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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 3h

Someone needs to ask, "how does it save money to lay off people who aren't receiving paychecks?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Jonathan Casey @jonathantcasey.bsky.social · 5h

Trump forgot that he was President on Jan. 6th. 2021.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 14h

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 19h

We are ruled by incompetent morons

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 21h

@mnolangray.bsky.social Would that work?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Cycling Capital @cyclingcapital.bsky.social · 22h

>street is too narrow for cars to pass through
>still people get to park right by the door

#Utrecht

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 21h

It's fun to ask tankies what they know about Soviet history, specifically about the year 1939

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

I love guys who are just blithely confident in their ignorance, they read like one statement on a tankie forum four years ago and now they think they know everything about one of the most involved conflicts in human history.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 22h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

I love guys who are just blithely confident in their ignorance, they read like one statement on a tankie forum four years ago and now they think they know everything about one of the most involved conflicts in human history.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 22h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 22h

If I were Frank McCourt I would send as many Los Angeles officials as possible to a Dodgers/Cubs game at Wrigley Field to convince them to rezone the parking lots at Dodger Stadium.

Wrigley is in the middle of a residential neighborhood and it's fantastic.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 23h

Their frozen prepared food is pretty good, but I usually prefer to cook my own stuff these days.

I last shopped there about a year ago when my wife was going out of town for a few days and I wanted things to prepare quickly for the kids.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 23h

There's a Trader Joe's near our house that's easy to get to by bike, train, or bus, but I never go there because I think the stores are kinda annoying.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 23h

Related: we rode bikes to Costco today. Never have to deal with bad parking, never need to wait in line to get in/out.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 1d

The Meritocracy!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 23h

Ha, I keep a wrench in my cargo bike that would work quite well

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 23h

Completely unrelated, but have you ever visited the angle grinder aisle at Home Depot? They have some good ones.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

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

How to keep troops loyal: make them beg for food from the people you want them to oppress

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

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

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 1d

I really don't know what it means for a RIF to be "Democrat-oriented." Either they are targeting RIFs in Democrat house districts or they are targeting perceived Democrat employees. Regardless, sounds like an impermissible reason coupled with a First Amendment issue under Rutan v. Republican Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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

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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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 1d

2016. I went to another game in that series.

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Michael🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 1d

In 2014 I went to a baseball game with my girlfriend and her parents. We saw the first pitch at 5:38pm. The Nationals played the Giants for six hours and 23 minutes over 18 innings, and they lost! I froze my ass off riding a bike home after midnight.

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