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Elizabeth Andrade

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Health scientist and communicator. University faculty and doctor of public health.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/08/2025
U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for: 700,000 public housing units 500,000 low-income kids receiving health care 500,000 veterans receiving VA care 600,000 kids in Head Start Combined.
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Posting this to remind everyone to make some noise about this shadow docket case. Also, follow @safa-science.bsky.social if you aren't already.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/06/2025
poll after poll shows that Trump's big bill is very unpopular
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Chris Cioffi @reportercioffi.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
NEW: Senate bill would mean a $3.3 trillion deficit increase over a decade, per CBO estimate www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline
As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
1,500+ at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning. Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up. Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 29/06/2025
Trump’s immigrant threat has played out like Bush’s WMD threat. Media played up the fear. Now he can’t find them (violent gang members) and is deporting children with cancer instead. People are slowly realizing they were lied to.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
Republicans are racing to pass perhaps the most expensive bill in history, adding TRILLIONS to the debt, by trashing Senate rules.   Don’t EVER tell me we can’t afford to invest child care after we set trillions on fire to give tax breaks to billionaires who don’t need them.
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Let’s be very clear: even if you are not a Medicaid recipient, cuts to the program will impact you. Without Medicaid funds, rural hospitals, maternity wards, and nursing homes will be shuttered. Having private health insurance won’t do you much good when there’s nowhere to go.
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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Will America’s National Parks Survive Trump? He plans to close 350 of our parks, monuments and historic sites www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...
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Opinion | Will America’s National Parks Survive Trump?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸
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Ana 🇨🇺💙🇺🇸🎵 @apzzazz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Federal employees don't serve a single president and shouldn't have to pledge loyalty to an individual. We swear to defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The COUNTRY is where our loyalty resides.
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Trump administration to prioritize ‘patriotic Americans’ for federal jobs
Applicants for government jobs will be required to write essays explaining how they will advance President Donald Trump’s policy priorities.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
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Are universities too dependent on federal support?
Destroying a decades-long scientific partnership will hurt more than higher ed
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
People have actually studied whether international students cross subsidize domestic students. And they do! If 20% of your student body is paying full price, and many of domestic students are not, there is a cross-subsidy, one that allows the university to hire more faculty and open more spots.
Do international students crowd-out or cross-subsidize Americans in higher education?
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Examines the impact of international students on domestic enrollment in U.S. graduate education
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On average, exogenous inflows of international students increase domestic enrollment
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Positive effects are due to cross-subsidization–high net tuition revenue from international students helps offset the costs of enrolling additional domestic students

