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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

2025 is full of moments like this - learning about some awesomely good and important thing the government did that this evil administration is killing

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 13h

@shugowah.bsky.social I don't know who else to tell about this but we killed myth fractilus I'm fuckin ecstatic and gotta tell someone lol. I got an ilvl 94 parse too

www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/RpGx...

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 16h

Strong odds she ends up donating it to him after the award ceremony in December and it ends up hanging off the world cup trophy he stole and still has in the oval office

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 20h

Black is a Presbyterian pastor who has done anti-poverty work in Chicago since 2020. He grew up in an evangelical household and went to seminary for years, he didn't pay a site online 25 dollars.

My understanding from my nun friends is he's spent most of his time working on running a free pantry.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 21h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 17h

Nevada Sen. @cortezmasto.senate.gov calls on Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to provide more information about the gigantic solar project in her state that just got axed with zero public explanation (via @lasvegassun.bsky.social)

In a statement sent to the Las Vegas Sun, U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto lambasted the administration’s “lack of transparency” and urged Burgum to provide clarity.

“Solar energy production makes electric bills cheaper, creates good-paying jobs, and drives economic growth,” Cortez Masto said.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 18h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”

(Published May)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.

In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power t...

www.propublica.org

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 17h

Hi Senator have you changed your mind since Wednesday?

Eric Michael Garcia • @ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a
precondition to rein in the government says "can't do that. It's gotta be health care all the way."
October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM @ Everybody can reply

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 18h

A good time to remind people that Clinton was gearing up to run in 2020, and the only thing that stopped her was people were so uninterested in seeing her on her tour with Bill that one of the Clintonland people got her to realize she'd lose and it'd be humiliating:

www.foxnews.com/politics/bil...

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 21h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 18h

Just an FYI it has been explicitly confirmed that Newsom has bot farms on his payroll astroturfing discussion about him with this exact set of claims “he’s the only one protecting queer people” “the left is to extreme for its own good” “not supporting Newsom is supporting MAGA”

Bye-Bye Mars @bye-byemars.bsky.social · 19h

He's the only one willing to protect them but you're too busy pushing extreme narratives that you'll let MAGA win again.
The left is too extreme for its own good

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 18h

From Pussy Hats to Protest Frogs: The Fall and Rise of America in Furries

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 21h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18h

This the scene in The Big Lebowski where he's explaining the royal "we"

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 18h

I keep thinking about how this shutdown feels so different and I think it comes down to this — the administration is already basically ignoring laws and appropriations etc. A shutdown doesn’t feel as consequential when things are already bashed up and the plan is to do that more.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18h

One fed employee told me the internal conversations feel very different from previous shutdowns.

www.gravityisgone.com/federal-empl...

"Every other fed I've talked to agrees how much it sucks to be furloughed, but also that this shutdown needs to continue until the administration starts respecting the rule of law," said a NOAA employee. "Even the conservative Republicans."

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 18h

Or as Olufemi Taiwo put it,

bsky.app/profile/oluf...

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 20h

Very funny seeing people mad at me for endorsing continuing the shut down "You just want chaos"

My man, I've never endorsed a shutdown before this lol.

When the president is doing line item vetos on spending and invading American cities that's a real ass problem.

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 18h

How many people on bluesky do you think hold the exact venn diagram beliefs that scams are fine because they probably still need the money but if they used AI they’re stealing labor

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 19h

yeah, pretty sure permitting reform and repealing regulations wouldn’t save a solar farm blocked by a government refusing to issue permits

the final approval for esmeralda 7 was locked and loaded to come in july lol

Ben Schifman of IFP: The largest solar project in North America - 6.2 GW Esmeralda 7 project in NV - has been cancelled.

It takes >2 pages just to list the laws, regulations, & policies it had to comply with to be permitted.

Our permitting system is too complex with *far* too many veto points.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18h

i think "TACO" now is actually totally wrong. it's not that Trump chickens out. it's that maintaining a tariff regime requires object permanence

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18h

the closest thing to a coherent theory of governance these guys have is that everything can be done by a few groypers with AI

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

Missed this but according to a recent Hebrew University poll, half of all Israeli Jews think Fox News is biased in favor of Palestinians

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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