Takesies Backsies: The Department of Health and Human Services rescinded about 700 of the 1,300 termination notices they sent to CDC workers this weekend. HHS claims the notices were mistakenly sent due to a “coding error.” The layoffs included members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service and two people leading the measles outbreak response. Who needs’em, right? (the US has confirmed more than 1,500 cases this year, the highest number in three decades)

CourtWars: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will have to pay the $1.4 billion judgment against him for spreading lies that the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged. The Supreme Court of the United States rejected his appeal without even asking the victims’ families to respond—the judicial way of saying, “Don’t waste our time, man.” Jones arg

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