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With the upcoming CR/appropriations bill for #HHS, can Congress include a provision to remove all the current members of #ACIP and the anti-science recommendations they've voted on? 🤔
@doritreiss.bsky.social Is this possible?
@doritreiss.bsky.social Is this possible?
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
With the upcoming CR/appropriations bill for #HHS, can Congress include a provision to remove all the current members of #ACIP and the anti-science recommendations they've voted on? 🤔
@doritreiss.bsky.social Is this possible?
@doritreiss.bsky.social Is this possible?
@democrats-appropriations.house.gov The upcoming appops bill or CR for HHS should include: 1) striking all recommendations from the current #ACIP 2) removing the current members of #ACIP; and, 3)reinstating previous members.
Congress needs to rein in this anti-science committee! #HHS #CDC
Congress needs to rein in this anti-science committee! #HHS #CDC
December 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
@democrats-appropriations.house.gov The upcoming appops bill or CR for HHS should include: 1) striking all recommendations from the current #ACIP 2) removing the current members of #ACIP; and, 3)reinstating previous members.
Congress needs to rein in this anti-science committee! #HHS #CDC
Congress needs to rein in this anti-science committee! #HHS #CDC
Restef Levi, Robert Malone, Evelyn Griffin deserve NO peace at all. Throw FDA quack Tracy Beth Hoeg in there too.
I hope people protest at their houses, their places of work, and they are publicly shamed wherever they go.
I hope people protest at their houses, their places of work, and they are publicly shamed wherever they go.
Name names. Shame on all the ACIP members who voted to strip the recommendation for the birth dose of the HBV vaccine. Call them out. Give them no peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Restef Levi, Robert Malone, Evelyn Griffin deserve NO peace at all. Throw FDA quack Tracy Beth Hoeg in there too.
I hope people protest at their houses, their places of work, and they are publicly shamed wherever they go.
I hope people protest at their houses, their places of work, and they are publicly shamed wherever they go.
I really enjoyed the evidence-based takedown of Pierre Kory and Steve Kirsch, notorious anti-vaxxers and grifters by Professor Dave and @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social Great watch!
youtu.be/30W2w02n360?...
youtu.be/30W2w02n360?...
Demolishing Anti-Vaccine Frauds in Live Debate (Steve Kirsch and Pierre Kory Exposed)
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
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December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I really enjoyed the evidence-based takedown of Pierre Kory and Steve Kirsch, notorious anti-vaxxers and grifters by Professor Dave and @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social Great watch!
youtu.be/30W2w02n360?...
youtu.be/30W2w02n360?...
The sartorial choices for Robert Malone at ACIP are indicative of the death of evidence-based science. Is he really wearing a black suit and black tie (funeral attire) two days in a row? Ugh. #ACIP
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The sartorial choices for Robert Malone at ACIP are indicative of the death of evidence-based science. Is he really wearing a black suit and black tie (funeral attire) two days in a row? Ugh. #ACIP
Someone needs to ask them to name the stakeholder groups!
#AHIP member Vicky Pebsworth answers question about why the urgency to revisit this policy now, given its success.
She said, "We were aware that there was pressure coming from stakeholder groups wanting the policy to be revisited."
She said, "We were aware that there was pressure coming from stakeholder groups wanting the policy to be revisited."
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Someone needs to ask them to name the stakeholder groups!
Robert Malone is that guy that says we have 20 minutes left and proceeds to “um, um, [repeats the question], let me clarify what you’re saying, um, um, oops, we’re out of time.” Just terrible facilitation on purpose.
RE ACIP meeting today: I've sat through better run grade school student council meetings.
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Robert Malone is that guy that says we have 20 minutes left and proceeds to “um, um, [repeats the question], let me clarify what you’re saying, um, um, oops, we’re out of time.” Just terrible facilitation on purpose.
I really want someone to ask the committee how they will feel when their recommendations kill children. 🤬
Petition to rename ACIP “The Morgue” because science is dead in that room.
