are feeling marginalized, stigmatized, and unseen.
We see you, and so does the union.
We will not give up the fight for what’s right and lawful. 💚✊
We see you, and so does the union.
We will not give up the fight for what’s right and lawful. 💚✊
CDC folks: Disability rights aren’t optional -- they’re law! ✨
Check out this megathread on protecting your Reasonable Accommodation (RA) rights.
Read it without all the scrolling 🙂:
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Check out this megathread on protecting your Reasonable Accommodation (RA) rights.
Read it without all the scrolling 🙂:
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
🚨 New artist drop! Meet *RAnsky* - creating bold, clear infographics to help you understand your rights to *Reasonable Accommodations* at CDC.
AltCDC is sharing their work so everyone can access the info.
Thread starts here 👇♿️✨
AltCDC is sharing their work so everyone can access the info.
Thread starts here 👇♿️✨
January 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM
⚠️CDC leaders continue to unlawfully deny disability accommodations to employees. These rights are guaranteed by law (see below). Affected staff are feeling marginalized, stigmatized, and unseen.
We see you, and so does the union.
We will not give up the fight for what’s right and lawful. 💚✊
We see you, and so does the union.
We will not give up the fight for what’s right and lawful. 💚✊
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In front of every VA this weekend.
January 28, 2026 at 2:43 PM
In front of every VA this weekend.
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Indiana hospitals “are expected to reach annual losses exceeding $1 billion within the next three to five years” as a result of Medicaid cuts and other issues.
Rural hospitals will be in serious jeopardy just as The Regime leaves office, exactly as planned.
Rural hospitals will be in serious jeopardy just as The Regime leaves office, exactly as planned.
January 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Indiana hospitals “are expected to reach annual losses exceeding $1 billion within the next three to five years” as a result of Medicaid cuts and other issues.
Rural hospitals will be in serious jeopardy just as The Regime leaves office, exactly as planned.
Rural hospitals will be in serious jeopardy just as The Regime leaves office, exactly as planned.
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RFK Jr.'s deadly anti-vax crusade doesn’t stop at U.S. borders. Now the U.S. says "no thimerosal, no funding" -- putting $300M at risk for Gavi, which helps the world’s poorest countries access life-saving vaccines. Thimerosal keeps multi-dose vials safe from microbial contamination. 💉
RFK Jr.'s deadly anti-vax crusade doesn’t stop at U.S. borders. Now the U.S. says "no thimerosal, no funding" -- putting $300M at risk for Gavi, which helps the world’s poorest countries access life-saving vaccines. Thimerosal keeps multi-dose vials safe from microbial contamination. 💉
January 28, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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RFK Jr.'s deadly anti-vax crusade doesn’t stop at U.S. borders. Now the U.S. says "no thimerosal, no funding" -- putting $300M at risk for Gavi, which helps the world’s poorest countries access life-saving vaccines. Thimerosal keeps multi-dose vials safe from microbial contamination. 💉
RFK Jr.'s deadly anti-vax crusade doesn’t stop at U.S. borders. Now the U.S. says "no thimerosal, no funding" -- putting $300M at risk for Gavi, which helps the world’s poorest countries access life-saving vaccines. Thimerosal keeps multi-dose vials safe from microbial contamination. 💉
Good morning. Woke up angry after watching the awful video of Rep. Ilhan Omar being sprayed at a MN town hall—but also clear-eyed on why she inspires. She refused to be intimidated, centered her community, and didn’t let a weak, racist bully steal the show. 💚✊ #MinnesotaStrong 🙏@ilhanmn.bsky.social
US congresswoman Ilhan Omar defiant after substance thrown at her
The Minnesota Democrat was uninjured and continued to speak at her event, after being sprayed with an unidentified liquid.
www.bbc.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Good morning. Woke up angry after watching the awful video of Rep. Ilhan Omar being sprayed at a MN town hall—but also clear-eyed on why she inspires. She refused to be intimidated, centered her community, and didn’t let a weak, racist bully steal the show. 💚✊ #MinnesotaStrong 🙏@ilhanmn.bsky.social
Good night! Sleep well so you are ready to fight the Horde tomorrow.
She-Ra Princess of Power S01E26 "Book Burning" (1985) from Filmation Associates
January 28, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Good night! Sleep well so you are ready to fight the Horde tomorrow.
