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The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress.

Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

this. and states are already under tremendous additional pressure from other federal cuts (like to medicaid and WIC). most of this federal public health capacity will not be picked back up. generational damage

I think people should be alarmed now because waiting until they consolidate enough power to carry out the desires he’s voicing now is a bad idea.

this is more or less what I expected

Ending disorder on America's streets

rfk jr. and gang just added this new agency “priority” for CDC on their website. doesn’t sound like public health. sounds like fascism cdc.gov/about/cdc/in...

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A screenshot of Garfield’s face under which the text “We are not immune to propaganda” has been added

Btwn the salt trucks and another unsourced video I just saw purporting to be from Chicago today with a reply saying it was from two months ago figured we could all use a reminder

such a critical thread

we were all happy for an evening and that’s not nothing

but what if it does happen

You asked me to confirm Trump sightings

Went through all pool reports.

This is the last activity involving second party that confirmed that this occurred.

“On background from a WH Official: Can confirm the President has spoken with Governor Walz.

Wed, 12:32pm ET”

trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream

just the thrill of remembering, viscerally, that it can and will happen, and when it does I will be somewhere, and someone will tell me, or I'll read it, or I'll hear shouting outside. the day draws closer

My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.

I wish Americans would get louder about their opposition to this man in particular; he is damaging global public health for an entire generation and millions of the most vulnerable around the world will suffer and die directly because of him.
A mortality rate equivalent to plagues.

This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”

yes, this is important. what CDC employees did may inspire other fed employees—which is GREAT—but it's important they understand what kind of specific action has actually been taken.

They’re breaking stuff and trying to make sure it stays broken

YouTube video by Associated Press LIVE: CDC staff plan walkout at Atlanta HQ after Trump firings

Dr. Deb Houry, former deputy director and chief medical officer, said at the rally that the coordinated resignations at CDC was a "bat signal" and called for congress to intervene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

pro CDC signs

It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.

YouTube video by Associated Press LIVE: CDC staff plan walkout at Atlanta HQ after Trump firings

The AP is livestreaming as the CDC leaders who resigned in protest are cheered on by CDC Staff who have walked out....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

It is horrifying

Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.

they're destroying every public health gain of the last century

it's probably fine

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

This is a stunning—and fascinating—rebuke to DOJ from the people of DC. The message from the Grand Jury is clear: The takeover as illegitimate.

As I wrote residents know this takeover is being *done* to the city, rather than to *help* the city. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Acknowledging that we are living under a fascist regime at the Federal level is essential for figuring out how to fight. And I'm sorry but burying one's head in the sand at this moment is actually allowing fascism to be further entrenched & authority more easily consolidated.

Thank you!! In fact people have brought me four cakes (so far) 😇

AAP releases evidence-based immunization schedule; calls on payers to cover recommendations The schedule includes guidance on COVID-19 vaccination that differs from federal policy along with updates to recommendations on RSV and flu.

AAP releases evidence-based immunization schedule; calls on payers to cover recommendations publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

Say Goodbye to Juno, NASA’s Groundbreaking Mission to Jupiter The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight

NEW: The White House wants to kill off Juno, NASA's mission to uncover Jupiter's secrets. Fortunately, its legacy is clear.

Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky.

Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...