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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 3h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

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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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2h

Also we have precisely ONE verified recent case of a politician paying actors to attend a political event. You'll never guess who it was.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Did Trump Campaign Offer Actors $50 to Cheer His Announcement?

The Trump campaign denied knowing a contractor hired a casting agency for the candidate's 2015 campaign-announcement rally.

www.snopes.com

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Beth @bethpdx.bsky.social · 2h

Cc @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2h

This is why Democrats need to keep the shutdown going indefinitely.

The administration is acting lawlessly. There’s no check from Congress and no effort to find a middle ground.

Refusal to cooperate is the only response.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2h

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do.

Just pointing that out.

This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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Bruce Coffman @brucecoffman.bsky.social · 2h

Shocking that they're axing every essential service that actually served to help Americans. Shocking. It was in Project 2025, folks. We all get to die now because people can't read. Oh well.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

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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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 4h

article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

“The defense secretary underwent a round of cosmetic injections last month.” One insider: “He’s always been full of himself, but lately his ego has been off the charts.”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h

Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.

Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 6h

Peter Thiel looks like a weirdo in an 80s movie who has two minutes before the devil claims his soul.

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Jonathan-FL #HumanRightsForEVERYONE @amerliberal.bsky.social · 5h

Peter Thiel:
Far-Right Billionaire
White-Supremacist Eugenicist
Pal of Musk
Anti-Free-Speech Killer of Gawker Media (2016)

-- Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish ...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Craig Schisel @craig725.bsky.social · 4h

Trump takes corruption to a new level—pocketing a $400M jet from Qatar, planning a $5.5B Trump-branded resort in Doha, and greenlighting a Qatari airbase in Idaho in return.

Peter Thiel and Musk have also taken large sums from Qatar.

Clearly, money matters more than this country.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3h

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Screenshot text from The Guardian:
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

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opal @defnotadino.bsky.social · 3h

Peter Thiel is not a well person and I’m confused about how NO ONE in his life has tried to intervene???

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M 💓 @liveadivinelife.bsky.social · 4h

Hat, glasses, chains, satin bomber jacket with sports patches, hateful attitude.

Kid Rock tells Laura Ingraham he hates people who dress up.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Is Kid Rock ok? He's looking like an ad for a place called Thrifty Dialysis

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Toon Raccoon! @cooner.art · 4h

TBH I’m much happier seeing women (or men) with blue hair and nose rings than whatever the fuck Kid Rock wears from day to day

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

Kid Rock, who clearly shops at the "Tacky Meth-heads Who Like Silly Costumes" outlet, really shouldn't open his stupid mouth to talk about how other people look.

And Laura Ingraham should never open her snarling mouth to talk about anything.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 3h

gotta hand it to him, Kid Rock complaining about the way other people look is extremely funny

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

With Larry Ellison in control of TikTok, we now have right-wingers or looney far-right wingers in control of most of the major social media platforms.