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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine staying up all night and destroying your sleep schedule for some lousy baseball game when you could be staying up all night and destroying your sleep schedule for some lousy video game

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · May 25

Tekla Aleksieva, cover art for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1988

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 7h

podcaster occupied government

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12h

😮😮😮

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RaRa @vektroid.bsky.social · 6h

holy shit

Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 6h

Some Guy in the 90s:
"I think is says ljidkijidk Sun."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social · 10h

People are radicalizing for the first time and getting The Madness

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 11h

This Place Has The Juice, Blood Of Christ edition

Dave the Atheist @davetheatheist.bs... • 1h
How about not shoving your cult down our throats. Deal ?
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Ben B. @abominaldrvibes.bsky.social • 1h
I'm agnostic
Dave the Atheist @davetheatheist.bs... • 1h
Which gods are you agnostic about ?
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 11h

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa

A post from failed real estate agent and local ghoul Chaya Raichik aka LibsOfTikTok targeting me. Text of the post reads:

“Leftist CA State Assembly candidate Chris Kluwe, who promotes the harassment of ICE online, was ARRESTED at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting earlier this year.

Chris was protesting a proposed library plaque that featured a phrase similar to ‘Make America Great Again’

Chris called MAGA a ‘Nazi movement’ before leaving the podium and approaching the council member, where he was grabbed by police and carried out.

This unhinged lunatic wants to be an elected official…”

Thanks for the free advertising, Chaya!

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 10h

have to remember that raw egg nationalist is british so of course tex-mex is completely foreign to him

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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O @omagus.bsky.social · 11h

Listen to me now. Believe me later on.

White supremacy has plenty of use for non-White people willing to carry its water. But it will never, ever let you forget that you are not actually White.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social · 10h

It's not clear the Trump is aware of any information that Stephen Miller doesn't want him to see.

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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social · 11h

Demographic replacement isn't real but if it was I would be 1000% in favor of replacing fascists with immigrants. The street food would just be a bonus.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Democratic oyster farmer Graham Platner is the candidate best positioned to defeat Susan Collins in Maine's Senate race, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by Zenith Research for More Perfect Union.

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 11h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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COUPON CODE: RECESSION50 @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you Mr. President

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

You know this was an AI call. I'm sure Miller and company did do this and Trump thought it was real. I don't even think he's lying. I think they're just feeding him a bunch of AI crap hour after hour.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social · 11h

I think the centrists are full-on gross and the independents are mostly clueless. Not that ignorance is any excuse.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah I’m going to keep hammering this drum: who the armed men in the employ of the state are loyal to is consequential, they are not an undifferentiated mass, and specifics matter a lot here. Blue state govs and big city mayors need to be quietly looking through FEC records and making staff changes

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

i think this fundamentally misstates the constraint: if he uses the police to directly obstruct ICE operations, he gets hit with the Insurrection Act. if he puts the cops in a position where they have to choose which orders to follow, they will currently not pick the governor.

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 14h

this kind of wishcasting around pritzker ignores that he hasn't once wielded the power of the state in a creative way since DHS and ICE invaded us

the rhetoric's good and he plays a governor on TV very well, but there's no evidence of a capacity for clever use of power, unfortunately

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