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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 6h

People really have no idea, the extent to which the US has led the global biomedical research enterprise.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 8h

He cannot get treatments that do not exist because he has destroyed the capacity to invent them. He cannot run from pandemics that are not surveilled.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 7h

You need to understand: this administration is not merely destroying access to treatments, but the possibility that they might exist at all.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

A conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven.

God says, “I’ll tell you anything you want to know.”

“At last! Who shot JFK?”

God says, “Oswald, acting alone.”

Conspiracy theorist says, “Shit. This goes even higher than I thought…”

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 6h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 36m

Temu antichrist.

Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 45m

Apropos nothing in particular…

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The Evolving Organized Crime Threat

Citizens Crime Commission of New York

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Idaho,

You know all of those Red Dawn revivals and cosplays and SovCit impulses you’ve had over the years? Well, do I have a surprise for you!

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 1h

"The United Nations estimates that thousands of IT workers raise between $250 million and $600 million for North Korea each year, with money being used to support the country’s nuclear weapons programs and sanctions evasion efforts."
— @mattburgess1.bsky.social WIRED

www.wired.com/story/north-...

North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Now

New research shows that North Koreans appear to be trying to trick US companies into hiring them to develop architectural designs using fake profiles, résumés, and Social Security numbers.

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 1h

They did pilots tests of this conspiracy theory earlier than that, though, during Black Lives Matter protests.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote a book about January 6, 2021.

Want to know when the Trump administration began its systematized lying about antifa and the FBI being behind MAGAs' attack on the Capitol?

January 6, 2021.

Rudy Giuliani had a suite at the Willard Hotel that was the command center for broadcasting that lie.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 3h

Evergreen tweet 🐣

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Jan 25

The horrors of this past week reminded me how batshit insane some of the anti-Dem rhetoric online during the election was, and upon reflection I think this was really a stand out performance from Bree.

Bree Newsome tweets denying the existence of Project 2025

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Jeremy C-Howl @jmchao.bsky.social · Jan 25

The real horseshoe theory is a bunch of people in our politics have been hit in the head by a fucking horseshoe.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

The pro-disease admin.

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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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3h

“The White House’s mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 3h

They don’t seem to grok that MAGA are an end times cult who imagine Israel 🇮🇱 as a character in their the Book of Revelation morality play. Israeli people need to study Project 2025, New Apostolic Reformation, QAnon, etc. to realize the GOP isn’t a friend to Israel or the Jewish people.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4h

It can be both! 📚

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 10h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 6h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social · 4h

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

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

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