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Chad Crichton
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h
Someone made a lot of money through insider trading. On the international betting site Polymarket, the eventual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado went from rank outsider to 70% favourite in the early hours of Friday before the award was announced.
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 6h
Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h
OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed
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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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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 6h
The way the AI thing has really coalesced around the "educational" idea of making facsimile versions of historical figures to talk to really feels like... these people are so fucking mad that there are people who were greater than Computer and the first thing they want to do is Make Them Computer
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 8h
Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Mar 5
You're fired!

Oops, nope. Please come back.
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annezouille.bsky.social @annezouille.bsky.social · Mar 4
Email received by a fired CDC Probationary employee
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6h
You're fired!

Oops, please come back!
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 6h
CDC lays off, then rapidly un-lays off, the people in charge of responding to measles 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.
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 17h
Time magazine, with the perfect headline yesterday.
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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 6h
bf opened to a genuinely random page of the Eric Adams child crime prevention book and stumbled on the 110th Mayor of the City of New York instructing you on how to do PCP
Don't Let It Happen There are several other ways to administer PCP and each method has a de. on the body. If the PCP is dissolved, it may be taken intravenously and the sia noticed immediately, within seconds. If the drug is sprinkled over marian to a similar substance and smoked, the effects will be noticed in minutes, and a peak within half an hour. PCP can also be taken orally, in pill form. The ties ingestion can be noticed within half an hour and come to a peak in less than fiel Because PCP is easily and cheaply made, it is often passed off as LSD, 5p "speed" or as a brand new recreational drug by dealers who can't get these pride those who want to increase their profits by paying less for their active ingreden try to be a scientist and determine if a substance is PCP. Visible inspection will or e and only a chemist can tell for certain. The number of individuals who use PCP is not easy to determine. Many uses vil the drug once and will not knowingly use it again. Far too often, users are not eva ad that they've used PCP. In many cases, the hallucinogens that young adults use a a with PCP. One National Institute on Drug Abuse survey found that over 12% of lips seniors have used some form of hallucinogen. How PCP affects the body depends largely on the amount of the drug that i am tered. A low dose will produce euphoria and decreased inhibition, similar to what scre and psycnosis similar to schizophrenia. These symptoms are noticed more frequen cases of PCP ingestion. One of the dangers of PCP is that the analgesic properties pet users from becoming aware when they have seriously injured themselves because the F able to withstand high levels of pain. Possible medical effects on the body (low or moderate doses) • Slight increase in breathing • Increased blood pressure • Increased heart rate • Shallow respiration • Flushing and profuse sweating • Generalized numbness of the extremities • Lack of muscular coordination • Hormones growth development problems (adolesc
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h
Portland 🔥
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
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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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d
Frog Dude support! His posse is growing! #portland #iceout
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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 1d
“I don’t watch the news”
“I don’t follow politics”
"It's too depressing"

Cool, cool. But politics follows you, into your rent, healthcare, rights, your future.

Opting out doesn’t make you neutral. It just makes you uninformed in a world run by those who aren’t.
Fascism rises when people look away.
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 7h
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h
It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 13h
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
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Omar @tictactomar.bsky.social · 6h
It’s official, Steven Lorentz will not return to the game
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Omar @tictactomar.bsky.social · 7h
another angle of the Chiarot hit on Lorentz
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 6h
These layoffs and then rehires are not the first ones of this Admin and seem to be equal parts:

-Complete incompetence and lack of understanding of the agency

-Taking on Silicon Valley “move fast and break things” attitudes

-Testing the limits to see if there is significant pushback
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 7h
The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 6h
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 7h
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h
We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 16h
lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.
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Victory L. [🇨🇦🇵🇱🇺🇦🇦🇹🇪🇬] @victoryrenfrew.bsky.social · 6h
The thing is.... those billionaires don't care.
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BlueBird @sun2stars.bsky.social · 6h
Facts of life, trying to survive in a country run by billionaires
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Joe Rogan Reacts to Katie Porter Wrecking Billionaire CEO
YouTube video by Policy Zone
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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 7h
The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h
OK, Pete Hegseth’s an idiot. He left out the word “training” when he said we’re building a Qatari Air Force facility. So I get why people were confused after his announcement yesterday, but I keep seeing folks repeat some version of “Qatar is building an airbase in Idaho.”

That’s not happening.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h
ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.
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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 6h
Also, at no point should we lose sight of the face that this problem could easily be solved by calling the House back into session, pass a bill for military pay, send it to the Senate, etc

Mike Johnson won't do that bc he doesn't want to seat Rep Grijalva bc she will be the final Epstein files vote
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Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot @claypotter.bsky.social · 19h
$20 Billion for Argentina. No food for the "suckers and losers". FDT
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d
Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 6h
The stupidest fucking people are running the country. They're cruel and heartless, but they're also just really stupid.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 7h
The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
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