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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 8d

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 · 7d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

Good luck to them affording that in the coming economy

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 13d

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 · 19d

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 · 17d

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 · 25d

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

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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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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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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Sep 3

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Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation.

When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure.

#SaveHHS
#DemandRFKJrResign
#USAnotRFK

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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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Sep 1

Wishing all workers a very relaxing and refreshing Labor Day. Your rights are important, and we will always advocate for you. Solidarity.

#SaveNIOSH

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Aug 29

HHS is actively engaged in union-busting, and doesn't want to spend 0.02% of their total budget on funding workplace safety and health research at NIOSH (despite the Senate's support), but at least they can afford to give out 2 hours of leave and a hollow platitude! Soooo generous 🙏

#SaveNIOSH

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Aug 29

"We ended the measles out
break in Texas." Translation: "After previously being declared eliminated, measles in Texas burned through as many unvaccinated bodies as it could there while I, Jr., prolonged and exacerbated it; it is now thriving in the rest of the country as vaccination rates decline."

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Aug 29

Ain't no way RFKJ wrote this when he literally called us "troubled" only a few hours ago. Sorry, anon comms person/maybe the AI forced to write this drivel...

We just added a few notes. Anything to be helpful! ✨😊😇

Drivel from RFKJr with some corrections and fact-checking

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · Aug 25

The career bureaucrats Noem refers to have handled countless national disasters, provided meals & shelter, and rushed towards the danger to facilitate lifesaving rescues.
Noem, at the helm for a whole 7 months, has hamstrung FEMA by implementing miles of red tape while fiddling with her ICE toys.

Tweet from DHS:
If this “reporter” had even thought to reach out for comment, she would know that the allegations in this letter are both ridiculous and blatantly false. The career bureaucrats signing onto this letter have stood idly by and watched FEMA flounder and fail for decades, knowing that the agency was broken and ineffective. We refuse to let their complacency continue.

FEMA is fully prepared for Hurricane Season. This Administration is cutting the bloat and turning FEMA into a lean, deployable, disaster force that cuts through bureaucracy and provides support to the American people when they need it most: following an emergency or natural disaster.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Aug 25

Echoing this and adding that if you aren't already, become a dues paying member with your local union. They still exist. They are still fighting for you.

Illegal actions that don't hold any water will never change the fact that organized collective action is the BANE of authoritarianism.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Aug 25

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At CDC, we just received a form email saying our records (SF-50s) changed.

When we checked, our union rights were gone.

This comes while we’re still reeling from an armed attack on our campus fueled by disinfo from our own boss, RFKJ.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Aug 25

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At CDC, we just received a form email saying our records (SF-50s) changed.

When we checked, our union rights were gone.

This comes while we’re still reeling from an armed attack on our campus fueled by disinfo from our own boss, RFKJ.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · Aug 25

We can think of a few that you could use with them- most options have 4 letters and can be strung together in a variety of fun configurations.

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