The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.

The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.

1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

Just cancelled my wapo subscription. Fuck oligarchs.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer?

She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

⏱️ ACTION STEPS ⏱️
💥Call your reps and demand they oppose RFK Jr, NIH Cuts and the Musk Takeover
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💥Call your state’s Attorney General and demand they fight Musk’s access to data and funding cuts.
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Despite CDC’s recent publication of a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and Health Agency Network (HAN) alert, the communications ban is still in place. No further guidance has been issued re the ban and no end-date specified. MMWRs on avian influenza and other publications remain on hold

"It takes years to build a science lab." New post from us.

"The long timelines to build up a team... make science research work different than many parts of the private sector."

Science is hard to build but easy to break. The uncertainty is right now breaking cancer research. 🧪

So what do we do?

We have to slow things down while we educate the public and rouse public attention.

- Senate and House Dems go to maximum obstruction. Deny all unanimous consent.
- Sen and House Dems lead protests at illegally altered agencies.
- We work like crazy to raise public awareness.

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
pepfarimpact.vercel.app

We are hearing from multiple CDC sources that DOGE is at the Roybal campus.

If you’re on campus and see anything you’d like to share, please reach out. Stay safe.

This is what the rich want, when the market is volatile it gives them a chance to make huge profit. If you think wall street crashing is sticking it to trump you're missing that this is exactly what they wanted.

Tell your senators to do their jobs:

Vote no on all nominees
Refuse a quorum
Call for quorum checks
Object to unanimous consent requests

Be LOUD about why they are doing this and demand a stop to the coup.

Thank you @indivisible.org

indivisible.org/resource/how...

This isn't my first or even second time at the rodeo. I dealt with Ronald Reagan & George Bush trying to kill my community by ignoring the AIDS epidemic. It happened again when I lived in South Africa with Thabo Mbeki. And we won twice. So: courage. We will beat them too. Stay focused. Get to work.

"American-funded aid organizations around the globe, charged with providing lifesaving care for the most desperate and vulnerable populations imaginable, have for days been forced to completely halt their operations, turn away patients & lay off staff following a series of sudden stop-work demands"

No one should comply with this order. It is censorship. #Trump is a tin-pot dictator and this is garbage. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

"Regardless of your comfort with the idea of trans people, you should be terrified that the government is purging truth and science to fit an ideology, because what’s next?”

Trump is trying to “flood the zone” so we focus on a few outrages that we find most offensive and lose sight of the big picture.

Some thoughts on how to maintain focus. robertreich.substack.com/p/keep-your-...