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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🧵1/? Today HHS Secretary Kennedy sent an email to staff waxing poetic about Memorial Day. This was curious to us because NEXT weekend is Memorial Day weekend, not this weekend. But what stood out to me, as I read words like “heroes” in his email, was the lack of any mention of Officer David Rose.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
White House changes course and will now be demolishing the entire East Wing.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Telling the pharmacist I’m physically inactive so they’ll give me the Covid booster
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/10/14/d...
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DeKalb County police officer killed in CDC shooting awarded Purple Heart, Medal of Honor
The Purple Heart is awarded to those hurt or killed in action, while the Medal of Honor is the country’s highest award for military valor.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“The beatings will continue until morale improves” is the GOP solution to their government shutdown.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Trump has begun dismissing federal workers, with furloughed staff at the Department of Health and Human Services now facing permanent layoffs. The cuts are hitting the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention especially hard.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.” … but what is plenary authority?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🙏 💚
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Trump administration forced the government to shut down because they control all branches of the government. They have furloughed the majority of CDC employees which ensures that only a few (absolutely not all) mission-critical activities will actually continue during the shutdown.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In my decade with the federal government I have never seen anything like this. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-omb-...
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Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown
Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/09/2025
FDA approved the abortion pill mifepristone 25 years ago. So why is RFK Jr. raising questions about it now? He's trying to roll back abortion access nationwide. I'll keep fighting against attempts to restrict access—because medication abortion is safe and effective. Period.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Kash Patel will likely be the next to face prosecution, given his repeated false statements during Senate hearings, now that this precedent has been set. No one is above the law.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Lmao, since when has congress given two shits about being lied to? Looking at you, rfk jr.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/09/2025
⚠️ CDC quietly updated its webpage to caution pregnant people about acetaminophen (Tylenol). Sneaky changes driven by politics instead of science erode public trust and put lives at risk. As scientists who once shaped CDC's webpages, this is heartbreaking. 💔 www.cdc.gov/medicine-and...
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Medicine and Pregnancy: An Overview
Learn how common it is to take medicines during pregnancy and what you should do if you're pregnant.
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
As of 8am CDC's ACIP website does not have the proposed vote language for today's COVID vaccine recommendation posted. How is the public able to engage and provide informed comments? I testified before Senator Cassidy and @sanders.senate.gov on Wednesday- this is not radical transparency.
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Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
ACIP develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to control disease in the United States.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“With vaccine rates falling worldwide and outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases increasing, it is important for clinicians to be prepared to recognize and manage diseases they may have never seen before, including rubella.” shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Clinical progress note: Rubella
Rates of rubella infection and congenital rubella syndrome decreased significantly since the introduction of the rubella vaccine in 1969. Endemic rubella was declared eliminated in the United States ....
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Rfk has been telling you for years. Cassidy should be ashamed.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Hiding the truth.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/09/2025
It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2025
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/09/2025
Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
POTUS did not even COMMENT on the murder of police officer David Rose in a domestic terrorist attack on the CDC, let alone lower flags to half staff for him. Almost like he doesn’t actually care about “back the blue” when it’s his supporters killing people.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2025
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
this needs to be a bigger story — RFK is rushing to appoint SEVEN more anti-vaccine extremists to his phony vaccine panel so it’s packed with quacks. my read? he’s panicking and accelerating his plans to take away all of our vaccines. free to read: wapo.st/3JStzDh
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RFK Jr. weighs adding critics of coronavirus shots to key vaccine panel
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t scary, noting Jesus touched lepers.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Biden: I want to be a President for all Americans. And I promise to fight just as hard for those who didn’t support me. Trump: Chicago about to find out why they call it the Department of War!
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
3 former Surgeon Generals issue a warning: "The CDC is more than just an agency. It is the cornerstone of public health... The recent turbulence at the CDC threatens to undermine this legacy, and we feel this is not just a bureaucratic or political issue. It’s truly a matter of life and death."
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Surgeons general warning: CDC saves lives. It's up to us to save public health. | Opinion
As surgeons general, we took an oath to protect Americans. It includes speaking up when public health is in danger. We see that danger now at the CDC.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/09/2025
What study design did they use to determine Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism? And they did the study in 8 months??? Did they do a “gold standard” randomized placebo-controlled trial to determine folate supplementation “treats autism”? What does that even mean? www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/h...
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Upcoming HHS report will link autism to common pain reliever, folate deficiency in pregnancy, Wall Street Journal reports | CNN
An upcoming report from the US Department of Health and Human services is likely to link the development of autism in children to a common over-the-counter pain reliever, and it will reference a form ...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/09/2025
I think what RFK Jr. meant to say was “the CDC director refused to put kids' health at risk when I told her to, so I fired her."
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My mom — who is in her 70s and immunocompromised — could not get her vaccines today. RFK Jr. is lying when he says he's not making harder to get vaccines.
So far Walgreens and Costco both say you need a prescription for covid shots, even if you are over 65. And Costco only has Pfizer and Moderna, but not novavax. I am trying to get my dr to send in a prescription to Walgreens. For my first request, the drs ofc said I didn’t need it due to my age. So I’ve requested again. so you can see that the average person is going to have to go through a bit of effort to get these. And I’m guessing that’s the point, to discourage people. I can’t
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
1/2 “Will the future ever arrive? Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pinpoint, brilliant, but threatened on all sides…”
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/09/2025
Bennet: Malone, new ACIP member claims vaccines cause AIDS. It’s not true just as your racist AIDS comment are not true. RFK refuses to acknowledge. RFK is a EUGENICIST. This all comes down to eugenics. RFK LIES, BABIES DIE.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Grassley asked about misconduct in organ transplants. Kennedy says he’s investigating. Kennedy also appointed Jim O’Neill, a man who thinks we should be able to sell our organs, to lead the CDC.
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biologistbelle.bsky.social @biologistbelle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I don’t know about you, but I think the blood of Officer David Rose was enough for me. I’m surprised Trump allows RFK Jr to constantly insult the best thing he did in his first term (Operation Warp Speed).
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Florida is a center of international tourism and has one of the top 3 populations of retirees. Ending childhood vaccine requirements for school entry there is so dangerous I don’t even know where to start. Ground zero for massive unchecked outbreaks of vaccine preventable disease.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/09/2025
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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