AltNIOSH
@altniosh.altgov.info
Unofficial (but factual) account about the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its mission.
We're public health folks working for the worker- that's you! We'll keep doing so come hell, high water, or bad policy.
#SaveNIOSH #AltGov
We're public health folks working for the worker- that's you! We'll keep doing so come hell, high water, or bad policy.
#SaveNIOSH #AltGov
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AltNIOSH
@altniosh.altgov.info
· Jun 14
America was built BY WORKERS who paid with their health and lives.
By enslaved people stripped of all human rights, women in wartime factories, miners in company towns, and immigrants seeking better lives.
Not by billionaires. Not by kings.
We aren't going back.
#saveNIOSH #altGov #NoKings
By enslaved people stripped of all human rights, women in wartime factories, miners in company towns, and immigrants seeking better lives.
Not by billionaires. Not by kings.
We aren't going back.
#saveNIOSH #altGov #NoKings
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AFGE dues paying members‼️
Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback.
If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.
Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback.
If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.
Tell AFGE leadership to hold the line: we need a budget for the people
Tell AFGE leadership that passing a budget that protects the rights and interests of working people is more important than ending the shutdown at any cost! Please only sign if you are a dues-paying m...
actionnetwork.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
AFGE dues paying members‼️
Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback.
If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.
Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback.
If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.
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Mike Johnson’s “Hate Rally.”
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Mike Johnson’s “Hate Rally.”
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No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥
October 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥
Tragic and catastrophic workplace accidents like the nightmare scenario in Tennessee will keep happening under a regime and within a corporate landscape that views workers as a disposable resource. There will be efforts to normalize this sort of thing, mark our words.
A massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant obliterated a building and left 18 people missing. Here’s what we know | CNN
Early Friday, a thundering blast at a military and industrial explosives plant reverberated across a tight-knit community in central Tennessee, razing an entire building on the plant’s sprawling campu...
www.cnn.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Tragic and catastrophic workplace accidents like the nightmare scenario in Tennessee will keep happening under a regime and within a corporate landscape that views workers as a disposable resource. There will be efforts to normalize this sort of thing, mark our words.
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1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed.
💯 you do NOT deserve this.
Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice:
❌ Do not send a read receipt
❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response
✅ Forward notice to your personal email
💯 you do NOT deserve this.
Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice:
❌ Do not send a read receipt
❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response
✅ Forward notice to your personal email
October 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed.
💯 you do NOT deserve this.
Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice:
❌ Do not send a read receipt
❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response
✅ Forward notice to your personal email
💯 you do NOT deserve this.
Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice:
❌ Do not send a read receipt
❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response
✅ Forward notice to your personal email
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Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.
We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.
Tonight was deeply painful.
We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.
October 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.
We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.
Tonight was deeply painful.
We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.
So far, no additional RIFs at NIOSH, but thousands of others in critically important programs across HHS and CDC.
Even including some folks who had been exempt from furlough and required to work without pay.
Abhorrent.
Even including some folks who had been exempt from furlough and required to work without pay.
Abhorrent.
October 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
So far, no additional RIFs at NIOSH, but thousands of others in critically important programs across HHS and CDC.
Even including some folks who had been exempt from furlough and required to work without pay.
Abhorrent.
Even including some folks who had been exempt from furlough and required to work without pay.
Abhorrent.
It's gonna be interesting to see whether they reissue all NIOSH's RIFs (since worker safety isn't in line with the president's priorities) and then try to say the current court injunctions suddenly don't apply.
#SaveNIOSH
#SaveNIOSH
October 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's gonna be interesting to see whether they reissue all NIOSH's RIFs (since worker safety isn't in line with the president's priorities) and then try to say the current court injunctions suddenly don't apply.
#SaveNIOSH
#SaveNIOSH
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The alt gov family is large & they are strong. Thanks to our @altusds.altgov.info colleagues for telling us what happened with plain language .gov. Also thanks to @alt18f.bsky.social for backing up the original content.
Glad we are saving information together. We are stronger together.
Glad we are saving information together. We are stronger together.
Many people noticed plainlanguage.gov was migrated to digital.gov/topics/plain..., where it has been *consolidated*.
