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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

This is like disbanding your military during World War Two.

The Trump regime is firing many of the 2,540 employee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the ongoing government shutdown. Why? CISA dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown

CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 9h

Trump may be wrong to think he'll successfully punish Comey with this indictment. Like Trump, Comey loves attention. Being the subject of a famous trial may be just what Comey will enjoy, especially as there's no chance of conviction.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 9h

Sigh.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you. I needed this to round out my day...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 10h

Southerners nearly rioted over Jade Helm.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 10h

Phony:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

No, Pam Bondi didn't threaten to arrest anyone who calls Trump 'TACO'

"Taco" in this context stands for "Trump always chickens out."

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · Dec 9

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, I feel no urge to pet a libertarian.

N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 16h

Someone once described the libertarian as like a house cat: wholly convinced of her own fierce independence while being entirely dependent on a system she neither understands nor appreciates.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 17h

Anarchy?

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

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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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Good morning from Greenbelt, Md.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys will argue in federal court for his release from immigration detention. Now feds want to send Abrego to Ghana.

Reporting live.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 22h

That's why I proposed 100. Still doable, but it might make him pause. :)

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 22h

I see the article says million, lol.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 22h

Ten *billion*? What, are they afraid Musk would bail him out? (Then it better be a hundred billion.)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Context matters

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Alt Evil @altevil.bsky.social · 1d

What could go wrong?

Dominion Voting Systems Sold To Former Republican Election Official And MAGA Ally, Immediately Rebranded As "Liberty Vote"

Dominion Voting Systems has been acquired by a firm headed by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official and staunch ally of D...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The man was 77 years old and his wife previously organized one of the local ‘No Kings’ protests. All he did was write ‘You Lack Values’ and got an intimidation visit from Desantis’s Gestapo.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is true of skinny jeans, but not everything rises into common consciousness as a result of money or power. Sometimes things rise up from us common people at the bottom.

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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 1d

That's a crucial distinction.

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Noah Bookbinder @noahbookbinder.bsky.social · 1d

We've now had the same thing happen twice in the past few weeks. With New York Attorney General James, as with former FBI Director Comey, Donald Trump publicly demanded prosecution of a perceived enemy and made it happen over the objections of career prosecutors, which is beyond dangerous. 🧵

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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