A comprehensive pathogen history, situation report, and risk assessment for Bird flu — Global, with a focus on the US, 2026 (your one-stop-shop for Bird flu information) www.roomcguire.health/p/the-people... by @roomcguire.bsky.social

Congressional Republicans gave Trump a slush fund for ICE and CBP in the "Big Beautiful Bill." Tens of billions of dollars that is still usable even during a shutdown. Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.

Join us in honoring Alex’s memory this week by wearing black.

A lot of my friends still in the federal government at other agencies, many well-funded agencies, are equally okay with enduring no funding for concrete action that could stop the death in our city streets.

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

Let’s talk white supremacist dog whistles, health, Big Dairy, the Epstein files, and the midterms. Why is MAHA talking about whole milk? www.roomcguire.health/p/whats-with...

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 ✊💚.

🚨CDC STAFF PSA🚨 Yesterday during an active shooter scare, our alert system failed. Again. Delayed or non-existent texts/emails, no alarm or intercom in labs. ⚠️Despite CDC warning Emory, Emory alerts went out before CDC. 📲Download the Emory Safe app to get Emory alerts. No Emory account required.

The Trump Admin’s decision to share Medicaid enrollee data with ICE for immigration enforcement purposes raises key issues, including questions about data privacy, impacts on immigrant families, and the ability of CMS to comply with a related court order. https://on.kff.org/4sZBIYO

RFK Jr has unveiled the True American Diet 🇺🇸 Red meat 🥩, butter 🧈, full-fat dairy 🧀, beef tallow 🐄 No limits on alcohol 🍺🍷 Industry stakeholders are thrilled 💼✨ cdn.realfood.gov/DGA.pdf

Friday: Donald Trump pledges to defend any protesters in Iran killed by the regime Wednesday: Donald Trump defends ICE killing a protester in America

As some of the scientists still at CDC fighting the good fight with all we have left, we appreciate when journalists use precise language in their headlines. It matters.💚 Career scientists weren't involved in this sham, & would not propose change based upon political ideology & vibes G'night all 😴

this situation is just not tenable

🧵 Dear CDC political appointees, Jim O'Neil, Ralph Abraham, Stuart Burns, Lynda Chapman, Nina Witkofsky, and Matt Buzzelli. It's a bad flu season. But remember how you kneecapped vaccine promotion campaigns and 🪱🧠 removed flu from the childhood vaccine schedule? edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

Palestinian children like Traji's daughter Aya are being starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Bluesky moderation couldn't care less, & deletes them every day. Please help by sharing & donating if you can:

omg Eddington is The Movie

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been an outspoken critic of RFKJ's vaccine disinformation and non evidence-based vaccine recommendations. Now they are losing millions in federal funding for mental health services, rural healthcare access, and more. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Thank you so much for highlighting us @nikkigwrites.bsky.social Maybe of interest www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items: 1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for... 2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈

“In Texas, CDC funds to stem a measles outbreak weren’t available until after the crisis had subsided and two children had died. A project to protect Alabamans from raw sewage and hookworm was abandoned…Time-dependent surveys on HIV and maternal mortality were halted…”

When the current administration cuts the budget to CDC’s HIV prevention unit, freezes deployment of outbreak response experts, & slashes harm-reduction programs; they are not abstractly “reducing cost”. They are letting diseases spread. Maine is giving us a wake-up call. Who is going to listen?

Senator Chuck Spelunker…

The CDC librarians are incredible, helped me out in a pinch many times to gather and deliver sometimes extremely niche information. Please consider signing this petition for them to be rehired!

CDC Library staff and the larger Office of Science Quality and Library Services have yet to be re-hired at the CDC!!! Please contact your elected reps to advocate for the reinstatement of the CDC Library. Every little bit helps! #medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC

Librarians are banding together for the CDC library and its staff. Consider signing, sharing, and call your reps.

DeKalb County police officer killed in CDC shooting awarded Purple Heart, Medal of Honor

Spreading the word. The CDC community will remember Officer Rose's sacrifice forever. 💚💚💚💚💚

Small win: #CDC privacy office survived the weekend chaos. Big concerns remain about how HHS, Palantir & others may use STLT data. If agencies must share, we recommend the bare minimum—aggregate if possible—and use high caution and good judgement to protect residents against unsanctioned data use.