Our friends at @alt18f.bsky.social posted a version of the original content at plainlanguage.18f.org
Unlike other sites that have disappeared, this one just changed.
Our friends at @alt18f.bsky.social posted a version of the original content at plainlanguage.18f.org
Unlike other sites that have disappeared, this one just changed.
plainlanguage.gov | Home
Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
plainlanguage.18f.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The alt gov family is large & they are strong. Thanks to our @altusds.altgov.info colleagues for telling us what happened with plain language .gov. Also thanks to @alt18f.bsky.social for backing up the original content.
Glad we are saving information together. We are stronger together.
Glad we are saving information together. We are stronger together.
Very true, and a very great opportunity to remember that Black Americans were amongst the first and most extensively targeted victims of this country's history of labor exploitation.
We have made great strides since, but progress must always be safeguarded and NEVER taken for granted.
We have made great strides since, but progress must always be safeguarded and NEVER taken for granted.
October 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Very true, and a very great opportunity to remember that Black Americans were amongst the first and most extensively targeted victims of this country's history of labor exploitation.
We have made great strides since, but progress must always be safeguarded and NEVER taken for granted.
We have made great strides since, but progress must always be safeguarded and NEVER taken for granted.
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There is no time like the present to fight Facism and help save our country. October 18th! Stand Up, Fight Back!!!
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
There is no time like the present to fight Facism and help save our country. October 18th! Stand Up, Fight Back!!!
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We stand with federal employees and families bearing the weight of the shutdown, and those feeling effects at every level of our government. You deserve better.
That said, we all know that this shutdown is a GOP distraction and self-own. Never interrupt your opponent when they’re making a mistake.
That said, we all know that this shutdown is a GOP distraction and self-own. Never interrupt your opponent when they’re making a mistake.
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We stand with federal employees and families bearing the weight of the shutdown, and those feeling effects at every level of our government. You deserve better.
That said, we all know that this shutdown is a GOP distraction and self-own. Never interrupt your opponent when they’re making a mistake.
That said, we all know that this shutdown is a GOP distraction and self-own. Never interrupt your opponent when they’re making a mistake.
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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 💚
Goodnight 💚
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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 💚
Goodnight 💚
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Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
September 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Hysterical claim given how many in vitro studies, assay development projects, and novel modeling techniques they killed at NIOSH alone.
Which isn't even under NIH.
But we suppose it's par for the course when you have middling academics & science-illiterate politicals running things.
#SaveNIOSH
Which isn't even under NIH.
But we suppose it's par for the course when you have middling academics & science-illiterate politicals running things.
#SaveNIOSH
NIH's $87 million nonanimal testing project
www.politico.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Hysterical claim given how many in vitro studies, assay development projects, and novel modeling techniques they killed at NIOSH alone.
Which isn't even under NIH.
But we suppose it's par for the course when you have middling academics & science-illiterate politicals running things.
#SaveNIOSH
Which isn't even under NIH.
But we suppose it's par for the course when you have middling academics & science-illiterate politicals running things.
#SaveNIOSH
Planning on gutting the nation's infrastructure by firing everyone as a political bargaining chip is certainly on brand for the current powers that be.
September 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Planning on gutting the nation's infrastructure by firing everyone as a political bargaining chip is certainly on brand for the current powers that be.
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Vaccines remain one of our most powerful tools to protect public health and America’s future generations. Every child deserves the right to vaccines. #SaveCDC #ACIP #SavePublicHealth #VaccinesSaveLives
September 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Vaccines remain one of our most powerful tools to protect public health and America’s future generations. Every child deserves the right to vaccines. #SaveCDC #ACIP #SavePublicHealth #VaccinesSaveLives
This is one of the best accountings we have so far of what went down with NIOSH and how it's going to change things for the worst. Huge ups to all the brave resistors that helped get this information out.
#SaveNIOSH
#SaveNIOSH
How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant
Businesses are begging the White House and RFK Jr. to rethink their massive cuts to Niosh, a workplace research agency that saves the US billions of dollars a year.
www.bloomberg.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is one of the best accountings we have so far of what went down with NIOSH and how it's going to change things for the worst. Huge ups to all the brave resistors that helped get this information out.
