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Judi Gunn (Out of cute names RN) @judigunn.bsky.social · 5m

CSAs rock. Ours has meat, eggs, vanilla, maple syrup, and apples, AND veggies.

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NPR @npr.org · 2h

More than 1,300 staffers at the health agency got notices they were fired — but more than half were reinstated. The cuts will hobble some divisions, employees say. n.pr/4n1JBbJ

With new cuts at CDC, some fear there's 'nobody to answer the phone'

More than 1,300 staffers at the health agency got notices they were fired — but more than half were reinstated. The cuts will hobble some divisions, employees say.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 16h

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Judi Gunn (Out of cute names RN) @judigunn.bsky.social · 8h

Yay you!! Congratulations from a fellow 🐝 enthusiast.

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 16h

Grateful to have outlets like @thetriibe.com on the ground and reporting the facts. ICE and federal agents are not deploying tear gas at "protesters" in Chicago. They are wantonly tear gassing entire neighborhoods and communities.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 17h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 11h

“We emailed several Media School administrators Monday, asking them for more clarity behind the order and requesting they rescind their directive.

Instead of a clear response, they fired a faculty member.”

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 12h

We both paused to take a look at each other and then we both went about our business. Amazing to watch this coyote just disappear into the grass. Magical creatures #mammals

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 12h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 11h

George Floyd should still be here to celebrate his 52nd birthday. His life sparked a movement, and our fight for justice, accountability, and humanity continues. We’ll never stop saying his name.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 12h

If you're going to a No Kings protest this Saturday (as why would you not?), I have a little sermon to put in your pocket and take along.

Text is Luke 18:1-8, Jesus' story about the little old lady who bullies a rotten judge into giving her justice: lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts/?y=384...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

in all the discussion (and sometimes tokenizing) of Portland protests being a creative spectacle that neutralizes law enforcement, don’t overlook:

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 13h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Tim Walz: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business ... the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Donald Trump is the one with government interference."

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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · 11h

Pritzker/Walz 2028
Make the Khanate of the upper Great Lakes again!
(12/n)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Tim Walz: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business ... the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Donald Trump is the one with government interference."

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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · Nov 16

Exactly. Democrats have to recognize that they are fighting Putinism, not Eisenhower-Republicanism. And they need to start acting less like Adlai Stevenson, and more like Alexei Navalny.

I’m not sure the older, whiter generation of Democrats will ever get this.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Nov 15

For years now, the right has been accusing Democrats of running a shadowy conspiracy to protect politicians who are sex predators.

Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.

Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Nov 15

Oh its bad bad

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Andrew @andrewcyberkop.bsky.social · 2d

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11h

and remember, it especially matters who they have illegally fired and how — they have effectively destroyed many of the CDC's core capacities by targeting leadership, policy, comms, and administrative offices

Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 14h

The CDC's union estimates that a quarter of the agency been gutted under the Trump administration. Here's our story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Judi Gunn (Out of cute names RN) @judigunn.bsky.social · 11h

My brother in Christ, you gotta get out more.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 11h

Ahem. #Georgia folks. Y’all my people. I’m here in #Atlanta, Fifth District. John Lewis’s turf. Hank makes good points. Listen to him.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

Hey Georgia! @hankgreen.bsky.social has a convincing pitch for why you should vote AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS in the upcoming Georgia Public Service Commission special election! Potentially save consumers money, kick out some Rs, feel good! YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT HUGELY! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11h

The president keeps telling the military to murder people in boats and the military keeps doing it. Crimes, just straight-up crimes internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Trump’s Wag The Dog Moment - CIP

If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that, unless you believe cartels only own one boat.

internationalpolicy.org

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 15h

Back at Broadview where conservative stream Ben Bergquam and Proud Boy Terry Newsome stopped by to harass protesters. ISP separated them and made them come across the street by press.

Bergquam was embedded with ICE last month — my story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Two men stand and point holding signs saying “Deport Every Illegal” and “The Peace President”

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 11h

If you have seen a pregnant, postpartum, or lactating woman in immigration custody, please let the Women's Refugee Commission know by submitting a report through the Detention Pregnancy Tracker.

detentionpregnancytracker.com

Women's Refugee Commission

detentionpregnancytracker.com

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Rep. Emily Randall @repemilyrandall.bsky.social · 12h

Adelita! Swear her in!

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