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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 21h

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 22h

They really don’t give a shit. If they think it helps people or costs big business money, they don’t want it. They are ideologically opposed to the mere concept of collective action. Meanwhile the technofascists who want to head their own Network State fiefdoms are fully ob board.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 1d

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

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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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 10h

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

On This Shutdown Saturday Chump,We Would All Like You To
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 17h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 9h

Trump and Epstein did it together.

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CapeCodCritter @capecodcritter.bsky.social · 1d

Mike won’t open
the government because…
Epstein, Epstein Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein Epstein,
Epstein, Epstein Epstein

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Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · 16h

He may forget that he did these things (intentionally or dementia?) but we will not allow him, his regime and his cult to forget.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

#GA14

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 13h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Finally! Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland has signaled she is inclined to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported and later brought back by the Trump administration.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 21h

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever Works, To Take Down
Chump's Illegal War On This
Countries Citizens......

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 20h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 1d

This admin may have the stupidest people ever to work in Government. And we lived through GWB!

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 8h

Will Trump live long enough to see the #EpsteinFiles released?

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 9h

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 15h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 1d

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 14h

Lived through this at a small paper. Every consultant pitch seemed like what someone would recommend if they didn't want any more newspapers.

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 17h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.