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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 05/08/2026
"Until Friday, ORR had a contract with the Acacia Center for Justice, but the federal govt. allowed that contract to expire after months of withholding funds to Acacia, and by extension, many of the nonprofits that served as 'subcontractors' and represented the majority of the children in ORR care."
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My new take for @msnowreports.bsky.social is similar to @marisakabas.bsky.social’s. Antidepressants help me to thrive & build a career in health policy. And RFK Jr is acting like docs/pts aren’t discussing tradeoffs of meds. (Projection amid MAHA docs selling magic beans?) www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
ms.now
Opinion | RFK Jr.’s crusade against antidepressants is dangerous
The challenge facing Americans struggling with mental health isn’t overprescription. It’s insurance barriers, plus a stigma Kennedy risks increasing.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 26/02/2026
Relevant to this soft-glam fascist's comments today, there's a bill in Florida to ban prescribing birth control to minors—or even giving teens information about it—without parental consent. It's called HB 173 The attacks on contraception are, and have been, in motion
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CNN @cnn.com · 25/02/2026
Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.
cnn.com
Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews | CNN
Three interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago appear to be among the missing files in the DOJ release.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/02/2026
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/02/2026
THIS IS BATSHIT ON TOP OF BATSHIT "In some cases, they must also provide the handles of their young children, spouses, and parents, many of whom are U.S. citizens, green card holders, or are otherwise in the United States legally."
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John Lieske @johnlieske.social · 19/02/2026
This is how "detention centers" become death camps. This is historically how regimes create death camps in a straightforward progression: 1 Detain people 2 Let detainment centers get full 3 People start getting sick/dying 4 Start murdering detainees pre-emptively (claim health reasons) We're at #3
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
They'd rather your kid die from fake autism "therapies" than your kid have autism
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It is absolutely a choice.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
image from today's hearing
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
aljazeera.com
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Reminder: It has been a very bad flu season. Undercutting flu vaccination is a perfect Trump Administration special combination of stupid and dangerous.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/02/2026
It does not matter if you take the child you use as bait and then kidnap to McDonald’s!!!!!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
A copy of a blank administrative warrant. The only person who signs it at the end is an "immigration officer."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
At the conclusion of her introduction Judge Reyes emphasizes what's really at stake here: "Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight."
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
lfg
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/01/2026
The flights are also getting longer. My analysis of public flight data shows that since Stonepeak's purchase of Omni, nearly half of its ICE trips lasted longer than 24 hours. All adult migrants and some children are shackled are ICE flights.
But beyond facilitating potential human rights abuses, Omni's flights themselves are becoming increasingly inhumane. In 2024, only six trips last more than 24 hours, with the longest lasting 38 hours. But of the 77 trips carried out between Stonepeak's mid-April purchase and the end of 2025, 31 last between 24 and 50 hours before the final stop. Migrants onboard until then would have spent all that time, and likely more, shackled.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
19thnews.org
Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care
Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The auditor of the state of Ohio, who is running to be the state's next attorney general, wrote an oped this morning that the Columbus Dispatch published on how Renee Good is to blame for her death. The subheadline alone is already chilling. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
from Keith Faber: "Renee Good wasn't an 'innocent.' Problem is hysteria, not Ice | Ohio AG candidate
If you have done nothing wrong, you will be fine. If you refuse to comply, your actions can escalate quickly-and unnecessarily-into criminal conduct."
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/01/2026
what does he do about the fact that in most states midterms and statewides are on the same cycle, so "canceling the elections" might mean that tennessee doesn't have a governor next year. how does he convince tennessee republicans to give up power in their own states?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/12/2025
pedophilic behavior
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
feels stupid to say at this point but how the fuck isn't anyone invoking the 25th amendment.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
roses are red big laughs are hearty
The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
After making claims that Tylenol hurts fetuses, RFK Jr announced a new review of mifepristone, the abortion pill, based on a junk study from a right wing think tank. I took the occasion to survey the status of abortion rights and women’s health in the second Trump administration:
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kellylizzz.bsky.social @kellylizzz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
So fuckin stupid and bad. Vaccinate your kids, vaccinate yourself.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
wow, now up to 38 in custody deaths this year in the LA jails
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
 
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other – to disturb, even – is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
 
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree.
 
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
 
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2025
It's important to realize what precipitated this was Nexstar announcing they pulled showing Kimmel on their affiliates. They're currently waiting for the FCC to loosen restrictions to enable their massive merger. This was as much pay to play by a corporation as it was censorship.
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Screenshot of a news excerpt. It reads:

"On August 19, 2025, Nexstar announced its intent to acquire Tegna for $6.2 billion; the acquisition would give it 265 stations in total, serving 80% of U.S. television households. In an interview with CNBC, Sook stated that the purchase was a move to '[play] offense and defense to maintain a vital industry for America and a vital resource for information,' and place Nexstar 'on a level playing field with Big Tech' in a 'fragmented and rapidly evolving marketplace.' Sook stated that in the 35 markets where this would create duopolies, Nexstar planned to keep station operations 'autonomous.' The agreement comes ahead of a possible loosening of FCC ownership limits by the second Trump administration."

The words “CNBC,” “Big Tech,” and “second Trump administration” are hyperlinked. There is a reference marker [127] at the end.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
They are literally canceling culture
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
i’m gonna fuckin lose it
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.
Donald J. Trump t @realDonald Trump
I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A.
Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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9/17/25, 8:26 PM
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 05/09/2025
beautiful bsky.app/profile/zohr...
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This is incorrect: (1) Department of War was just the Army, not the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) the President does not have the authority, only Congress can make that change in the law. Be better, @npr.org.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2025
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
That is the end-of-May meeting where Stephen Miller brought every ICE Field Office Director into a room and screamed at them to start rounding people up at Home Depot and to stop focusing on people with criminal records. The Los Angeles raids started a couple weeks later.
"Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?'" the official recited.
One of the ERO officials in attendance stood up and stated that the Department of Homeland Security and the White House had publicly messaged about targeting criminal illegal immigrants, and therefore, ICE was targeting them, and not the general illegal immigration population.
"Miller said, 'What do you mean you're going after criminals?' Miller got into a little bit of a pissing contest. That's what Tom Homan says every time he's on TV: 'We're going after criminals," the ICE official told Miller, according to the first official.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
My resignation letter from CDC.  

Dear Dr. Houry,

I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.   I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested.

This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough.

While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people.  This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles.

The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.   The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership.  This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors.  Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.

It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC.  The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense.  Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function.  Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC.
Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults.  Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc.

I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again.  I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season.  Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.”  We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary.  I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.  Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources.  At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him.  To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information.

The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer.  I believe in nutrition and exercise.  I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability.  Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning.  My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so.  I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud.   I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur.  I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed.

For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics.  I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision.

Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically.

Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution.  If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
this is a scene straight out of a war zone. the president has declared war on his own country.
In a FaceTime video call from the other firefighter to The Seattle Times, firefighters in their gear were seen sitting on logs in front of federal officers. Some firefighters were dismissed back to their vehicles.

One firefighter attempted to walk over to his company vehicle to get something to drink and appeared to have been called back by federal officers.

In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing “Police” vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained.

According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members.

“I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they’re family, and they’re just ripping them away,” the firefighter told the Times. “And this is what he said: ‘You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I’m gonna make you leave.'”
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A bit farther ahead, it's increasingly looking like a rather extreme late-season ridge & heatwave event may develop over Pacific NW & British Columbia in about a week--with some degree of anomalous warmth extending across most of the West (including California). #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx
Snapshot from ECMWF ensemble depicting an extreme and record-breaking ridge near British Columbia in ~6 days.
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