AltStateGov

🧵Hi! I'm AltStateGov and yes I am a current state worker. Why am I here? Because at my level of work, I interact regularly with amazing federal workers who care deeply about what they do just as I do. We work together to ensure federal rules are applied and followed at the state and local level.

Your state and local health departments are a critical source for outbreak and other health-related information, especially now that federal data are being compromised. Look up your health departments by state and county for more info.

Also an excellent resource for free or low cost vaccine for adults programs for those who are uninsured or underinsured!

Drop box your ballot!! 🗳

Thank you to the candidate I’m not voting for for reminding me that early voting began this weekend so I could go and vote for their opponent. Getting out the vote!

Important 🧵 on the election in Brazil 🇧🇷. You know the administration is watching to see what works…🗳️

We saw reports of "machines switching votes" in TN & TX. These are typically real issues — a calibration problem w/ older touchscreen machines — but not intentional efforts to rig the vote. Always good for voters to check that their vote is being recorded correctly. www.cip.uw.edu/2026/10/22/e...

Our research team is doing real-time coverage of emerging news and rumors related to election integrity. We put out several outputs this week. Several of the rumors we covered are still percolating. Some of the stories may become seeds for conspiracy theories later in the cycle. Some highlights...

I love this so much in so many ways 💙

Blocked here, but still seen on Facebook. Ripe with misinfo. Stayed, not blocked. 23 sites, not stations. USFS is nowhere near “completely eliminated.” All regional offices proposed to be eliminated, not “many.” R&D targeted to be eliminated 2x, in President’s budget request. Facts matter 💚🌲

The kids are alright. It's their future on the line and they’re not surrendering it. #nationalhandmaidsdayofaction

Trump's waiver of energy sanctions on Russia has an even darker, more corrupt, side that initially thought. Trump is planning to allow a Russian energy giant to control a big chunk of energy exports from Alaska. Trump and his cronies profit; America loses. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

As the article points out, the CEO and other top executives of a company founded to export natural gas from Alaska have all resigned in disgust over after learning that they were working to enrich Russian oligarchs rather than for Americans.

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

And I'm the governor of my state 🤣🤣🤣🤣

She was 12.

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

Whoa—this is terrible. “ A hospital spokesperson said ACA Marketplace plans chose not to include Children's Mercy as an in-network provider because they are not willing to cover the specialized pediatric care the hospital provides” www.kshb.com/news/local-n...

SCOTUS ruled on this today. If you are a student in NH, you can not use your college ID for voting.

I don't say this to undermine the underlying message about election security; please double check your registration and make sure your ballot is secure. But don't rely on AltNPS for anything, especially something so important.

The Alt National Park Service does not receive "reports" in any meaningful sense, and the last time they said this, it was when they were pretending to have on-the-ground knowledge of ICE raids in my hometown of Saint Paul. bsky.app/profile/altw...

They’re opening the aperture for criminal fascism as wide as they can, to leave as many avenues to dictatorship as possible. They’re not subtle. This is happening. We must activate their cowardice.

NEW: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from USPS’ cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have been most affected.

Has mail service been reduced in your ZIP code? Use our lookup tool to find out: propub.li/3WGrpwP

F35 over a bombing range in Arizona.

omfg "FLRA members also wrote the HHS officials appeared to use generative AI tools to draft its legal brief. They wrote that 22 of the department’s 29 footnotes, and 35 of its 42 ... citations are 'fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant.'"

New: OutYouth, an LGBTQ+ youth program in Austin, says it's briefly closing for safety reasons because it was mentioned in the fake trans resource guide pamphlets that went out this week across Texas - www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Public school enrollment was declining in West Virginia even before its voucher program was established. But things have only gotten worse. Since 2019, 70 public schools have closed in the state, and up to 20 more schools are in jeopardy. w/ @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social

www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

A Leon County grand jury found that high-ranking state GOP officials diverted $10M meant for children to the GOP's own PACs in the Hope Florida scandal. But if you talk about it, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is on the ballot, wants to have you arrested. So, def don't talk about it.

This simply entices people to recreate the same in their own cities and states. Thats the goal with this reward. State and local agencies should be warning child care providers in their area to be vigilant and have a plan to respond to someone on their property.

These missiles were PURCHASED by Ukraine. Now wet-brained asshole Hegseth and the WH won’t send them.

Disappointed that NPS Deputy Director of Operations Frank Lands wasn't grilled today, but we feel confident we will get to hear Frank's testimony in many future hearings as the DOI and their minions at NPS begin to be held accountable.

This simply entices people to recreate the same in their own cities and states. Thats the goal with this reward. State and local agencies should be warning child care providers in their area to be vigilant and have a plan to respond to someone on their property.

This false flag of fake brochures sent to Texas voters is such a perfect representation of the right’s strategy: fake, manipulative, meant to sow outrage (targeting trans people) & scare parents (that the left is grooming their kids) into voting against their actual interests.

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

Some facts about the 28 people charged today: - Every one was a lawful permanent resident. - 4 of the 28 are accused only of registering, and not voting, and only 22 are accused of voting in 2024. - The median and average age is 50 - 22 noncitizen voters = 0.0001% of the California 2024 electorate.

Yes. This is disgusting. The Trump admin manufacturing the evidence to support their conspiracy theories of widespread non-citizen voting. They arrest a tiny number of people (arrests crafted to draw attention), at least some of whom having no idea of the crime they’ve been accused of.

For the second year in a row, Ohio spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers, this time for the 2026 fiscal year ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/19/o...