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Dave S @dks6628.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This is very good news. The vandalism of NIOSH was opposed by many including employers, labor and safety professionals including me. Of course it’s not done yet but on the way we all hope.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 13/01/2026

It would appear that many, if not all, of the firings affecting NIOSH are being reversed. These happened back in APRIL and JUNE, gutting our personnel. No other communication- just a short email (without CDC or HHS signatures) stating RIF recission. @altcdc.altgov.info #SaveNIOSH

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Werecoyote Mae (he/they) @coyotethewitch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

AFGE dues paying members‼️ Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback. If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.

actionnetwork.org

Tell AFGE leadership to hold the line: we need a budget for the people

Tell AFGE leadership that passing a budget that protects the rights and interests of working people is more important than ending the shutdown at any cost! Please only sign if you are a dues-paying m...

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/10/2025

Mike Johnson’s “Hate Rally.”

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 11/10/2025

Tragic and catastrophic workplace accidents like the nightmare scenario in Tennessee will keep happening under a regime and within a corporate landscape that views workers as a disposable resource. There will be efforts to normalize this sort of thing, mark our words.

cnn.com

A massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant obliterated a building and left 18 people missing. Here’s what we know | CNN

Early Friday, a thundering blast at a military and industrial explosives plant reverberated across a tight-knit community in central Tennessee, razing an entire building on the plant’s sprawling campu...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/10/2025

1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed. 💯 you do NOT deserve this. Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice: ❌ Do not send a read receipt ❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response ✅ Forward notice to your personal email

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/10/2025

Good night, friends. Tonight was deeply painful. We at CDC do this work because we care. It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 11/10/2025

So far, no additional RIFs at NIOSH, but thousands of others in critically important programs across HHS and CDC. Even including some folks who had been exempt from furlough and required to work without pay. Abhorrent.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 10/10/2025

It's gonna be interesting to see whether they reissue all NIOSH's RIFs (since worker safety isn't in line with the president's priorities) and then try to say the current court injunctions suddenly don't apply. #SaveNIOSH

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 07/10/2025

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.

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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 · 01/10/2025

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 · 30/09/2025

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 · 28/09/2025

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 · 27/09/2025

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

politico.com

NIH's $87 million nonanimal testing project

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 26/09/2025

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 · 20/09/2025

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 · 21/09/2025

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

bloomberg.com

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.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 05/09/2025

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 · 03/09/2025

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.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 03/09/2025

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.

theguardian.com

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

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/09/2025

🚨🚨 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

theguardian.com

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

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 01/09/2025

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 · 29/08/2025

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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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 29/08/2025

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 · 25/08/2025

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 · 25/08/2025

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.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/08/2025

1/2 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 · 25/08/2025

"American workers first" except they fired all of the scientists that work to ensure companies don't get their workers killed to save a buck

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 25/08/2025

Here we are, a couple weeks after a terrorist attack on CDC, and HHS has today changed all of our union eligibility status to non-eligible for collective bargaining. Will the beatings continue until morale improves? #SaveNIOSH #StandwithCDC

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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · 25/08/2025

Today we approach the 20th anniversary of Katrina, FEMA workers across the nation sound the alarm on unqualified leadership, interference w/ ability to execute, our mission,staff cuts & more. Join us in signing The Katrina Declaration. #katrinadeclaration www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

standupforscience.net

Support the FEMA Katrina Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 24/08/2025

The statement in response to CDC's letter of dissent by HHS lackeys accuses us of "politicizing a tragedy". Their ilk ALWAYS does this when there's a tragedy they helped facilitate. They'll keep working to raise the rates of workplace accidents and violence. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 24/08/2025

Another preventable tragedy. Yet the administration and its lackeys continue to cull the experts keeping workers safe, especially in industries that they pay meaningless lip service to (extraction, manufacturing, agriculture, and more).

cbsnews.com

6 people found dead during confined space rescue at Northern Colorado dairy farm

Six people were found dead Wednesday evening at a dairy farm in Northern Colorado, officials said.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/08/2025

1/2 It is *maddening* to be told at every all-hands there are “no active threats to CDC employees” when the DEI watchlists - with names, photos, and personal info of our colleagues - are still up. A key demand in the HHS staff letter is for Sec Kennedy to take down those lists.

