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Unofficial (but factual) account about the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its mission. We're public health folks working for the worker- that's you! We'll keep doing so come hell, high water, or bad policy. #SaveNIOSH #AltGov

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Jun 14

America was built BY WORKERS who paid with their health and lives.

By enslaved people stripped of all human rights, women in wartime factories, miners in company towns, and immigrants seeking better lives.

Not by billionaires. Not by kings.

We aren't going back.

#saveNIOSH #altGov #NoKings

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 22h

This!!! And from 1970 on, it halved further largely due to the OSH Act and NIOSH.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 1d

Tragic and catastrophic workplace accidents like the nightmare scenario in Tennessee will keep happening under a regime and within a corporate landscape that views workers as a disposable resource. There will be efforts to normalize this sort of thing, mark our words.

A massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant obliterated a building and left 18 people missing. Here’s what we know | CNN

Early Friday, a thundering blast at a military and industrial explosives plant reverberated across a tight-knit community in central Tennessee, razing an entire building on the plant’s sprawling campu...

www.cnn.com

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 1d

100% true. Power consolidating itself.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed.

💯 you do NOT deserve this.

Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice:
❌ Do not send a read receipt
❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response
✅ Forward notice to your personal email

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 1d

We don't want to go to Canada. We want our nation and our homeland that we took oaths to serve to not descend into a fascist hellscape. And many of us are working hard against that very outcome, whether current or former federal employee, RIF'd or not, furloughed or excepted.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 1d

💔💔💔

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.

We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 1d

So far, no additional RIFs at NIOSH, but thousands of others in critically important programs across HHS and CDC.

Even including some folks who had been exempt from furlough and required to work without pay.

Abhorrent.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 1d

To be clear, most of us are still in administrative limbo and not able to do our vital jobs- the agency has not functioned since April, even if some personnel were returned to duty.

AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 1d

It's gonna be interesting to see whether they reissue all NIOSH's RIFs (since worker safety isn't in line with the president's priorities) and then try to say the current court injunctions suddenly don't apply.

#SaveNIOSH

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 5d

The alt gov family is large & they are strong. Thanks to our @altusds.altgov.info colleagues for telling us what happened with plain language .gov. Also thanks to @alt18f.bsky.social for backing up the original content.
Glad we are saving information together. We are stronger together.

Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info · 5d

Many people noticed plainlanguage.gov was migrated to digital.gov/topics/plain..., where it has been *consolidated*.

Our friends at @alt18f.bsky.social posted a version of the original content at plainlanguage.18f.org

Unlike other sites that have disappeared, this one just changed.

plainlanguage.gov | Home

Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.

plainlanguage.18f.org

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 5d

Very true, and a very great opportunity to remember that Black Americans were amongst the first and most extensively targeted victims of this country's history of labor exploitation.

We have made great strides since, but progress must always be safeguarded and NEVER taken for granted.

Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 5d

Oct. 7:

black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

ALT: black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

media.tenor.com

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Alt_Bartender @bartenderresists.altgov.info · 5d

Oct. 7:

black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

ALT: black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background

media.tenor.com

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 11d

There is no time like the present to fight Facism and help save our country. October 18th! Stand Up, Fight Back!!!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11d

We stand with federal employees and families bearing the weight of the shutdown, and those feeling effects at every level of our government. You deserve better.

That said, we all know that this shutdown is a GOP distraction and self-own. Never interrupt your opponent when they’re making a mistake.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12d

CDC, your friends and colleagues have been gathering resources and networking since January. We don’t know how long we are about to go without pay or if we will be fired. But we do know we have each other. Dig deep and hold fast. DM on signal if you need to get connected.

Goodnight 💚

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14d

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 15d

Hysterical claim given how many in vitro studies, assay development projects, and novel modeling techniques they killed at NIOSH alone.

Which isn't even under NIH.

But we suppose it's par for the course when you have middling academics & science-illiterate politicals running things.

#SaveNIOSH

NIH's $87 million nonanimal testing project

www.politico.com

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 16d

Good luck to them affording that in the coming economy

AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 16d

Planning on gutting the nation's infrastructure by firing everyone as a political bargaining chip is certainly on brand for the current powers that be.

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 22d

Vaccines remain one of our most powerful tools to protect public health and America’s future generations. Every child deserves the right to vaccines. #SaveCDC #ACIP #SavePublicHealth #VaccinesSaveLives

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 21d

This is one of the best accountings we have so far of what went down with NIOSH and how it's going to change things for the worst. Huge ups to all the brave resistors that helped get this information out.

#SaveNIOSH

How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant

Businesses are begging the White House and RFK Jr. to rethink their massive cuts to Niosh, a workplace research agency that saves the US billions of dollars a year.

www.bloomberg.com

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 28d

Could be im certain contexts! Definitely disturbing and unsafe!!

AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Sep 5

Rand Paul doesn't want queer people in government, but entities like *RFK Jr* are ideal for him ig

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Sep 3

Oh and Andy- just to return the favor of swerving into *your* professional lane- learn to write a succinct comms statement.

We can poke holes in your lies way faster if we don't have to trim so much fluff.

AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Sep 3

HHS communications director Andrew Nixon responds:

“[RFK] has accomplished more than any health secretary... to end the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”

>1000 of us w/ ACTUAL medical/science expertise (unlike yourself or HHS "leadership") think you're a fibber, Mx. Nixon.

More than 1,000 health workers urge Kennedy to quit over anti-vax policies

Letter says Kennedy installed ideologues, endangered US health and ignored pleas as resignations mounted at CDC

www.theguardian.com

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