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Nick Stevens @handle.invalid · 4h

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

More irresponsible environmental damage from L Ron Musk.
Are there any fanboys left?

Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

Violations include digging without permits and dumping wastewater into storm drains.

arstechnica.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

Of course he did, because they don't actually believe the anti-vaxx bullshit they peddle.

CNN @cnn.com · 4h

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.

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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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 14h

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 1h

I knew it.

montygibbon.bsky.social @montygibbon.bsky.social · 7h

Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 1h

Of course this is always a problem, even going back to the 16-1700s when professional a “thing” how exactly does one integrate the military into broader society while maintaining a professional force that has a self identity.

billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 3h

How do you manage a vast military while not walling it off long term from civillian society is a pretty huge question I am not sure the US is managing well right now?

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Lizard Of Oz @lizardofoz316.bsky.social · 4h

This is a hair on fire situation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 2h

A billionaire could tell me "Go work in the field!" but he'd need a camera to watch me, someone watching that camera, a police force to make me do it, and then money to pay for all of it.
That requires logistics and bureaucracy, no matter what these morons think. Someone has to actually *do* things.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

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 · 15h

"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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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 7h

RFK Jr is a eugenicist

🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 Femininomicon ex Mortis @ofvick.bsky.social · 7h

Umbrella Corporation is more committed to public health than this regime of Nurgle worshippers

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:

Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 7h

Oh come now there has never been a single instance in history where militaries have launched a coup over money…wait, I am being handed a note right now…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

Bari WeissBot: "The left says Trump's promise to fire only Democratic federal employees is a form of McCarthyism, but it's actually just an effort to foster greater viewpoint diversity."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 7h

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

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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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 7h

This is so cringe it’s awesome. Like seriously this is completely awesome.

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 17h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 17h

trump take burger

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 17h

US BEEF PRICES SOAR TO ALL-TIME HIGH — GROUND BEEF UP 13% YOY TO $6.32/LB

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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 17h

Expect dead people from this shot without cause while they'll claim they were under attack by people in frog suits

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h

"Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago"

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

Important reporting from @swin24.bsky.social:

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

zeteo.com

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 17h

Swiftly approaching the point in public consciousness where the main urbanist villain is no longer the 80s style greedy developer but the rich NIMBY who spent 80k/year on lawyers fees in a neighbors feud

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

it's funny how the vast majority of these articles find the absolute worst opponents

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

won't anyone think of the uhhhh sales executives who will be harmed by transit-oriented development in California

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h

Might feel like an inversion of the Civil War, but less than you might think. The federal government was thoroughly in the hands of the Slave Power in the 1850s. States resisted the Fugitive Slave Act; Dred Scott was SCOTUS. Secession happened b/c they wouldn't accept losing that control in 1860.

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 22h

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities
theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 13h

O come now there has never been a instance in history ware soldiers did a coup or mutiny for money! Wait a minute I am being handed a note…oh…oh no.

Omnes Omnibus @omnesomnibus.bsky.social · 17h

Refusing to pay soldiers has seldom worked out well.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 18h

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

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