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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 2m

Well OK then. Congrats, Seattle!
#WestCoastBestCoast

Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 7m

That’s exactly what I would suggest. We wrote postcards to the WH about “President Bannon” at the start of Trump 1 and got rid of him

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 10m

I suggest lots of letters to the editor & calls to our reps, all referring to Acting President Miller. See if we can get Jamie Raskin or Adam Schiff (or anyone Donald really hates) to use the name, get it onto the TV he watches.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 43m

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 57m

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 11m

SAME.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 28m

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 27m

I hear that!

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 30m

Honestly, rooting for the Blue Jays feels like my best move at this point!

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 34m

I really don’t care about either of these teams. Who is best positioned to beat the Dodgers in the WS if they both should get that far? 🤔

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Grumpy Auntie Knows The Way To San Jose @1technodiva.bsky.social · 48m

She's on it!
Please start by reading her book 📖 🇺🇸🙏

Lisa Graves @thelisagraves.bsky.social · 51m

Thank you truly! I will be building out the action pages on the book site in the coming weeks so that they link to ways to take action :-) Seriously, thank you for reading my book and sharing your thoughts about it with others. We have so much to do to reform the court and restore our rights!!

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Grumpy Auntie Knows The Way To San Jose @1technodiva.bsky.social · 59m

Just finished this magnificent book--deep thanks to @thelisagraves.bsky.social for her work and words. I'm in awe.

alwaysthetomboy @alwaysthetomboy.bsky.social · 2d

@legalafmtn.bsky.social @thelisagraves.bsky.social @askdinadoll.bsky.social @mspopok.bsky.social Just came in👌🤓

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 50m

My guy was ROBBED

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 1h

in this sense, tonight's actions are intended to traumatize and weaken the US in ways that are tactically different but strategically like 24 years ago

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

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 · 2h

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.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2h

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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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1h

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1h

Marc Benihoff, who has barely been in San Francisco since the pandemic, is just a red-pilled asshole like the rest of them. What a fucking disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 3h

Kamala Harris is doing more for my Gubernatorial race & 2026 than some elected officials are since there’s a split donation fundraising email out for Sherrill & KDH For The People. Her email list is helpful.

Exhibit A: She did this for Jon Ossoff recently & he just raised $12 million in 3 months.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 3h

Love it!!

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 1d

As I celebrate my health, nothing seems more “pro-life” to me than funding this research — and this anniversary has got me thinking about abortion politics.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 1d

Thread:

A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely disgusting 🤢

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