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Mari Rochelle🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ⚢ 💙🧬☮️🗳️ (she/her) ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜🌶️ @mari-rochelle.bsky.social · 6h

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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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IrishIceSP @irishicesp.bsky.social · 6h

That's Nestle whose owner went on record decades ago stating water should be available only to those who can afford it. Why is a state's water legally allowed to be sold to a foreign-based entity?

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 13h

WHO IS FIRING WHO??

The president cannot fire federal employees. He appoints a relatively small group of officials:

Cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and some other political appointees (about 4k total).

Vought can’t either. Only within the OMB, which has roughly 500.

We still have laws, yes??

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

There are very few stores left in Portland that aren't made of wood. FYI

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 5d

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 3d

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 3d

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 3d

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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growingfamily.bsky.social @growingfamily.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know how medical professionals are going to be able to treat patients without the information they require from the CDC. The CDC is sometimes our only warning system about certain diseases.

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IrishIceSP @irishicesp.bsky.social · 6h

Dismantling the CDC one department at a time. The health & safety of Americans is being threatened. People don't understand the scope of service by the CDC. Trump & his Project 2025 minions are setting in motion circumstances that will result in the deaths of millions.

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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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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15h

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly….

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 14h

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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The Amazing Prizzini @amazingprizzini.bsky.social · 13h

Last night, at midnight, I walked 3 1/2 miles home from Wrigley Field down Addison.

It was a lovely walk- a quiet, well off part of town, with a fancy high school at Western.

Today, the area is swarming with ICE and is magnitudes less safe than it was for me last night in the wee hours.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 21h

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 14h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Congresswoman Andrea Salinas @salinas.house.gov · 13h

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay.

Nobody should have to face their struggles alone without care or support.

As Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Mental Health Caucus, I’ll keep working to build a world where mental health is treated as a right, not just a privilege.

Learn more ⬇️

Mental Illness Awareness Week

October 6-12 is Mental Illness Awareness Week, and we're excited to celebrate! We'll also be honoring World Mental Health Day on October 10. This year, NAMI's highlighting My Mental Health at Work - c...

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