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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

They are trying to kill us

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3h

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 7h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11h

Only a government run by billionaires would berate its employees for not wanting to work without pay.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Robert Lefebvre @axelcutlass.bsky.social · 21h

Finished Turnabout Visitor.

It was… okay. As an introductory case that demonstrates how all the new mechanics work, it was perfectly fine. The case itself was all right, and playing as Edgeworth will be interesting as we’ll get to see him in a different role now.

Robert Lefebvre @axelcutlass.bsky.social · 22h

“You are all suspects to varying degrees, and therefore, ineligible to investigate this case.”

THAT HAS NEVER STOPPED ANYONE BEFORE!!!!!

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 23h

*keep smiling, humor him, it will be over soon, oh god why is my face stuck like this help*

Dr. Oz listening to Trump with a creepy smile

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 23h

to be fair to Trump, the White House feed from Portland was accidentally mapped to the yule-log channel on the executive tv remote, hence the confusion

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Robert Lefebvre @axelcutlass.bsky.social · 23h

Hey, Maggey Byrde is back! And she’s getting accused of murder again! Geez, Maggey is up there with Maya in how much she gets blamed for murder.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Robert Lefebvre @axelcutlass.bsky.social · 23h

I’m begging someone, anyone, to ask him to show them the videos of Portland burning down that he is seeing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23h

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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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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Robert Lefebvre @axelcutlass.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, I know Dick Gumshoe’s whole shtick is that he’s kind of a meathead, but he’s not an idiot. And yet, in this first scene he just asked Edgeworth “How do you use Logic?” 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Robert Lefebvre @axelcutlass.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve heard… not so good things about this game, but I’m willing to give it a shot. In fact, this game was received so poorly that the sequel never got an official release in America despite its incredibly positive reviews until this remastered collection came out.

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Robert Lefebvre @axelcutlass.bsky.social · 1d

All right, going to continue my Ace Attorney journey with Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. I debated whether to continue with the Apollo Justice trilogy, or play them in actual order of release. I chose the latter, even though they don’t actually cross into each other.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

You say it like it's a bad thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "Trump says a lot of crazy things. I genuinely think there's something wrong with him. I wish his family would intervene... I don’t think anybody around is going to do it bc they’re benefiting from his dementia"

Full interview: newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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ArTrapnell 🍷 @artrapnell.bsky.social · 1d

We're letting a country that funded terrorists that killed service members build an airbase on American soil? WTAF!!

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 1d

the way Republicans are in sync on ranting about and attacking #NoKings is a tell. A big tell

they're worried about the growing popular protests underway against their King

Their own polls must be showing the backlash - and they
they know their dearl leader has dementia and is flailing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson, one of the great cowards in American history, has cancelled votes again.

A reminder that by law a budget was supposed to have been passed and in place on September 30. There is no Republican budget; no process to create one; and Johnson is preventing Congress from working on one.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

UNREAL

Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.

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