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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 11h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 3h

However, cost plus doesn't do controlled substances.

Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 3h

There's a whole group on Reddit around the issue. Something changed right around Covid and they became less effective and started causing more side effects. Seems the worst offenders are tablets made in China, but it's anecdotal.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 10h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 6h

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 5h

Adding The Voyage Of The Mimi. That's another show I haven't thought about in 30 years. I really liked that one when I was a kid. I think it aired right after 321 Contact.

Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 5h

I just thought about The Bloodhound Gang for the first time in years.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 10h

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8h

@repstansbury.bsky.social: "This is gangster activity. The president is trying to shield pedophiles by calling and threatening members of Congress. We need more members of Congress, whether it's the Epstein files, the shutdown, health care, democracy, the rule of law, to just fucking do their jobs."

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 7h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 7h

You can tell these ice asses have had no training. They look completely out of their element. I'm guessing they were just given a gun and a badge and told to do whatever.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

"Forty-two judges went so far as to say that the Supreme Court’s emergency orders had caused 'some' or 'major' harm to the public’s perception of the judiciary[,] [including] nearly half of the Republican-nominated judges."

gift link 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks I'll give them a try. With my insurance prescriptions are $10, but would be willing to pay out of pocket for something that actually works like it's supposed to, though I shouldn't have to.

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 8h

I wasn't able to prior, but took a new job this month with better insurance and can now go anywhere. Going to try Costco or CVS instead. Hopefully one will carry something better or be able to order a different brand.

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Marquis Lafayette @renegadesci.bsky.social · 10h

Well, now we pay Taxes to Trump.

No representation, but all the taxation.

Until the military decides to take over and cut out the government.

Then we pay Taxes to the Military?

You act like "The Military" now fights for our freedom and Constitution?

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 8h

No unfortunately not. A few months ago Walmart ran out of their usual Chinese crap medication and I received a generic made in the US. It worked great! Like Adderall used to. My doctor put that I prefer that brand on my Rx, but Walmart says they can't order it for some reason.

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 8h

I mean they're owned by one of the scummiest media/web conglomerates in the country. I've yet to find someone with anything more than mildly positive to say about Comcrap.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 8h

This x100. I take Adderall and every since Walgreens and Walmart started carrying Chinese and Indian made brands it's never consistent and causes all kinds of side effects I never had prior to all these weird brands. The benefits outweigh the issues, but not by much at this point.

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Jack Straw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🥄 @jxkstraw.bsky.social · 1d

Rich coming from someone who looks like they rolled out of a dumpster in Amarillo, TX.

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