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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 11m

“The student said the pulled DOJ study showed “70 percent of political violence is committed by Republicans."

Kelly [lied], “Once you pull the crazies out of there, it is overwhelmingly left-wing violence,” adding, that his comments were “defamatory blaspheme, and it’s inappropriate in the setting”

Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 1d

www.alternet.org/trump-crimin...

'He’s a criminal': College student stuns MAGA podcaster in brutal war of words on Trump

Right-wing podcast host Megyn Kelly got into a screaming match with a male college student at a Turning Point USA event at Virginia Tech University over whether or not President Donald Trump is fannin...

www.alternet.org

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h

Welp now they’re reversing some of the layoffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 1d

www.alternet.org/trump-crimin...

'He’s a criminal': College student stuns MAGA podcaster in brutal war of words on Trump

Right-wing podcast host Megyn Kelly got into a screaming match with a male college student at a Turning Point USA event at Virginia Tech University over whether or not President Donald Trump is fannin...

www.alternet.org

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 22m

John Bolton was a PNAC Director, and one of the principal GW Bush administration Iraq war liars.

Ironic he’s falsely persecuted now by the even more criminally corrupt Trump administration, after evading accountability for his Iraq war crimes, which in part led to rightwing rejection of neocons.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 20h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 30m

The Trump-Heritage Cabal is firing thousands of intelligent, educated and civic-minded people who swore an Oath to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies.

They will have free time and incentive to organize and oppose Trump’s corrupt, criminal and treasonous acts.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 38m

The White House previewed that it would pursue the aggressive layoff tactic shortly before the government shutdown began on Oct. 1, telling all federal agencies to submit their reduction-in-force plans to the budget office for its review.

White House Fires Federal Workers to Pressure Dems on Shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have begun as the government shutdown continues.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 38m

Russian air strikes disable 60% of Ukraine’s gas production ahead of winter

A series of massive Russian air strikes in the past week has disabled nearly 60 per cent of Ukraine’s gas production, raising fears of winter shortages.

Russian air strikes disable 60% of Ukraine’s gas production ahead of winter

Moscow’s intensified drone and missile campaign seeks ‘to break our spirit’, says head of state energy group

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 38m

Beijing has slammed Trump’s plan to impose additional 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese exports and threatened new countermeasures as it blamed the US for escalating tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.
www.ft.com/content/ce03...

China blames Trump and US for escalating trade war

Beijing accuses Washington of imposing fresh restrictions on Chinese companies after trade talks last month

www.ft.com

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 38m

Child molester protector Jim Jordan is gonna look into how to persecute people protesting ICE abuses, but won’t bother ICE cuz they’re “doing the Lord’s work” as they brutalize and deport people seeking the work USAns won’t do.

Blasphemy. Gop is evil.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

BASH: Are you gonna look into the way ICE is conducting itself?

JIM JORDAN: We're going to look into the whole situation where you have these mayors--

BASH: So you'll only look into that side and not federal law enforcement?

JORDAN: Wuh wuh wuh we'll look into all this

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 4h

It's Sunday my "antifa" adjacent friends!!

That means we've survived another week of physically and mentally weak people who think they're "alpha" everything. They are not🤣

Today's giggle is from the fabulous duo of Tina Fey & Amy Pohler playing Noem & Bondi.

Stay safe y'all!

#SheShed

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 47m

"[S]ystemic failure to stop sexual abuse in [Idaho's] prisons."

"Since 2020, there have been at least 59 documented allegations of staff sexually abusing imprisoned women."

"37 prison workers accused in the last decade." "Eight were fired."
#Idaho #USA #Incarceration

Staff sex abuse in Idaho women’s prisons largely unchecked

InvestigateWest reporting exposes sexual abuse by guards, retaliation against victims and a system that fails to track the scope of the problem

www.investigatewest.org

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 47m

That explains why the Catholic Church employed, enabled and protected child predator priests for centuries, ultimately paying out billions of dollars they fleeced from the flock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholi...

Anyway, good on Pope Leo for opposing corrupt rapist felony fraud traitor Trump.

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases - Wikipedia

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 54m

Bill Kristol’s PNAC calling for massive MIC funding, Iraq regime change & global projection of US power, a year before 9/11: “… the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

“The documents explicitly show that ICE is choosing this product over others offered by the contractor’s competitors because it gives ICE essentially an “all-in-one” tool for searching both masses of location data and information taken from social media.”

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 4h

A reminder that Hochul had a chance to remove Adams after he was charged and she just didn't, allowing a lot more corruption in his last months.

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 4h

The Adams administration is moving to fast-track a deal with real estate developer Related Companies to continue running Wollman Rink, sealing it before the mayor finishes his term — and freezing out rival proposals.

Parks Fast-Tracks Wollman Rink to Developer As Adams Exits

The Central Park Conservancy protests the mayor’s move to maintain “an island of for-profit commerce” after putting the skating center up for bid.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Trump doesn't remember/believe/understand HE was president on January 6, 2021

This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:

"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A

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