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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 4h

Definition of a mood. 😂

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 5h

Updated the new TikTok entry to reflect that Barron Trump, America's "Lurchiest" nepo baby, has been given an executive position at US TikTok. I was going to make a big joke out of it but it's not fucking funny.
open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace

The beast eats money. Don't feed it with yours.

open.substack.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 12h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Which means they’re away from their day jobs but not being paid.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

In plain English:

Troops remain federalized for now, but cannot be deployed in Illinois.

Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials...

The trials of litigating against Trump

As Trump troop deployments are blocked in Chicago, Trump appellate appointees push back on the order blocking deployments in Portland. And, another Trump target indicted.

www.lawdork.com

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 5h

Keep filming them! Keep posting and reposting the videos! Share wherever you think it will make an impact! Do not be silenced.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 7h

We are seeing dozens of these videos every day. It's happening all over the ocuntry. I know many people are outraged but it's just continuing unabated.

This feeling of impotence is devastating. How does it end? With the country emptied of brown people and dissidents in jail?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 8h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 5h

Same, Seth. Same.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 7h

Too much truth in one meme

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

I wrote a book about January 6, 2021.

Want to know when the Trump administration began its systematized lying about antifa and the FBI being behind MAGAs' attack on the Capitol?

January 6, 2021.

Rudy Giuliani had a suite at the Willard Hotel that was the command center for broadcasting that lie.

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 5h

JFC.

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 5h

He means MAGA does not care, corporations do not care, media does not care, republicans do not care. But we care.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 11h

It takes very little to trigger her‼️ She should take some time off or go into another line of work‼️

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 9h

To quote The AV Club "I am genuinely going to miss this ridiculous show".

www.avclub.com/peacemaker-s...

Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 9h

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Ron Placone @ronplacone.bsky.social · 10h

So just looking at it big picture: If a health secretary with no medical qualifications declared a shot to be “deadly.” And then the President who appointed said health secretary got said shot voluntarily, you would conclude, at the very least, that they’re full of shit, right?

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 10h

Show in Quincy, IL tomorrow night.

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Mark Sumner 🇺🇦 @devilstower.bsky.social · 12h

Why hasn’t the District Attorney issued a warrant for these men? In no sense is anything they are doing here in service of their federal role. They’re just using pointless brutality and breaking dozens of laws. Arrest these men.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 10h

If Trump can get the COVID vaccine then everyone should be able to!

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 10h

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 10h

TikTok going on boycott guide today. open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 10h

State sponsored propaganda=full fascism.

Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 10h

In Chittenango? Take my grandkids there!

Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 10h

The pearl clutcher needs to go. What say you Maine!?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 16h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 12h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Kari Johnson @karijohn.bsky.social · 10h

I was just pointing this very topic out to my husband that even when the pedo president "loses" in court or otherwise, he wins with his supporters.