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272717301676
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 31/05/2025
Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide
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Smeagol @smeagol92055.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
ICE was here in San Diego today and they flash banged a crowd of civilians on the street.
A photo of one of the devices used by ICE agents in South Park this afternoon. It is a palm-sized explosive device that emits a loud flash, a bang, and a cloud of smoke.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The American people did not vote to destroy US science and disease cure research. If this were a parliamentary system, we’d be having snap elections now and Trump would be defeated. In the US system the only legal option for removal is impeachment.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s [DOGE] henchmen stole all data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.” @maxberger.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/maxb... bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Whistleblower alleges DOGE, Starlink to Russian access of U.S. government data | The Express Tribune
Daniel Berulis alleges Russian IPs accessed U.S. data through DOGE systems linked to Starlink, citing national security concerns.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
And again, the public doesn’t understand this, because no one is out in public explaining it:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The lawsuits are great to fight the illegal impoundment, but the second there's an actual federal budget passed through Congress that looks like this, it's all over for American higher education.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Join me and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social at Politics and Prose in Washington DC for #ScienceUnderSiege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World on October 2 at 7pm politics-prose.com/mann-hotez #PublicAffairs #Hachette
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We were learning how new technologies could improve mobility for communities. We were gaining insights on what transportation investments work best where. We were asking research questions that hadn't been asked before. Wild to see it all reduced to "woke research."
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
When famously squaring off with President Donald Trump over education funding, Mills said she would see Trump in court. She did just that, and on Friday she won a settlement for her state, for the kids and for people everywhere who needed to see a certain asshole bully get punched right in the eye.
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Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it
Remember the Governor of Maine.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 01/05/2025
🚨🚨🚨 AND SO IT BEGINS: Aetna/CVS pulling out of #ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire: h/t @brucejapsen.bsky.social acasignups.net/25/05/01/and...
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And So It Begins: Aetna/CVS pulling out of ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire
via Bruce Japsen at Forbes, the first shoe has dropped: CVS Plans To Exit Obamacare In 2026, Affecting 1 Million Aetna Members CVS Health plans to exit the individual health insurance business also kn...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
"As recently as a decade ago, a majority of Republicans said they had “a great deal or quite a lot of confidence” in higher education." And that trust has collapsed. Very true. Now, either the behavior of faculty changed dramatically about a decade ago, or something changed in American politics. 🤔
As recently as a decade ago, a majority of Republicans said they had “a great deal or quite a lot of confidence” in higher education, according to a Gallup poll. This share was down to 20 percent last year. Trust in higher education also declined among Democrats. This is a tragedy, because we need fact- and science-based policymaking for topics such as public health and climate change, artificial intelligence and economics.graph showing collapsing support for higher education
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/05/2025
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."
nytimes.com
Attacks on Judges Undermine Democracy, Warns Ketanji Brown Jackson
Speaking to a judicial conference, the Supreme Court justice said attacks were designed to intimidate and influence.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
cbsnews.com
RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims
Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
More evidence that RFK Jr. and Makary are not going to permit the FDA to approve new COVID19 vaccines for the US this fall. This is unconscionable. People will die because of this. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-cov...
cbsnews.com
FDA chief says they're looking at whether to approve COVID shots for next winter
FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said there is a "void of data" on the COVID booster shots.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Fantastic work from @scott-delaney.bsky.social & @noamross.net to preserve a record of the science that has been stolen from the American people by our own President.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Science article with perspectives from NIH insiders www.science.org/content/arti... 1/n
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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
ICE has begun raiding the homes of American citizens. A widely shared story out of Oklahoma describes a disturbing incident where a woman and her children were dragged into their yard half-naked. Reports are mounting across multiple states of agents targeting the wrong properties.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The man who has never accepted responsibility, apologized, or admitted a mistake in his entire life isn’t about to start now.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
When does a "temporary research" pause last forever? When it's done on a bullshit pretext about unspecified "safety culture", the highly regarded director is fired, & all pathogen stocks destroyed because HHS is run by science-hating anti-vax grifters. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
wired.com
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Sen. Jon Ossoff
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol this morning to launch a sit-in protest.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 25/04/2025
NEW From #AltGov and #AltFam!! How Kegseth can SLAY in the makeup studio like the absolute warfighter he wants to be! Pro tips brought to you by AltGov, AltFam, and our amazing community! The floor/thread is now open to public comment! Please post gifs, memes, & your best makeup tips & tricks!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Elon Musk’s staffers are trying to push into the National Gallery of Art. They recently met with the museum’s director and legal team, to question its legal status and explore ways to assert influence. One of the nation’s most respected art institutions is now in their crosshairs.
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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 23/04/2025
Today at FWS: The All employee meeting was cancelled about an hour before it began. A sharepoint site was “leaked” and shared widely asking all of us to verify our employment information preparing for a RIF scorecard. Further— we are all being asked to provide HR with resumes by April 29th!!!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/04/2025
It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far. The government does not release such figures. Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Just spoke with my CDC sources. RFK Jr. has reportedly instructed officials to stay silent on bird flu transmission and avoid testing farm workers with symptoms. This is a direct attempt to suppress vital information. Pandemics begin with secrecy and cover-ups.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Missourians have stopped wringing their hands and are now protesting with their feet. They are marching. They are speaking out and fighting back. They are not silent. We can’t be silent anymore. We also can’t wait for anyone else to do the work for us. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Red State Rebels
The pushback...
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/04/2025
Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut. Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty. Call your reps.
Programs for Children and Families Eliminated

