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Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S

EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad

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CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
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February 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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How to Push Back
There is a reason Trump is afraid of the federal bureaucracy, the career civil servants he wants to replace.
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February 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s plan to freeze most federal funding. A coalition of Democratic attorneys general sought the block on the freeze itself, following confusion over a now-rescinded OMB memo.
Judge Halts Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze
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January 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Advocating for best science starting with careful patient selection for research.

Vague criteria impede progress for #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, LongCovid & other marginalized diseases.

My Substack, View from the Trenches of ME, educates about ME-ICC & more

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View from the Trenches of ME
Master List of Articles
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October 20, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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A another ex friend informed me that Elon’s salute was a mistake because “they wouldn’t win & just start being Nazis. Why would they do that?”

They didn’t just start being Nazis. They’ve always BEEN Nazis. They’re just emboldened to show it now.

The cishet white men in my life are devastating me
January 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Former Georgia Candidate Stacey Abrams Concludes That JD Vance Is ‘DEI Graduate’ During Meandering Rant - NewsBreak
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams of Georgia asserted Vice President J.D. Vance was a “DEI graduate” during a Wednesday evening MSNBC
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January 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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NEW: In a move similar to Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, refused to acknowledge former President Biden won the 2020 elections during his Senate confirmation hearing today.
Trump’s Pick to Lead FBI Refuses to Say Who Won 2020 Election
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January 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Rachel Maddow rocks my world.

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January 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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BREAKING: Quakers represented by @democracyforward.bsky.social push Trump admin/DHS to pause ICE enforcement in all houses of worship across the country in advance of weekend services.

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Dear Secretary Noem, Mr. Griffiths, Ms. Kelleher, and Mr. Haas: My organization represents over 200 Quaker houses of worship spanning 12 states (and the District of Columbia) in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends v. DHS, No. 8:25-cv-243 (Jan. 27, 2025 D. Md.). On behalf of our clients—and people of faith across the country—we write to ask that you voluntarily pause DHS’s new policy allowing immigration-enforcement activities at houses of worship. Because of reports of increasing immigration enforcement, including attempts to enter houses of worship during services and at least one arrest at a house of worship, we believe an immediate pause in the government’s new policy to restore the status quo is necessary.1 A pause will allow people to continue to exercise their religious beliefs and will allow the parties to agree to a briefing schedule in our matter so the court can consider the issue on a nonemergency basis. For many people, including our clients, the weekend is when they gather with their religious communities for worship. They assemble to speak to and hear from God, sing hymns, break bread, receive essential services, and build community. The threat of roving enforcement by armed government agents (and reports of ICE agents already arresting people at houses of worship) is deterring people from exercising their faith. Pausing implementation of your new policy and restoring what was the status quo for more than three decades before the coming weekend will protect the core religious freedoms of people across the country while the court determines whether, in accordance with decades of DHS policy, protecting religious exercise requires more than absolute trust in the “common sense” of an individual agent. For more than 30 years, DHS and its predecessor, INS, have recognized that worship is an “essential activity” and, as a result, that agents need a very good reason to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship. DHS’s new policy, on the other hand, ignores the critical role that religion plays in people’s lives. Instead, it treats houses of worship as little more than hiding places—nooks from which to root out criminals. The new policy leaves government interference in core rights to the subjective “common sense” of enforcement agents. Our laws demand more. As detailed in our complaint, the right to associate for religious exercise, including communal religious worship, is well established. DHS’s new policy violates that right by deterring worshippers from attending services or otherwise joining their religious communities. That harms not only those who are too fearful to attend services, but also their fellow congregants and houses of worship themselves. This is especially true for Quakers, who deeply believe that every person, no matter their background, can receive and deliver messages from God. Put simply, deterring attendance at Quaker worship impedes our clients’ ability to experience the divine. While the government may be permitted to impede religious gathering in limited circumstances, the Constitution prohibits it from doing so absent (1) a substantial relationship between the government’s activities and a sufficient government interest, and (2) demonstrating that its actions are narrowly tailored to that interest. That is not possible here, as the government has acknowledged for decades that it is perfectly capable of enforcing immigration laws without trampling the religious rights of worshippers. DHS’s policy is also outlawed by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. As explained above, …
January 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM