A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 "blast-proof" windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
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Here is video taken by an employee, caught outdoors when the shooting started, crouching behind a stone retaining wall
Content warning: gun shots, obviously
John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn't allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •Miraculously, he didn’t hit a single CDC employee! But he did kill David Rose, the police officer who responded, who leaves behind two children and a pregnant wife.
I can't help but imagine the vast attention this case would have received if the race of the shooter and the victim were reversed.
John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •But a white guy with a COVID conspiracy manifesto isn't news at this point. After all, that’s who runs the government now!
The CDC is a part of Health & Human Services, headed by RFK Jr., whose conspiracy-addled ideology is indistinguishable from the motivations of this terrorist.
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CDC shooting was January 6th for public health. What comes next? | STAT
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John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.
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John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •CDC leadership also hasn’t been very communicative. To be fair to them, their staff who would would have dealt with this situation were mostly fired by DOGE.
So my fellow civil servants at the CDC feel abandoned. They are hated with a murderous rage and no one cares.
John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •You know why CDC has blast-proof windows? A response to the Oklahoma city bombing, in 1995. That's how long the American right wing has been mass-killing federal workers.
The bombing followed the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, when hatred of government workers rushed into the political mainstream.
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John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •This meme expresses the hopelessness that government workers feel. We are enemies of the people, according to our own bosses. Violence against us is tacitly (or explicitly) sanctioned.
Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.
Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •Nudhul
in reply to Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado • • •>most employed blacks are fed employees
lmao
i already knew that but its still funny whenever they admit it
John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •Follow-up:
The CDC boss has attempted to improve communication about this. There have been some comms hiccups but considering her boss is RFK Jr., I find her openness and honesty brave.
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John Skiles Skinner
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •Finally, note: DOGE and the Trump administration are so opposed to remote work that they rushed CDC employees back to the office without active shooter training.
Other security measures failed because of staffing shortages. The shooter killed himself because no one else managed to.
Dr. ins0mniak M.D.
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in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •From that era: NUREG/CR-6190, Rev. 1 Protection against malevolent use of vehicles at Nuclear Power Plants (Nov. 1994)
Vol. 1: Vehicle barrier system siting guidance for blast protection osti.gov/servlets/purl/1010265…
Vol. 2: . Vehicle barrier system selection guidance osti.gov/servlets/purl/1010266…
We've been preparing for these threats for as long as the GOP has been actively encouraging them.
Prickly Pam (D-PA)
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in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •Clive Thompson
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •Holy crap I hadn’t heard about this at all
thank you for posting about it
OddOpinions5
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •ahem, that is "AfAm" police officer to all of the Fox MAGA people
slight little detail that affects their perception
Bruce Mirken
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in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •Heard about this from Rebecca Watson’s video on the subject. She made the link between Kennedy’s ideas and the assaillant very clear: youtu.be/NUruXOniURg
Damn. This is so bad...
Anti-Vaxxers Triggered a Murderous Rampage
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(CW boost)
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Rock DJ
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in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •they fucked around during covid so they deserve it 100%
its a shame the guy has the aim of a nigger though...
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I start with the assumption that any act of terrorism is fake and staged by actors except your every day gang violence in big urban cities which is not called terrorism
Sometimes alternative media outlets on the internet are owned by the same people that own the mainstream media outlets, if they have money to pay for ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC and FOX news then they also have money to pay off people who speak on youtube, bitchute, odysee and rumble
IRGC Commander Xenophon
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •On the one hand, I don't care because they are federal workers.
On the other hand, I agree with Jeff Cliff that covid might be the most serious thing facing the world today and needs to be dealt with.
御園はくい
in reply to John Skiles Skinner • • •he took the jabs, he's one of you jabbies
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