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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 11h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson is falsely generalizing the “No Kings” protestors as extremists to justify crackdowns. The truth is, they’re patriots.

These protestors don’t “hate America.” They oppose an authoritarian president who tramples on the freedoms and principles America was founded on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 10h

We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 4h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what the hell is going on here

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 8h

The police will always side with fascism over the population.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 11h

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Lunch/Counter/Punch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 11h

If Vought et al have their way, the US government will exist solely as a tax you to snatch you scheme.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h

Estonia has closed the Saatse border crossing with Russia due to an unusually large Russian military presence on the other side. The Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) noted increased patrols and military movements that were much higher than normal, which were deemed beyond routine activities.

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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 16h

V WaPo:
Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal.
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Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show

Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 16h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21h

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

- higher taxes on the ultra wealthy
- regulations on chat bots
- woke mind virus (obviously)
- trump derangement syndrome

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 21h

Half the time I don’t know whether they’re trying to seize power or if they’re trying to dismantle the US before abruptly leaving

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see someone bringing an appropriate level of energy and outrage to the moment.

starwalker @starwalkers.bsky.social · 1d

Bryan Andrews Music

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

This is AI.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often people still on X go “Wow, it’s really racist here now,” then go ahead and continue using the app.

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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 1d

There's nothing as radicalizing as reality.

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 1d

Who remembers Rupert Murdoch getting one of the first Covid vaccines in the UK while Fox News sowed vaccine skepticism in the US? 🙋🏽‍♂️

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

For those who need their memory refreshed 👇👇

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

pixelated boat
@pixelatedboat
Wow, this extract from Wolff's book is a shocking insight into Trump's mind:

On his first night in the White House, President Trump complained that the TV in his bedroom was broken, because it didn't have "the gorilla channel.” Trump seemed to be under the
impression that a TV channel existed that screened nothing but
gorilla-based content, 24 hours a day.
To appease Trump, White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel, broadcast into Trump's bedroom from a hastily-constructed transmission tower on the South Lawn. However, Trump was unhappy with the channel they had created, moaning that it was "boring"
because "the gorillas aren't fighting".
Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren't hitting each other, and at last the president was satisfied. "On some days he'll watch the gorilla channel for 17 hours straight," an insider told me. "He kneels in front of the TV, with his face about four inches from the screen, and says encouraging things to the gorillas, like 'the way you hit that other gorilla was good'. I think he thinks the gorillas can hear him."
1/4/18, 9:07 PM

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 1d

Grandpa Rock

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 1d

Sir, take your hat and glasses off

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 1d

The cruelty is the point.

CDFIs help low-income and rural communities get access to capital to start small businesses – a broadly bipartisan priority.

This administration wants to make it impossible for low- and middle-income Americans to get ahead.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

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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