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Big Natural Resources @dagnificent.bsky.social · 11h

It's happening again

Big Natural Resources @dagnificent.bsky.social · 2d

It's extremely confusing to have sports at the same time as fascism. I don't know what the posts mean.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13h

You would think maybe one media outlet could not only assert that this isn't true, but also make a big, multi-day story out of the fact the U.S. president believes a perfectly fine, major American city is a burning, dystopian hellscape

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 19h

Yale researchers analyzed data from 158 million US workers and found that even after the pandemic, COVID-19 continues to raise work absences by 13% and labor force exits by 13%.

The virus has created a new year-round baseline similar to flu season.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 13h

UPDATE‼️The Hill reports at least 4,100 employees fired today as Russell Vought and Trump devastate our government agencies and slash the federal workforce.

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 12h

Yet again, USA:

Do not permit this or anything like it.

Require that Congress block it, #ImpeachRFKJr, and #ImpeachTrump.

Before they kill even more people than they already have.

Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump administration is using the federal government shutdown as an excuse to terminate CDC employees. Inside Medicine obtained an internal email sent to leadership staff in the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”

@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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