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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 1m

Josh White’s rendition of Strange Fruit is for real.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4m

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 1h

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 5h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2h

@thetnholler.bsky.social rips off stories from hard-working reporters and garbles credit.

TH is so lazy they didn't use a Bluesky post. They cut and pasted a tweet! But that tweeter didn't write it and isn't with the Sun-Times.

TH did link to source, a rarity. (Maybe they've heard the complaints?)

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h

I think this is the most cursed social media post I have ever seen.

Tweet from Dinesh D'Souza: "I asked Bibi Netanyahu—the Jewish head of a Jewish state—to comment on the most famous Jew of all time, Jesus Christ."

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 3h

whoopsie

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 4h

What do you mean Mr. Bouie, they're working off of the book "To Serve Man"

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 5h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 4h

What do you mean Mr. Bouie, they're working off of the book "To Serve Man"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4h

I litigated cases against giants that fell when the tech bubble burst and I have seen this coming from miles away. It’s going to be a bloodbath.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4h

"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 4h

There will be a point when everyone realizes that not even the states can shut off the money spigot that is our automatic tax withdrawals and the unrestrained corrupt Executive Branch will just keep taking the tax payments and paying for what they feel like.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5h

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 23h

This is a big part of my personality.

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 5d

What looks like a graphic tee design with an adorable bunny lighting the fuse of a firework, with the text:

Be Kind

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Annoying

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 8h

If his medical emergency was related to drugs, that is still a medical emergency.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Coach of the Year Nat Fan Club President @donachaidh.bsky.social · 9h

Watch the ad, then read this.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 13h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 9h

Ahem. He chose to *illegally* fire ...

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

Trump take egg

ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Grumpy D. Kelson @grumpykelson.myatproto.social · 10h

Good to be dogboarding again.

#AcademicsWithDogs

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