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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 2d

🎶Thicker than
A deep dish pie
Joints are sore
Blood pressure high
Pudding, flan
And crème brûlée
None are safe
From the Green Beignets🎶

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 1h

Meanwhile, the administration continues firing outbreak response investigators and those with other key roles at CDC

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3h

153 kids are in quarantine in South Carolina.

118 kids in Minneapolis.

This is what happens when we ignore the science.

When we stop vaccinating, long eradicated diseases come back.

The kids deserve better than this. Measles can disable. It can kill. And it’s completely preventable.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 8h

It’ll be a massive self own if Sean Penn wins Best Supporting Actor over Benicio Del Toro for One Battle After Another

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 9h

Exhibit A, even for probationary terminations. Partisan political reasons is one of the few things a probationer can appeal to the MSPB.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 8h

Candice Millard was a regular at a store I used to work at. I once got up the courage to ask her a few questions (fanboying almost to the point of catatonia) and she was so gracious. She gave me some great research tips.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11h

They were absolutely 100% already planning for months to do these exact RIFs, and they’re so dumb that they think choosing to do it now will make somebody else take the blame.

Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 13h

NEWS: Trump administration officials have revealed that, so far, over 4,100 federal workers have been laid off in this round of RIFs

The administration is "actively considering whether to conduct additional RIFs related to" the shutdown, per a new court filing
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 9h

Any American general officer who has his regimental band play the Marseillaise during a battle to rally his men is lethality personified

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 11h

General Willich glows with zeal for revolution

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Erdogan Gwan Delilah @socialconcarne.bsky.social · 11h

that tweet train of "Vaxxed?" is gonna hit like crack

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h

I think the administration will try to agitate, but it’s important that we make these protests 1. HUGE and 2. Peaceful

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 8h

I’m sorry I just can’t get over my excitement for Death by Lightning. They’ve fucking nailed the look and feel, let’s hope the writing holds up. So glad to have a signed copy of the source material as well. Candice Millard is one of my favorite Kansas Citians

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 9h

RIFed:

Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

Ebola disease

WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.

www.who.int

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 9h

When you get sick and thousands of Americans start to die during another pandemic, blame the Republicans who fired all the disease scientists.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 10h

an administration ruling Congress with an “iron fist” would be able to pass a budget. Johnson is keeping the House in recess because things are going to go completely off the rails once Grijalva gets sworn in, and he knows it

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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T. J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans now apply the anti-vax model across the board: Something (vaccines, basic government functioning, the economy) works well enough for so long that they start to blame the thing itself for often imaginary problems. They break the thing. And now we wait for the consequences.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 9h

He got reverse raped by a semen demon

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

An agent testified in federal court in Chicago today that Bovino needed an MRI and is on two weeks bedrest for "a groin injury" he sustained during last week's protest

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 23h

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15h

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

TikTok video by Ms RK

www.tiktok.com

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The Transportation Secretary’s threat is not going over well with aviation safety experts.

Air Traffic Controllers Who Call In Sick During The Shutdown Won’t Be Paid, Duffy Warns—But Will Intimidation Backfire?

The Transportation Secretary’s threat is not going over well with aviation safety experts.

www.forbes.com

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

Beauty Pageant "Miss Uncongeniality" winner screws up again #LindseyHalligan #BrooklynAintInNewJersey 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

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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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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