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Boldly going where no Jedi has beamed before. Earth is our spaceship.
#AltGov
Retired 20+ year DOJ executive providing honest commentary on American politics. Opinions are my own. “Morgan” in the book “We Are #AltGov” by Dr. Amanda Sturgill. (I have NO financial ties to the book)
Twitter: @altScalesOfJust
OG AltGov. that’s now here. ANTIFA General.
Make good choices! #swiftie #altgov #nafo #accidentaldiplomat
#AltNPS Unofficial Washington D.C. Office #Resistance Team. Protect & preserve the US from fascism #AltGov #WeAreAltGov
I study everything and know nothing.
Not an official NASA account. Come for the facts, stay for the snark.🥄
Same team from Twitter but with more gray hairs. 🚀🛰️🧪🔭
climate.nasa.gov
they/them
🏳️🌈🫶🏳️⚧️
Since 2017, I have fought against the growing fascist threat from Trumplestiltskin and his loyal minions, including the entire GOP and its base. Not affiliated with nor represents USCBP. Opinions are my own. #AltGov
#WeAreAltGov
Might be IRS, might be Dept of Revenue...wait for the audit to FAFO
Typically found cussing at most laws
#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic
Sarcastic AF potty-mouth middle-child latchkey #GenXer
#NAFO 🇺🇦 Former #FellaForger
Used to be a big deal on twitter for like a minute.
Former SIGINT Analyst. He/him. Deep State Operative ™ Alleged Antifa Leader ™ POG LEG REMF™ Astronaut Diaper™ Vampire ™ May be spying on you right now
I’m not new, I’m just new *here*. You know me, I know you. The sun’ll come out tomorrow.
General health and science information
#medsky #emedsky
Posts 🚫 med advice. Please, seek the care of your physician if you have any concerns.
Leather wearing, beer drinking, motorcycle riding member of #AltGov
#KilroyWasHere
Fighting 4 democracy & end corruption on a 🌎 stage
Wrked directly in WhiteHouse w/ Obama Biden Harris since 2012
Wrkd Harris Walz 2024 campaign
US Secret Service Vetted
TS/SCI & Yankee White clearance
Liberty 🗽 & Equality 4 all #AltGov #Resist
ALT gov account. ALT. Not an official DHS account (if they even have one on BlueSky). ALT
Retired Gov employee. I swear a lot. #Altgov
Discl: Not an official account for DHS. All opinions my own. Again, ALT. ALT. ALT.
retired, former, crusty cog that was in the machine, mostly snark, sometimes insightful. Knows enough to be dangerous, sometimes useful.
#altgov
(VIC) 31N AA 66021 00000
The original - Twitter survivor.
A Jabroni in a former life. Civil litigation attorney in this life. I put the “Find Out” in FAFO. Licensed in California.
Unofficial feed of Badlands National Park. Protecting rugged scenery, fossil beds, 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie & wildlife from two-bit cheetoh-hued despots. OG #AltGov #Altnps #TheResistance #prodemocracy #resist #punchnazis #wildernesswarrior
Retired Fed. I survived 45. Honored to have served the people.
#Resist with compassion
#ClimateChange is here
#Tribal #Sovereignty is #Treaty Law #LGBTQ+ #WeSeeYou
It takes #AllOfUs
Legit #altGov accounts don’t sell merch or ask for $$. Beware the grift.
You can fight fascism, but you can’t fight AltCityHall. Maybe your local city hall, though. #AltGov
Retired Senior Special Agent Federal Drug Law Enforcement.
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCit #Resistance #Resist #NoKings #fuckitdriveon #PeacefulProtest
#AltGov #Resist #AltCitizen
“We do not bend the knee. We do not surrender. We fight, until we win or die.” - Lynn Stahl, #AltGov
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
– William Penn
Award-winning Baltimore based web developer, HCD product lead for federal agencies, mother (humans, dogs, cats, chickens…), democracy enthusiast, nature lover. #civtech #resist #altgov #swiftie 🥄
Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
Promoting health and science and resistance against pseudoscience, disinformation, and fascism.
This is a #AltGov account. Federal employee. Love my job. Ask for help and you shall receive. Read any USPS mail you get from the IRS.
#Resist #spoon 🥄
Enraged Army vet and federal employee, was “RogueVHA” in AltGov 1.0. More centrist than BlueSky prefers. Nerd who lifts. A good shot. Gamer. I curse a lot and want to fight Greg Bovino and JD Vance 2 v 1 🥷
Resist! Conservation over corporations.
#ALTgov
This account is NOT affiliated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and opinions solely belong to the person who manages this page.
FWS employees can reach out via DM to share stories.
Your friendly local SSA agent just trying to survive. DMs are open. Yes there’s 2 of us (Hi Rogue SSA👋). We are #AltGov. Not affiliated with AltNPS. This account is not an official SSA account. FDT. Release the Epstein files. Preferred name: AltSSAssy ❤️
Helping people before, during, and after (this democratic) disaster.
#AltGov
We are dedicated DOI employees who swore an oath to the constitution to protect the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage. Officially *unofficial* account.
Do not approach the wildlife. This bison bites back. #AltGov 🦬
They tried to bury us. They didn't realize we were seeds.
Career civil servant in immigration.
Sharing news from the Coast Guard, the Federal Government, and beyond.
Semper Paratus, Semper Pro Populus (Always Ready, Always for the People).
Not affiliated with Official USCG. Views are solely my own opinions. #AltGov 🥄
Loyal to our Constitution, not a politician, god or person. Not an official Air Force acct. Professional critical thinker, fed, vet & mil spouse here to communicate, share information and more importantly, offer support.
Big USDA’s bratty little unsanctioned sibling 🌱🐮
Do Right and Feed Everyone. Empower our farms & people. Roll 1D20 to increase levity. #climatesmart #nutrition #urbanag #conservation #foodsecurity #diversity #bullsonparade #renegade
🚜💨🥦🥕⚗️🏡🌎🌈🐮✊
Not an official government account. But you aren't here for that, right?
Alt Library of Congress #TheResistance 🇺🇸&🌏Political commentary. "Science is vital for progressive society." Verified by @snopes 👍🏼MLS📚 #AltGov cartoonist, doctoral candidate.
I stand in support of those under siege or occupied by the same regime. 🇺🇸 🇬🇪 🇺🇦
Safety first. Safety always. FAA info.
One of two (2!!) official #altgov accounts for your friendly neighborhood SSA.
Retrofitting reality and rebuilding community from the brutal bunker in SW. Opinionated Fed. Huddie. Not associated with AltNPS.
#AltGov #Bandofothers #Altpoetsociety
Mad Houser Haiku:
Mad about housing
Mad at the state of the world
Mad as a hatter
The resistance team for the U.S. Department of Labor. Not an official government account. #resist #AltGov #NoKings ❌👑
Social worker. VA Psychotherapist. Grandchild of WWII Navy Veteran.
#AltGov - Not an official VA account. Opinions are my own.
Content =\= medical advice.
Reclaiming water in the American West, and reclaiming democracy wherever necessary.
Fed employee. Resistance. #AltGov #Altfam.
Dream job- steward to Turtle Island waters, lands, and people — no matter who is in the casa blanca. None of us are free until all of us are. Not official USACE Account.
USACE staff can DM with any stories.
Marine, combat vet. Apparently also woke and an enemy of the state now? Huh. Here to call out disinformation. And to, you know, obey my oath. ETA: And maybe to NOT share classified info via Signal chats.
Two NARAtians reminding everyone of the mission of the National Archives - “We preserve, protect, and share the historical records of the United States to promote public inquiry and strengthen democratic participation.”
We ride at dawn. #altgov #Antifa
#AltGov
State Government Worker (not state dept)
Covering all the ways the actions of the Regime are impacting the work of state governments.
DMs open to reporting impacts you're seeing relating to program funding cuts.
Be an #AltCitizen.
Not a real fed Press Sec but watched she/her on TV and said “Hey, I can do that, but with facts.” When in doubt, refer to the First Amendment and The AP Stylebook, in that order. Verified #AltGov. 🗒️ 🇺🇸
#AltGov #AltFam
We are not Vets, but VA employees and humans who believe ALL Vets deserve better.
We are also standing in solidarity with Federal Workers as we fight fascism, a hostile government takeover, and destruction of all we hold dear.✊🔥
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service. We are the Builders. #AltGov
Send your stories: submissions@wethebuilders.org
https://www.wethebuilders.org/
https://givebutter.com/WTB
One of the official resistance pages of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Not an official government page. Views expressed here DEFINITELY do not reflect those of the regime. Sailors cuss like ME.
Federal Employee during 2025 Coup and so much more including puppy parent.
A couple of emergency managers resisting harmful policies, fighting disinfo & defending FEMA.
Not official FEMA. Views are our own and expressed in a personal capacity.
Proudly #AltGov
FEMA Employees or Tips? DM
📣 Speaking for the trees, and:
🌲 600 million forest acres
💚 193 million acres public land
🥾 164,000 miles of trails
🎣 400,000 miles of streams
🪵 Billions of board feet timber
🚰 Trillions of gallons clean water
🚫Not affiliated with USDA Forest Service
Unofficial (but factual) account about the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its mission.
We're public health folks working for the worker- that's you! We'll keep doing so come hell, high water, or bad policy.
