I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows. Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
"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." ...
Yet they essentially eliminated the *entire* institute (NIOSH) responsible for research on worker health and safety, and illness and injury prevention. Employer first, worker last.
We’re about to do this for the economy
we're gone from "we're not cutting Medicaid" to "if you lose Medicaid you deserve it"
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
Trump cut $267 million from national parks just to get back $90 million? Nick Offerman's no mathematician, but...
1973: US Govt helps install Chilean dictator Pinochet 1987: Luis Leon survives torture at hands of Pinochet, escapes to USA, receives asylum—all through legal means 2025: ICE disappears Leon (now 82), lies to family that he's dead, he's actually in Guatemalan hospital www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/l...
As the Senate prepares to vote on federal funding cuts for PBS and NPR, let's remember Mr. Rogers' words on the importance of public broadcasting.
In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...
NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”
Wow. So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass? That’s just evil and cruel.
Why help folks in rural areas bridge technology gaps and upskill their residents when you can just send them back into the coal mines? We want safer, broader options for rural Americans. #Mountaineers deserve better. And remember that Trump is slashing #NIOSH and black lung is making a comeback.
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:
I love the unbiased media
I would love if this ¶ from NYT's story on Paramount's kickback to the mafioso in chief said, instead, "the media has capitulated faster than other institutions of civil society, in large part because their corporate structure puts profit over truth." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is all extremely grim
NOAA said it will stop tracking cost of country’s most expensive disasters. Will leave insurance companies, researchers, govt policymakers without information to help understand the patterns of major disasters like hurricanes, drought or wildfires, and their economic consequences
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Meanwhile, back at home: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will make the poor poorer and the rich richer. Regressivity is even worse if you layer on Trump's tariffs. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
A great read from 2 (of many) hotspots. Measles is serious. Measles is preventable. Gift article.
Greenberg: We're looking to the leaders who will fight for us, because even today there are folks among the Democratic Party who think we should roll over and play dead. Anyone seeing John Fetterman here today?
1/4 Keep your eyes on Congress too! Today, the House is poised to vote on a devastating rescission package that would gut $9.4 billion from programs Congress already approved—including ALL federal funding for NPR, PBS, and critical international aid. 📢 Take action: tinyurl.com/Clawback-bil...
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“.. would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...
RFK Jr: “We will create an honest, unbiased, gold-standard science at HHS, accountable to the President, to Congress, and the American people.” Here is the list of cuts not advertised or reviewed but instead pieced together by us from leaks. The programs in bold (most) have ALREADY been cut.
✅ 300 NIOSH employees reinstated ❌ 700 NIOSH employees still fired Rally for NIOSH TODAY! Read more about all the ways NIOSH has protected the American public 👇
Baldwin to RFK Jr: "You cannot tell us that you want to make America healthy again when you are willfully destroying programs that keep children safe and healthy from lead poisoning ... the entire staff has been fired"
"the new model where your family never breaks out of the cycle of working at factory jobs that we've stripped all safety and economic sustainability out of in order to maximize profits for oligarchs. oh, and heavens no, this isn't for *my* family. just yours."
NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
"If the White House has its way, the Head Start program won’t just have to worry about cuts to its funding, it will have to worry about the elimination of its funding..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employs who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches. A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f
SCOOP: Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:
Remember that whole diacetyl /popcorn lung thing? That was discovered by the brilliant and dedicated scientists at NIOSH in Morgantown!
I received postdoctoral training in the Toxicology and Molecular Biology branch at NIOSH in Morgantown. Incredible work going on there. These cuts are devastating. The entire health effects division? Gone. I am devastated for my colleagues and the future of occupational safety and health.
I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.
Okay, nerds, buckle in! It's time for some SCIENCE. Back in the late 1960s, a scientist got some government funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Atomic Energy Commission to look for interesting bacteria living in extreme environments. 1/x
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org
A lot of people are going to die from this
MANA Nutrition makes a special kind of peanut butter paste that many humanitarian aid workers are familiar with. On Wednesday afternoon, Mark Moore, the CEO and co-founder of the Fitzgerald, Georgia-based plant, got word from USAID that MANA’s contracts with the agency were being canceled.
Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵
Donald Trump's tax breaks for billionaires and billionaire corporations are NOT "cost free". The real cost will be health care cuts for: - New moms and their babies - Grandma in the nursing home - Kids with disabilities Threatening your health care for billionaire handouts.
Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social on the “fork in the road” 🇺🇸 🔥
Because of the number of respondents, the ACS is one of the only data sources for rural and tribal communities. It’s used in emergency preparedness planning, business planning and more. You can still download the data at IPUMS, but this is bleak.
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
“Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high-enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Vorhees and deputy Brian McGill — were legally obligated to deny access.”
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
Must read. “Elon Musk is not a federal employee, nor has he been appointed by the President nor approved by the Senate to have any leadership role in government.”
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
Thanks. This clarifies nothing.
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- Peak flu season - Transmission of H5N1 - No food outbreak alerts - No recall alerts Perfect time to stop public comms /s #PublicHealth #EpiSky
This one was cancelled out of nowhere today too. Really disappointing. www.cdc.gov/eh-nexus/upc...
“This time, I’m a civilian. And this time, the user experience of getting information about a disaster unfolding around me was dogshit.”
NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️