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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 28m

Not as much as I would expect, though!

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 34m

I fully believe the theory that's going around that ICE has deliberately been recruiting from far-right militia groups, and the masking and refusal to identify ICE agents have been doing is an attempt to obscure that fact as opposed to being intended to "protect" them.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 33m

A major error or just bad judgement? Terribly embarrassing for the WaPo to have this disaster of a graph as their Saturday front page. The X and Y axes appear to be….the same?

A confusing graph on the front page of the Washington Post

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 3h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Same day that the US announced a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will benefit Trump's political allies and donors.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 3h

Last night’s “Friday night massacre” at CDC will of course have potentially devastating repercussions for public health—that is probably a temporary outcome. But there is also permanent damage in the loss of public trust for government health data. We are all less safe now and for many years.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

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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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 14h

The sooner we acknowledge that the rules for acceptable behavior for Democrats and Republicans are not the same, the faster we’ll get through the wasteland.

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 17h

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 2d

Impeachable offenses, daily.

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e•mol•u•ment /a'mälyam(a)nt/
noun
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plural noun: emoluments
a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office.

Brennan Center explanation of US Constitution emoluments clause.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 2d

This is my love language.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 2d

Just to be on the record, I am now, and always have been, anti-fascist.

Aren’t you?

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 2d

Far-right grifters are determining the “reality”’of the most powerful man in the world. What could go wrong? 🤷‍♂️

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 3d

As you know, reality has a well-known liberal bias.

WIRED @wired.com · 3d

In a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Cruz accused the beloved online resource of being too liberal. www.wired.com/story/ted-cr...

Ted Cruz Targets Wikipedia Over ‘Ideological Bias’

In a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Cruz accused the beloved online resource of being too liberal.

www.wired.com

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone have a structural explanation that helps me understand why Apple Music mixes always suck?

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4d

The federal government does and should have the authority to deploy troops into our cities—even without local consent—*when the circumstances actually warrant it.*

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com, me on why the real issue in Portland, Chicago, and elsewhere is the missing / contrived factual predicate:

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 4d

The kicker is, unlike previous shutdowns, the longer this one goes on, the less people know/remember it’s happening.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe @adambonica.bsky.social or @donmoyn.bsky.social has something?? Looking for quantified or data viz comparing Trump II cabinet officials qualifications versus previous presidencies.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 5d

Hivemind... I'm looking for a quantified or data visualization comparison of the qualifications of Trump's cabinet appointees versus previous presidents. Has anyone seen something like this?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 7d

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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