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🦩Bob🦩 @bobblakley.bsky.social · 2h

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Uh, Gig 'em?

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 2h

Hey @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I think you should know about this.

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Public Intoxication. Aggie Park. Contacted subject eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey. BAC was.337. Released to EMS. #BTHOflorida
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 7h

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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🌮 Chef Bruce 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @chef-bruce.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s current government, through Pam Bondi, just convinced a federal judge to force a gun rights group to hand over its membership list.

That’s a gun owner registry.

Is MAGA winning yet?

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 6h

A few years ago I played Godspeed You! Black Emperor for my girlfriend for the first time and I had to stop the record because she didn’t realize that the loud crashing sound we heard wasn’t part of the record and there was a dude outside with his car in our neighbor’s tree

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MythicalDragoness 🇨🇦 @mythicaldragoness.bsky.social · 3h

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"If you allow politicians to violate your rights in times of crisis, they will create crises to violate your rights".

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes

The employees "were sent incorrect
notifications, which was fixed last night and this morning with a technical correction," a senior administration official said. "Any correction has already been remedied."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 9h

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7h

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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 8h

Read it all. From one small section:

Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

Beyond that, the CDC will not be able to function administratively, as the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management (OSSAM) office, which safeguards employee, facility, and data security at CDC lost its entire Occupational Health and Safety Office. Barely two months after a gunman shot more than 500 rounds at CDC and killed a police officer, the office devoted to employee safety has been The Workplace Health Office was also RIFed, as was the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, which is charged with training and supporting risk management across the entire agency. Not only have the CDC employees been terminated, but the ones who remain will be forced to function within an organization that has eliminated mechanisms for looking after their well-being, safety, and ability to effectively do their jobs to carry out the CDC mission.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 13h

Another one for that book Benefits Of Brexit: four hours to catch up on all one’s podcasts.

UK travellers should expect

UK holidaymakers are being warned to expect four-hour queues as a new EU border system comes into force.

apple.news

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 10h

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Department of Justice lawyers, from Main Justice to AUSAs in the districts, have ALWAYS enjoyed a sort of aura of truth and justice and trust. That was arguably always unjustifiable but Trump DoJ has absolutely pissed it away with compulsive lying.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

There goes another Trump admin talking point.

Claim: Abrego told an immigration judge that he fears persecution in Costa Rica.

Judge Xinis reads the immigration judge's ruling, which doesn't say that.

"That's very troubling to me," Xinis tells Ensign.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 14h

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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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

“FPS could even enter a private residence containing an identified sniper blocks away from a federal facility in order to eliminate that exigent threat…we do not live in a world of sticks and stones, but Mausers and Winchesters.”

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 15h

Really seems like a thing that a consortium of blue states could set up in exile, maybe with corporate donation help.

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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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 17h

Politico: At a hearing yesterday to get Abrego Garcia out of immigration prison, his lawyers proved that ICE has made desultory attempts to deport him to Ghana, Uganda, and Eswaitini, all of whom refused. It’s all about ICE Barbie vowing Abrego Garcia would never walk the streets of America.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

RIFed:

OSSAM - Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management

Let this sink in. They are getting rid of federal employees tasked w/ protecting sensitive public health data - that we would NOT want foreign entities to get access to.

(Foreign entities - China, etc. But can we add Vought🤮💩 too?)

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