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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15h

Trump has explicitly stated that he is terminating federal employees based on political affiliation. Data is currently being collected, but layoff notices have already gone out to employees at the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy,

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 12h

That’s a monstrance - the Blessed Sacrament - a very big sacramental deal to Catholics (and many Anglicans and other high liturgy folks also). A powerful statement about the Body of Christ, which includes the immigrants being held inside that facility.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 15h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1h

"London reported the lowest number of homicides of under-25s for more than two decades. Overall, murders are at a five-year low, and the rate is much lower than in other international cities such as New York, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Madrid" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘London has turned into something crazy’: is the city in the grip of a crime wave?

Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling

www.theguardian.com

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Trans Woman Support @tws-website.com · 5h

This regime is dangerous

#riseup #standup #resist #revolt #respect #support #change #together #love #nomorehate #transgender #lgbtqiap2s

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 12h

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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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1h

Heron surveys the world and is unimpressed

The head and body of a heron looking cross. Its body is grey, with white lower breast and throat. The beak is yellow underneath and black and grey above. Its eye has a yellow ring round a black centre.

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Melissa Summers @lisservel.bsky.social · 21h

So excited for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme of #glow! These are from Smith Island, a small inhabited island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are only about 200 residents on the island, but they’re pure gold!

#travel #Maryland #Chesapeake #EastCoastKin #PicMagnets #sunset #photography

Fishing shack on Smith Island with a golden sunset backdrop

Abandoned restaurant on Smith Island with a golden glow

Docked boat at Smith Island with golden sunset backdrop

A pier provides angles and framing for boats and another broken down pier with a golden sunset backdrop.

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Aura Wellness Center @aurawellnesscenter.bsky.social · 9h

‪"Friends, humans, and fellow cats: Happy #Caturday Night! 🍿We're settling in to watch 🐜 giant ants in "Them" on Svengoolie. We raked the yard and had pumpkin chili while watching westerns this afternoon. Sophie just called into the local chippy for a 🍕 pizza delivery."
😺🐰😻
~ Vivi

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Print featuring a line of different wild plants in silhouette with a singing blackbird perched in one and a dragonfly flying above, all in front of the ocean under an orange sun

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22h

NEW FRENCH PM JUST DROPPED

get them while you can. it's a limited pull.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 6h

I hate to burst your bubble, but...

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Tom Watson @guitarwatson.bsky.social · 19h

The Project 25 bros thought it would all be over in 25. Only 11 weeks left. Not even close. Quite the opposite, actually. Grim as things are, they're running short of time. And they banked on far more popularity. Not happening.

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SueP @sparkes66.bsky.social · 1h

Full moon, windy, wet.

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pjmacdaddy.bsky.social @pjmacdaddy.bsky.social · 7h

Damn it people, it’s all in Project 2025. They stole everyone’s information. They know who the loyalists are and we retain those employees. It’s either bend the knee or get cut loose. The Heritage Foundation is full of bastards and cunts!

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 8h

It's not even a matter of believing it. Vought is on record stating that he wants to make federal workers miserable. His exact words: “We want to put them in trauma.”

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Judge You Harshly 🦋✌️🤟🖖 @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 8h

The incompetence is intentional. 🫩

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 8h

The Project 2025 architects did say explicitly that they intended to traumatize federal workers. "Erroneously" firing and rehiring them sure is one effective way to do it.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10h

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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SueP @sparkes66.bsky.social · 3h

IMHO it has to begin with the curriculum. Enough time to truly meet those ELG and to work on them throughout KS1 and to truly embed all the basics at a suitable pace throughout Primary. Stop racing them through and thinking earlier means better. But also enough money and resource.

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