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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 50m

Is RFK in league with measles? Like, I truly don't understand his personal mission to get people sick. Is he invested in some fake cure?

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 53m

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

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As of October 7, 2025, a total of 1,563 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States. Among these, 1,542
measles cases were reported by 42 jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A total of 21 measles cases were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
There have been 44 outbreaks** reported in 2025, and 87% of confirmed cases (1,355 of 1,563) are outbreak-associated. For comparison, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases (198 of 285) were outbreak-associated.

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 11h

Elon Musk should be tried for crimes against humanity for what he did to USAID

Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 11h

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 12h

I know we're so used to it, but it's absolutely insane we just let this senile old fuck just lie all the time.

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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 19h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 16h

Oh no, policies people like!

Also, there's no way the Democrats are courageous enough to nuke the filibuster.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 23h

They're clearly just force-feeding Trump AI slop all day, can't they just tell him he won the Peace Prize and hand him a gold medal?

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 23h

fucking loser libs.

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump didn't get a shiny medal that his mortal enemy Obama got, so he's throwing a hissy fit that will throw the economy into turmoil.

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like most other countries have to be shocked at how cheaply they were able to buy America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 1d

Has Andrew Cuomo ever been to New York ?

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 1d

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to see something terrible happen to this mealy mouthed little worm.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 2d

There truly need to be more mechanisms to remove a president. Although, I assume any would be immediately abused by the right.

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 2d

Killing Klan members would have made me grab one of these games for the first time since like 2011

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 2d

Well, we knew some shocking people would be on the List.

a screenshot of the Bluesky Trending area showing "Epstein Case" and "Donatello" next to each other.

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 2d

I hate this old piece of shit so much.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 3d

The Smiths and Morrissey suck

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 3d

Julia Roberts explains we should listen to the Smiths even if Morrissey's problematic

Julia Roberts Explains We Should Listen To The Smiths Even If Morrissey’s Problematic

Morrissey and the Smiths come up in After The Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s new movie starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny. As Time’s review ex...

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 3d

Cool that the public is waking up on her AI-esque career finally.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 4d

The Witty Titty, literary salon and strip club.

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 9d

Repeal the Patriot Act

Get rid of DHS

Hold everyone in ICE accountable for their crimes

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 4d

On the one hand, it's insane that we aren't even one year into the current Trump regime and he's already sending the military into states to crush dissidents.

On the other hand, he's already had multiple health scares and there's like a 0% chance he survives until 2028

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 5d

Senile old fuck

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty wild that the states of the "former" Confederacy are just down to invade Blue states. Like, I get it from the presidents rotten brain and his flock of ghouls, but there are so many people with power willing to get some antebellum revenge.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 5d

Brain's on point, gang. Don't know what we're all talking about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 6d

Some needs to *REDACTED* Stephen Miller.

Patrick Gaertner @puzzledpagan.bsky.social · 7d

Uh oh, the big guy had another stroke.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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