1/2 A year ago, experienced CDC/HHS leaders were pushed out with threats of reassignment to IHS — then left in limbo for a YEAR. Now the Trump admin has finally made good on that threat. ⚠️ But this was never about Indigenous health. It was a purge. And an insult to indigenous communities.

HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services finally followed through on a plan it first outlined for several of its top officials nearly a year ago: It reassigned them to positions in the Indian Health Service. Many of the officials who were sent the reassignments—a group that includes at least half a dozen …

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🧵 Oh, poor baby, Jay didn’t like his bad press. His pretentious ego knows no limits, and it only took three paragraphs to mention Stanford. His big issue with the MMWR article he suppressed is the test-negative design (TND) of the study. Here’s what that actually means:

Opinion | Under my leadership, the CDC will follow the evidence

The agency is committed to upholding scientific standards.

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William Boyle: “The private sector vs. public sector MYTH... "One key insight is to dispel the myth, pervasive in America and dangerously infective elsewhere, that the private sector does everything well and the public sector does everything poorly.” #Pinks evonomics.com/how-norway-d...

How Norway Dispels the Private vs Public Sector Myth - Evonomics

A strong state capable of building infrastructure is not enough. It must also be an inclusive state.

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Well, it’s about that time. Sleep is basically your immune system’s night shift; don’t leave it understaffed 🧟‍♂️ Time to power down, and give our brains its beauty sleep. 😴 Tomorrow’s you will appreciate it! We’ll see you anew in the morning. Goodnight buds 🌙✨

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

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BREAKING on MS NOW: Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.

Well, I guess it’s better than injecting bleach? Yam Tits now proclaiming Diet Coke kills cancer cells because it kills grass. #NotHowScienceWorks

Trump believes diet soda kills cancer cells, Dr Oz reveals

Physicians issue reminder to public after TV doctor and CMS chief relays president’s claim on Don Jr podcast

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Using Signal? (Yeah, us too.) Important security settings to change - read the entire 🧵👇 And make sure to change this: Signal>Settings>Notifications>Notification Content>select "No Name or Content" & Disable AI summaries: iPhone Settings>Notifications> Summarize Notifications>toggle off Signal 🔒✅

ActivistChecklist.org@activistchecklist.org · 4mo ago

Let's use this article as a chance to talk about all the other Signal security settings you might want to update if you're worried about the cops getting your data. See thread 🧵 (Full guide at: activistchecklist.org/signal/) #signal #activism #digitalsecurity

Diesel jumping by almost $1 — in one week — should go over well in Texas. ⛽️

Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Staggering jump in average diesel prices over the last 168 hours: Texas ⬆️98c/gal New Mexico ⬆️91c/gal North Carolina ⬆️89c/gal Arizona ⬆️89c/gal Tennessee ⬆️87c/gal Mississippi ⬆️87c/gal Georgia ⬆️85c/gal West Virginia ⬆️82c/gal Florida ⬆️80c/gal Louisiana ⬆️80c/gal

Do you need a measles (MMR) vaccine? Check this CDC info-graphic👇 www.cdc.gov/measles/down... More info here: www.cdc.gov/measles/vacc...

To be clear: most officers in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps retire at O-5 or O-6. She wouldn’t qualify to apply — but we’re supposed to salute her as an O-9? A slap in the face to every officer who actually earned it. Still time: call your senators. Vote NO.