reuters.com

US health department staff urge Kennedy to protect workers after CDC shooting

More than 750 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services staff have urged Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guarantee federal health workers’ safety following a shooting this month at the U.S. CDC, according to a letter released on Wednesday.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"We sign this declaration in our own personal capacities, on our personal time, and without the use of government equipment, as protected by our First Amendment rights..." www.savehhs.org

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 20/08/2025

Hold RFK to account. This is current/RIF'd/retired CDC's employees dissent to RFK's anti-science "leadership" and violent rhetoric. We're proud to hear it's been delivered to Congress and is now open to public signatures. We're calling on ALL OF YOU to share widely, and please consider signing.

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

NPHC & FBF stand united w/ CDC, NIH, & other HHS agencies in formal dissent of HHS Sec Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. & his political rhetoric that led to Aug 8 attack on CDC & his response. Help ensure safety of public servants. Hold RFK Jr accountable by signing the letter: savehhs.org #HHSUnited #SaveHHS

Save HHS
Stop sharing false or misleading health information.
Affirm CDC's Scientific Integrity
Guarantee the safety of the HHS workforce
Sign the letter
saveHHS.org

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🚨🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 14! WE ARE LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN TO IMPEACH AND REMOVE BOBBY “The Quack” JR. 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... We will hand deliver to Congress in Sept! #31doa #imoeachthequack #signandshare

standupforscience.net

Sign the IMPEACH RFK Citizens' Petition to Congress — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Join with us to sign our Citizens' Petition to the US Congress to choose the people over Trump and Impeach RFK Jr Now!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 13/08/2025

Curious how these disorganized HHS cuts could play out in the real world? The folks at the CDC Data Project have crunched the numbers and surprise surprise, it’s gonna be a hot mess, if programs continue at all. State, local, and tribal governments and communities will suffer too.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 13/08/2025

Days after a lethal shooting at the main CDC campus, RFK Jr. and a number of additional HHS "leaders" have filed an appeal against a narrow injunction currently protecting employee jobs for a small subset of HHS and CDC, including NIOSH. RFK has yet to denounce violent terrorism by antivaxxers.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/08/2025

We are furious this is not getting the attention it deserves. 🚨Domestic terrorism on a federal institution. Readers, please tag reporters, news organizations, ANYONE & ask them to cover this. It could have been far worse. And without leaders addressing the root causes, the risk remains.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 10/08/2025

"Stochastic terrorism [is] the repeated use of ... vilifying, dehumanizing rhetoric by a political leader or other public figure that inspires one or more of the figure’s supporters to commit ... acts of violence against a targeted person, group, or community." -Britannica

apnews.com

CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police

A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Georgia man who opened fire Friday on the U.S.

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Fired But Fighting’s statement on Friday’s shooting at CDC. For the full statement, visit firedbutfighting.org. Stay tuned for more info.

The shooting targeting CDC, which resulted in the death of a police officer was horrific, and it was completely preventable. Cuts to CDC programs that reduce gun violence and support mental health, and anti-science rhetoric from political appointees set the stage for this senseless act of violence. Something needs to change.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/08/2025

On the all hands, Monarez was repeatedly asked if she has spoke to RFKJ. She dodged the Q, only saying she's been in constant touch with his office. So that's a no. Confirmation that the 🧠🪱 ate every last iota of decency he ever had 🖕

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/08/2025

We knew in our guts while hiding that the shooter was targeting us. This violence is driven by anti-vaccine propaganda. And the rot start at the top. Just this week RFK Jr canceled all mRNA vaccine research while lying about the technologies safety and effectiveness.

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AltNIOSH @altniosh.altgov.info · 09/08/2025

They spread the lie for years that public health professionals are enemies. Now, a policeman is dead, and the lives of CDC personnel and their kids were at risk. There'll be "deep concern" and thoughts & prayers. But architects of that lie will celebrate privately because this has been the goal.

thetimes.com

Police officer dead after ‘antivax’ shooter targets CDC headquarters

An active shooter was reported on the Emory University campus in Georgia. The suspect, who was killed, was said to have blamed his illness on the Covid vaccine

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