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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 2h

There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 2h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 5h

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

"Dozens of CDC employees, including “disease detectives,” top scientists, and the entire Washington office, were notified they’re being laid off as part of the Trump administration’s latest wave of federal job cuts."

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

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Reporting from Washington
Oct. 11, 2025, 12:34 a.m. ET

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

FYI: There's a Nemik super-edit that's…weirdly powerful? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf60...

Andor: Karis Nemik

YouTube video by SWFT

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 4h

Here comes Santa Snake,
Here comes Santa Snake,
Right down Santa Snake Lane...

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 9h

Fantastic thread! Read, and take heart. And organize, if you aren't already.
My mother was was a former union president of the National Federation of Federal Employees and if she were alive and in her prime now, she would be on the warpath.

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 10h

Comrades, I’m inclined to tell you a story from my organizing days. In 2018, I was one of hundred of union organizers who had the privilege to assist with a nine-day, statewide, unauthorized teachers’ strike to save their schools from a critical staffing shortage. Buckle up, it’s a good one. 1/x

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 6h

That's some good advice--

Relax your shoulders
Unclench your jaw
Eat the rich

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 6h

Whew, I'm not in Duluth so it couldn't be me!

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 7h

Area code 218 is northern MN???

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 8h

This is unconscionable. They're murdering U.S. public health. When/if we ever get a non-Republican president, the people responsible for this need to be tried for treason.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

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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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 8h

a cartoon character holding a fish in a bowl

Alt: Blinky, the mutated 3-eyed fish from the Simpsons, blinks and bloops at you from his fishbowl

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 12h

So pleased for you! 💜🫂

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 12h

@violetblue.bsky.social will love this

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

They’re still offering new ICE recruits a $50,000 signing bonus, yet active duty military were seen today lining up at food banks.

Defend your country and you can’t afford to eat.

Terrorize your country and you become rich.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13h

In Trump US, pills pay you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t think we can call it “pedocon *theory*” anymore, the evidence is in, the hypothesis has been proven, the peer reviews are in

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 14h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 12h

That bitter anger is persistent as toothache.
Every. Damn. Day.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

ICE agents shot and killed a dog in an El Paso home.

The owner was complying with their request to search. He simply asked permission to secure the dog first.

ICE entered anyways and murdered the dog.

They refused to give names or badge numbers.

Given Noem’s history this is ghastly.

El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 13h

That's okay, I wasn't looking forward to the commute from SoCal

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13h

Protecting your privacy doesn't have to be scary. Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense guides for step-by-step tutorials for keeping your data and devices secure. ssd.eff.org/

Surveillance Self-Defense

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty-five years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and your friends from online spying. Read the BASICS to find out how online surveillance works. Dive into our TOOL GUIDES for instructions...

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13h

I sometimes do work for publishing houses. This was a request that came to me the DAY that it was due and had NO assets for me to use: this is me taking a pdf of the book and making this from complete scratch! It would be good if you hired me actually! I can do stuff! This looks like a real ad!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

Since it is Friday, I am once again reminding you that I am running for CA Assembly District 72, and that my solemn pledge not to use any campaign funds to eat excessive amounts of tortellinis remains in effect.

These are personal tortellinis.

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A plastic bowl filled with discount tortellinis and marinara sauce

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 13h

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 13h

C is for CROSSING -- paywall lifted for Chapter Two of The Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Alphabet, featuring character art by @asphodelles.bsky.social

Ghosts. History. Horror. Boomers on molly. A missing cat. Wellington like you've never known.

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Chapter Two | The Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Alphabet | Threat Model

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Chris WoooOOOOoomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 13h

not me periodically refreshing DoesTheDogDie.com for news on Peanut 😬

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 13h

Also, holy shit, I think I read a *lot* of news but our teams on other pages are constantly telling me things I had no idea about because there is so much happening.

Like, two weeks in high-level data security disasters is a lot. unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

This week at Unbreaking, October 10 — Unbreaking

We have updates on the Trump administration’s actions—and pushback from across US society—in Immigration, Data Security, Medical Research Funding, and Equality at Work.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 13h

This is what I do with a lot of my time right now. It's so wild that the "simple" things—like keeping the chronology, pointing to specific events—are so hard right now. But they need doing.

Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 16h

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

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Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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