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There is a new clinical trial that is recruiting for vulvodynia. This is a woefully under-researched aspect of women's care. Please help me spread the word. vajenda.substack.com/p/vulvodynia...
Vulvodynia isn't a Mystery. It's Underfunded.
A new clinical trial hopefully signals change
vajenda.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:28 AM
There is a new clinical trial that is recruiting for vulvodynia. This is a woefully under-researched aspect of women's care. Please help me spread the word. vajenda.substack.com/p/vulvodynia...
🚨 The WH is now using disasters to take away state’s rights.
Read this thread while it is still allowed.
Read this thread while it is still allowed.
H/t to a fellow Alt for sharing this (you know who you are 😉)
FedGov has declared itself exempt from the Constitution, all of it, basically. Let me walk you through this so you’ll understand all the ways this is a direct attack on every American.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
FedGov has declared itself exempt from the Constitution, all of it, basically. Let me walk you through this so you’ll understand all the ways this is a direct attack on every American.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Addressing State and Local Failures to Rebuild Los Angeles After Wildfire Disasters
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
January 28, 2026 at 4:15 AM
🚨 The WH is now using disasters to take away state’s rights.
Read this thread while it is still allowed.
Read this thread while it is still allowed.
ICE is a threat to the health and safety of all Americans. We will be marching. As medical professionals, public health practitioners, and US citizens.
ICE is murdering Americans. They’ve crossed a line they should never have gotten to, so we’re taking to the streets & demanding ICE OUT! Let's show them we've had enough. Invite your people and get ready to march! Sun 2/1 -Atlanta, GA
More details coming soon 🔥
More details coming soon 🔥
January 28, 2026 at 2:57 AM
ICE is a threat to the health and safety of all Americans. We will be marching. As medical professionals, public health practitioners, and US citizens.
🚨ATTENTION ATLANTA🚨
Today Dekalb county commissioners heard a resolution to demand ICE withdraw from the county. Several amendments were added and the vote deferred to Feb 3.
Call/email your commissioners to vote yes.
www.dekalbcountyga.gov/board-commis...
www.decaturish.com/public_safet...
Today Dekalb county commissioners heard a resolution to demand ICE withdraw from the county. Several amendments were added and the vote deferred to Feb 3.
Call/email your commissioners to vote yes.
www.dekalbcountyga.gov/board-commis...
www.decaturish.com/public_safet...
DeKalb County Commission delays vote to condemn ICE
The DeKalb County Commission, at its Jan. 27 meeting, further deferred a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of federal immigration enforcement operations from DeKalb County.
www.decaturish.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:49 AM
🚨ATTENTION ATLANTA🚨
Today Dekalb county commissioners heard a resolution to demand ICE withdraw from the county. Several amendments were added and the vote deferred to Feb 3.
Call/email your commissioners to vote yes.
www.dekalbcountyga.gov/board-commis...
www.decaturish.com/public_safet...
Today Dekalb county commissioners heard a resolution to demand ICE withdraw from the county. Several amendments were added and the vote deferred to Feb 3.
Call/email your commissioners to vote yes.
www.dekalbcountyga.gov/board-commis...
www.decaturish.com/public_safet...
We lost another one of our greats. Alan Hinman was a foundational leader in vaccine science and advocacy.
He made our children healthier. We will fight to preserve that legacy.
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He made our children healthier. We will fight to preserve that legacy.
💚💚💚
Medical epidemiologist Alan Hinman has died at age 88. He served as the CDC's Director of both the Immunization Division (1977-1988) and the National Center for Prevention Services (1988-1995). www.asturner.com/obituaries/a...
Alan Hinman Obituary January 26, 2026 - A.S.Turner & Sons Funeral Home and Crematory
View Alan Hinman's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
www.asturner.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:31 AM
We lost another one of our greats. Alan Hinman was a foundational leader in vaccine science and advocacy.
He made our children healthier. We will fight to preserve that legacy.
💚💚💚
He made our children healthier. We will fight to preserve that legacy.
💚💚💚
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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The West Coast Health Alliance endorses the 2026 @ameracadpeds.bsky.social Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, as do professional medical and health orgs representing more than 1M health care providers. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...
West Coast Health Alliance Endorses the 2026 AAP Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
For immediate release: January 26, 2026 (26-012) Contact: DOH Communications
doh.wa.gov
January 27, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The West Coast Health Alliance endorses the 2026 @ameracadpeds.bsky.social Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, as do professional medical and health orgs representing more than 1M health care providers. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/wes...
