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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 4h

“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 · 5h

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

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

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

Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 6h

At the end I was just hoping SOMEONE would win

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

LOFL

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 6h

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 · 6h

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

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 9h

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 ...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

I will never give up on this game

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

🙏🏽

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

sticky wicket?

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

yes -- that is an important point

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

all good questions

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

I would not call this level of evidence "validated"

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

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

we love baseball at our own risk of torment

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

"validated" is doing a lot of work

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

"exceptional" is not what I'd want to hear

"unexceptional" is preferable

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

I don't know why any skilled physician would make such an egregious and unjustified conclusion re: cardiac health, other than to signal cryptically

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

Saccharomyces cerevisiae dominated in my formative years. Nobel prizes were awarded in cell cycle (Hartwell), transcription (Kornberg), telomeres (Blackburn), vesicle trafficking (Schekman), and autophagy (Ohsumi). That's off-the-cuff, so forgive any omissions.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

in this sense, tonight's actions are intended to traumatize and weaken the US in ways that are tactically different but strategically like 24 years ago

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8h

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 9h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 9h

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do.

Just pointing that out.

This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 8h

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