ACF

Affordable Housing and Supportive Services Demo

ACF

Head Start

ACF

Preschool Development Grant

ACF

Primary Prevention Youth Homelessness

ACL

ACL

University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

Developmental Disabilities Projects of National Significance

ACL

Lifespan Respite Care

ACL

Long-term Care Ombudsman

ACL

Preventive Health Services

ACL

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (Investigate group home abuse)

ACL

State Councils on Developmental Disabilities

CDC

Adolescent and School Health

CDC

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)

CDC

Asthma

CDC

Childhood Lead Poisoning

CDC

Firearm Injury & Mortality Prevention Research

CDC

Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology

CDC

Oral Health

CDC

Reproductive Health

CDC

Smoking and Health

CDC

Youth Violence Prevention

CMS

Medicaid and CHIP Budget of $129.6 million? Is this a joke?

GDM

Children's Interagency Coordination Council

GDM

Discretionary Sexual Risk Avoidance Programs

GDM

Still Birth Taskforce

GDM

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program

HRSA

EMS for Children

HRSA

Family Planning

HRSA

Healthy Start

HRSA

Universal Newborn Hearing Screening

IHS

Preventive Health

OASH

Office of Population Affairs

SAMSHA

Childhood Mental Health

SAMSHA

Children and Family Programs

SAMSHA

Consumer and Family Network Grants

SAMSHA

Health Transitions Infant and Early

SAMSHA

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

SAMSHA

SAMSHA

Interagency Task Force on Trauma Informed Care

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)

SAMSHA

STOP Act Pregnant and Postpartum Women

SAMSHA

Youth Prevention and Recovery Initiative
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/04/2025
🤰$5K for having a baby? That’s cute. Giving birth (with insurance) costs an average of $19K, with women paying $3K out of pocket. 💸 Caring for an infant in the first year costs $10-23K. 💰💰💰 (www.newyorklife.com/articles/bre...) These are not serious ideas.
healthsystemtracker.org
Health costs associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
Pregnancy is one of the most common reasons for a hospitalization among non-elderly people. In addition to the cost of the birth itself, pregnancy care also involves costs associated with prenatal vis...
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
BREAKING: The DOW is on track for its worst April since the Great Depression, critical cancer research could be impacted as a Harvard scientist has been detained by ICE, and Trump's approval rating plummets. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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BREAKING: The Dow is on track for its worst April since the Great Depression
The DOW is on track for its worst April since the Great Depression, critical cancer research could be impacted as a Harvard scientist has been detained by ICE, and Trump's approval rating plummets
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/04/2025
The NSF has stopped funding research into disinformation, a disinformation researcher highlighted why this is such a bad idea: “We know false information is out there, we know it spreads widely, and it’s important for people’s health and for democracy to understand what we can do about it.”
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Government cancels disinformation grants in disinformation-filled statement
The National Science Foundation said the studies "could be used to infringe on" speech rights.
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William C Phelps, PhD @wcphelps.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Latest data on measles in the US. The total number of cases has already reached 800 in the first 4 months of 2025 with 85 hospitalizations and 3 deaths. There were 285 total cases last year. 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...
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US measles total climbs to 800 cases, 10 outbreaks
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Taryn T, Duchess of the Blue Sea @tarynt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The death and funeral of The Pope is going to consume international media coverage. Make sure to pay attention to what this administration is doing during this time
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/04/2025
We are collaborating with a coalition of fired CDC employees called Fired but Fighting. 💪 They are standing up to Trump's illegal actions and telling their stories. Check out their website here: firedbutfighting.org and consider giving them a follow on bluesky @firedbutfighting.bsky.social
firedbutfighting.org
Fired But Fighting
Fired But Fighting is a network of former CDC professionals—scientists, communicators, policy analysts, public health experts—who are standing together to demand transparency, accountability, and just...
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