Carole Carter
@docloon01.bsky.social
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“The rewriting of CDC’s guidance is not a routine update. It is a warning. If scientific consensus can be erased with a keystroke & replaced with politically curated doubt, institutions meant to safeguard national health are at risk.“
By @drdebhoury.bsky.social @drdemetre.bsky.social & Dan Jernigan
By @drdebhoury.bsky.social @drdemetre.bsky.social & Dan Jernigan
We are former CDC officials. RFK Jr.'s change to vaccine guidance is propaganda.
Under Secretary Kennedy, CDC materials can no longer be assumed to reflect scientific authority.
www.ms.now
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“The rewriting of CDC’s guidance is not a routine update. It is a warning. If scientific consensus can be erased with a keystroke & replaced with politically curated doubt, institutions meant to safeguard national health are at risk.“
By @drdebhoury.bsky.social @drdemetre.bsky.social & Dan Jernigan
By @drdebhoury.bsky.social @drdemetre.bsky.social & Dan Jernigan
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"The opposite of democracy is not dictatorship, it's apathy."
~Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey
Phenomenal conversation. A sober look at corruption in politics and a hopeful message about building a better future.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
~Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey
Phenomenal conversation. A sober look at corruption in politics and a hopeful message about building a better future.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
American Conversations: Senator Andy Kim
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"The opposite of democracy is not dictatorship, it's apathy."
~Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey
Phenomenal conversation. A sober look at corruption in politics and a hopeful message about building a better future.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
~Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey
Phenomenal conversation. A sober look at corruption in politics and a hopeful message about building a better future.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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This is amazing!!
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This is amazing!!
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As you attended No Fascists (how I brand it) events today, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny. It's outstanding and something you will keep referring to over and over again.
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
As you attended No Fascists (how I brand it) events today, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny. It's outstanding and something you will keep referring to over and over again.
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The Trump attacks on cancer research are taking away your future cures. Everyone who may get cancer should care.
It is a shitshow. And yes, people will die as a result.
It is a shitshow. And yes, people will die as a result.
"It's a crap show"
"People will die"
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research are causing unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, which has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades. Me + @arthurallen202.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...
"People will die"
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research are causing unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, which has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades. Me + @arthurallen202.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...
World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...
www.cnn.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Trump attacks on cancer research are taking away your future cures. Everyone who may get cancer should care.
It is a shitshow. And yes, people will die as a result.
It is a shitshow. And yes, people will die as a result.
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Unconstitutional.
July 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Unconstitutional.
Reposted by Carole Carter
📢📢 1/8 🧵
We’re back in the age of McCarthyism — but instead of the Red Scare, it’s the *DEI-scare*
Health and Human Services (HHS) just blasted out an alarming agency-wide email:
They want us to report on each other.
(Pretty sure that’s called “snitching.”)
DEI-scare Survey ➡️ rb.gy/fnrbgc
We’re back in the age of McCarthyism — but instead of the Red Scare, it’s the *DEI-scare*
Health and Human Services (HHS) just blasted out an alarming agency-wide email:
They want us to report on each other.
(Pretty sure that’s called “snitching.”)
DEI-scare Survey ➡️ rb.gy/fnrbgc
Microsoft Forms
rb.gy
July 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
📢📢 1/8 🧵
We’re back in the age of McCarthyism — but instead of the Red Scare, it’s the *DEI-scare*
Health and Human Services (HHS) just blasted out an alarming agency-wide email:
They want us to report on each other.
(Pretty sure that’s called “snitching.”)
DEI-scare Survey ➡️ rb.gy/fnrbgc
We’re back in the age of McCarthyism — but instead of the Red Scare, it’s the *DEI-scare*
Health and Human Services (HHS) just blasted out an alarming agency-wide email:
They want us to report on each other.
(Pretty sure that’s called “snitching.”)
