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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 5h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2h

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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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks. Expatriate Baltimorean here and longtime fan of your work going back to Homicide (the book), just want to take the opportunity to say thanks for all of it, but especially Treme, which is a beautiful piece of work. Still think about Antoine’s character journey. Truly great stuff.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 3h

Which is where Netanyahu and Hamas need to be. I don’t know enough about Abbas to make a judgement.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans could stop this, but they’re the problem. Propagandists, anti-science idiots, or just plain cowards, all of them.

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 3h

Does he, or any of the idiots around him, even know who Barghouti is?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 4h

Just start calling it the RFK Jr Centers for Disease. Lop the “Control” right off the name. He’s not just a eugenicist, he’s a psychopath.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 4h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 14h

Both the Mariners and the Blue Jays entered the American League in 1977, and for the first time, they’re facing each other in the ALCS.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 14h

No matter what happens, we will have all won because we got at least 15 innings of good baseball and glorious Eugenio Suarez hair.

Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve always been watching this historic winner take all game, and we’ll always be watching this historic winner take all game

Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve always been watching this historic winner take all game, and we’ll always be watching this historic winner take all game

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 14h

No good comes of this. They must hate their base as much as they hate Democrats.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 17h

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 14h

I think it’s because the Fox broadcast team is whimsy-free.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h

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

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently the CDC and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), both of which apparently have had mass firings today, are Democrat-oriented, which is one of the dumbest fucking things to come out of this administration of goons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 15h

I have texts going with both kids in their far away places, so I’m winning Friday night.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 19h

Whether he’s knowingly lying or he just can’t discern between obvious bullshit and reality, to have a president so disconnected from verifiable facts is really, really bad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20h

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 23h

Hard to believe this is anything but blatant defiance of that ruling, and given dead-eyed fascist ghoul Stephen Miller’s vehement denouncements of court rulings meant to rein in this bullshit, probably comes straight from him.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1d

Outrageous -- and apparently in blatant violation of yesterday's ruling protecting protesters and journalists from this kind of shit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 1d

For some unfathomable reason, last night I was dreaming that I had to drive a car with a manual transmission, then woke up in the middle of the night worrying about whether I could still do it. My brain.

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