#SaveNIOSH
#SaveNIOSH
Rand Paul doesn't want queer people in government, but entities like *RFK Jr* are ideal for him ig
September 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Rand Paul doesn't want queer people in government, but entities like *RFK Jr* are ideal for him ig
Oh and Andy- just to return the favor of swerving into *your* professional lane- learn to write a succinct comms statement.
We can poke holes in your lies way faster if we don't have to trim so much fluff.
We can poke holes in your lies way faster if we don't have to trim so much fluff.
HHS communications director Andrew Nixon responds:
“[RFK] has accomplished more than any health secretary... to end the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”
>1000 of us w/ ACTUAL medical/science expertise (unlike yourself or HHS "leadership") think you're a fibber, Mx. Nixon.
“[RFK] has accomplished more than any health secretary... to end the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”
>1000 of us w/ ACTUAL medical/science expertise (unlike yourself or HHS "leadership") think you're a fibber, Mx. Nixon.
More than 1,000 health workers urge Kennedy to quit over anti-vax policies
Letter says Kennedy installed ideologues, endangered US health and ignored pleas as resignations mounted at CDC
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Oh and Andy- just to return the favor of swerving into *your* professional lane- learn to write a succinct comms statement.
We can poke holes in your lies way faster if we don't have to trim so much fluff.
We can poke holes in your lies way faster if we don't have to trim so much fluff.
HHS communications director Andrew Nixon responds:
“[RFK] has accomplished more than any health secretary... to end the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”
>1000 of us w/ ACTUAL medical/science expertise (unlike yourself or HHS "leadership") think you're a fibber, Mx. Nixon.
“[RFK] has accomplished more than any health secretary... to end the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”
>1000 of us w/ ACTUAL medical/science expertise (unlike yourself or HHS "leadership") think you're a fibber, Mx. Nixon.
More than 1,000 health workers urge Kennedy to quit over anti-vax policies
Letter says Kennedy installed ideologues, endangered US health and ignored pleas as resignations mounted at CDC
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
HHS communications director Andrew Nixon responds:
“[RFK] has accomplished more than any health secretary... to end the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”
>1000 of us w/ ACTUAL medical/science expertise (unlike yourself or HHS "leadership") think you're a fibber, Mx. Nixon.
“[RFK] has accomplished more than any health secretary... to end the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”
>1000 of us w/ ACTUAL medical/science expertise (unlike yourself or HHS "leadership") think you're a fibber, Mx. Nixon.
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Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation.
When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure.
#SaveHHS
#DemandRFKJrResign
#USAnotRFK
Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation.
When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure.
#SaveHHS
#DemandRFKJrResign
#USAnotRFK
More than 1,000 health workers urge Kennedy to quit over anti-vax policies
Letter says Kennedy installed ideologues, endangered US health and ignored pleas as resignations mounted at CDC
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation.
When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure.
#SaveHHS
#DemandRFKJrResign
#USAnotRFK
Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation.
When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure.
#SaveHHS
#DemandRFKJrResign
#USAnotRFK
Wishing all workers a very relaxing and refreshing Labor Day. Your rights are important, and we will always advocate for you. Solidarity.
#SaveNIOSH
#SaveNIOSH
September 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Wishing all workers a very relaxing and refreshing Labor Day. Your rights are important, and we will always advocate for you. Solidarity.
#SaveNIOSH
#SaveNIOSH
HHS is actively engaged in union-busting, and doesn't want to spend 0.02% of their total budget on funding workplace safety and health research at NIOSH (despite the Senate's support), but at least they can afford to give out 2 hours of leave and a hollow platitude! Soooo generous 🙏
#SaveNIOSH
#SaveNIOSH
August 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
HHS is actively engaged in union-busting, and doesn't want to spend 0.02% of their total budget on funding workplace safety and health research at NIOSH (despite the Senate's support), but at least they can afford to give out 2 hours of leave and a hollow platitude! Soooo generous 🙏
#SaveNIOSH
#SaveNIOSH