Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

He was a NURSE. A nurse protecting his community, and he was executed in the street in broad daylight.

A screenshot from an HHS.gov website regarding the Childhood Immunization Schedule update announced by HHS on 1/5/2026. Highlighted text in grey reads “Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them.” Unless they are being very transparent, the text should read: “Ensures that VACCINES for all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them.”

My friends have pointed out what is simultaneously the funniest and LEAST funny typo of the year: With the updated vaccine schedule, HHS is definitely ensuring that these diseases will be available to whomever wants them. (From www.hhs.gov/press-room/f...)

If you're looking to max out your charitable contributions for 2025, you have a few hours left to donate to the CDC Mutual Aid Fund. 😀 We're at 86% of our 2025 end-of-year goal! ($215,000 of $250,000)

www.cdcresourceportal.org/donate

I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.

This is certainly the most profound preprint I’ve read since early 2020…

US FDA sends warning letters to Walmart, Target for selling recalled baby formula The FDA said four major retailers continued to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants even after the products were recalled.

"At Walmart, recalled products were found in stores across 21 states.

In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

On this Public Health Thank You Day, we're INCREDIBLY thankful for public health workers around the world - And of course, current and former CDC workers and CDC leaders. In many ways, our work and experience is needed now more than ever. We see you and we appreciate you!

Today we woke up to our public health allies telling the public that they can't trust CDC anymore More than a little demoralizing Because it's complicated The actual scientists at CDC - the ones you should trust - are not in control of public-facing webpages The conspiracy theorists are running the messaging And yet, most of us scientists... are still doing good science It's just not making it out We're still supporting local health departments We're still running our disease surveillance systems We're still on call for emergencies 24/7 Despite intense staffing shortages from multiple waves of RIFs And chronically being under-resourced Those of us left are still working hard to keep everything going We are proud of our mission And we persist, goddammit Yet We can also say... read the CDC webpages with skepticism Don't treat them as the gold standard. Corroborate the information with other trusted, independent sources. Many are still fine, but even we don't know when the political appointees are going to change their content And this is a painful thing for us to say So we just ask that, if you read or say "Don't trust the CDC!" You remember that we're here still trying to serve the nation, throw sand in the gears, and weather the storm

Hard day today
Here's what we think about trusting CDC

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

APHA announces 2025 awards for excellence in public health Every year, the American Public Health Association honors excellence in public health leadership and innovation, from state and local health officials to those speaking up for public health from the h...

Today we found out that @apha.org is awarding the 2025 Executive Director’s Citation Award to "Staff of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Current and In Exile."

We're not crying - you're crying.

www.apha.org/news-and-med...

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

3 ways to support our Fired CDC colleagues:

1. Donate to the CDC Mutual Aid Network. 99% of donations go directly to fired/RIFed CDC workers and their families. www.cdcresourceportal.org/donate
2. Get yourself something nice at our store: cdc-mutual-aid-network.printful.me
3. Share our links!

People. CDC is Literally being decimated right now. Our hearts are breaking for our colleagues at @altcdc.altgov.info.

You can check out their page to see the growing list of departments affected. They don’t deserve this and America doesn’t deserve this.

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.

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:

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Evidence Grading Type 1: Hard lumps or small pebbles Type 2: Lumpy, hard, and sausage-shaped Type 3: Sausage-shaped with cracks along the surface Type 4: Resembles a thin sausage or snake Type 5: Soft blobs with clear edges Type 6: Mushy and fluffy with ragged edges Type 7: Entirely liquid

Usually, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices uses the GRADE system to assign a body of evidence as high, moderate, low, or very low quality.

Now, however, they appear to be using a different system as outlined in this figure.

*credit: yes, this is the Bristol Stool Chart

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

A JAMA viewpoint article titled 'The Measles Resurgence' by Jane R. Zucker. It includes a table with reported vaccine-preventable disease cases and deaths in New York City for 1923 and 2023.

💬 Viewpoint: The resurgence of #measles and erosion of immunization policy, coupled with declining vaccination rates and undermined public health agencies, threaten to return the US to an era of frequent, preventable disease outbreaks.

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a pug dog looks at a birthday cake with a lit candle ALT: a pug dog looks at a birthday cake with a lit candle

No you’re baking your dog’s birthday cake at 10:30pm the night before as if your dog has any concept of birthdays

While still getting paid themselves… unlike 100s of thousands of federal workers!

I keep thinking about the return of vaccine-preventable diseases. Yes, measles is here now… But are we ready for polio to come back?

The American public needs to understand that high-level HHS officials are shamelessly lying to us all.

Tylenol does not cause autism, and Makary, Bhattacharya, and Oz knew this as they stood there next to Trump as he said it did, nodding like bobbleheads.

I’m in!

Point of clarification: Do you mean rich in spirit, or do you need like money 😬

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

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📢Media‼️ -- take note. There is a massive civil rights violation about to blow up in court: CDC "leadership" just banned telework as a reasonable accommodation (RA) for people with disabilities. 🧵

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining