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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

💯 CO-SIGN 👇🏽

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 23m

Because the Right’s propaganda efforts have been so successful that many Americans don’t accurately remember facts about things they themselves lived through less than five years ago, they think they can propagandize their way out of— and into—anything.

I guess we’ll see if that’s true.

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 2h

Every now and then I remember the press reaction to Elon Musk claiming we live in a simulation was broadly “Real Life Tony Stark Elon Musk Posits Mind-Blowing Thought Experiment 🤯” instead of “This Billionaire Nutjob Doesn’t Think Other People Are Real”

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 42m

In normal jobs, you would have to start paying for your own health insurance at this point

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 10h

“In error” come on

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 15h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 17h

is this running the government like a business. do businesses do this normally

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 18h

Still mad Obama posted sympathetically about CK but said fuck all about Melissa Hortman and her family

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 18h

When Dems failed to utterly and publicly lose their shit about the political assassinations in MN and drive the narrative, they left the door wide open for this propaganda here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 21h

Because of how complex defense accounting is and how the money crosses different years and programs, DFAS is set up specifically to draw at those dates from those programs. You can't just create $15b dollars, you need to allocate it across a bunch of different areas and subsequently pull from/

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 22h

DFAS does not work this way and they'd have to do some Real Adult Crimes to move this money around that is specifically earmarked for MILPERS, and not in the cute way they've raided MILCON or nuclear modernization programs in the past

“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 22h

"Money Colors Are A Thing" I shriek, as I am walled up like Fortunato

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 18h

Correct and very much this

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 22h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 20h

We are seeing dozens of these videos every day. It's happening all over the ocuntry. I know many people are outraged but it's just continuing unabated.

This feeling of impotence is devastating. How does it end? With the country emptied of brown people and dissidents in jail?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 21h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 20h

Appropriations are laws. It is illegal to move money in this way and whichever DOD staffer makes/approves/facilitates this transfer of funds is breaking the law. On a state level, if a state employee did this they would face criminal penalties and possibly *personal* liability for the funds

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 21h

Trump said he is directing the Defense Department to use funds his administration has identified to deliver paychecks to US troops on Oct. 15 despite the ongoing government shutdown

Trump Says US Troops Will Be Paid on Oct. 15 Despite Shutdown

President Donald Trump said he is directing the Defense Department to use funds his administration has identified to deliver paychecks to US troops on Oct. 15 despite the ongoing government shutdown.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21h

This is a really good article, and as an inveterate shitposter, I keep asking where the adults are.

I don’t *want* to be protesting! I don’t *want* to be arrested for standing up to oppression!! I want a boring government that works and takes care of everyone and I can go be stupid online!!!

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 1d

When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking my social media fast to tell you that the Oregon Humane Society has slashed adoption fees 50% this weekend to offset an intake surge in the aftermath of an animal hoarding raid. Go adopt a new bestie like Miles (link below).

Miles
164090
Portland Campus

A very handsome coonhound basset hound mix

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS likes this tactic and has used it a lot, notably in the Mississippi gerrymandering case that they slow walked until after an election so Republicans could take the seats they stole

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

my feeling is that they will, e.g., permanently enjoin the dismantlement of the Department of Education. doesn't matter. all those people are scattered to the wind. harm already permanently done.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I think that's part of it but the other part is it's men -and in this case especially rich men - and they already don't do those tasks, so they don't see them. This is why we're getting Samsung TV's with ads and not fridges that remind us to eat the lettuce before it spoils

James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

Well now it depends, Dollar Store Goebbels from Santa Monica. Is this sleepy Southern town one you might not want to be in after sundown, say?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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