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I really want someone to ask the committee how they will feel when their recommendations kill children. 🤬
Yep, and the meeting is going to be held in the literal basement room of the building that has auditoriums explicitly designed for public meetings.
Heads up to @tarahaelle.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social
Just heard from an inside source at the CDC that NO staff will be presenting and/or allowed in the room for the ACIP meeting tomorrow and Friday. There will be zero experts in the room.
Just heard from an inside source at the CDC that NO staff will be presenting and/or allowed in the room for the ACIP meeting tomorrow and Friday. There will be zero experts in the room.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Yep, and the meeting is going to be held in the literal basement room of the building that has auditoriums explicitly designed for public meetings.
WTH???
DOGE is at again. Yes, DOGE is still a thing. It didn’t just disappear with Elon.
A DOGE leftover, Sam Beyda, is now rumored to be sleeping and showering (eck!) in the CDC Director’s suite. This started during the shutdown. Weird? Right?
A DOGE leftover, Sam Beyda, is now rumored to be sleeping and showering (eck!) in the CDC Director’s suite. This started during the shutdown. Weird? Right?
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
WTH???
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Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
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Is Mike Johnson going to say "I don't know" when asked about tonight's election results?
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Is Mike Johnson going to say "I don't know" when asked about tonight's election results?
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Look, folks. When it’s tearing down a Confederate monument that was set up during the Jim Crow era—years after the Confederacy was defeated—it’s eRas1ng H1stoRy! When it’s bulldozing a portion of the White House it’s a *glow up.*
October 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Look, folks. When it’s tearing down a Confederate monument that was set up during the Jim Crow era—years after the Confederacy was defeated—it’s eRas1ng H1stoRy! When it’s bulldozing a portion of the White House it’s a *glow up.*
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Several employees at the CDC’s Office of Science Quality and Library Services, for example, remain RIF’d. Without those clearances, “CDC can’t publish any scientific documents,” says a recently RIF’d CDC employee. cen.acs.org/policy/regul...
Trump administration reverses course on shutdown layoffs at CDC
More than half of the approximately 1,300 reduction-in-force notices sent to the agency's employees on Oct. 10 were in error, the Department of Health and Human Services determined as it reinstated st...
cen.acs.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Several employees at the CDC’s Office of Science Quality and Library Services, for example, remain RIF’d. Without those clearances, “CDC can’t publish any scientific documents,” says a recently RIF’d CDC employee. cen.acs.org/policy/regul...
Same with the CDC Library, which has been around since 1946.
surprised there hasn’t been more discourse around the illegal firing of NCHS leadership, including those in vital statistics.
which are vital
which are vital
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Same with the CDC Library, which has been around since 1946.
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Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
www.statnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
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Hi, Every Library (a political group that advocates for libraries) just launched a petition and a way to email your reps to support the CDC librarians:
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...
Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
Please share!
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...
Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
Please share!
PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library
Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.
action.everylibrary.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hi, Every Library (a political group that advocates for libraries) just launched a petition and a way to email your reps to support the CDC librarians:
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...
Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
Please share!
Petition: action.everylibrary.org/cdclibrarype...
Email: action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...
Please share!
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CDC is not a Democratic or Republican agency. It's an American agency. One in three employees have been lost in recent months. This is dismantling of our health protections, not reform.
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
CDC is not a Democratic or Republican agency. It's an American agency. One in three employees have been lost in recent months. This is dismantling of our health protections, not reform.
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Librarians are banding together for the CDC library and its staff. Consider signing, sharing, and call your reps.
October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Librarians are banding together for the CDC library and its staff. Consider signing, sharing, and call your reps.
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
#medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC
October 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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
#medlibs #firedbutfighting #publichealthsaveslives #CDC
No, we haven’t gotten any word about a rescission just yet.
Anyone know if CDC Library firings were rescinded? Can’t find anything on their status
October 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
No, we haven’t gotten any word about a rescission just yet.
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Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...
No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error.
Error = Miscoding
Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.
Error = Miscoding
Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.
a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus
Alt: a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus
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October 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...
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I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.
October 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.
The library is still RIF’d, too. 😢
OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The library is still RIF’d, too. 😢