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bikerlady22k.bsky.social @bikerlady22k.bsky.social · 24m

Nineteen people are missing and feared dead following a huge explosion at a military munitions plant in Tennessee.

The powerful blast ripped through the explosives manufacturing plant in rural Tennessee on Friday morning

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Nineteen people feared dead after blast at Tennessee munitions plant

Police chief calls explosion near Bucksnort, south-west of Nashville, ‘devastating’ and says ‘we have some deceased’

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bikerlady22k.bsky.social @bikerlady22k.bsky.social · 25m

Thiel a “small-o orthodox Christian “, lectures in San Francisco about antichrist, warning Armageddon coming. Believes end of the world could already be in our midst that international agencies, environmentalism & guardrails on technology could quicken its rise

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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bikerlady22k.bsky.social @bikerlady22k.bsky.social · 35m

White House goal of lowering US prescription medicine prices—The president sent letters to 17 leading drugmakers in July telling them to slash prices. Pfizer and AstraZeneca are the first two companies to reach a deal with the administration

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AstraZeneca makes deal with Trump to lower drug prices and avoid tariffs

Company will sell some medicines at a discount to government’s Medicaid health plan in exchange for tariff relief

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bikerlady22k.bsky.social @bikerlady22k.bsky.social · 39m

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Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 8h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 @andreasor.bsky.social · 6h

Gavin Newsom:

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 10h

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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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 · 7h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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bikerlady22k.bsky.social @bikerlady22k.bsky.social · 51m

President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Democrats for his decision to lay off thousands of workers across the U.S. government as he followed through on his threat to cut the federal workforce during the government shutdown.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20h

Roberts Is Just As Responsible For Chump As Chump Is ! Both Have
Failed This Country.......

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1h

Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.

We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 17h

Nutlick The Loser Threatens Canada. Our Answer? Bring It On.
This isn’t a negotiation. It’s a threat from the sitting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, who thinks Canada will just roll over. He’s about to find out how wrong he is. #cdnpoli
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Lutnick The Loser Threatens Canada. Our Answer? Bring It On.

This isn’t a negotiation. It’s a threat from the sitting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, who thinks Canada will just roll over. He’s about to find out how wrong he is.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

NEW VIDEO: The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy, the Voting Rights Act, and election law nationwide. I am fighting to protect free and fair elections and defend election integrity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKo...

Supreme Court's Shocking New Agenda Revealed

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1h

It’s been…. a night.

#CDCFridayNightMassacre

I’m exhausted - physically, emotionally.
To those divisions and branches that were RIFed and that we didn’t yet highlight here, apologies. We need to take a break for the night.

All of your - all of our - work matters.
We are in this together.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

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

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bikerlady22k.bsky.social @bikerlady22k.bsky.social · 1h

U.S. President Donald Trump revived the trade war against Beijing on Friday, ending an uneasy truce between the two largest economies with promises to sharply hike tariffs in a reprisal against China curbing its critical mineral exports

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 6h

I think the red line is drawn.

They voted for this. I didn't. But, I'll stand beside them and fight this because that's the right thing to do. They however have to know that this decision is 100% Trump and the only way to prevent this stuff is to remove Trump.

Just say go!

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NPR @npr.org · 16h

After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.

Shut down but not silenced: Federal workers find their voice

After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEWS: The Epstein Survivors' press conference yesterday was postponed. New date TBD.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 17h

Canada's economy added 60K jobs in September while unemployment stayed flat #Canada #cdnpoli

Economists were expecting only a modest gain in jobs

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Canada's economy added 60K jobs last month | CBC News

Canada's economy added 60,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

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