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Resister of nonsense. Architect, designer, environmentalist, builder, big thinker… and people. It’s about people. Proudly 🏳️‍🌈.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/05/2026
1/2 A year ago, experienced CDC/HHS leaders were pushed out with threats of reassignment to IHS — then left in limbo for a YEAR. Now the Trump admin has finally made good on that threat. ⚠️ But this was never about Indigenous health. It was a purge. And an insult to indigenous communities.
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HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services finally followed through on a plan it first outlined for several of its top officials nearly a year ago: It reassigned them to positions in the Indian Health Service. Many of the officials who were sent the reassignments—a group that includes at least half a dozen …
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/05/2026
🧵 Oh, poor baby, Jay didn’t like his bad press. His pretentious ego knows no limits, and it only took three paragraphs to mention Stanford. His big issue with the MMWR article he suppressed is the test-negative design (TND) of the study. Here’s what that actually means:
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Under my leadership, the CDC will follow the evidence
The agency is committed to upholding scientific standards.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 27/04/2026
💚 Looking for ways to support CDC staff? Check out @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social The 2026 fundraising goal of $75,000 would provide funds to the 38 CDCers still on their waiting list 💵 Donations: www.cdcresourceportal.org 🛒 CDC mutual aid store: cdc-mutual-aid-network.printful.me
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Mutual Aid Network Portal
From Gratitude to Action
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 29/04/2026
Fed friends, if you have info that needs to be made public we can help. Contact us anonymously via 📱 Signal (altCDC.99) 💻 Proton mail (altCDCtips@proton.me) We can get your info to the media or put you in contact with trusted reporters. Feds are unmasking unlawful acts all over this administration
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
William Boyle: “The private sector vs. public sector MYTH... "One key insight is to dispel the myth, pervasive in America and dangerously infective elsewhere, that the private sector does everything well and the public sector does everything poorly.” #Pinks evonomics.com/how-norway-d...
evonomics.com
How Norway Dispels the Private vs Public Sector Myth - Evonomics
A strong state capable of building infrastructure is not enough. It must also be an inclusive state.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/04/2026
Well, it’s about that time. Sleep is basically your immune system’s night shift; don’t leave it understaffed 🧟‍♂️ Time to power down, and give our brains its beauty sleep. 😴 Tomorrow’s you will appreciate it! We’ll see you anew in the morning. Goodnight buds 🌙✨
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/04/2026
There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!
nbcnews.com
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/04/2026
💚 Looking for ways to support CDC staff? Check out @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social The 2026 fundraising goal of $75,000 would provide funds to the 38 CDCers still on their waiting list 💵 Donations: www.cdcresourceportal.org 🛒 CDC mutual aid store: cdc-mutual-aid-network.printful.me
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Mutual Aid Network Portal
From Gratitude to Action
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/04/2026
Well, I guess it’s better than injecting bleach? Yam Tits now proclaiming Diet Coke kills cancer cells because it kills grass. #NotHowScienceWorks
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Trump believes diet soda kills cancer cells, Dr Oz reveals
Physicians issue reminder to public after TV doctor and CMS chief relays president’s claim on Don Jr podcast
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/04/2026
Using Signal? (Yeah, us too.) Important security settings to change - read the entire 🧵👇 And make sure to change this: Signal>Settings>Notifications>Notification Content>select "No Name or Content" & Disable AI summaries: iPhone Settings>Notifications> Summarize Notifications>toggle off Signal 🔒✅
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Diesel jumping by almost $1 — in one week — should go over well in Texas. ⛽️
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/03/2026
Do you need a measles (MMR) vaccine? Check this CDC info-graphic👇 www.cdc.gov/measles/down... More info here: www.cdc.gov/measles/vacc...
Infographic titled “Measles vaccine recommendations for non-pregnant adults aged 19 years and older by birth year — United States.” It shows a flowchart divided into two columns: adults born before 1957 (left) and adults born in 1957 or later (right).

Left column (born before 1957):
If not healthcare personnel, no MMR doses are needed. If healthcare personnel, check for documentation of 2 doses of live measles-containing vaccine (such as MMR), laboratory evidence of immunity, or laboratory confirmation of disease. If documented, no doses are needed. If not documented or vaccination history is unknown, consider 2 MMR doses at least 28 days apart; during outbreaks, give 2 doses 28 days apart.

Right column (born in 1957 or later):
First, determine if the person is healthcare personnel, an international traveler, a post-secondary student, a close contact of immunocompromised people, or a person with HIV without severe immunosuppression.
If yes, check for documentation of 2 doses or evidence of immunity/disease. If documented, no doses are needed. If not documented or history unknown, give 2 MMR doses at least 28 days apart (or give a second dose if only 1 prior dose).
