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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

Trump’s presidency has been defined by the decay of public information sources and dismantling of public health institutions.

So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.

Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase

Another bad day at the CDC

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

Bondi also wouldn’t answer whether she’d seen photos of Trump in the Epstein files around half naked girls, as a witness alleged they’d seen. She must resign.

Tweet from Acyn showing a quote exchange:
Padilla: “Do you believe government officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not?”
Bondi: “I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump.”
Padilla: “I asked a simple yes or no question.”
Below is a C-SPAN screenshot showing Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) speaking during a Justice Department oversight hearing. A lower third graphic shows a countdown to a government shutdown.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 40m

OUR tax dollars are being used to bail out Argentina, OUR troops are being put on the ground in Israel & OUR soil is being used by Qatar for a military base of their own.
While OUR government is shutdown.
Anyone who believes OUR so-called “president” when he says he is “America first”, is an idiot.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 6h

1) WHY isn't this a bigger story? High food prices were cited time and again as a major 2024 campaign issue?

2) Democrats said said over and over again this was going to happen.

3) Why didn't the MSM take it more seriously, when trump LIED over and over again about bringing food prices down???

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine that

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1h

Without ACA tax credits, a 64-year-old couple making $90K would face an extra $26,000 a year in premiums.

Democrats are working to protect families—Republicans are ready to let these credits expire.

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 5h

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 7h

fortune.com/2025/10/10/b...

A little good news this Saturday Morning
Without fanfare the former Mrs Bezos always delivers
I admire her so much
DIVERSITY,EQUITY, and INCLUSION
This will help so many students
Billionaires with a heart
Thank you MacKenzie
Why doesn't the media report on this?

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI with $42 million donation | Fortune

In a signal to nonprofits and boardrooms, the Yield Giving philanthropist is backing diversity and equity with no‑strings grants—building on more than $19 billion she’s distributed in five years.

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🔥Harry Potter Resists Fascism🔥 @harrypotterresists.bsky.social · 2h

trump's lies catch up with him.

#LiarsGetCaughtOneGoodDay

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s be clear:

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the government shutdown. They don’t need a single vote from Democrats to reopen.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for firing thousands of federal workers. They don’t need a single layoff to offset the shutdown. It’s their Project 2025 playbook.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 2h

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 3h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10... #ProudBlue. The Trump Regimes quest to deport Abrego Garcia to an African country where he would be thrown in a prison never to be seen again has ran out of steam. No African nation will accept Garcia leaving the Regime very little options for his deportation.

Trump administration has failed to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Africa

Three African nations won’t accept the Salvadoran native, who was already deported illegally once and then brought back to the U.S.

www.politico.com

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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 2h

Trump previously called Qatar a terrorist country. It's amazing what big gifts can do with a megalomaniac.
#ProudBlue

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 1d

The GRIFT NEVER STOPS
#TrumpShutdown

In the middle of the
Government Shutdown
Where millions of Americans are struggling
Skyrocketing Health Insurance premiums on the horizon
Loss of Medicaid & Healthcare
Rural Hospitals closing
Grocery prices soar
No Federal workers paid
He doesn't care

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 8h

Everytime I watch MSM, It's like watching a hostage video.

Am I the only one seeing this?

With the exception of @maddow & @Lawrence and other @MSNBC pundits, every other news outlet is afraid to call out Trump's BS.

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 6h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

It’s a free country.

Right?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

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

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 8h

NEVER FORGET: Pam “Don’t Call Me A LIAR” Bondi ALLEGEDLY knows where the 50K is. And when the allegedly turns into definitely then that is called PERJURY!

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Dotti @dotti7.bsky.social · 8h