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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

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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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 5h

Ozzy♥️

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Dr. Jacqueline E. Whitt @notabattlechick.bsky.social · 5h

Make the GOP own every single thing in this budget or keep the government shut down.

I say this as a currently furloughed federal employee.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 6h

The founders in fact did NOT create the filibuster, but they DID give the Senate and House each the power to set their own rules, which includes changing rules to allow passage of appropriations bills with simple majorities

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 9h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 13h

📣The Freedom Frogs are multiplying‼️

This is the way Portland 🫡❤️🐸
Video @oregonian.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5h

No, what’s stupid is thinking “bowitdabowdabangdabangbittybittychowackdabingdabowdowdabitty” is a song lyric, and also you’re a rich kid cosplaying as a hillbilly go back to your gated community, Robert

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 5h

Qatar gave Trump a $55B golf deal, a golden flying palace, laughed at his jokes and told him he's pretty, and now in payback he's letting them build a Qatari military base on US soil? Ohhhh, can you imagine another president doing this and the GOP not completely losing their shit? I can't.

Trump critics fume over latest Qatar deal: ‘The corruption is so blatant’

Qatar will have an "air force facility" at an Idaho military base, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday.

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 6h

Just wait until that damned fool and his administration eat at that faux La Quinta patio where the Rose Garden used to be and brag while families starve and cannot pay their bills.

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Ed @yirdaki.bsky.social · 6h

I have two ukuleles. Don't tell Homeland.

🫧 Kay Hanley 🫧 @kayhanley.bsky.social · 1d

I will buy an animal costume and a ukulele to save America 🇺🇸

h/t @corybooker.com

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 6h

It’s the little things in life.

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans would rather protect a pedophile this feed Americans.

Congress continues to get paid while refusing to do their jobs.

I don’t want to see or hear anymore performative bullshit from a party who uses the military as a prob then sends them to a food bank.

RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 8h

Ft Hood (Cavazos) soldiers in line at the food bank

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 9h

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@David @david5300.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Stunning images go viral showing American soldiers lined up at a literal food bank after Donald Trump's government failed to pay them thanks to his MAGA shutdown.

This is a stunning new low for America...

"Sucking up to billionaires and millionaires is it worth it "

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 12h

So glad to know the First Lady is having lovely chats with a genocidal murderer to ask him to return the children he abducted.

Do we even have a State Department anymore?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h

this one is still an all-timer tho ⬇️

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Trump administration’s table of authorities in this filing:

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6h

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 14h

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 9h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 10h

Hahaha

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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⚜️🌊Tyreen BaconSkin🌊⚜️ @baconskingirl.bsky.social · 20h

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