#SaveNIOSH #AltGov
Posting articles and other media about NOAA and related topics. Lover of science, data, satellites, oceans, coasts, marine organisms, weather, climate modeling, fishers, and coastal communities. My personal views only. This is not a government account.
Information with representation, by and for D.C. residents.
Worker-led nonprofit newsroom, funded by readers like YOU.
🌐 https://51st.news
Support the work: https://51st.news/signup
Wrote Slow Birding; Evolutionary biologist at Wash U in St. Louis, social behavior and evolution, wasps and microbes, love social amoebae, Lake Michigan
https://linktr.ee/ss_tkpkmutualaid
sstpmutualaid.wordpress.com
I’m a social worker focused on workforce development, employment, labor markets and job quality and equity. Mom of teenage twins. Old movies, film podcasts, tv and pop culture are my thing. Detroit will always be home.
Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Program
Stadtman Principal Investigator @NIH / NIA. Computational Genomics, RNA, Aging, Stress Response, Senescence. Posts are my own.
Avid reader. Mom. Scientist @NIH. All opinions are my own.
Cellular mucosal immunologist- lung- 🫁 innate immunity and inflammtion @IRP/NIAID/NIH - views my own
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/katrin-d-mayer-barber-dr-rer-nat-phd
Manager of Education & Career Development Programs @AAI.org
DOGEd from NIH/NHGRI Education Outreach Specialist
Former Director of Curriculum at @genomicsed.bsky.social
Views != employer
Group Leader @TheCIMR. Organelle Interactions and dynamics in neurons. Wellcome CDA Fellow. prev: @NIH, @UCL, @HHMIJanelia. 🧠+🔬 (AbellJonny on X)
https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-jonathon-nixon-abell
Assistant Prof, @uoftnutrisci.bsky.social . Experimental #Metabolism Researcher, #Dietitian.
Associate Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
By way of: UC Berkeley, Baylor CoM, NIH, Cornell
Kcklatt.substack.com
Here for the chips. I embrace meaning, irrationality, nonlinearity, and complexity as defining features of humanity. I don’t understand speed walking.
Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
All opinions are my own
Neuroscientist studying the neural circuits of glucose homeostasis.
Cats, embroidery, labor unions
Views my own.
https://khajdarovic.github.io/
She/hers/her
Former Director, NIH Exec Sec
All views and opinions are my own and do not represent the views or opinions of any past or present employers.
Open Science Advocate and Policy Wonk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-6143
🌉 bridged from https://sciences.social/@csmarcum on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
All things microbiota for now but a generalist in computation and genomics
2-3 sketches a day keeps it away
Bird photography with my iPhone in the local outdoors
All posts and opinions are mine and mine only
Clinical research nurse ret. NIAID/NCI,biologist,foodie,gardener, animal lover,camper,mom to 3, DC native,Friend ☮️ Be Kind!
Not a fan of DMs
Science geek who believes science is for everyone! ALL should be included in the scientific process! All views shared are personal.
We commemorate and mourn the losses resulting from cuts to funding, programs, and people that have been both discriminatory and indiscriminate. We gather every Saturday at 10 am at the Medical Center Metro station at NIH in Bethesda. Opinions are our own.
We are the union of 5,000 early-career researchers at the National Institutes of Health, standing up for fair treatment, better working conditions, and a stronger future for science. | Proudly UAW 2750
Social and affective neuroscientist and civil servant advancing behavioral and social sciences research. Personal account, views are my own.
The official "Resistance" team of the National Cancer Institute at NIH.
A CAR-T for the collective conscience—because unchecked lies metastasize. We carry forward NCI’s mission to tell the truth about cancer research.
Biologist. Loudmouth. Weirdo.
We are the official resistance scientists of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. Aging doesn't discriminate, and we're coming for all of you! We want to see our siblings, Alt CMS and Alt NINDS, too!
🧠 Scientist | UW-Madison Asst. Prof 🦡 |
| Former NIH Postdoc |
Organizer & Advocate for Science, Democracy, and Labor 🧪🇺🇸✊
(opinions are my own)
Professional Geek • Immunology • Radiation Biology • Toxicology • Buffalo • Cornell • Kentucky Wildcats • Public Health • PCUSA • Grandfather • Views are my own
Poly, pan, agender, switch. they/them
Keeper of the cats
Scientific Project Manager in the NINDS Office of Research Quality
Loves high-quality research, particularly in neuroscience and RNA biology
Working to change the culture of science
Views are my own
A fed-up involuntarily former Fed. All views expressed here are my own, not my employer's.
Executive Director, Princeton Quantum Initiative.
Neuroscientist & long-time academic | Once an NIH Program Officer (until I wasn’t) | Standing up for science, justice & truth
