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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7h

CDC's local AFGE will most likely be filing a lawsuit with AFGE national. So if you are in any AFGE union you should be represented. But it's probably best to send your info to your local.

This is a list of agencies represented by AFGE: join.afge.org

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 7h

Today the administration is also firing IT people across government, in particular at the Treasury. What could go wrong??? All in addition to the DOGE firings.

We are not just failing at cyber preparedness, but also psychological warfare and biological attack. Things are real grim at the CDC, etc.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 7h

The whole government is un-adapted to this change, and we are firing all the people who could help us adapt. CISA leads the CVE program, which is a worldwide picture of computer security vulnerabilities. We will be blind without it. Not just the US, the world.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 7h

The court ignored 18F's recommendations to fix their security, and instead signed a $298 million contract with General Dynamics. I guess why not buy your websites where you buy your M1 Abrams main battle tanks?

The contract does not include cybersecurity services.

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

www.nytimes.com

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 7h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 7h

Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Christine Langhoff @clanghoff.bsky.social · 7h

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 7h

Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7h

It’s honestly difficult for me to *process* how disastrous this is. The court cases that come out of this are going to decide the future of so many people who don’t need to die of disease.

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Madonna Lennon @madonnalennon.bsky.social · 8h

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Christine Langhoff @clanghoff.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe Bad Bunny will invite her to his Superbowl show?

capn-greybeard.bsky.social @capn-greybeard.bsky.social · 8h

www.youtube.com/shorts/vWhQn...

“The Rich Bought The USA” Here’s one of my most viral videos from Tiktok #oligarchy #singing #parody

YouTube video by Eden

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Christine Langhoff @clanghoff.bsky.social · 7h

And the Nobel prize winner thanked Trump today?
Hmm.

Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 11h

⚠ In short, Venezuela called an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council today saying that they expected an armed attack by the U.S. against Venezuela in a "very short period of time”

UN council schedules emergency session Friday over US military actions at Venezuela's request

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting at Venezuela’s request on U.S. military actions in recent weeks in the waters off the South American country against what Washington calls ...

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 7h

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 8h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 7h

Voters overwhelmingly agree that health insurers should cover all recommended breast imaging beyond just screening mammograms.
radiologybusiness.com/topics/healt...

90% of voters polled agree health insurers should cover all recommended breast imaging

A coalition of organizations including the Society of Breast Imaging are seeking support for the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act.

radiologybusiness.com

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Christine Langhoff @clanghoff.bsky.social · 7h

Not a solution, but since people are being detained based on their appearance as they are driving and it's almost Hallowe'en, get some white pepul face masks?

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 8h

WHEN THE FUCK ARE THESE GOVERNORS & MAYORS GOING TO START CHARGING FOR STATE CRIMES?

YOUR LOCAL & STATE POLICE ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO INVESTIGATE THESE USE OF FORCE CRIMES BEING COMMITTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS! CALL YOUR MAYORS, GOVERNORS & PROSECUTORS & DEMAND THEY START ENFORCING STATE LAWS.

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Christine Langhoff @clanghoff.bsky.social · 7h

Trump hates Biden so these 37 people will be inhumanely treated. Their incarceration IS their punishment.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8h

“I’ve got no problem with gruel.” Under orders from Trump, officials seek to make the life sentences of 37 convicted killers more like a living hell. The men were spared the death penalty by Biden.

Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

“While the president’s authority to grant clemency for federal crimes is virtually unfettered, the power to impose vengeance via prison assignments isn’t clear.”

Actually, the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It’s in the Bill of Rights. It’s pretty clear.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8h

“I’ve got no problem with gruel.” Under orders from Trump, officials seek to make the life sentences of 37 convicted killers more like a living hell. The men were spared the death penalty by Biden.

Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”

on.wsj.com

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 13h

"The officer then asked Raghu for consent to search the car, the report said.

“I gave him consent because when you see a cop, you’re a little bit scared,” “Like, ‘Why are all these blue lights on me when I did nothing wrong?’”

Please start saying no to cops.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 15h

Come the fuck on

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 13h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 7h

It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

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."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 8h

The people getting laid off are some of the highest-trained and most specialized people in healthcare. They don’t just get replaced by hiring some new people when a sane administration takes over. This is a huge loss for America.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

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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Christine Langhoff @clanghoff.bsky.social · 7h

Your posts always raise my spirits because they are a reminder that so many people try to live their lives by The Goodall Rule:

You have it in your power to make a difference. Don’t give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful Planet Earth that I look down upon from where I am now.

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