DEI-scare Survey ➡️ rb.gy/fnrbgc
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Been thinking about this cartoon.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
June 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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And we're back! 💪
Our good fed employee friends at EPA have partnered with Stand Up for Science to publish a Declaration of Dissent to Administrator Zeldin.
Support EPA (and public science) by signing the dissent AND sharing everywhere!
#JoinIn #RESIST
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
Our good fed employee friends at EPA have partnered with Stand Up for Science to publish a Declaration of Dissent to Administrator Zeldin.
Support EPA (and public science) by signing the dissent AND sharing everywhere!
#JoinIn #RESIST
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
Support EPA Staff Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Your solidarity with the EPA heroes increases the pressure on their Administrator Lee Zeldin.
www.standupforscience.net
June 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
And we're back! 💪
Our good fed employee friends at EPA have partnered with Stand Up for Science to publish a Declaration of Dissent to Administrator Zeldin.
Support EPA (and public science) by signing the dissent AND sharing everywhere!
#JoinIn #RESIST
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
Our good fed employee friends at EPA have partnered with Stand Up for Science to publish a Declaration of Dissent to Administrator Zeldin.
Support EPA (and public science) by signing the dissent AND sharing everywhere!
#JoinIn #RESIST
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
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📢 Are you a federal worker or a friend of one? @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social officially has a website so you can stay up to date on calls-to-action
United, we can fight our hardest against the dismantling of the federal government 💪
But we need YOUR help to do that - more info here 👇
United, we can fight our hardest against the dismantling of the federal government 💪
But we need YOUR help to do that - more info here 👇
#FederalWorkersAgainstDOGE has an official website now! 🎉
We will post all updates and information about events, campaigns, supportive resources and any calls-to-action on our website.
Take a look around and send some words of support to a fed worker while there!
federalworkersagainstdoge.com
We will post all updates and information about events, campaigns, supportive resources and any calls-to-action on our website.
Take a look around and send some words of support to a fed worker while there!
federalworkersagainstdoge.com
Home - federalworkersagainstdoge.com
Public Servants. Not Political Pawns.Our government is being hijacked to hurt the very people it’s meant to serve. But there's a secret...If enough federal workers refuse to obey illegal orders, we ca...
federalworkersagainstdoge.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
📢 Are you a federal worker or a friend of one? @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social officially has a website so you can stay up to date on calls-to-action
United, we can fight our hardest against the dismantling of the federal government 💪
But we need YOUR help to do that - more info here 👇
United, we can fight our hardest against the dismantling of the federal government 💪
But we need YOUR help to do that - more info here 👇
Reposted by Carole Carter
June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025
At a news conference today, acting U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
June 16, 2025
Reposted by Carole Carter
May 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Reposted by Carole Carter
Trump 2.0: Armed fed'l agents burst in (apparently a no-knock warrant). Since they'd worked the case, they knew who they were looking for. Instead, they found a mom & her 3 girls. Nonetheless, they sent them out into the rain in underwear & then took all their $ as evidence. kfor.com/news/local/w...
kfor.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Trump 2.0: Armed fed'l agents burst in (apparently a no-knock warrant). Since they'd worked the case, they knew who they were looking for. Instead, they found a mom & her 3 girls. Nonetheless, they sent them out into the rain in underwear & then took all their $ as evidence. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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This statement speaks for itself, and we commend Dr. Benjamin and the APHA for taking a firm stand against RFK Jr.‘s dangerous policies.
www.forourhealth.org/news/stateme...
www.forourhealth.org/news/stateme...
Statement from APHA Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD: Secretary Kennedy and his policies are a danger to the public’s health — For Our Health
Date: Apr 09 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media Relations Statement from APHA Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD APHA expressed concerns about Robert F. Kenn...
www.forourhealth.org
April 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This statement speaks for itself, and we commend Dr. Benjamin and the APHA for taking a firm stand against RFK Jr.‘s dangerous policies.
www.forourhealth.org/news/stateme...
www.forourhealth.org/news/stateme...
