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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 7h

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

In Minnesota, 118 students are also under quarantine in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3h

Let’s talk

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks for this

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3h

Their denial is exhausting.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3h

The. Rule. Of. Law. Is. Dead.

Getting tired of repeating this.

𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 7h

WHO IS FIRING WHO??

The president cannot fire federal employees. He appoints a relatively small group of officials:

Cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and some other political appointees (about 4k total).

Vought can’t either. Only within the OMB, which has roughly 500.

We still have laws, yes??

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3h

The. Rule. Of. Law. Is. Dead.

Getting tired of repeating this.

𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 7h

WHO IS FIRING WHO??

The president cannot fire federal employees. He appoints a relatively small group of officials:

Cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and some other political appointees (about 4k total).

Vought can’t either. Only within the OMB, which has roughly 500.

We still have laws, yes??

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3h

Mask up. 😷

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3h

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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3h

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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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 6h

People need to call this what it is: a cognizable threat to do harm to “No Kings” demonstrators.

Also. Now just *imagine* if Black people hadn’t strategically made the decision to stay home and out of y’all’s protests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 6d

Same-sex marriage is next.

Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 6d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Yup

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

The impending pandemic will be truly catastrophic. Woof.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

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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Auntie Po'kchop @auntiepokchop.bsky.social · 9h

THIS is how they steal the Midterms. If the systems are privately owned, even if there's an investigation the judicial fuckery will go so far beyond the actual election it might as well not even hit the docket.
How can we have free & fair elections if the counting machines aren't publicly owned?!?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

👇👇

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

The impending pandemic will be truly catastrophic. Woof.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

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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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

I love that episode of 30 Rock!

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

per Project 2025.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5h

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

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Magneto really was right about everything.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

They won’t be.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5h

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Jesus Christ.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 13h

House GOP just said they won't be back in Washington next week, so the shutdown probably goes at least until the week of Oct 20th.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Jesus Christ.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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