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Dillon McManus, MSW, RPS
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Reposted by Dillon McManus, MSW, RPS
“Who is going to monitor dust levels in our mines? Who will ensure the next generation of miners doesn’t end up with the same black lungs as their fathers and grandfathers?” UMWA President Cecil Roberts
Full Statement: bit.ly/4k5BMAR
May 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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🏥HHS ELIMINATIONS💀
We have created a list of all agency and program eliminations proposed in the HHS 2026 Budget.

Feds: Please let us know if you have any clarity to share.

The cuts are massive. Reach out if you would like a PDF or xlsx

@alt-hhs.altgov.info
@altfda.altgov.info
April 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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DOGE strikes again. "WIRED spoke with seven workers with the National Civilian Community Corps, better known as AmeriCorps NCCC, who say that they were told to stop working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storm" by @mollytaft.com

www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Here is a legible version of the HHS Org Chart submitted with the leaked 2026 Budget.

This version does NOT include eliminated programs but allows you to see the final structure proposed.
Contact us on Signal @altCDC.99 if you would like it in another version like Visio. #HHS #CDC #CMS
April 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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if and when this is over, ice and cbp must be abolished and their employees prosecuted
An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.”

He was held with 100 people including many Canadians.

Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.
April 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Kennedy's CDC layoffs include the entire team working on sickle cell. Call your senators and congressional representatives. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cut...
CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs
Nearly half of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities was laid off.
www.cbsnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Coal companies despise NIOSH. They were one of the few agencies who were able to back up workers claims and fight for occupational health and safety for a very high-risk job.

Coal, the government, and the parasitic local reps are going to kill these folks and laugh.
Meanwhile, a black lung epidemic is tearing through Appalachia, killing men as young as their 30s. And the Trump admin just defunded NIOSH, the worker health agency that’s been tracking it. inthesetimes.com/article/coal...
April 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Being in government for awhile now, I understand that agencies, regardless of WHAT agency it is, will become political tools to greater or lesser degrees.

Which means that they themselves become a force of mortality and morbidity. Of evil and moral hazard. Of overwhelming oppression. Here we are.
April 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.

Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.
Third measles death
This is not normal. For three reasons.
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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New measles death in TX - a child. C/w last week:

CURRENT CASE COUNT: 569
Texas: 481 (+59)
New Mexico: 54 (+6)
Oklahoma: 10
Kansas: 24 (+1)

HOSPITALIZATIONS: 58 (+14)
Texas: 56 (+14) have been hospitalized, 11.6%.
New Mexico: 2 (No change). This is 4.5% of NM cases.

DEATHS: 3 (+1)
April 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@heyjohnrussell.bsky.social Brother, JJ Heads everywhere are withholding our listenership until you get through Empire Strikes Back AT LEAST.

You have one week.

Ps. Wheeling fucking rocks
April 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Family residential center is a fucking audacious way to say open air prison. Absolute ghouls. Fuck this guy and ICE.

Biden admin has these running too BTW, no admin is exempt from brutalizing immigrant families and children.
Tom Homan spoke to local news about the children in his own town abducted by ICE: “First of all, the family is not in a jail. They’re in a family residential center, it’s an open air campus.”

Oh, ok.
Border czar Tom Homan speaks out about ICE sweep near Sackets
President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, is speaking with 7News about an immigration case in his own backyard.
www.wwnytv.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Get your Hepatitis A & B vaccines if you have not already; United States.

And #ImpeachRFKJr before he kills even more people than he already has.

QT Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land
2025 April 5

Hepatitis
www.patreon.com/posts/126010...
Hepatitis 💨 | Matthew Cortland
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April 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Scenes from #HandsOff protests in downtown Baltimore where at least 1200 rallied to protest President Trump & Elon Musk's assault on federal workers, government agencies & services, immigrants, & democracy.
April 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"Fentanyl-laced weed" is something I hear often and need to have conversations about. It's pernicious!

I'm sure people have tried to do it. Some folks do use one AND the other, which can cause people to conflate them. But as Ryan states, there are ZERO lab confirmed instances of this.
People can - & do - intentionally consume fentanyl and cannabis products together, which is a possibility, but it is far more likely that the preliminary drug testing is inaccurate, as has happened in nearly every one of these cases before. There has *never* been a case of “fentanyl-laced” cannabis
April 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Police in Rhode Island are saying someone died from fentanyl-laced cannabis based on preliminary drug testing done by the police, and I just want people to remember law enforcement is not qualified to perform drug testing or determine cause of death. It helps nobody to create unfounded drug panics.
April 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We gotta start making community and self-defense a priority. My cool resist sign isn't stopping proud boys from beating down my neighbors.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Apr 5
Last weekend, the so-called “Tesla Shield” came out to defend Elon Musk’s car company after weeks of “Tesla Takedown” protests.

Guess who that group included? Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, a guy dressed as Hitler.
The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense
After weeks of “Tesla Takedown” protests, the Proud Boys and other far-right extremist groups are showing up to back Elon Musk's beleaguered car company.
wrd.cm
April 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
No harm reduction talk from ONDCP like we expected anything else.
April 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Hello skynet
April 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM