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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 8h

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

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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 6h

Will any democrats push back on the facts of what Antifa is and is not?

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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 6h

Despite the GOP talking points, WE can stay peaceful

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tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 6h

uh shutting down MMWR is, in no uncertain terms, crisis level damage for dissemination of accurate info throughout the medical profession

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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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 6h

Mask up. 😷

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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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 6h

Give that man a mirror.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 6h

It's actually useful that he keeps providing evidence of his wrongdoing.

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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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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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 6h

Hours after refusing to kiss the Presidential ring, #MIT wins court battle over Defense Department plan to slash its grant funding
www.universalhub.com/2025/hours-a...
#lawsuits

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 23h

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 7h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.

Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.

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Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Colin Robinson @fermiparasocks.bsky.social · 17h

‪Delivering fishermen in pieces isn’t the same thing as delivering peace ‬

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

So they’re keeping the House in recess for another week (see his follow up)?

To delay the Epstein Files and, I guess, avoid the No Kings rally on 10/18?

They are in full blown pants pissing panic

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 18h

UNREAL

Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 19h

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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Iced Coffee Regular @icedcoffeeregular.bsky.social · 17h

M.I.T. is smart. Natch.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17h

MIT “became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment… “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit”

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 20h

It’s hard to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy that maybe brokered a temporary peace deal after he ordered 500 tons of nutrient rich biscuits destroyed instead of saving the lives of desperate, starving babies.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 17h

Antifa terrorists getting ready to do battle with Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo in war ravaged Portland. 😂🤣👇

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Colin Robinson @fermiparasocks.bsky.social · 18h

I can’t believe renaming the department of defense to the department of war didn’t work

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18h

Two GOP governors — Vermont’s Phil Scott and Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt — just slammed Trump’s troop deployment as unconstitutional. Even Republican governors are finally calling him out for using the National Guard to take over American cities.
newrepublic.com/post/201610/...

“Unconstitutional”: Two GOP Governors Slam Trump’s Troop Deployments

Republican governors are finally calling out Donald Trump for using the National Guard to take over American cities.

newrepublic.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h

Obama should just a post a photo today with his Nobel medal casually propped on a credenza behind him.

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