Alt Health and Human Services@alt-hhs.altgov.info · 6mo ago

Basic standards for a commission into the medical category of the USPHS requires an active license to practice. This quack never finished residency so wouldn't even qualify to come in as an O-3, let alone the leader of the entire Corps as an 0-9.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

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Today is the four year anniversary of the barbaric full scale invasion against the peaceful people of Ukraine. Peaceful, until roused to defend themselves…. Slava Ukrainii

a yellow and blue flag with a shield on it

ALT: a yellow and blue flag with a shield on it

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#NeverAgainIsNow

🛑 CDC, we are all acutely aware how easily our workers’ rights can be stripped away. One of the best tools to fight this is our union, AFGE2883 Join to protect yourself & future CDC workers 💪 Help us form bargaining units asap. More info 👉 www.afge2883ga.org Join here 👉 join.afge.org/L2883

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🚨BREAKING NEWS: On October 28, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston (Northern District of California) granted a Preliminary Injunction (PI) in AFGE v. OMB, which continues halting all Federal Reduction-in-Force (RIF) actions initiated or approved by OMB during the current government shutdown. The ruling applies nationwide to any agencies--including CDC/HHS--with at least 1 AFGE Member or BUE that applied the new OMB RIF framework.🚨

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Grateful that so many MAGA influencers are sharing our reporting that questions ICE’s (now deleted) claim about law enforcement in Colorado. But their headlines suggest they didn’t actually watch the report.

Oh hayyyyyyyyyyy NYC Health! We see you. We love you.

Joy is its own resistance. If you need inspiration on how to spread it, the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation has a calendar to give you ideas for every day of the year. Goodnight, folks! www.randomactsofkindness.org/printables/c...

A stop work order for part of CDC's Data Modernization Accelerator contract means that there will now be next to no support for AI governance, guidance, policy, training, or roll-outs all while CDC staff are being told to use Claude and ChatGPT for anything and everything. What could go wrong??? 😱

Monkey and ape imagery have been used for centuries to dehumanize Black people, especially during slavery and the Jim Crow era. Civil rights groups and historians have long classified such depictions as explicitly racist, not ambiguous or coded. www.axios.com/2026/02/06/t...

Trump revives racist imagery once seen as disqualifying

The taboo Trump just proved no longer holds.

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Over the last four decades, such depictions have been treated as an unmistakable racial slur that resulted in widespread outcry and consequences. Roseanne Barr tweeted in 2018 that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett looked like she was from "Planet of the Apes." ABC canceled her show

Continuing: Censoring or more succinctly, throttling messages to the public. This is OUR agency. We pay for it.

Alt CDC (they/them)@altcdc.altgov.info · 7mo ago

‼️ If you’ve been following social media from CDC, be aware that with the exception of their Emergency and NIOSH accounts, all other CDC Centers have been told their socials are shut down and nothing can be posted on them. Further posts will come directly from HHS‼️

5/5 Federal workers are not gig workers. We’re not optional leverage in budget fights. A bipartisan law guarantees our back pay -- guidance that suggests otherwise undermines trust, morale, and the rule of law. 💬 www.narfe.org/advocacy/shu...

4/5 Reminder what the law actually says: GEFTA, passed with bipartisan support and signed in 2019, requires retroactive pay for both furloughed and excepted employees once a shutdown ends. That was the whole point of the statute. www.congress.gov/bill/116th-c...

3/5 This tracks with what happened in Oct 2025, when OMB quietly scrubbed references to the 2019 law (GEFTA) from its shutdown FAQ and claimed back pay wasn’t guaranteed without new appropriations. A sharp break from past practice. www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

2/5 Reporting shows what was actually stripped out of OPM’s shutdown guidance: clear language on guaranteed back pay, furlough pay rates, leave accrual, and prior references to RIF protections. That’s not “clarification” -- that’s erasure. New guidance doc: www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

1/5 OPM quietly revised its Jan 2026 shutdown guidance. The new text backs away from guaranteed back pay for furloughed feds -- even though a 2019 law already guarantees it. The statute didn’t change; the guidance did. 🔍 🙏 @jheckman.bsky.social @dfriedman.bsky.social @federalnewsnetwork.com

OPM removes language on back pay for furloughed feds from shutdown guidance | Federal News Network

OPM's shutdown guidance also added a section stating that performance-based adverse actions against employees are allowed in some cases during a funding lapse.

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