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Sharon Tsay

@sharomonas.bsky.social
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ID doc @ UPenn | former EIS/medical epidemiologist @ CDC | fungal enthusiast 🍄 she/her views my own

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🧵 1/15 The WHO Emergency Committee just met on Ebola Bundibugyo. This is the first time a WHO Director-General declared a PHEIC before convening the committee a signal of how urgent this is. I listened in and made a few notes which I share here. www.youtube.com/live/vLlbTW5...
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LIVE: Media briefing on the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda with Dr Tedros
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Literally. And directly. And in myriad far-reaching ways. I will say more soon but I am in utter shock and disgust and grieving with friends and colleagues.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’ve asked this question before. Now I’m SHOUTING it. Where the HELL are the Democrats? robertreich.substack.com/p/where-th…
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Where the HELL are the Democrats?
Friends,
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luna @imlunahey.com · 27/03/2025
we really need to stop saying “arrested” by ICE. the word you’re looking for is “kidnapped”.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
multiple issues here: -it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders -even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is absolutely horrific.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Literally fuck this administration. Fuck this guy. Fuck their racism. Fuck their ignorance and stupidity. Fuck their fragility. Just fucking fuck off already. Also- side note- can we stop using his fucking face in media stories? We don’t need to see his mug too. /fin
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Between the unsecured bombing chats and eliminating FEMA and trafficking legal residents to foreign labor prisons and supermaxxing measles and halting cancer research, it’s so hard these days to guess how you’re gonna die
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I wish I was shocked. I am not. Try: “Pres issued another inflammatory EO declaring/overreaching on another topic he doesn’t have power to make decisions on. EO has no legal bearing.” REPORTERS- @nytimes.com History has its eyes on you and your role in our country’s current crisis.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
You cannot understand the Signal story if you don't remember that Trump had a call on the proper USG channels and an intelligence analyst reviewed it and realized he needed to report a crime. That got Trump impeached. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...
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SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It
I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about...
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I crossed the memes to more accurately reflect the current situation.
a room with flames and smoke from the "This is Fine" meme and Ralph from the Simpsons sitting in a chair next to a table and a coffee cup with a speech bubble "I'm in danger" from the "I'm in Danger" Meme
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I am apoplectic. At some point, I was afraid at what strategy may be going on with this admin. I think that was very generous thinking. I am now convinced they are all dumb as bricks and are going to get us all killed.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The layers to this story, it is WILD. This is all wild.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I am not a financial scholar and I can GUARANTEE you that cutting Medicaid for 20 million people will not “keep the nation’s finances from spiraling out of control” when the president is spending millions of taxpayer $$ on personal golfing and upcharging to line his own pockets.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Utter chaos.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics www.science.org/content/arti... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... www.science.org/content/arti...
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Very fun to explain the signal scandal to my 13 year old who truly understands the catastrophe of adding the wrong person to the group chat and absolutely fell out when I showed her the Mike Waltz emojis.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Termination of many E.P.A. grants made on the basis of what officials were told was a "significant error." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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EPA knew it wrongfully canceled dozens of environmental grants, documents show
According to an internal email, EPA officials knew they had no contractual right to cancel some grants. They did it anyway.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Lied under oath. So easy to fact check, as any federal employee knows from yearly records training. Unbelievable incompetence. HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Much of the media is complicit in the rise of this president. It was true in 2016. It is true now. Shame on you, @usatoday.com DO BETTER.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I 100% agree with this take and think it is infuriating. See also: phone trees. Lets them employ less humans, saves them money, wastes consumers’ time and probably saves them money when we get frustrated and give up.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Absolutely unnecessary and preventable. This anti-health secretary should be investigated, removed, held accountable. But he won’t be. He’s being praised for this chaos.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
There is always a tweet.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As a federal employee, we had yearly training on federal records laws, etc. Everything these asshats do is illegal.
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/03/2025
CDC has never had authority to give or enforce mandates. CDC is essentially an advisor. States implement that advice to varying degrees. When republicans say they want to reform CDC's authority they mean remove the ability to make recommendations. This is exactly what Project 2025 calls for.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/03/2025
The government can't threaten to cut funding to suppress certain viewpoints. This is especially crucial on college campuses. Read this letter from constitutional scholars on why the Trump administration's treatment of Columbia University is a threat to the First Amendment.
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A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | ACLU
The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 20/03/2025
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Roses are red Violets are blue
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
There’s always a tweet
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
All this doom ain’t gonna scroll itself
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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
the real question is how long can this shit go on
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration. This is happening as he slashes the federal workforce, guts funding for vital programs, and tees up major cuts to Medicaid to pay for more tax cuts for the rich. Hello?
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CHUCK SCHUMER HAS TO GO. He’s way past his best by date and I’m not talking about age, I’m talking about usefulness. Senate Dems need to step up and have some courage.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We’re still not shopping at Target.
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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It is clear that some of us understand the present danger & some don’t! I stand by the NO vote on the blank check for Trump & Elon… I’ve got no explanation nor agreement with Senate Dems being complicit in Trump’s Tyranny.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/03/2025
A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
One of these things is not like the others
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
BREAKING: Trump admin must re-hire thousands of fired workers, judge rules. Calling the firings a “sham,” the judge found that the termination of probationary workers had essentially been done unlawfully. “Only agencies themselves have broad hiring & firing powers” shorturl.at/jVirI #BlueSky #MedSky
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Trump Administration Must Rehire Thousands of Fired Workers, Judge Rules
A federal judge called the administration’s justification for the firings of workers with probationary status a “sham.”
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Sharon Tsay @sharomonas.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
He would not be good for the agency. This is good news of a sort, but remain concerned for who they will scrounge up next.
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