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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 3h

When the bell rings and the tolls are taken, some people are going to find a lot of red in their ledger.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6h

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 4h

The degree to which this administration infantilizes people is grotesque. You are big strong alphas who need to be fed, clothed, and cared for by the.....forestry service? And those mean old demoncrats are comin' to get you! Be scared and eat your veggies, you big strong boy!

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 4h

I hear rubble soaked with the blood of kids goes cheap, unless you are paying in the coin of the soul.

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davidbowman17.bsky.social @davidbowman17.bsky.social · 6h

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 4h

The very violent stepfather who needed an excuse to indulge in his violence fetish. Look what you made me do, after putting his kid into a wall.

AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 4h

Tapeworms in the bowels of humanity.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 5h

That....THAT is exciting in exactly all the wrong ways

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 5h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 5h

The laugh i desperately needed today. Thank you.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 5h

We Portlanders have an infinite capacity for sadism and evil. Underestimate us at your peril.

Trusted Reveler says:

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of improv theater.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 5h

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Shot in the head with pepper spray

This is Trump's America

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 5h

I was honestly losing because I didn't spread the word. I often regret who I was.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 5h

We are the monsters, and i hope for a reckoning.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h

A 15-year-old autistic, intellectually disabled, and often non-verbal boy in Houston has been held in ICE custody for the past week without his family knowing where he was.

I confirmed this video is real with local news reports:

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 8h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 5h

Had such a crush on her in the early 90s. Was one of those artists I kind of hid from my metal head friends because it wasn't cool in those circles, even though her attitude is/was very metal.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 6h

And my friends questioned why I got a polio booster in my mid 50's. Hell, at this point I would get a smallpox vaccine.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 6h

Waddling slowly is more likely, I suspect. What a world.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6h

It's official:

-2025 is now a more threatening year for the survival of the republic than 1968.

-John Roberts will now go down in history as a worse chief justice than Roger "Dred Scott" Taney.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 8h

I am sitting here listening to two very sincere 19 year olds argue that only theologically accurate modern worship songs should be sung. I am resisting the urge to tell them it would have to be hebrew, aramaic, or insanely archaic Latin to count.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 9h

Why, in the name of that is holy, would you remind me of Highlander II, when we all know there should have been only one.

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 9h

I almost wonder if they didn't have some woman with a vague Spanish speaking accent call him and pretend, at this point. He would absolutely believe it.

AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 9h

I would say she is aging in dog years, but if she saw it she might go to a quarry and hurt herself in her confusion.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine that

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 19h

You get a plan of action on not having those hands when you take a picture? ;)

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AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 23h

oh. well played, indeed.

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