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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 6h

And GlobalX, who spend every day shuttling people out of the country. globalxair.com

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 8h

If I met him for real, I’d tell him to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. 🍩

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 9h

But imo turnip greens 🥬 have a higher flavor ceiling.

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 9h

We had a mess of collard greens for dinner, with some brats.

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 9h

Enjoying my first porter of the fall season and watching baseball.

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Morris Column @morriscolumn.bsky.social · 12h

Boston, which has somehow managed to assemble in one place the most annoying aspects of the British class system, Southern racism and segregation, and the least erotic accent in the English language.

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 11h

It could be an alternative title!

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 18h

Fetterman is a useless heap.

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 18h

Governor Hochul, you should send the NY National Guard to restore order!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed.

💯 you do NOT deserve this.

Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice:
❌ Do not send a read receipt
❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response
✅ Forward notice to your personal email

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Katie @katie-did.bsky.social · 21h

This *is* terrible- and there is a need to recognize that anyone shocked by the conditions he was kept under is missing the fact that ANYONE kept in detention, whether "ordinary jail" or ICE facility, is kept in conditions like this.

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Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 21h

#KavanaghStops

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 21h

In New Mexico you can get Hatch green chile and cheddar bagels. Those are exceptional.

Phasmatic @phasmatic.bsky.social · 21h

Scary thread 🧵

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.