There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanagement. www.apha.org/news-and-med...

give me a bag of these and you don't even have to worry about the money

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

and I try (oh my god do I try) I try all the time in this institution

180 shots. 180 shots.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is Knew there was a reason I took this today. Truly the city burns

How is the CDC literally getting SHOT UP — arguably due to the platforming of misinformation by federal leaders— not bigger news?

We wake today still shaken, scared, enraged. The August 8 shooting at CDC did not happen in a vacuum--it grew from years of attacks on public health by people like RFK Jr. and Russell Vought, who are 'putting us in trauma' ...just like they promised.

Four CDC buildings shot up. Employees under lockdown and in fear for hours. Public health is physically under attack, and the silence from the administration is deafening.

Let’s fucking name ‘em: Robert Kennedy Jr. Jay Bhattacharya Martin Kulldorff Marty Makary Robert Malone Tracy Beth Høeg Vinay Prasad Peter McCullough Mary Holland Paul Marik Pierre Kory Jeffrey Tucker Kevin Bardosh Retsef Levi And many others.

This episode of the daily is essential listening. Judges especially need to listen. The DOJ is straight up, bald faced lying to courts concerning the torture and disappearance of immigrants. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A man with a scorpion bite. A woman with cholera. A diabetic who needed insulin. A 3-year-old boy. They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Can a whale get a little privacy around here???? Ya bunch of voyeurs

is it the gnawing sense of the emptiness of all things or am i just awake too late

“If it isn’t stopped, & some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases”—Fiona Havers RFK Jr & the MAHA/MAGA bros happily pushing forward his agenda—Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, Prasad, his ACIP kooks—are going to cause ⚰️

as I scroll through my feed and note newcomers to this platform who sound more like ChatGPT than normal human beings I reflect and take solace in the fact that nobody will ever think I sound like AI because nobody in their right mind would ever train an AI on 2010s tumblr which is, ofc, my language

Get ready for "bat" girl summer by following these #rabies prevention tips: Enjoy bats from far away. If you see a bat on the ground, don’t touch it, it might be sick. Vaccinate your pets against rabies. If you touch a 🦇 or a bat bites or scratches you, contact a healthcare provider right away.

He was asking for them to show a warrant! That's all. This post makes it sound like he was trying to smuggle somebody out. He was just trying to protect someone from the masked thugs. Maybe put that in the post.

A new poll by @nbcnews.com shows that 80% of Americans support vaccines for disease prevention, with only 7% strongly opposing. The strength of public support for vaccines is clear, yet those like RFK Jr. who seek to undermine vaccines have the mic. We need to take it back.

Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, called Kennedy's mass ouster of CDC vaccine advisors "a coup.” “It’s not how democracies work. It’s not good for the health of the nation,” Benjamin told The Associated Press.

1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...

has anyone figured out how to stop spending thirty dollars

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

This audience member might have just broken Jon #AfterTheCut

DOGE affiliates Kenneth Jackson and Nate Cavanaugh “disabled and restricted access to the Institute's FOIA system, terminated the employees responsible for processing FOIA requests, and restricted the use of Institute financial resources.”

He did not “lunge” at Secretary Noem. He DID identify himself. Our government is lying.👇

“the lapse in activity while employees were not working in April and May had also caused damage in some of their labs. At least one machine would need repairs, two CDC employees told NPR, and some disease outbreaks had not been properly tracked.”

Flashbacks to Seattle in June 2020, my mother texting me an absolute wreck because she saw the city burning down on the news. Meanwhile I was enjoying a bowl of ramen on Cap Hill

This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

I think about this comic at least once a week

No mother or child should die from a preventable cause. No generation should live in fear of deadly infectious diseases. And no one should be denied the chance to thrive because of where they were born. gatesnot.es/4m5pSc3

6/ Read the MMWR. Share it. Celebrate it. This is what public health is for. This is why it matters. Awesome work by CDC and public health colleagues around the country! www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

> @iansams.bsky.social

🚨 A 50% decrease would result in a 7.6% decrease in GPD and Such a decrease in GDP...approximately DOUBLE the impact of the Great Recession. 🇺🇸 A 50% decrease in R&D funding would also decrease federal govt revenue by ~9%. The preliminary report can be found here: impa.american.edu/costs-of-cut...

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

“"We are scraping to find the resources and personnel needed to provide support to Texas and other jurisdictions," Sugerman said, noting that states are already suffering from withdrawals of their COVID-19 funding that could have been used to fight this outbreak” www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

move slowly and build things

It's only Wednesday, how has public health been assaulted this week? - 11.4B in pandemic response funding cut - US Funding for Global alliance for vaccines cut - Plans to eliminate CDC HIV prevention program + programs in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention.

There was an abrupt $11B cut to local/state public health (PH) infrastructure yesterday. I don't think people realize what this means: -Want an updated system to check your immunizations instead of digging through docs? PH no longer able to carry out upgrades to immunization information systems

We can confirm that CDC (Trump/DOGE) is making massive cuts to states. State and local health departments rely on federal funds to provide services. Immediate termination of grants, effective today, as well as steep cuts to COVID funds. We will update as we learn the full extent.

If WA state adopted permanent DST the sun would rise after 8am from November through February. The latest sunrise would be 8:58am from December 26th to January 6th (the 12 days of Christmas - what a gift).

‘Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 100 Cases, Raising Concerns About Undetected Spread’ @kffhealthnews.org

We are calling for impeachment—America has no kings.