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Maybe CDC ‘leadership’ hoped nobody would notice? 😳 In 2025, nearly half of CDC databases that were previously updated monthly stopped updating without explanation. Real-time tracking of vaccines & outbreaks vanished.
www.nbcnews.com/health
www.annals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Maybe CDC ‘leadership’ hoped nobody would notice? 😳 In 2025, nearly half of CDC databases that were previously updated monthly stopped updating without explanation. Real-time tracking of vaccines & outbreaks vanished.
www.nbcnews.com/health
www.annals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Health News: Headlines and Video on Healthcare, Drug Prices, Vaccines and More
Find the latest news on food & diet, healthcare and healthy living on NBCNews.com. Read headlines and watch videos on medicine, mental illness, and more.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Maybe CDC ‘leadership’ hoped nobody would notice? 😳 In 2025, nearly half of CDC databases that were previously updated monthly stopped updating without explanation. Real-time tracking of vaccines & outbreaks vanished.
www.nbcnews.com/health
www.annals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Maybe CDC ‘leadership’ hoped nobody would notice? 😳 In 2025, nearly half of CDC databases that were previously updated monthly stopped updating without explanation. Real-time tracking of vaccines & outbreaks vanished.
www.nbcnews.com/health
www.annals.org/doi/10.7326/...
🛑 CDC, we are all acutely aware how easily our workers’ rights can be stripped away. One of the best tools to fight this is our union, AFGE2883
Join to protect yourself & future CDC workers 💪 Help us form bargaining units asap.
More info 👉 www.afge2883ga.org
Join here 👉 join.afge.org/L2883
Join to protect yourself & future CDC workers 💪 Help us form bargaining units asap.
More info 👉 www.afge2883ga.org
Join here 👉 join.afge.org/L2883
Home | AFGE Local 2883
🚨BREAKING NEWS: On October 28, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston (Northern District of California) granted a Preliminary Injunction (PI) in AFGE v. OMB, which continues halting all Federal Reduction-in-Force (RIF) actions initiated or approved by OMB during the current government shutdown. The ruling applies nationwide to any agencies--including CDC/HHS--with at least 1 AFGE Member or BUE that applied the new OMB RIF framework.🚨
www.afge2883ga.org
January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
🛑 CDC, we are all acutely aware how easily our workers’ rights can be stripped away. One of the best tools to fight this is our union, AFGE2883
Join to protect yourself & future CDC workers 💪 Help us form bargaining units asap.
More info 👉 www.afge2883ga.org
Join here 👉 join.afge.org/L2883
Join to protect yourself & future CDC workers 💪 Help us form bargaining units asap.
More info 👉 www.afge2883ga.org
Join here 👉 join.afge.org/L2883
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🚨 India reports a new Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal. 5 healthcare workers infected, 1 critical. Thailand & Nepal are screening travelers. Nipah spreads from animals to humans & has a high fatality rate (40-75%).
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🚨 India reports a new Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal. 5 healthcare workers infected, 1 critical. Thailand & Nepal are screening travelers. Nipah spreads from animals to humans & has a high fatality rate (40-75%).
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nipah virus: Some Asia airports screen passengers after outbreak in India
Airports in Thailand and Nepal have begun screening passengers from West Bengal.
www.bbc.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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🚨 India reports a new Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal. 5 healthcare workers infected, 1 critical. Thailand & Nepal are screening travelers. Nipah spreads from animals to humans & has a high fatality rate (40-75%).
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🚨 India reports a new Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal. 5 healthcare workers infected, 1 critical. Thailand & Nepal are screening travelers. Nipah spreads from animals to humans & has a high fatality rate (40-75%).
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Good morning. A reminder: The Constitution protects all of us — documented or not. 💚✊
The ACLU has excellent resources to help you know your rights when documenting or interacting with ICE: aclu.org/we-have-rights
@aclu.org
#EyesOnICE #AltGov
The ACLU has excellent resources to help you know your rights when documenting or interacting with ICE: aclu.org/we-have-rights
@aclu.org
#EyesOnICE #AltGov
"The constitution protects EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US, documented or not."
