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Infectious Disease Epidemiologist. Biodefense. Global Health Security. Biosurveillance.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Doctors & researchers close to UCSF are circulating a petition to block Vinay Prasad's return to the university. They cite: -suppression of scientific findings -allegations of abuse -harmful rhetoric attacking public health -conflicts of interest form.jotform.com/260836126659...
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OPEN PETITION TO UCSF LEADERSHIP
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 05/01/2026
This guy here is dead 👇
Screen shot of a tweet from HHS.

We will Make America Healthy Again.

There is an image of hulk hogan ripping off his shirt with the caption "AMERICA AFTER BECOMING HEALTHY AGAIN"
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/09/2025
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 02/09/2025
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 15/06/2025
Just watched LAPD launch tear gas at peaceful protesters live
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 31/03/2025
There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.
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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Everything is really rough right now, but I’m incredibly proud of each and every one of you for doing what you can, when you can, in the face of adversity. Take care of yourself. Take care of each other. Take care of the folks that are most vulnerable. ✌️ ❤️ 🎸
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/03/2025
For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States. Vaccines prevent measles. Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Today on :"this is not normal," here is an actual, official communication from the White House. Beyond the insanity of the language used here, it manages to debunk its own point that the NIH spent millions of dollars to make transgender mice. If you actually read what the studies were for...
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Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments
Last night, President Donald J. Trump highlighted many of the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse funded by American taxpayers, including $8
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Protest tonight. 6 PM. Lafayette Park (north side of the White House). Be there.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is why they want to destroy us. Our superpower is explaining complicated things in a way that everyone can understand. They are going to try to destroy us whether we do it or not. I’m not going down without a fight.
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I want to live in boring times @docbazac.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“We had each other. That’s how we won”
Picture of Lando Calrissian from Star Wars Rise of Skywalker
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/02/2025
I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.
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I want to live in boring times @docbazac.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This. Public service work is not flashy or sexy, but it’s important and impactful. The vast majority of people that work in it do it for the mission.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/02/2025
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
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I want to live in boring times @docbazac.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nope. No conflicts here. /s
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I want to live in boring times @docbazac.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Devastating news.
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I want to live in boring times @docbazac.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Symbolic.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
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Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz
Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2025
Goldman: "My Republican colleagues are so weak and afraid of Donald Trump that they're willing to undermine their own constitutional authority just to please them. You're giving away your own power in fealty to Donald Trump."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2025
Crockett: "This is nothing more than another payday for Elon Musk bc we know that if there is any govt welfare to be handed out, it is consistently being handed out to Elon Musk, who stopped all the money to USAID while at the same time deciding that he would get another contract for over $300m."
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I want to live in boring times @docbazac.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So he just paid the president $10M I can see no potential conflicts of interest at all in this situation… /sarcasm
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I want to live in boring times @docbazac.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
More people/outlets/Dems need to start framing this as Musk/Trump/ R- Congresspeople alienating republicans too. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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Republicans Love Trump’s Spending Cuts. Just Not in Their States.
Even as they praise the president’s unilateral actions to slash federal spending, G.O.P. lawmakers have quietly moved to seek carve outs or exemptions for their own constituents.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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I want to live in boring times @docbazac.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
GO BIRDS!!! 🎉🦅🎉 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Editing scientific content for political purity is turning MMWR into a compromised propaganda organ. And why are the propaganda squads at CDC replacing specifically H5N1 bird flu studies? I’ve got some pretty serious fascism- and flu-related concerns about this.
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Caroline B @vegancb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Govsky US @us.govsky.org · 17/01/2025
👋 Hello Bluesky! Govsky tracks and announces official government accounts on Bluesky. You may be interested in the following lists: Verified .GOV Accounts: bsky.app/profile/us.g... Verified .GOV Accounts (No Congress): bsky.app/profile/us.g...
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Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD @kmpanthagani.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Last week the Your Local Epidemiologist team released a survey on how the federal freezes are impacting your work. The survey received over 3,000 responses, here are a few stories that were shared. See the full report here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Real Truther @therealtruther.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In 1985 in Africa 25 vaxxed children were compared with 25 unvaxxed for 5 years. In the vaxxed group one got mild measles while 4 had suspected whooping cough. Among the unvaxxed 11 got measles leading to 2 deaths & an unvaxxed child died of tetanus. This is why we don't do these studies anymore.
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000. Is this really making America great?
Letter from colleague fired from USAID,  sharing devastating impact and chaos that this has wrought on her life and family.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Congressional Research Service is telling Congress that Trump cannot shut down US AID. Will they - and more specifically Republicans - listen, and act?https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12500
Can the President Abolish, Move, or Consolidate USAID? Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID. The Secretary of State established USAID as directed by Executive Order 10973, signed on November 3, 1961. The agency was meant to implement components of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA, P.L. 87-195), enacted on September 4, 1961.  Section 1413 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, Division G of P.L. 105-277, established USAID as an “independent establishment” outside of the State Department (22 U.S.C. 6563). In that act, Congress provided the President with temporary authority to reorganize the agency (22 U.S.C. 6601). President Clinton retained the status of USAID as an independent entity, and the authority to reorganize expired in 1999. Congress has not granted the President further authority to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID since.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/02/2025
The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A Calvin and Hobbes panel but the speech bubble has been changed so that Calvin is telling Hobbes, "DEI initiatives were not put in place to ensure lower-qualified minorities could get hired instead of more highly-qualified white people, it was put in place to ensure lower-qualified white people were not hired instead of more highly-qualified minorities."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here is a list of groups actually litigating against the barrage of illegal and unconstitutional actions by the the Trump Administration. LAW FIRMS should be providing pro bono support. Don't cower in a corner. Your business depends on the rule of law. 1/ www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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