If no to those risk groups, check for documentation of at least 1 dose or evidence of immunity/disease. If documented, no doses are needed. If not, give 1 dose of MMR vaccine.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/02/2026
To be clear: most officers in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps retire at O-5 or O-6. She wouldn’t qualify to apply — but we’re supposed to salute her as an O-9? A slap in the face to every officer who actually earned it. Still time: call your senators. Vote NO.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/02/2026
Today is the four year anniversary of the barbaric full scale invasion against the peaceful people of Ukraine. Peaceful, until roused to defend themselves…. Slava Ukrainii
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a yellow and blue flag with a shield on it
ALT: a yellow and blue flag with a shield on it
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🏳️‍🌈Alex Vander Veur💙🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸🇻🇪💙🇺🇸💔 @alexvanderveur.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#NeverAgainIsNow
Black and white image of a poster reading: "Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are being torn apart children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared" -Anne Frank 1943.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/02/2026
🛑 CDC, we are all acutely aware how easily our workers’ rights can be stripped away. One of the best tools to fight this is our union, AFGE2883 Join to protect yourself & future CDC workers 💪 Help us form bargaining units asap. More info 👉 www.afge2883ga.org Join here 👉 join.afge.org/L2883
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Home | AFGE Local 2883
🚨BREAKING NEWS: On October 28, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston (Northern District of California) granted a Preliminary Injunction (PI) in AFGE v. OMB, which continues halting all Federal Reduction-in-Force (RIF) actions initiated or approved by OMB during the current government shutdown. The ruling applies nationwide to any agencies--including CDC/HHS--with at least 1 AFGE Member or BUE that applied the new OMB RIF framework.🚨
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Grateful that so many MAGA influencers are sharing our reporting that questions ICE’s (now deleted) claim about law enforcement in Colorado. But their headlines suggest they didn’t actually watch the report.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/02/2026
Oh hayyyyyyyyyyy NYC Health! We see you. We love you.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/02/2026
Joy is its own resistance. If you need inspiration on how to spread it, the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation has a calendar to give you ideas for every day of the year. Goodnight, folks! www.randomactsofkindness.org/printables/c...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/02/2026
A stop work order for part of CDC's Data Modernization Accelerator contract means that there will now be next to no support for AI governance, guidance, policy, training, or roll-outs all while CDC staff are being told to use Claude and ChatGPT for anything and everything. What could go wrong??? 😱
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Monkey and ape imagery have been used for centuries to dehumanize Black people, especially during slavery and the Jim Crow era. Civil rights groups and historians have long classified such depictions as explicitly racist, not ambiguous or coded. www.axios.com/2026/02/06/t...
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Trump revives racist imagery once seen as disqualifying
The taboo Trump just proved no longer holds.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Over the last four decades, such depictions have been treated as an unmistakable racial slur that resulted in widespread outcry and consequences. Roseanne Barr tweeted in 2018 that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett looked like she was from "Planet of the Apes." ABC canceled her show
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mtnlobo.bsky.social @mtnlobo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Continuing: Censoring or more succinctly, throttling messages to the public. This is OUR agency. We pay for it.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2026
5/5 Federal workers are not gig workers. We’re not optional leverage in budget fights. A bipartisan law guarantees our back pay -- guidance that suggests otherwise undermines trust, morale, and the rule of law. 💬 www.narfe.org/advocacy/shu...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2026
4/5 Reminder what the law actually says: GEFTA, passed with bipartisan support and signed in 2019, requires retroactive pay for both furloughed and excepted employees once a shutdown ends. That was the whole point of the statute. www.congress.gov/bill/116th-c...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2026
3/5 This tracks with what happened in Oct 2025, when OMB quietly scrubbed references to the 2019 law (GEFTA) from its shutdown FAQ and claimed back pay wasn’t guaranteed without new appropriations. A sharp break from past practice. www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2026
2/5 Reporting shows what was actually stripped out of OPM’s shutdown guidance: clear language on guaranteed back pay, furlough pay rates, leave accrual, and prior references to RIF protections. That’s not “clarification” -- that’s erasure. New guidance doc: www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2026
1/5 OPM quietly revised its Jan 2026 shutdown guidance. The new text backs away from guaranteed back pay for furloughed feds -- even though a 2019 law already guarantees it. The statute didn’t change; the guidance did. 🔍 🙏 @jheckman.bsky.social @dfriedman.bsky.social @federalnewsnetwork.com
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OPM removes language on back pay for furloughed feds from shutdown guidance | Federal News Network
OPM's shutdown guidance also added a section stating that performance-based adverse actions against employees are allowed in some cases during a funding lapse.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2026
As we say goodnight, a reminder that from lifesaving research to community care, Black innovators have shaped public health at every turn. We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below. Happy Black History Month! ❤️🖤💚
publichealth.jhu.edu
Recognizing Black Public Health Leaders Through History | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Researchers, physicians, and activists who have inspired Bloomberg School faculty and shaped the field of public health
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mtnlobo.bsky.social @mtnlobo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Robin Stipe (@mtnlobo) on Threads
Cancer journey pending biopsy… Is it? I don’t know. But at this point it doesn’t matter because the journey is keeping me fighting. So fight I shall: 2/16/25: after breaking up with my ND girlfriend,...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/02/2026
Wall Street longs for a steady hand at the helm. Instead, they get Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent hurling insults and giving every impression that he’s about to have a nervous breakdown. The more thuggish Bessent gets, the more reason to fear the economy will tank. trib.al/qYVrjf8
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/02/2026
Alex Pretti’s murder is giving even Trump supporters pause. trib.al/tcsGDHX Democrats should refuse to give ICE one more cent, shut down the government, and fly to Minneapolis to help communities there stand up to state violence.
