More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫 At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data. Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

When feudal kings talk about "Antifa" or the "radical left," these are euphemisms for Americans who kept learning after high school and developed a positive vision for how our society could be, and these kings are insecure that if this vision spreads to more people, it'll manifest into a reality.

Thanks to The 19th for republishing this piece!

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

RIFed: Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas. You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.) Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

Ok, hear me out - what if we called it “Medicare for Y’all” and just covered everybody? Shutdown solved!

If anyone ever tells you an area is too red, or not worth fighting for: That’s bullshit.

Hot pastor with gregarious dog is #AntiFa… Yes, I just objectified a man of the cloth. www.chicagofirstchurch.org/pastor-black

There were never any witches— only men who took pleasure in burning women they called witches. That’s the shape of all tyranny.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Unbeknownst to most or long forgotten is that on October 8 and October 10, 2023; Hamas offered the same deal that’s being pitched as Trump’s “Gaza Peace Deal” which would have handed all hostages over to Israel in exchange for Israeli troops not entering the strip, Netanyahu refused the proposal.

One of the most painful aspects of the last few years is not just the violence… but how easily empathy has withered in its shadow. Too many have come to believe that acknowledging another’s pain somehow erases their own. Callous indifference has proliferated like a virus…

Team, with #ICEBlock down, consider using Waze traffic app and reporting “Icy roads” hazards where you see #ICE!🧊

For the love of the goddess, I know it’s 2025, but I will not use 5 methods for outreach as a subspecialty consultant. Please use the hospital-provided 1990s paging 📟 technology to contact me. I’m not using the stupid app on my personal phone!!! #MedSky

That's how we ended up viewing Andrew Carnegie as good man. Look up how he handled the 'Homestead Strike of 1892'. Sane washing of the public face to such a degree that we all see him as a Philanthropist. That's an image he bought by building libraries, a university and Carnegie Hall...

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

TrumpRx isn’t healthcare reform It’s Trump University all over again—a scam that doesn’t deliver While he distracts w/ phony fixes, his shutdown is hiking costs & ripping away healthcare from millions That’s the real crisis I explained on @velshimsnbc.bsky.social @msnbc.com👇 - TN

When "The Sound of Music" is shown, I suspect that as each Trump year passes, fewer Americans are cheering during this scene.

Soon, the majority of government shutdown days *in all of US history* will have happened on Donald Trump's watch.

Where is Trump? #MissingInAction #DementiaDon #TickTock

Hero

Spot on.

History repeats.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social WTF, dude!!! Stop this nonsense. Don’t help the goon squad while harming protesters!!!!

REIMBURSE HOSPITALS FOR PROVIDING LIFE SAVING TREATMENT TO A HUMAN BEING. This is the issue. Gop wants hospitals to either eat the cost of providing care causing bankruptcy, or violate their oath and refuse treating another human being. I have choice words I am holding back.

This is fascism.

Your words, asshole. 🍊💩 "If there was a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the one who has to get people together." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbmN...

ER wait times aren’t caused by immigrants, they’re caused by short staffing, lack of funding support and your administration closing hospitals. Even American citizens barely get government healthcare benefits. I’d rather see someone healthy and ALIVE, regardless of citizenship.👇

In the first quarter of 2025, farm bankruptcies increased by 95% Remember: the policies leading to bankruptcy are purposeful. Our food supply is in danger…there is no better way to bring a country to its knees than having control of its food supply.

@jbpritzker.bsky.social Wtf dude. Don’t protect the goon squad. F these guys.

I didn’t go through 12 years of medical training to check immigration status before deciding if a life is worth saving.

It’s always these assholes. Not trans folk or gay folk. So. Much. Projection.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

They’re loving it. Your health care is not on their minds.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

Sing along time. I loved the Beatles in the 60’s. Still do.

Shutdowns don’t authorize RIFs Trump’s claiming they do, but the law says otherwise He’s been stopped 200+ times by the courts This will be no different We’re in court w/ AFGE & @afscme.bsky.social to stop the lies I explained on @anacabrera.bsky.social 👇 -TN

Don’t be surprised if this goes a while. Unless specifically requested to withhold pay, senators and representatives (and the president) STILL receive their paychecks. But federal employees and service members are expected to work without pay.

I now agree w MTG on two things. Release the damn Epstein files yes… And this!

We need to call it the #TrumpShutdown. He loves to put his name on everything. Make him own this.