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brigginp.bsky.social @brigginp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You know the worst part of being the person who doesn't cry? (Aside from likely emotional constipation and an inability to cry when you need to at times) That when you finally do, everyone freaks out.😓😩🤦‍♀️
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/11/2025
🧵 1/3 Anyone else notice that Vaccines.gov the federal vaccine locator is just… broken? And honestly, would any of us be shocked if it never comes back, given that HHS took it over from CDC this summer? www.notus.org/health-scien...
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CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back.
“I have heard that they are planning to ‘update it’ and shudder to think what that will mean,” Demetre Daskalakis, a former member of CDC leadership, told NOTUS.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/11/2025
“As long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.” —Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1978 This paper on bringing Indigenous perspectives and practices into SDOH frameworks for greater health equity is a good read.
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Developing Indigenous-Centered Healing, Health, and Wellness Frameworks to Strengthen Indigenous Health Systems, Decolonize Public Health, and Achieve Health Equity | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 5
Over the past 20 years, national and global health initiatives have increasingly used resources, implemented tools, and proposed policies to change the social determinants of health contributing to he...
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brigginp.bsky.social @brigginp.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hot take: you cannot say that a 15yo is barely legal & old enough to consent to sex with an adult, & then turn around & say they are a child who cannot consent to puberty blockers.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/11/2025
The call 📞 is coming from inside the house 🏠 The only data chaos at CDC is coming from RFKJr. Because if you fire the folks responsible for national survey data... that's bound to cause some data chaos 🌪 Here are the 954 HHS souls wrongfully fired on 10/10: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71502...
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Declaration Department of Health and Human Services – #103, Att. #1 in American Federation of Government Employees, AFL CIO v. United States Office of Management and Budget (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-08302) ...
NOTICE by Paul Atkins, Scott Bessent, Frank Bisignano, Pam Bondi, Shana M. Broussard, Lonnie G Bunch, III, Doug Burgum, CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION, Brendan Carr, Mary Anne Carter, Lori Chavez-...
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brigginp.bsky.social @brigginp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
@jonlovett.bsky.social Can I beg you to never again whisper directly into the mic? I was driving my kids 2 school listening in earbuds & had to seriously work to suppress my ADHD & CPTSD reaction to your whisper directly in my ear while driving.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Members of Congress are being denied access to an ICE facility in Manhattan, because the conditions inside are that bad.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/06/2025
1/5 🚨 New item quietly added to the CDC ACIP agenda: a vote on thimerosal in flu shots. Let's talk about why this worries us 🧵 TL;DR: Thimerosal is safe. This debate was settled decades ago. Reopening it signals a shift toward disinfo-driven policy...and that’s dangerous.
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CDC vaccine advisers to vote on thimerosal in flu shots at first meeting of new panel | CNN
A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a discussion and vote on thimerosal ...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/06/2025
Trump’s EPA wants to lift a ban on asbestos. Asbestos is banned in over 50 countries due to comprehensive research showing that it causes cancer. This is another policy move that will make America sicker.
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brigginp.bsky.social @brigginp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
They missed eradicating Polio www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinl...
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What has aid ever done for anyone? Absolutely nothing. Except: Educate… | Kevin L. Brown | 99 comments
What has aid ever done for anyone? Absolutely nothing. Except: Educate kids. Feed the hungry. Vaccinate children. Provide clean water. Nearly eradicate polio. Create financial growth. Stop preventa...
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Kimberly Adams @kimberlyadams.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I'm participating in this @sabew panel discussion tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1 PM EST... if you are free, please join us! sabew.org/event/recess...
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Recession Watch: Making Sense of an Economy Sending Mixed Messages | SABEW
President Donald Trump's rapidly changing tariff policies have sparked volatility in financial markets, lifted inflation expectations and raised recession fears. At the same time, an aggressive crackd...
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This 👇 is a great read and easy to share with loved ones who are curious (or slightly misguided) about vaccines and the different levels of impact they can have. To bookmark and share 🎯
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1960s Lisa. Still cool😎 🍃🐕🗽🌊✍️🦸🏻 @lisanewmannews.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is TERRIFYING @altcdc.altgov.info @alt-hhs.altgov.info
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AltCityHall @altcityhall.altgov.info · 01/05/2025
🧵 #WeSeeYou and we (some of us) ARE you.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/04/2025
The moment Mohsen Mahdawi was released from ICE custody in Vermont.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Another outrage - another 30-year US resident & Green Card holder from Ireland disappeared into detention. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Irish woman living legally in US for decades detained after visiting her father in Ireland
Cliona Ward (54) lives in California but is being held in a large immigration prison in Washington state
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 27/04/2025
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
i think “abducted by ICE” is not at all editorializing and factually accurate.
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ALT DHS (NOT an official DHS account) @altdhs.altgov.info · 27/04/2025
Damnit, ICE! WTF???
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Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
If you are worried about the food-supply chain, please heart and share this thread. These are the resources you need to ensure you stock up on items. You can feel free to post some small businesses and markets in your area. This will probably go viral and the businesses always need customers.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/04/2025
RFKJ is out there spouting lies and dehumanizing people with autism. We want to hear from you in your own words. For those on the autism spectrum or with family/friends on the spectrum: what do you wish the world knew about people with autism?
