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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 4h

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 2h

The man has exhibited visible disgust for anyone with a disability for years. They’re eugenicists.

Even if this gets overturned by the courts what are parents supposed to do in the meantime if they live in a red state?

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Roger ZenAF @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 1d

See? It's all a fuckin' game.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2h

They sure make a lot of mistakes

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1h

there was a really good blog post, years ago, about jon “gaunty” gaunt, a precursor to the right-wing shock-jocks we have now (who have been around forever in america) and one of the points was that he only had three subjects: benefits, the death penalty, and immigration. every night, the same stuff

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 5h

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

After Trump's tariff post, trillions vanished in hours. The S&P collapsed. Nasdaq crashed. Tech giants bled red. But a different kind of storm was already brewing — not on Wall Street, but deep inside the blockchain.

While everyone else was watching Trump’s post, someone was already cashing in.

Before that announcement even hit the airwaves, an anonymous crypto wallet suddenly transferred over $1 billion into stablecoins — digital dollars that hold value even when everything else collapses. Then, within seconds of Trump’s post, that same wallet started placing $100 million buy orders across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and multiple altcoins just as the market imploded.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 9h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 3h

If there is a good and loving God, He can prove His existence to me and gain my eternal worship by letting me live to see Stephen Miller get chased down the street in his boxers by angry citizens, shrieking for his life at high volume in the pitch of a Sixties teenager at a Beatles concert.

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Karen Sue Waters @karensuew.bsky.social · 12h

Looks like America to me!!

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2h

Admin insiders 'privately worrying' Stephen Miller is turning voters against Trump: report

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Admin insiders 'privately worrying' Stephen Miller is turning voters against Trump: report

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, this is good.

The Frog might, as a person, have a message to convey, but the Frog's costume has no meaning, either. It is the juxtaposition against an increasingly militarized ICE that makes its big googly eyes so powerful.
You might think of the dynamic here as something like rock-paper-scissors (or, if you're a dork, like the sword-axe-lance triangle of the Fire Emblem series).

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 2h

Reinstate Jessie. Also, I am coming to the UK this week to talk about my book, which shares the history of trans people and also the way they were targeted by Nazis (something #JK denies.) If Rowling wants to pick on someone, I’m here for it and I’ll be in London… I have the receipts and I am ready.

BRANDY SCHILLACE
THE INTERMEDIARIES
UK BOOK TOUR
All event are listed in local time.
OCT. 16 - 6:30pm
LONDON, ENGLAND WATERSTONES - GOWER ST in conversation with C.N. Lester
OCT. 21 - 5:00pm
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
OCT. 22 - 7:00pm
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS
OC. 23 - 7:00pm
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND WATERSTONES - ARGYLE ST
OCT. 20 - 6:30pm
LONDON, ENGLAND KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
OCT. 21 - 7:00pm
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND QUEER LIT
OCT. 23 - 2:00pm
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 1d

This admin may have the stupidest people ever to work in Government. And we lived through GWB!

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 3h

The Nobel Peace Prize recipient from Venezuela is a FAR RIGHT extremist too.
This is “peaceful” now.

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 3h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Dr. Sandy B @drsandyb.bsky.social · 3h

Now ICE is attacking Chicago PD! Gassed them, why aren't these "federal agents" being held accountable for THEIR reckless violence⁉️
youtube.com/shorts/onCvj...

ICE tear gassed 27 Chicago police officers, Superintendent Snelling says

YouTube video by FOX 32 Chicago

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 9h

Ouch

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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 4h

MaybeTrump should send the National Guard to Mississippi:

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Aaron McCall @aaronmccall.bsky.social · 1d

I do not feel like the American public has the humility or disposition to atone for the sins this administration is committing - given that we have failed at reconstruction & desegregation.

But there are too many people “just following orders” that they know are wrong, I don’t know how we move on.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 5h

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2h

Also, in direct contradiction to Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins’ claim that mass deportations will make the farm workforce “100% American,” the labor dept admitted Americans won’t take those jobs and don’t have the skills to replace the undocumented workers leaving them. DUH X2.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

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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