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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 5h

“In error” come on

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 9h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h

is this running the government like a business. do businesses do this normally

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 12h

Still mad Obama posted sympathetically about CK but said fuck all about Melissa Hortman and her family

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 12h

When Dems failed to utterly and publicly lose their shit about the political assassinations in MN and drive the narrative, they left the door wide open for this propaganda here

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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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 16h

Because of how complex defense accounting is and how the money crosses different years and programs, DFAS is set up specifically to draw at those dates from those programs. You can't just create $15b dollars, you need to allocate it across a bunch of different areas and subsequently pull from/

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 16h

DFAS does not work this way and they'd have to do some Real Adult Crimes to move this money around that is specifically earmarked for MILPERS, and not in the cute way they've raided MILCON or nuclear modernization programs in the past

“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 17h

"Money Colors Are A Thing" I shriek, as I am walled up like Fortunato

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 13h

Correct and very much this

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 15h

We are seeing dozens of these videos every day. It's happening all over the ocuntry. I know many people are outraged but it's just continuing unabated.

This feeling of impotence is devastating. How does it end? With the country emptied of brown people and dissidents in jail?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 15h

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

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 15h

Appropriations are laws. It is illegal to move money in this way and whichever DOD staffer makes/approves/facilitates this transfer of funds is breaking the law. On a state level, if a state employee did this they would face criminal penalties and possibly *personal* liability for the funds

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15h

Trump said he is directing the Defense Department to use funds his administration has identified to deliver paychecks to US troops on Oct. 15 despite the ongoing government shutdown

Trump Says US Troops Will Be Paid on Oct. 15 Despite Shutdown

President Donald Trump said he is directing the Defense Department to use funds his administration has identified to deliver paychecks to US troops on Oct. 15 despite the ongoing government shutdown.

bloom.bg

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h

This is a really good article, and as an inveterate shitposter, I keep asking where the adults are.

I don’t *want* to be protesting! I don’t *want* to be arrested for standing up to oppression!! I want a boring government that works and takes care of everyone and I can go be stupid online!!!

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18h

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19h

When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking my social media fast to tell you that the Oregon Humane Society has slashed adoption fees 50% this weekend to offset an intake surge in the aftermath of an animal hoarding raid. Go adopt a new bestie like Miles (link below).

Miles
164090
Portland Campus

A very handsome coonhound basset hound mix

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS likes this tactic and has used it a lot, notably in the Mississippi gerrymandering case that they slow walked until after an election so Republicans could take the seats they stole

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

my feeling is that they will, e.g., permanently enjoin the dismantlement of the Department of Education. doesn't matter. all those people are scattered to the wind. harm already permanently done.

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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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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I think that's part of it but the other part is it's men -and in this case especially rich men - and they already don't do those tasks, so they don't see them. This is why we're getting Samsung TV's with ads and not fridges that remind us to eat the lettuce before it spoils

James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

Well now it depends, Dollar Store Goebbels from Santa Monica. Is this sleepy Southern town one you might not want to be in after sundown, say?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Axios being forced to report on this story in this way means the Dems need to keep doing what they're doing now which is nothing because an angry Trump is gonna keep doing worse and worse things and ain't no one gonna be able to defend him anymore outside of the WH so let him cook.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

chat I'm not sure they're thinking things through

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/s...

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

We have friends everywhere

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Family says Border Patrol agents shot and killed their dog after being given permission to search the house for undocumented immigrants.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...

kfoxtv.com

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 1d

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

And one of the many reasons billionaires shouldn’t exist is that no one’s economic security should be entirely divorced from the well-being of the country they live in

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t wait to see which inflatable animal costume Soros sends me!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."