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. -Stephen Shore
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Musk is dismantling a small but important independent agency that supports economic development in poor but stable nations. Employees at the Millennium Challenge Corporation were informed that they would be offered early retirement or deferred resignation following visits from Musk’s staffers.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 24/04/2025
This 🧵 is diving into Head Start as its currently on the chopping block in the proposed budget. Head Start is an incredible program that is much more involved and influential than people may realize. And if the regime gets its way, this cut would result in generations of harm.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 22/04/2025
"By February, staff were locked out. Phone lines dead. HIV treatments in Africa halted. Food relief suspended in Haiti. Contracts canceled. The message wasn’t subtle: this government no longer builds; it erases."
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Walter @walterkatz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’m in Albany today with the Alliance to Protect Kalief’s Law to once again make the case that equitable discovery laws prevent wrongful convictions. We appreciate the rallying cry offered by Sen. Cordell Cleare that we can’t go back.
New York State Senator Cordell Cleare addressing the media in opposition to Part B of the Governor’s budget that would
roll back the 2020 discovery reforms.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...
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Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed
Many Kansas farmers are in limbo and waiting for promised payments under contracts they signed with the federal government. It comes after a federal directive from the Trump administration paused paym...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/03/2025
Sadly, we lack the medical technology to provide senators with spines. And we may never attain it since research at the NIH has been cancelled. So read this article to learn about next steps. It’s time for a pitchfork in the road. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/spi...
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Spines for Senators Is Now Pitchforks for the People
It is with a heavy heart that we admit Spines for Senators (S4S) has failed in its mission to provide invertebrate lawmakers with the transformatio...
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Cuts to research funding and the anti-science tenor of government policies are already prompting universities to cut back on post-graduate admissions. www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...
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Graduate student admissions paused and cut back as universities react to Trump orders on research
In response to Trump science policies, universities are accepting fewer graduate students than normal and freezing positions, STAT has learned.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025
Has anyone been tracking the numbers? How many people who do or support science have been fired since January 20? I would say national lands people count
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/02/2025
Congress created several organizations in the 1980s to strengthen democratic institutions worldwide. Human rights activists say the freeze is a gift to authoritarians like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
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Trump funding freeze halts decades of U.S. democracy work around the world
Congress created several organizations in 1980s to strengthen democratic institutions worldwide. Human rights activists say the freeze is a gift to authoritarians like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."
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brigginp.bsky.social @brigginp.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is an argument I have been making for over a decade. All the money dealing with the anti-vaccine set's moving goal posts robs funding from research on nuance and how to better adapt the world for those of us who are neuro diverse in all sorts of ways.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Senator Markwayne Mullin is suggesting that the purported autism-vaccine connection hasn't been "studied" and debunked over and over and over. Including a Danish study of half a million children: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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MMR vaccine is not linked with autism, says Danish study
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Kennedy argues that the rate of autism has drastically increased over the decades. There is in fact no good evidence of this. The increase in autism diagnoses reflect - diagnostic substitution - changing diagnostic criteria to be broader - changes in screening practices for autism spectrum disorder
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Want to know how long it takes the richest people in tech to earn your salary or earn enough to pay off your largest debt? See this tool, which was in this 2021 (but still relevant) article about why billionaires are a result of policy failure. simpletexting.com/blog/tech-ce...
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How Long Does It Take Tech CEOs to Earn Your Salary? | SimpleTexting
Want to know how long it would take for tech CEOs to earn your salary? The SimpleTexting team built a calculator where users can find out. Check it out!
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Shaun Griswold @shaun505.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Sugarcane is essential. For Native people it shows how one family confronts Indian Boarding School trauma. Non-Natives learn history and get thrust into some of our issues from the past and present. Red Circle has a great pod for anyone that needs a primer redcircle.com/shows/732730...
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Sugarcane - Why Everyone should see this doc
Listen to Reel Indigenous on RedCircle
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Covering Trump's second term and its implications for the fields of public health, science, drug regulation and health care is a hugely important job. @statnews.com's looking for someone to join our team. Great opportunity here! www.statnews.com/careers/wash...
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STAT, Washington Correspondent
Location: Washington, D.C. About STAT In November 2015, STAT was launched as a global media company focused on health, medicine, and life sciences. Since
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
When Zitkála-Šá, at the age of 22 posed for Gertrude Käsebier in New York, it was likely the first consensual and collaborative photo session between a Native woman and a professional photographer. Born on the Yankton Reservation, SD, in 1876, Zitkála-Sa had recently studied violin at the…
Activist, artist and writer Zitkála-Šá, poses in profile for Gertrude Käsebier in 1898 in New York. Zitkaála-Šá with her violin, having recently studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. Zittkála-Šá in profile. Her hair had fully grown out after being shorn in missionary school.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Research supplements to support URM mentees are set to expire today. I met the person who developed this mechanism, Clifton Poodry, at an NSF meeting last fall; he is so inspiring. This supplement has funded thousands of mentees including myself. Devasted to see it canceled, and with no notice.
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PA-23-189: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-23-189....
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Brain drain to follow:” The new administration sends an unsettling message to the scientific community — both within & outside of government — in its first days in office. www.statnews.com/2025/01/24/t...
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Trump’s restrictions spark chaos across health and science agencies
The Trump administration's freeze on communications, travel, and diversity efforts has sowed chaos across federal health agencies.
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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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