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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 5h

Every so often people still on X go “Wow, it’s really racist here now,” then go ahead and continue using the app.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

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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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7h

This administration definitely would jail the people hiding the little girl in the attic

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Charlenerd @cfhirsch.bsky.social · 6h

Such an awesome (if sometimes frustrating) game. Most disturbing plot turn around of just about any game I’ve ever played.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Charlenerd @cfhirsch.bsky.social · 6h

I appreciate that they dropped the calling each other “fag” bit in the most recent movie, acknowledging that particular bit as a product of its time that needed to stay back there.

In general though it holds up really well imho.

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Charlenerd @cfhirsch.bsky.social · 6h

He has the heart of a 65 year old who has been eating Big Macs and chain smoking since he was 20.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 14h

People are still doing “there aren’t going to be midterms” posts as we see these people struggle to handle a guy in a frog costume

Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev saying “You are accused of doomer behavior. The court finds you guilty and sentences you to be shot.”

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14h

Outrageous -- and apparently in blatant violation of yesterday's ruling protecting protesters and journalists from this kind of shit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 16h

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 16h

Jack Ciattarelli speaks proudly about his immigrant roots and his family's American Dream here in New Jersey.

But at a church in Elizabeth, he told children of immigrants that their birthright citizenship, their very claim to that same American Dream, isn't valid.

meidasnews.com/news/jack-ci...

Jack Ciattarelli Denies Birthright Citizenship, Backs Trump’s ICE Deportation Raids

The GOP gubernatorial candidate would welcome Trump's chaos to New Jersey

J.D. Wolf Oct 9, 2025

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13h

JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME. BEARING WITNESS IS NOT OBSTRUCTION.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Charlenerd @cfhirsch.bsky.social · 6h

I’m sparking debate with my claim that if I leave a shoe box full of old rags outside for a few days the rags will spontaneously transform into mice, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10h

I'm sparking debate with my claim that Stephen Miller is the result of cross-breeding a stick figure and a bedbug, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Here’s what the science actually says:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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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LauraD-in-Indy @laurad-in-indy.bsky.social · 9h

I've said it dozens of times. City government should put up live cams around the ICE facilities, the downtown area, and have them broadcast live feed, 24/7, on the city's website so people can go look for themselves whenever they wish.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h

You could not convince me in a million years that this had anything whatsoever to do with the shutdown. RFK wanted these guys gone because he worships death.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

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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Charlenerd @cfhirsch.bsky.social · 6h

All while a midnight massacre rolls across the CDC. The utter nihilism of fascism in a nutshell. Trump doesn’t buy antivaxxer bullshit but is perfectly willing to inflict its consequences on the rest of us.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 7h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe it's because I'm a parent, but avoidable harm to kids really gets to me. My kids can be difficult when they don't get an afternoon snack at the usual time. I'm sure various parents and teachers can say the same. Watching a kid starve to death? And the US govt did it on purpose?
Unconscionable.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 7h

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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Charlenerd @cfhirsch.bsky.social · 6h

Well HE gets the updated vaccines, not you, peasant.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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