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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 16h

Almost the entire staff behind the CDC’s flagship publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, has been fired. The report is typically one of the first places where information about U.S. disease outbreaks is disseminated before appearing in other journals and publishes information on a wide variety of critical public health issues.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

They're delegitimizing themselves in substance by subverting the Constitution and aiding the establishment of a lawless autocracy. But they're further delegitimizing themselves because they really don't understand, and can't even halfway convincingly mimic, how the Court is supposed to function.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

In ways above and beyond simply having a conservative GOP majority (which after all had already been the case for decades), they're just outright bad at the job. They're thoroughly unimpressive, even incompetent, as jurists, in ways that are not historically normal for the Supreme Court.

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Pippin the puppy’s human (one of them) @erupton.bsky.social · 12h

Is your name on the title?

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

If James visits the home regularly then it is available to her for personal use, which means it is not a “rental investment property” as defined by the mortgage rider…and therefore negates the central claim of the indictment

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Nicole Maron @nicolemaron.bsky.social · 18h

My father worked in public schools for 40+ years, starting in Special Ed. From day 1 GOP officials chipped away at those services and budgets, and had to change roles to adapt as it did.

This final betrayal of our legal and moral commitment to serve ALL students is the GOP's 40-yr old wet dream.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 15h

Reporting from @zachschermele.bsky.social at USA Today with more details ⬇️

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 18h

This one will hit the red states especially hard. Blue state systems will for the most part work to ensure kids with special needs have access to public education. The red states will leave families to sort it for themselves.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 19h

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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Pippin the puppy’s human (one of them) @erupton.bsky.social · 12h

Not all investments throw income.

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Michael Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 19h

So in other words it is completely clear and known to the government that the contract she signed SPECIFICALLY ALLOWS renting out the property and that James' family members reside in the property. A 100% malicious prosecution.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

This is important exculpatory evidence bc the indictment accuses James of seeking a “second home” mortgage when in reality she intended to use it as an “investment” home by renting it out.

(James disclosed between $1,000-5,000 in rent during 1st year, but the contract allowed short term rentals.)

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13h

One more note: there were many more RIFs on Friday night.

Perhaps the administration does not think of these as 'errors', and will claim that some RIFs were 'correct'.

We should assume otherwise: these RIFs are a form of political retribution that do not serve federal agency missions.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 12h

Also, it is terrible for all the people whose careers are being toyed with, now and all year; all those who are being pushed out without cause, lawlessly.
Alongside all in the public who are being harmed by these attacks on our health and science.
Best to everyone.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 12h

Looks from here like the goal is to create confusion, and focus public attention on a subset of the most outrageous firings — to distract from the other firings.

We shouldn’t be fooled, and should demand that all the illegal shutdown RIFs are made null and void. /end

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 12h

So to summarize:

- There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests.
- They restore some people after outrage and work by us.
- But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 12h

But it took weeks or months of confusion before some had their (lawless) RIF notices revoked.

As was widely reported, several NIH scientists, including a major-award-winning Parkinson’s researcher, weren't fully de-RIF’d until @durbin.senate.gov caught out RFK Jr at a Senate hearing about them.

RFK Jr. told Congress no working scientists were fired, but these top NIH brain scientists are still facing job cuts

"As far as I know, we have not fired any working scientists," RFK Jr. had told Congress.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 12h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Alice Diamond @aliceabear.bsky.social · 18h

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Ofherb 🟦 🇮🇱 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 15h

Gentle reminder...

Alice Diamond @aliceabear.bsky.social · 18h

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🦄)))🕊️🎗️✡️🐇 #VoteYesOnCAProp50 @melisandra01.bsky.social · 15h

As reality intrudes upon their Jew-hating dreamworld some of the Free Hamas toadies will split away and fade into the woodwork and pretend they never had a Nazi phase. The others? The ones whose entire narcissist egos are wedded to “the omnicause”? They’re going to become extremely dangerous.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 1d

This latest round of federal firings is not an unfortunate byproduct of the government shutdown, but a deliberate choice.

Republicans are intentionally holding federal workers hostage to force through their agenda driving up health care costs for millions.

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