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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 38m

I've said this before, but Trump was only willing to help Ukraine because he was feeling dumped by Putin and had breakup anger. But now that Putin is saying "we could still be together, you know" Trump is going to be back to his old ways. He will always love Putin more than anyone.

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 6h

Well, guess what? Yesterday Putin batted his eyelashes at Trump (and Melania) and the first couple were grateful for the love and attention. People need to accept the reality that Trump will always crave Putin's affections and cares not a whit for Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Putin Flutters His Eyelashes and Trump Swoons (Melania Too)

A Catechism To Understand The Reality Of Trump, Russia and Ukraine

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 48m

It's unfair to have the most embarrassing thing ever happen this early in the long weekend
www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though. I think she might've though, she was very nice"

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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 11h

Good lord. The MMWR is a hallmark of public health practice. Firing its editors will impact you and how your local health department functions.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

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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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 11h

It's not clear to me how selective employees could be RIF'd. They didn't define the competitive area and then rank employees. They dumped people they didn't like and called it a RIF. They'll sue and be awarded backpay and attorney's fees.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Good piece: DOGE was the battering ram, but Russ Vought was the one enabling it, and then hiding it's impacts.

During the months when DOGE was most aggressively canceling contracts, O.M.B. was concealing how it was moving money through to agencies. Mr. Vought removed a legally required public database tracking those records. When a court forced the administration to restore it in August, the spending logs showed O.M.B. exerting unusual control over agency spending, using other documents the public can’t see.

Under a 1974 law, it’s illegal for the administration to “impound” or block money appropriated by Congress (to not spend the funds on those credit cards). But Mr. Vought has made clear he believes that law is unconstitutional and wants to test it in court.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11h

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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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1h

Some thirteen year old from Arkansas: Mooooooooom, former president of Syria bashar al-assad is making fun of me on Fortnite

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1h

"A giant military parade is just a fun, wholesome way to celebrate the birthday of America’s commander in chief. Claim otherwise, and we’ll be forced to send the National Guard to your city until you wise up."

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You

President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 13h

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · Sep 2

Butter and jelly #oilpainting #art

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3h

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash

Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1h

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 1h

“Among Americans with incomes between $30,000 and $80,000, 54% now have taxable investment accounts. Half of those investors have entered the market in the last five years” www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

More Working-Class Americans Than Ever Are Investing in the Stock Market

For the first time, a majority of low earners have an investment account, and more than half of those new investors entered the markets in the past five years.

www.wsj.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Does this make more sense?

headline adjusted to read: Academia is Broken. Trump University Can Help Fix it

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3h

Posts like this should specify it is tariff revenue from last year, because otherwise it seems like this is money from Trump's new tariffs

The Trump administration has used $300 million in tariff revenue to fund WIC and ease funding concerns amid the government shutdown.
http://www.wcvb.com/article/wic-funding-trump-shutdown-tariff-relief/69003737

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 2h

Which, thank god that much is still operational. I volunteer at the food pantry in town and maybe 1/3 of the food people get each month comes from USDA

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13h

I wish more coverage of traffic violence reckoned with the psychological harm of crashes on the wider community. It's not just cyclists; if a friend of mine is hit, my wife will be more nervous for me. These deaths and injuries take a heavy toll.

It had a chilling effect on the local cycling community, with members expressing their fear about riding on roads. Prince George has a lack of dedicated cycling infrastructure, including even painted-on bike lanes in many areas.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2h

He got the COVID and flu Vaccines like every 79 year old should this is a good thing.
"Cardiovascular age validated by by ECG and found to be 14 years younger than chronological age" is a nonsensical phrase.
I am an internist this is not something we do or write in medical reports.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2h

Evidently, President Trump got all the proof he needs that vaccines are safe and effective. He voted with his arm yesterday and got the highly beneficial Covid and flu shots. Amid the sea of confusion RFKJ has generated about vaccines, all Americans should know that Trump is getting vaccinated.

Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 2h

Last month Trump said he wanted proof that COVID vaccines are effective. Yesterday, during his "semiannual" physical, Trump received a COVID vaccine as well as a flu shot.

That's because vaccines — which Trump's administration have made harder to get — work.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 13h

It’s called a vibrator and it will *not* make your company a unicorn

Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 14h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4h

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 4h

more people should examine the FISA court’s opinions because you would see, even though it failed at the time, the DOJ’s goal is an AI exemption to the 4th amdt. it doesn’t matter who’s president. these things are well supported.

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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 3h

Every day I wake up to new awful things

Trump administration cancels largest solar project in United States

The Bureau of Land Management has officially cancelled the Esmeralda 7 solar project, a Nevada-based project that would stand among the world’s largest solar power plants, large enough to power nearly...

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3h

Wrecking HHS first is a not-subtle attempt to intimidate Democrats who are trying to save Medicaid and ACA patients. Just mob thuggishness.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

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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