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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 29m

When you get sick and thousands of Americans start to die during another pandemic, blame the Republicans who fired all the disease scientists.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1h

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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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 1h

an administration ruling Congress with an “iron fist” would be able to pass a budget. Johnson is keeping the House in recess because things are going to go completely off the rails once Grijalva gets sworn in, and he knows it

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1h

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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T. J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 43m

Republicans now apply the anti-vax model across the board: Something (vaccines, basic government functioning, the economy) works well enough for so long that they start to blame the thing itself for often imaginary problems. They break the thing. And now we wait for the consequences.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 52m

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 · 1h

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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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 43m

He got reverse raped by a semen demon

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

An agent testified in federal court in Chicago today that Bovino needed an MRI and is on two weeks bedrest for "a groin injury" he sustained during last week's protest

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 14h

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The Transportation Secretary’s threat is not going over well with aviation safety experts.

Air Traffic Controllers Who Call In Sick During The Shutdown Won’t Be Paid, Duffy Warns—But Will Intimidation Backfire?

The Transportation Secretary’s threat is not going over well with aviation safety experts.

www.forbes.com

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

Beauty Pageant "Miss Uncongeniality" winner screws up again #LindseyHalligan #BrooklynAintInNewJersey 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1h

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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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2h

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

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 3h

can you imagine half-assing a last-minute ceasefire that won't last a week and still not getting the Nobel Peace Prize

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2h

Men will let Qatar establish a military presence in Idaho before releasing the Epstein files

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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 7h

Once upon a time in a country that's fading from our minds...

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

My "Trump has the heart of a 65 year old" shirt has people asking lots of questions that should be answered by my shirt

Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

You can’t get into Heaven if you go around arresting innocent people and pardoning guilty ones.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 22h

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

ANTIFA:

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 1h

Used to?

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently Gen X thought thought they were the good guys all along

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1h

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes.

Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes.

Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days.

This is a fascist regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 2h

The MAGA American is simply incapable of self-governance

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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