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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1h

Read it all. From one small section:

Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

Beyond that, the CDC will not be able to function administratively, as the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management (OSSAM) office, which safeguards employee, facility, and data security at CDC lost its entire Occupational Health and Safety Office. Barely two months after a gunman shot more than 500 rounds at CDC and killed a police officer, the office devoted to employee safety has been The Workplace Health Office was also RIFed, as was the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, which is charged with training and supporting risk management across the entire agency. Not only have the CDC employees been terminated, but the ones who remain will be forced to function within an organization that has eliminated mechanisms for looking after their well-being, safety, and ability to effectively do their jobs to carry out the CDC mission.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

then I left the facility and drove home a free man. I guess what I'm saying is it would be interesting to put the discourses about "performative woke" and "virtue signalling" next to the discourse about what counts as a "luxury belief"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21h

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 5h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 3h

A burst of color for your weekend: this variety of cosmos flower is aptly named "double take" #bloomscrolling

Glowing in the morning light, they look almost like a painting.

#photography #BlueSkyArtShow #glow #PNW #FlowerReport #garden #cosmos #ColorADay #GreenSat #nature #flowers

In crisp focus, a flower with pale pink petals that are outlined in a deeper magenta, with a ring of wider petals spread open around the edge and a set of smaller vertical petals in the middle, mostly occluding a yellow center. At the bottom of the image, a second flower, also pink, is just starting to bloom, only partially visible. The background is a blur of assorted garden greenery and a few yellow flowers.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 3h

No Kings Protest - October 18th nokings.com www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 3h

The Tylenol announcement being a huge dud gives me a small bit hope for the future.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Some good news: Most people don't trust Trump and RFK Jr.'s claims about autism.
Just four percent of respondents told a KFF poll they believed the claim was definitely true, while 30 percent said it was probably false and 35 percent said it was definitely false
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Only 4% of Americans think Trump claims about Tylenol and autism ‘definitely true’

Americans are largely divided on partisan lines on whether they trust the Trump administration’s health claims on autism and vaccines

www.independent.co.uk

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 3h

“AI is poised to play a more volatile role than ever before in America’s next federal election in 2026.” @schneier.com and Nathan E. Sanders explain how AI is going to be used at almost every level as campaigns gear up for the midterms.

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AI Is Changing How Politics Is Practiced in America

Here’s what to expect in the midterm elections.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 4h

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 4h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

The indictment of Letitia James should alarm us all.

It was meant to send a message: If you cross Trump, you could be next.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 3h

Before us are illegal and unnecessary Republican mass firings, which they will own; behind us, millions of Americans whose health care Republicans attack, and will own.

We stand our ground.

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

Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats

www.nytimes.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 4h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 21h

No immediate ruling.

Judge Xinis made clear she doesn’t buy that feds made the effort to deport Abrego that’s necessary to keep holding him under the Zadvydas precedent.

Especially if they don’t take up the Costa Rica option soon.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 22h

There goes another Trump admin talking point.

Claim: Abrego told an immigration judge that he fears persecution in Costa Rica.

Judge Xinis reads the immigration judge's ruling, which doesn't say that.

"That's very troubling to me," Xinis tells Ensign.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 22h

On Sept. 5, feds sent Abrego an email notifying him of their intent to send him to Eswatini.

Two weeks later, Eswatini rejected it, saying the U.S. never approached them.

DOJ has no info what happened after.

Xinis: Wasn't that in my order to come to court prepared to tell me about that?

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 23h

Rossman notes there's been "no effort made whatsoever to actually effectuate the removal to Costa Rica" and there's been a "continued game of Whak-a-Mole to keep Mr. Abrego detained in ICE detention."

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 23h

Rossman:

"Effectively, they are holding hostage passage to Costa Rica ... in order to induce him to plead guilty."

"What that reveals is that they aren't intending to remove him in a lawful way."

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 23h

Judge Xinis asks Rossman whether Abrego currently consents to his removal to Costa Rica.

Rossman replies in the affirmative, but says the government won't take that option.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 23h

Rossman notes that the government had a clear path to deport Abrego to Costa Rica, but they didn't.

They're no "0 for 3" — "three strikes you're out" — in trying to remove him to other third counties, Rossman says.

Uganda, Eswatini, Ghana.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Schultz says that he's not aware of DHS performing any analysis about whether Abrego would be tortured, persecuted, detained or refouled to El Salvador if deported to the Eswatini.

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