Toya Jones Frank

“We have to be careful.” “We have to be stealth.” “We cannot say that.” All this contorting, and it gets us NOWHERE. Still maligned. Still fired. Still dismissed & overlooked.

So far, the 2 clips I've seen of these DOGE depositions have shown me exactly what I always imagined DOGE staffers would look like. Arrogant, smirky little pricks with zero knowledge, skills, or life experience.

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

More foundations should do this: "Funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding rescinded due to federal administrative actions" www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

By enabling mass firings, the court is dismantling our government’s ability to serve everyday Americans. We must restore due process protections now. We will stay united: these mass layoffs are unacceptable. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

So Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years for trafficking girls to nobody?!?!

“Your slipper, sir.” “Where is the other one, Alfred?” “I’m afraid there’s been a mishap, sir.”

Saying there are “too many non-working holidays” on Juneteenth is so on brand for a man who is actively trying to erase Black history. This from the same man who’s wasted over $26 million in taxpayer dollars and spent more than 30 days golfing since January 20, 2025? Please.

Now do NSF and NASA

Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy: "If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion? Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"

When we take measures to address the racial bias that has allowed whites to enjoy privilege, they call our survival mechanisms 'racial bias.' Pure hypocrisy. www.science.org/content/arti... #saveNSF #NSF

This is more than a resignation—it’s a refusal to be complicit in the erosion of truth. Thank you for modeling what principled leadership looks like. Black women are often asked to hold broken systems together with our brilliance. Your choice to walk away, on your terms, is revolutionary.

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

“Evil is silly…” She’s still teaching. ❤️

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

You may wonder why altCDC is so political. Public health is as much about the disease as it is about the society in which that disease occurs. We are battling an admin that wants to dismantle US public health, sow misinformation, devalue science, and cripple our ability to respond to health threats.