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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 15h

You know the assignment 👍

It'd be a real shame if this photo of President Obama receiving his Nobel peace prize went viral today, for no particular reason

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 20h

When Rand Paul and Marjorie Taylor Greene are making “sense”, you KNOW that shitshow of a so-called party has jumped the shark.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

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cookiebaker14.bsky.social @cookiebaker14.bsky.social · 4h

wilee the coyote from looney tunes is standing in the desert with his mouth open .

ALT: wilee the coyote from looney tunes is standing in the desert with his mouth open .

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 4h

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Truth Tony 📣✌️ @tonyspolitics.bsky.social · 13h

TO BE CLEAR. The President does NOT possess the authority without Congress to allow another country to have a military presence on US soil. But Qatar has big planes.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 6h

Dude, how about we first make #healthcare affordable?

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cookiebaker14.bsky.social @cookiebaker14.bsky.social · 4h

a cat is giving a thumbs up and saying thank you .

ALT: a cat is giving a thumbs up and saying thank you .

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 5h

RIFed:
PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center

Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.

They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.

Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠

2024 Accomplishments

Strengthening the public health infrastructure and workforce of the United States

www.cdc.gov

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17h

In a democracy, presidents don’t wield the military against citizens or weaponize the Justice Department against political opponents.

Since Congress won’t act, voters must.

We must decide what kind of country we want

A president who uses the military and the Justice Department to exact revenge against his perceived enemies is as un-Ame

contrarian.substack.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

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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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · 5h

People. CDC is Literally being decimated right now. Our hearts are breaking for our colleagues at @altcdc.altgov.info.

You can check out their page to see the growing list of departments affected. They don’t deserve this and America doesn’t deserve this.

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 5h

They aren’t negotiating, they’re hollowing out *your* government, bc they hate it, bc they hate you. This is fascism rapidly consolidating power. They’re shooting the hostage (that’s you, America) like they were always going to. They wanted us to be their accomplices. This implodes in a month.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 5h

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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 5h

It does, but Hegseth is claiming he misspoke. He issued a clarification that it will just be a joint training base (similar to how we do with Singapore and NATO nations) that’s fully under US control.

Not sure why he announced it as a literal Qatari air base, other than he’s a complete dunce.

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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 6h

Did you hear any good Nobel Prize jokes?

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cookiebaker14.bsky.social @cookiebaker14.bsky.social · 5h

How do we escape this hellscape? Will Trump leave? How do we return to a constitutional democracy?

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cookiebaker14.bsky.social @cookiebaker14.bsky.social · 6h

AMA? When?

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18h

Fun facts: Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, has won an Emmy, two Grammys, and his production company won an Oscar.

Trump has won 34 felony convictions as well as civil adjudications for rape and financial fraud. He is currently protecting rich and powerful pedophiles in the GOP.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Surely this will trickle down to workers, right?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

itep.org/trump-tax-la...

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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cookiebaker14.bsky.social @cookiebaker14.bsky.social · 6h

a bald man in a lab coat is standing in front of a glass door and says `` yeah baby '' .

ALT: a bald man in a lab coat is standing in front of a glass door and says `` yeah baby '' .

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Finally! Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland has signaled she is inclined to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported and later brought back by the Trump administration.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 6h

RIFed:
Office of Science (OS) - MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)

MMWR is crucial to quickly disseminate info about infectious disease.

Like the famous MMWR in 1981 about an outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in LA. That was the first mention of what is now known as AIDS

June 5, 1981—The First Report of AIDS in the U.S.

By Erika Mills ~ In the June 5, 1981 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC described a rare lung infection among a group of gay men in Los Angeles. This article, titl…

circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov

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