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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 5h

Billionaires are a plague on earth.

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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 5h

So... it seems like if they're going to fire the entire government we shouldn't have to pay taxes anymore.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 9h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 6h

Hey @nytimes.com WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 16h

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 16h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 6h

On that note, this is the post below yours.
bsky.app/profile/eliz...

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h

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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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h

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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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 6h

Whats wild to me is a bunch of the conspiracy theorists that support RFKjr, claimed that covid was a bio weapon and its like, so what happens if we actually have a bio weapon attack in America now that we dont have a CDC you idiots?

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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 7h

We are all the Portland frogs

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 14h

The frogs have spread to Chicago

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 18h

And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 8h

Ya, it's both, but... Ugh

West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 9h

It's time for Americans to start making some very hard choices.
I don't know where we go from here, but it's going to get very hard.
Be someone you would respect in a history book.

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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 9h

We are in Nazi America, where children are hidden from the modern Gestapo and we all live in terror.
Are we going to stop this by any means necessary?
Or cower in fear while they put anyone they hate into death camps?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 9h

I decided I hated this country at such a young age and I can't decide if it feels good, or like the worst thing ever, to have my feelings vindicated right now...

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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 9h

One of my friends is a high level software engineer for google. He spent several years pretty recently living in one of the most remote parts of the states with us and telling us constantly how to hide your digital footprint and that you should never trust your phone.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 10h

This is extremely 2nd hand bc this text is from a family member.

I was just at a party with a friend who used to work at HHS until the earlier round of RIFs this year. She got ~20 text messages and when she checked, they were all from her former coworkers who’ve just been RIF’d. They’re shutting down the entire CDC DC office

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

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: