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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 4d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 11h

2) The CDC division within the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) that directs the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) — a bellwether of the country’s health — lost all its planners in last weekend’s firings.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 11h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h

Assuming there's a political debate with Stephen Miller is ASSUREDLY not understanding Stephen Miller.

Or fascism.

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 18h

Your Daily Dose Of Cuteness....

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 18h

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 19h

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

🚨BREAKING: 3rd Circuit DENIES Republican Party petition to rehear critical voting rights case involving Pennsylvania’s date requirement for mail-in ballots.

A BIG VICTORY for the DSCC, DCCC, AFT of Pa. and the voters of Pennsylvania. Proud on my ELG team. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections

Learn more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Supreme Court officially declines to hear Alex Jones appeal of judgement against him for calling Sandy Hook a hoax.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

www.nytimes.com

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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 1d

Is there another national leader who has been all over the map about abortion to gay rights to free speech to Russia to its war in Ukraine to come-and-buy-your-drugs-from-me? Hmmmm…let me think…could his name be Donald Trump?
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/here-is-ho...

Here is how Trump could stay in power after 2029 even if he’s not President

If there is one defining characteristic of the Trump second term in office, it is his naked mixing of the presidency with his personal business.

luciantruscott.substack.com

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 1d

Are you kidding me right now?. You’ve worked 2 days in July, 0 in August, 1 in September, and 6 in October, and now you’re pretending you’re “on duty”? Buddy, you’ve barely punched in since summer. And somehow you’re blaming Democrats for the shutdown?

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the deal, Mike Johnson, you worked 9 days since July, make $200K, and get best free healthcare we pay for, while shutting down ours.

Want it fair? Start with your paychecks. No work, no pay and no damn free healthcare for any of you. Let Congress feel the pain they dump on the rest of us.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Along with fast-tracking FEMA funds for the Naples pier, Noem flew to the Florida city on a government plane to tour the site, then stayed for the weekend and had dinner with the donor, according to emails and an interview with the Naples mayor.

(Published September)

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened

The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

www.propublica.org

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@dennis74.bsky.social @dennis74.bsky.social · 1d

WOW

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d

Evening chuckle.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1d

Social media is cooked. All the censorship, algos, AI, bots, disinformation, asymmetrical narratives, paid shills, etc. ruined it. They're dividing us up and building walls between us to hurt our engagement because we were using it for justice, protests, boycotts, strikes, etc.

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@dennis74.bsky.social @dennis74.bsky.social · 1d

NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom: "Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I'm being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today."

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

It’s become crystal clear, Speaker Johnson doesn’t want Congress to come back in session because they don’t want the Epstein files released.

Stop the shutdown - release the files!

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Jordy: Republicans control every branch of government. Every day that passes with the gov shut down is another reminder that Trump and the GOP would rather protect pedos than ensure people have health care. Because once the government reopens, you know what’s coming—a vote on the Epstein files.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Mockler: I think we need to spend more time talking about phase two and the actual peace deal, rather than some Nobel peace prize, when that hasn't been achieved yet.

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Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, the Media stands up to them: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 1d

Today, Donald Trump admired Egyptian dictator el-Sisi’s regime “because if he has crime, he puts it out very quickly.”

This was a reference to the worst massacre of protesters in modern world history by el-Sisi’s military in 2013.

“I think it’s great.”
www.mind-war.com/p/rabaa-mass...

Rabaa Massacre: “I think it’s great.”

Trump’s psychology is unspooling. His opposition needs to reorient itself.

www.mind-war.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your health care plan?

@SpeakerJohnson: *attacks the ACA and says Republicans are the party of wanting to fix health care🤔 even though they have no plan, sabotaged the ACA, just cut $1 trillion from health care*

#MedicareForAll

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

I know I tell this story all the time, BUT

Pete Hoekstra, Trump's current ambassador to Canada (& to Netherlands in Trump 1) told me when he was first being considered that he had no proof of naturalization. (He came to US when he was 12.)

He had been HPSCI chair for years before that. [corrected]

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

From Seattle to Baltimore, many Americans were celebrating Monday as Indigenous Peoples Day, determined to see it as a triumph of perseverance over centuries marked by trauma. https://to.pbs.org/4n1JlK0

Some Indigenous Peoples Day events strike conciliatory tone as Trump focuses on Columbus

This is the first year Indigenous Peoples Day has state recognition in Montana, after a decade-long campaign in the state that is home to 12 federally recognized tribes.

www.pbs.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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