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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3h

Please do as shaun says, but not before reporting the account for spreading disinfo.

genAI is so good nowadays that we're all gonna get got eventually, but being told/shown over and over that you're disseminating a lie, and just ignoring people who point it out, is a serious red flag.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 5h

this person posted an AI video (the reporter has three arms, for a start) and then turned off comments when people pointed it out, so i have to insist everybody block them. block this account right now and i'll give you a thumbs up in your mind

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10h

Which, it’s worth thinking about that for a sec. It indicates they’re fully aware that what they’re doing is not popular, that they want to blame someone else for it, even if their attempts to do so are laughable.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15h

Like how can we have endless pieces about fucking dissertation plagiarism and not one about "the spokesperson for DHS tells specific, easily-disproven lies constantly to provide cover for serious crimes against the public" how is that not a big deal? Do I have to write this shit myself?!?!?

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 16h

Thinking of @gilduran.com and @kissane.myatproto.social ‘s work, as it dawns on me that the children starving today directly because of Elon’s DOGE cuts ***are in those Myanmar refugee camps because they’re victims of the Rohingya genocide that Facebook directly and knowingly enabled.***

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

bit.ly

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

it's important to always remember that every single humiliation and atrocity since January has happened because they either actively or passively enable it

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Terrorism. There’s no other word to describe what we’re witnessing.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 9h

WHEN THE FUCK ARE THESE GOVERNORS & MAYORS GOING TO START CHARGING FOR STATE CRIMES?

YOUR LOCAL & STATE POLICE ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO INVESTIGATE THESE USE OF FORCE CRIMES BEING COMMITTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS! CALL YOUR MAYORS, GOVERNORS & PROSECUTORS & DEMAND THEY START ENFORCING STATE LAWS.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 14h

Republicans are pushing debunked anti-abortion propaganda as an excuse to rip mifepristone off the shelves and block women from getting abortion care.

100+ studies prove mifepristone is safe and effective.

SPEAK UP, we can't let them get away with this.

Nearly All GOP Senators Urge the FDA to Restrict Abortion Pills

The senators are asking the FDA to suspend its approval of generic mifepristone, which would heavily restrict access to abortion pills nationwide.

www.notus.org

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 19h

Anyway, that's the hierarchy, artificial and stupid as it is, it's real. Here are the stakes. The threats, of course, have always been present against profs, but have now escalated exponentially every year since 2016.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

looks like Aziz Huq and @jondmichaels.bsky.social wrote a piece a few months ago on what interstate collaboration can look like -- h/t @clarajeffery.bsky.social

archive link to beat the paywall lol
archive.ph/Iyr7y

archive.ph

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

some more interesting interstate collaboration efforts in this thread!

bsky.app/profile/samh...

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 8h

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California

www.gov.ca.gov

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 8h

Cato’s out here talking about academic freedom, which isn’t surprising. Why are these conservative campus centers that claim to not be conservative campus centers not doing the same? Because they’re partisan Republican centers?

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 10h

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h

Trump clearly decided that rapid identification of public health threats to the U.S. is something that only Democrats want.

Public health largely began in the military because once upon a time, leaders understood that disease is the greatest threat to militarily readiness. That’s over.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, legislative affairs (a position I am very interested in as I literally did it at the state level) is completely worthless in this admin. They can't pass bills, can't wrangle congress, but the other thing is they don't actually care, because most of Trump's priorities is executive focused

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 8h

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 9h

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 8h

in this sense, tonight's actions are intended to traumatize and weaken the US in ways that are tactically different but strategically like 24 years ago

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8h

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 9h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 10h

It's funny because even my most libertarian friends will agree that monitoring infectious disease outbreaks is one of the few things you need a government for and can't really privatize, and these guys just want to burn it all down, anyway.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

...but if you go check the video on TikTok (search the username visible on the screen and scroll through until you find the video) it also has an annotation that explains it's AI.

Screenshot that reads "contains AI-generated media"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 8h

I genuinely have no words about the CDC destruction

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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