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mtnlobo.bsky.social @mtnlobo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
MINORS ARE NOT WOMEN. MINORS ARE CHILDREN. Teenagers are children. Period. Full stop. Why is this so hard to comprehend and communicate in your multiple articles?? These offenders, including POTUS, had forceable and coerced sex with children. Fix it. NOW.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/01/2026
😡 I’m angry today Gonna turn it into action You have 2 weeks to submit a public comment supporting trans* youth’s right to healthcare. Trump wants to take that away. Public comments matter. By law, the gvt must respond. Substantive comments slow unjust policies. Comment. Share. Don’t look away.
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Submit Public Comments
The federal government has proposed two new rules that could make it virtually impossible for transgender youth to get the health care they need. These proposed rules would:
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
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mtnlobo.bsky.social @mtnlobo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Robin Stipe (@mtnlobo) on Threads
THIS. ❤️
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“Heated Rivalry” star Robbie G.K. gave fans a huge surprise at the Vancouver Canucks at a January 21 Pride Night Game against the Washington Capitals.
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mtnlobo.bsky.social @mtnlobo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Myth busting. FACTS MATTER.
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mtnlobo.bsky.social @mtnlobo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Have I said lately how much I hate them? On the chair lift… walking around the streets… in the airport… I still hear Spanish spoken all the time. We are a multinational and multi-ethnicity country. And every time I do, at first, I smile, then I cringe and look around in fear.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17/01/2026
Protect yourself from tear gas: N95s aren’t enough. Use half- or full‑face respirators with P100+OV filters, eye protection, no contacts. Safety tips: phr.org/our-work/res... Respirators: www.crisisreadymedia.org/masks Stay safe, be brave, fight for what’s right ✊💚.
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Preparing for, Protecting Against, and Treating Tear Gas and Other Chemical Irritant Exposure: A Protestor’s Guide - PHR
Deceptively known as “less-lethal,” these weapons can in fact cause severe injuries and even death when used with excessive force. Physicians for Human Rights has worked extensively on the health impa...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/01/2026
JFC. A guy murdered a woman and it’s on Frey to “bring down the temperature?”
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mtnlobo.bsky.social @mtnlobo.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
🌈❤️🌈 57 and fabulous and single Active CO transplant near Seattle Avoiding rain Chasing joy Love snow and my GSD Finding my people in WA Fight against breast cancer started: 1/9/26 Going dancing tonight. Renee Good was murdered while her wife watched from the street. It has been a hard year.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/12/2025
We just want to say, it’s ok to feel sad during the holidays. It’s not selfish, it’s not weakness. It’s grief. It’s ok to grieve. Especially now. And we’re sending a special hug to all of you who are facing the people who should have loved you best, but chose to hurt you instead. We see you. 💚
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mtnlobo.bsky.social @mtnlobo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
- Mary Oliver 🤍 2026 vibes 🤍
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 13/12/2025
These days ads for and media about AI feel like harbingers of the apocalypse, yet occasionally they get it right. Good night all!
abovethelaw.com
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12/12/2025
Leaving you tonight with dreams of a better future. Goodnight! 🚀
popularmechanics.com
Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.
Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/12/2025
A Kenyan court suspended a US health aid deal after concerns it might allow US access to sensitive medical records like HIV status and vaccination data. Hard to blame anyone for being worried when the US response to those questions is “no comment.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Kenyan court suspends US health aid deal over data privacy concerns
The landmark $2.5bn Kenya-US deal has been stopped until the court hears the case over data privacy.
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