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"NIH [Bhattacharya] to prioritize human-based research technologies."
Huh? Seems obscure. ⁉️⁉️
But it's devious. It's worth being explicit:
This is NOT about science. Cancer/demential cure work already uses the best expt system.
This is ABOUT POLITICS. Thread: 1/3🧵
Huh? Seems obscure. ⁉️⁉️
But it's devious. It's worth being explicit:
This is NOT about science. Cancer/demential cure work already uses the best expt system.
This is ABOUT POLITICS. Thread: 1/3🧵
NIH to prioritize human-based research technologies
New initiative aims to reduce use of animals in NIH-funded research.
www.nih.gov
April 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"NIH [Bhattacharya] to prioritize human-based research technologies."
Huh? Seems obscure. ⁉️⁉️
But it's devious. It's worth being explicit:
This is NOT about science. Cancer/demential cure work already uses the best expt system.
This is ABOUT POLITICS. Thread: 1/3🧵
Huh? Seems obscure. ⁉️⁉️
But it's devious. It's worth being explicit:
This is NOT about science. Cancer/demential cure work already uses the best expt system.
This is ABOUT POLITICS. Thread: 1/3🧵
Reposted by Carole Carter
April 29, 2025
April 29, 2025
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt popularized the idea that the first 100 days of a presidency established an administration’s direction.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
April 29, 2025
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🔥👏 Great to see the scientific community standing firm against this admin’s lunacy.
The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, calls for RFK Jr. to resign for supporting harmful budget cuts to NIH, CDC, and FDA, and promoting anti-science views.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, calls for RFK Jr. to resign for supporting harmful budget cuts to NIH, CDC, and FDA, and promoting anti-science views.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Supporting medical science in the USA
The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government
demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr,
the Trump-appointed interim ...
www.thelancet.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🔥👏 Great to see the scientific community standing firm against this admin’s lunacy.
The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, calls for RFK Jr. to resign for supporting harmful budget cuts to NIH, CDC, and FDA, and promoting anti-science views.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, calls for RFK Jr. to resign for supporting harmful budget cuts to NIH, CDC, and FDA, and promoting anti-science views.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Carole Carter
April 27, 2025
April 27, 2025
Last night a new club opened in the wealthy Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
April 27, 2025
Reposted by Carole Carter
Reposted by Carole Carter
Trump has ordered the US government to move forward with plans to mine the ocean floor an area nearly every other country considers off-limits to industrial exploitation. His executive order sidesteps a decades-old international treaty ratified by every major coastal nation except the United States.
April 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Trump has ordered the US government to move forward with plans to mine the ocean floor an area nearly every other country considers off-limits to industrial exploitation. His executive order sidesteps a decades-old international treaty ratified by every major coastal nation except the United States.
Reposted by Carole Carter
April 23, 2025
April 23, 2025
After previously suggesting that the U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
April 23, 2025
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1/ 🔒 Imagine a private company embedded in gov systems—processing and analyzing your health records, immigration status, and social media use.
That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.
Let’s discuss 🧵
That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.
Let’s discuss 🧵
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
1/ 🔒 Imagine a private company embedded in gov systems—processing and analyzing your health records, immigration status, and social media use.
That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.
Let’s discuss 🧵
That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.
Let’s discuss 🧵
Reposted by Carole Carter
Read more:
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/m...
www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...
www.businessinsider.com/hhs-protect-...
www.hrw.org/report/2019/...
www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17...
www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/m...
www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...
www.businessinsider.com/hhs-protect-...
www.hrw.org/report/2019/...
www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17...
www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
US immigration agency operates vast surveillance dragnet, study finds
When cities and states passed ‘sanctuary’ laws to block police from aiding deportations, Ice found new ways to access private intel
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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This is where we are headed.
April 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is where we are headed.
Reposted by Carole Carter
April 22, 2025
April 22, 2025
Today is Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
April 22, 2025