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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 3m

Well done, women who voted for this.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h

After decades of progress on closing the pay gap between men and women, it’s now widening. For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row, according to recent data from the Census Bureau.

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

Next Saturday is #NoKings Day.

Stand up for democracy before it's too late.

Find a protest near you at nokings.org.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 28m

We know it when we see it.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 44m

“Money always wins.”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 47m

Getting rid of the ethics staff is the least surprising part.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 49m

Mad king.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

"Who could have imagined nine years ago that the US would be zapping vessels suspected of drug-running, vast distances from American soil?
...Who said it was OK to fire at civilians who are not firing back?"

"Trickle down immunity" is now a big problem for the US military. And so for everyone else.

Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 8h

With Yale Law School military justice expert Eugene Fidell and former JAG Maj. General Steven J. Lepper on the biggest civil/military crisis since the Civil War.

Trump Wants to Use American Cities as a “Training Ground.” It’s Becoming Clear Why.

MAGA cries “Insurrection!”, setting up a dangerous standoff between the American people and the military.

slate.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 5h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 1h

The Nobel prize went to a Trump stan?
Give me strength.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 1h

Do we have a name for that?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h

President Trump’s unprecedented efforts to pressure the Justice Department into prosecuting his perceived enemies have, so far, netted swift results — and more may be on the way.

Prosecutors push toward charging other Trump foes after Letitia James

With two of Trump’s foes now under indictment, Justice Department officials are pushing ahead with a list of additional cases.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 1h

Our money.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h

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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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 3h

Diane Keaton. 💔

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning Star of ‘Annie Hall,’ Dies at 79

She also portrayed Kay Adams in the three ‘Godfather’ films and starred in ‘The First Wives Club’ and ‘Book Club’ movies.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

A second generation nepo baby, raised by a pair of sociopaths and given every advantage in the world. I'm sure this story will end well.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 7h

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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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 4h

A gripping tale of a retired Israeli general who drove, with his wife, into the teeth of the October 7 terror attack to rescue his son and family. Filmmaker Barry Avrich and retired Israeli general Noam Tibon join us.
Plus Kim and @mattbelloni.bsky.social banter!

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Noam Tibon on rescuing his family from Hamas in Barry Avrich’s ‘The Road Between Us’

Podcast Episode · The Business · 10/10/2025 · 30m

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 15h

Seems fair.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Breaking the law so he can endanger the nation, Russ Vought arches an eyebrow as he strokes a white Persian cat on his lap.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 15h

And I would like you to beg forgiveness and go away.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 15h

More bullshit on behalf of the bullshitter in chief.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 23h

Among other updates, ICE/DHS were told -- again, this time by a judge -- to remove the fence around ICE Broadview. It was still up when I left at noon. And as this story reports, today IL Sens Duckworth & Durbin were denied entry, as other local officials have been for weeks.

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

Protesters gathered Friday outside the Broadview ICE facility, as they have for weeks in resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. blockclubchi.co/48oEVt5

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