Unbelievable, terrible, disgusting. People claiming that SARS-COV-2 is "airborne AIDS". It doesn’t do anything negative to T cells, as the very good levels of immunity show.

RIFed: OSSAM - Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management Let this sink in. They are getting rid of federal employees tasked w/ protecting sensitive public health data - that we would NOT want foreign entities to get access to. (Foreign entities - China, etc. But can we add Vought🤮💩 too?)

CDC, your friends and colleagues have been gathering resources and networking since January. We don’t know how long we are about to go without pay or if we will be fired. But we do know we have each other. Dig deep and hold fast. DM on signal if you need to get connected. Goodnight 💚

Yes! There are mutual aid resources for you! DM me 🫡

The President of the United States is promoting the lie that the MMR vaccine is unsafe, invented by Andrew Wakefield so that he could make millions a year selling diagnostic kits for a disease called "autistic enterocolitis" that doesn't exist. The antivax movement exists because of his greed.

We have heard from multiple sources that RIFs of the remaining coms and policy staff will be taking place, although nothing is set in stone till it happens. Please spread the word and contact your legislators ! These 53 people are doing extremely important work. Let’s try to keep it that way!

So @wsj.com has not been so truthful or kind to civil servants or HHS lately. We found this oldie, clearly with amazing graphics. Save the graphics while you can. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... Data from www.tycho.pitt.edu.

Congratulations to The Pitt on winning the Emmy for best drama. If you are lucky, your doctor will be an asshole like Dr. Robby. Jokes aside, The Pitt provides a realistic view of what doctors are confronting every day. It’s time to #FireRFKjr

DELIVERY! RFK Jr's ACIP gets an "F" We give RFK Jr.’s newly named committee members in charge of vaccine approvals (ACIP) an overall FAILING grade. It's filled with the people who touted mis/dis-information throughout the COVID pandemic. Brief description of each new member in thread 1/6 🧵

Who are the people making vaccine recommendations at the highest level of our government? — including potentially limiting COVID mRNA vaccine recommendation only to those 75+ and/or with a qualifying condition: www.thenightingale.info/p/the-cost-o...

Introducing: National Public Health Coalition. We're a group of public health professionals committed to educating about & advocating for protection & advancement of public health as a vital government service past, present, & future. 1/2

It's official. HHS has announced 5 new members to ACIP. Committee meets this Thurs & Fri. ✔️ Catherine M. Stein, PhD ✔️ Evelyn Griffin, MD ✔️ Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA ✔️ Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD ✔️ Raymond Pollak, MD, FACS, FRCS We will share more about new additions by RFK Jr soon.

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. ― James Baldwin Every single one of them. Goodnight 💚

This weekend, Secretary Kennedy claimed that there haven’t been any real successes out of HHS in the past 30 to 40 years. We disagree! Swipe to see just a few of the major public health successes from HHS over the past few decades. #USAnotRFK #ResignRFK #SavePublicHealth

Hearing lots of success stories from people able to get COVID vaccines from CVS MinuteClinics, even if most other pharmacies in their state are restricting access. Please give it a try if you are having difficulty accessing COVID vaccines in your state!

🗞️ Media release from The George Washington University announces new report which finds FY 2026 budget cuts to CDC would lead to losses for state and local economies. ✅ States losing over 1,000 jobs each could include GA, CA, FL, TX, AZ, IL, NY, & PA. ✅ 42,000 jobs lost nationwide could happen.

💔 Child dies in CA from rare measles complication, SSPE. This case, child was infected w/ measles as infant BEFORE eligible to receive vaccine. ✅It’s important for those around unvaccinated infants be vaccinated to protect babies. 🛑 No child should suffer or die of measles. Vaccines Save Lives

🎉🎉🎉Shout out to Kaiser Permanente - they recently updated their website to say that they WILL be covering COVID-19 vaccines all of their members 6 months old and up!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you KP - let's hope their announcement kicks off more like it kp.org/covidvaccine

Hey reporters! Go dig, please! Thanks so the tipster who shared. sam.gov/workspace/co... Looks like this RPI group has a history of finding (fabricating?) links between vaccines and autism. How convenient! news.rpi.edu/content/2022... PS - Weren't we supposed to know the answer by September?

Update from reporters: Bloomberg article below. And axios : www.axios.com/2025/09/12/c... A sole source contract, YIKES. These were not happening last year. This is highly suspect. Why? Who is it going to? Is there really no other company that could do the work?