-- Maribel Hernandez Rivera, ACLU #EyesOnICE
-- Maribel Hernandez Rivera, ACLU #EyesOnICE
January 27, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Good morning. A reminder: The Constitution protects all of us — documented or not. 💚✊
The ACLU has excellent resources to help you know your rights when documenting or interacting with ICE: aclu.org/we-have-rights
@aclu.org
#EyesOnICE #AltGov
The ACLU has excellent resources to help you know your rights when documenting or interacting with ICE: aclu.org/we-have-rights
@aclu.org
#EyesOnICE #AltGov
This is better than nothing. Good fucking riddance to the micro nazi. Let's hope Noem and Miller are next. Keep calling your politicians. They are clearly feeling the pressure.
Goodnight
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Goodnight
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:45 AM
This is better than nothing. Good fucking riddance to the micro nazi. Let's hope Noem and Miller are next. Keep calling your politicians. They are clearly feeling the pressure.
Goodnight
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Goodnight
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
🚨 ATTENTION ATLANTA🚨
Dekalb county commissioners will vote TOMORROW on a resolution for the immediate withdrawal of tactical federal immigration enforcement operations from DeKalb.
Submit public comment via email: [email protected]
Important email instructions below 👇
Dekalb county commissioners will vote TOMORROW on a resolution for the immediate withdrawal of tactical federal immigration enforcement operations from DeKalb.
Submit public comment via email: [email protected]
Important email instructions below 👇
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
🚨 ATTENTION ATLANTA🚨
Dekalb county commissioners will vote TOMORROW on a resolution for the immediate withdrawal of tactical federal immigration enforcement operations from DeKalb.
Submit public comment via email: [email protected]
Important email instructions below 👇
Dekalb county commissioners will vote TOMORROW on a resolution for the immediate withdrawal of tactical federal immigration enforcement operations from DeKalb.
Submit public comment via email: [email protected]
Important email instructions below 👇
🧵 Last weekend HHS sent emails out to public health departments across the country saying their funding from CDC via Public Health Infrastructure Grants (PHIG) would be cut. Followed by another email saying, "JK! Grants are just paused pending review." PHIG paid out over 5 billion to depts in 2025.
January 27, 2026 at 12:15 AM
🧵 Last weekend HHS sent emails out to public health departments across the country saying their funding from CDC via Public Health Infrastructure Grants (PHIG) would be cut. Followed by another email saying, "JK! Grants are just paused pending review." PHIG paid out over 5 billion to depts in 2025.
Last week we lost a public health legend: William Foege, former CDC director and leader in smallpox eradication.
In a 2009 speech to CDC staff he said "the bottom line is not fame or even science, or brilliance, or money, or publications, but how we treat other people.”
apnews.com/article/will...
In a 2009 speech to CDC staff he said "the bottom line is not fame or even science, or brilliance, or money, or publications, but how we treat other people.”
apnews.com/article/will...
January 26, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Last week we lost a public health legend: William Foege, former CDC director and leader in smallpox eradication.
In a 2009 speech to CDC staff he said "the bottom line is not fame or even science, or brilliance, or money, or publications, but how we treat other people.”
apnews.com/article/will...
In a 2009 speech to CDC staff he said "the bottom line is not fame or even science, or brilliance, or money, or publications, but how we treat other people.”
apnews.com/article/will...
Former and current CDC and NIH staff have written another open letter to congress demanding that no budget be approved without checks placed on ICE.
“We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
“We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
January 26, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Former and current CDC and NIH staff have written another open letter to congress demanding that no budget be approved without checks placed on ICE.
“We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
“We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
Keith Porter Jr
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Renee Good
Alex Pretti
All killed by ICE/CBP. 32 others died in ICE custody in 2025 alone. That we know of. Meanwhile ICE has stopped paying for most detainee healthcare.
This is a public health emergency. Public health and medical workers. We must speak out.
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Renee Good
Alex Pretti
All killed by ICE/CBP. 32 others died in ICE custody in 2025 alone. That we know of. Meanwhile ICE has stopped paying for most detainee healthcare.
This is a public health emergency. Public health and medical workers. We must speak out.
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Keith Porter Jr
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Renee Good
Alex Pretti
All killed by ICE/CBP. 32 others died in ICE custody in 2025 alone. That we know of. Meanwhile ICE has stopped paying for most detainee healthcare.
This is a public health emergency. Public health and medical workers. We must speak out.
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Renee Good
Alex Pretti
All killed by ICE/CBP. 32 others died in ICE custody in 2025 alone. That we know of. Meanwhile ICE has stopped paying for most detainee healthcare.
This is a public health emergency. Public health and medical workers. We must speak out.