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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 9h

Circumcise him - again if necessary - and give him two Tylenol.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10h

all at once? won’t that make him autistic

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

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.

Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 9h

Nine months. Nine fucking months.

Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 1d

A tale that is as surreal as unhinged. Yet true.

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Darrow Montgomery @darrow-m.bsky.social · 1d

I keep trying to sign up on the ANTIFA web site but it’s apparently overloaded

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Still amazed that the Vatican has been more responsive to the threat Trump represents than the vast majority of American institutions.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Are we done yet? Future historians have all the forensic evidence they need to know our culture and era was one of the most absurd times in documented human history.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 1d

That the idea of a Trump peace prize is even breached in public discourse is all the evidence future historians will need to know our culture and era was one of the most absurd times in documented human history.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 2d

With Laszlo's win, here's hoping more will discover his cinematic collab. w/ Bela Tarr.

A suggestion for the films. Don't start w/seven hour Satantango, but with Werckmeister Harmonies, based on Laszlo's novel, (trans. in English) The Melancholy of Resistance.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The Hungarian novelist whose books ‘reaffirm the power of art’ was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm

www.theguardian.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d

“In 1961, when I was just eight years old, I contracted measles. There was no vaccine available at the time. Like many of my classmates, I suffered through dangerously high fevers — mine reached 106 degrees — and nearly died. The disease left me almost totally deaf.” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Commentary: A plea to protect our children

Vaccination requirements kept our communities safe. Do not listen to anti-vaccine rhetoric. Do not gamble with your child’s health.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d

Ukrainian children have been taken to over 200 different facilities across Russia, according to a Yale report released in September 2025, including locations where they have been subjected to forced “re-education” and military training. The Kremlin has previously denied such allegations.

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Lug Rig @lugrig.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe getting ahead of things, but today’s Antifa roundtable, shades of Wannasee Conference?

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 2d

Strafexpeditions. Chicago, Portland. The beginning. As in Germany in the early 1930s.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 2d

Strafexpeditions. Chicago, Portland. The beginning.

Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 2d

Any Magaist-Republican lawmaker, a glamorized version of DJT, or a depiction of the 'antichrist' in one of proto-theocrats Tim Lahaye's 'Left Behind' graphic novels? YTM.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 2d

Absurd as everything this admin does. And per usual just complete ignorance. Anyone interested in Amelia should read @lauriestories.bsky.social new book The Aviator and The Showman.

Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 3d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭whut da fuck? We are beyond an Idiocracy.... Cc: @carlhoffman.bsky.social

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 3d

In my sporadic sleep tonight - still a few hours to go - I had a rather strange dream. It was a version of Hitchcock's film 'Rope' but the two guys were Stephen Miller and Curtis Yarvin. This somehow morphed into Miller and Rod Dreher in an absurd sitcom as roommates in Budapest.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · Aug 25

Freedom, in the American context, has always meant the freedom to make bank at pretty much anyone’s expense.... My review of Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West for The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com @bookcritics.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | The bloody, muddy true story of the real Deadwood

In his history of the legendary South Dakota gold rush town, Peter Cozzens explains how miners, outlaws, gamblers and other reprobates helped shape America.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats. I love True Nature and couldn’t agree more.

Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 13d

Floored by this review of my book by Pico Iyer. Gosh.

The Life and Travels of Peter Matthiessen, Revisited

A new book sheds fresh light on the "Snow Leopard" author, from his founding of "The Paris Review" with George Plimpton to working for the C.I.A. to his many affairs.

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 3d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭whut da fuck? We are beyond an Idiocracy.... Cc: @carlhoffman.bsky.social

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 3d

It was to be expected and it is here. It will get worse as we approach the midterms.

Blue states would do well to withhold funds from what once was the US federal government.

Clifton Lee @cliftonlee.bsky.social · 3d

Banish the word conservative from the lexicon as descriptors of the Magaist-Republican party. As they attack Chicago and Portland, it should be clear there is nothing conservative in these assaults. It is reactionary and performative fascist violence...

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