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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, you know who's been posting about ebola and the decimated capacity of the US to fight outbreaks?
@bethcameron-dc.bsky.social!

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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wondering whose White House job it is to protect Americans from bio threats - and why that matters? As of this week, it is *nobody's* full-time job. Here is what that means for all of us. Thanks to Jon Finer & @spsaki.bsky.social who lay it out with me here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola

We had a playbook for handling biothreats. Then Trump pushed out the people who knew how to use it.

www.theatlantic.com

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 2h

Do you know who she is? Well, interesting story that.
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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · Feb 16

Nobody heard of the NSC Directorate for Global Health and Security and Bio-Defense back in 2018.
And then Trump closed it, in the words of @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social.
apnews.com/article/dona...
The rest is history.

Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus "came out of nowhere" and “blindsided the world.”

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, you know who's been posting about ebola and the decimated capacity of the US to fight outbreaks?
@bethcameron-dc.bsky.social!

bsky.app/profile/beth...

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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wondering whose White House job it is to protect Americans from bio threats - and why that matters? As of this week, it is *nobody's* full-time job. Here is what that means for all of us. Thanks to Jon Finer & @spsaki.bsky.social who lay it out with me here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola

We had a playbook for handling biothreats. Then Trump pushed out the people who knew how to use it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 12h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 4h

Alice Cooper, for those who don't know, was doing some experimental stuff himself -like partnering with the producer for The Cars to become more new wavey:
youtu.be/5wY6FC9NNSw
Not bad, but it could have used more crucipenises.

Alice Cooper - Clones

YouTube video by Teep's BEEP

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 6h

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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 4h

The trailer
youtu.be/XDUoNHSceAM
and why yes, that is a cameo by Alice Cooper as a homeless servant of evil.

Prince of Darkness (1987) Original Trailer [FHD]

YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 4h

Prince of Darkness. As a kid, the vhs of this got the hairs on my neck standing high.
And the creepy ass soundtrack. *shivers*
Mind you, I was a kid and I thought James Cameron's "Battle Beyond the Stars" was really cool too.

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 8h

Between Jeffery Lord, from the first Trump regime, to Scott Jennings now, they have no problem putting on liars for hire who exist to spew bad faith arguments for tv drama.
It's Jerry Springer, but with politics. Unwatchable.

thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 8h

Personally, I have a distaste for any media that decides that one person and their substack is worth 150 million dollars and I have to ask myself, "what is really being purchased here?"
But when it comes to legacy media and maga trolls, cnn is unwatchable.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 9h

It’s important to understand that the demonization of ‘Antifa’ isn’t just about kneecapping the enemies of MAGA. It’s about creating an opportunity to bring down the law-enforcement apparatus on anyone who dares dissent.

open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 8h

This Cathy Young?
@cathyyoung63.bsky.social
She looks my age. 👴🏻

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 8h

I'm putting my money on the jawas. Utinni!

thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 13h

It's worth reviewing the video @codyjohnston.bsky.social did on this subject pre 2020.
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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 6d

And if anyone needs an entertaining analysis of what fascism is and how it applies to the Trump regime, assuming he hasn't deleted his social media and/or fled the country, @codyjohnston.bsky.social has been a valuable resource.
He was on top of the antifa back on day one.
youtu.be/SVOuY7hoqEs

How To Actually Cover Stories About Antifa - Some News

YouTube video by Cracked

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 13h

They wanted to make jokes about the victims of right wing political violence, but then they wanted to browbeat anyone who doesn't validate their fury over right wing victims of violence.
And now they're just purging the word 'right' from the reports of political violence.
This is willful delusion.

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 13h

And the reason they have to rewrite the narrative is because the cognitive dissonance, the doublethink is uncomfortable. It's rage inducing:

youtube.com/shorts/Mp6ww...

Megyn Kelly Praises Greg Gutfeld Passionately Pushing Back at Jessica Tarlov During Kirk Discussion

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 13h

Man, that Minnesota LIE is egregious. We've gone from "Don't play both sides with me!" over the Kirk assassination:
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to "That assassination that made us look bad? No, that was the left too!"
This is Ministry of Truth level bs.

thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · Sep 11

@ryanobles.bsky.social was the reporter asking Nancy Mace about the violence on 'both sides':
www.instagram.com/reel/DOcDY0y...
After Nancy Mace put a target on the back of trans people by claiming Kirk was talking about 'mass trannie violence when this happened.'

youtu.be/qkmI4pTw3b4
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WATCH: US Representative Nancy Mace on Charlie Kirk shooting

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 14h

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14h

A great part of David's book The Age of Insurrection details all the mass shootings and natural disasters and other tragedies that were baselessly blamed on antifa in 2020. Highly recommend: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720886...

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 15h

And @froomkin.bsky.social, I am not seeing anyone pointing out how this kind of, cut your arm off to save on skin, mentality worked out the last time when it was done to a much less severe degree:
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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · Feb 16

Nobody heard of the NSC Directorate for Global Health and Security and Bio-Defense back in 2018.
And then Trump closed it, in the words of @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social.
apnews.com/article/dona...
The rest is history.

Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus "came out of nowhere" and “blindsided the world.”

apnews.com

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 15h

Ps. As to what this means in the epidemiology/public health space, @angierasmussen.bsky.social is a great follow:
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 15h

During the last pandemic, which the president at the time viewed as completely unfair to him, experts in disease and public health kept embarrassing and contradicting him when he would attempt to keep the numbers down, by suppressing testing, and keep the economy up through "let'er rip".

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 15h

And if you cannot do that duty, then -in Catch 22 fashion- you are removed from public service.
Michael Lewis has been writting about the value of that denigrated public service, the loss of which, like the NOAA, is not a national loss - it's a global one.
youtu.be/79_n1FKZwHo

Who Is Government? Storytime with Michael Lewis | The Weekly Show

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 15h

But the key is that people who are bound to public service will find their duties conflict with party loyalty specifically loyalty to party leadership.
When your party espouses a lie, your duty is to the lie, not to the public.

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