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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 3h

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As Trump’s abuses worsen, it seems Obama is increasingly fired up and ready to go

With increasing frequency, the former Democratic president is re-entering the political arena in unexpected and unsubtle ways.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 7h

Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.

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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 10h

Listen to Robert De Niro “King Donald The First. Fuck that.”

In 8 days we RISE to say #NoKings

LFG! social.demcast.com/s/hr0YvzEG

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 9h

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 7h

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10h

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 10h

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.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 9h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 9h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8h

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 9h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 8h

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

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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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 8h

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Cryptocurrency prices tumbled after US President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China and export controls on software. Traders saw more than $7 billion in positions liquidated in less than an hour, according to data from Coinglass.

Bitcoin initially fell more than 12% after Trump made the announcement via a post on his Truth Social platform. The largest token, which had earlier this week reached an all-time high of more than $125,000, was trading around $113,000 as of Friday evening in New York.

Weakness in the crypto market had already been present coming into Friday. Over the past 24 hours, bets worth some $10 billion have been wiped out in the largest liquidation wave since at least early April, Coinglass data showed.

Smaller and less liquid tokens have been hit the hardest: XRP, memecoin favorite DOGE and Cardano’s ADA fell around 19%, 27% and 25% over the past 24 hours, respectively.

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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 8h

apnews.com/article/stoc...

Wall Street tumbles to its worst day since April after Trump threatens more tariffs on China

A monthslong calm on Wall Street shattered, and U.S. stocks tumbled after President Donald Trump threatened to crank tariffs higher on China.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 9h

www.thetimes.com/article/a94f...

María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize — to fury of Trump’s team

Who is María Corina Machado? Nobel peace prize 2025 news

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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 9h

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Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 10h