Jumpin’ Punkin
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I study Congress; jazz; baseball; other things too
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blackamazon.bsky.social
Give every politician as much credit as their actions and no more
histoftech.bsky.social
JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents
jumpinpunkin.bsky.social
Just watch the first 2-skip the third at all costs.
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ebonyteach.blacksky.app
No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)
chaoskat.bsky.social
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
unraveledpress.com
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS
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jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed
sherylnyt.bsky.social
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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helenbranswell.bsky.social
100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded
The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...
www.statnews.com
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cnbc.com
CNBC @cnbc.com · 18h
The United States stands to lose $30 billion in international tourism dollars this year.

The lost revenue is set to benefit other countries — notably Canada and Latin America — as travelers seek out other destinations or decide to stay within their own countries or regions.
The U.S. is losing travelers. Here are the countries that stand to benefit
The United States stands to lose $30 billion in international tourism dollars this year, monies which are set to flow to neighboring nations and beyond.
cnb.cx
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jongraywb.bsky.social
I think whats gonna be the only diff between then and now is that *then* the dot com bubble bursting took out folks connected to it but this time the AI bubble bursting is gonna take out darn near everything all b/c ppl are putting their fingers in their ears and going lalalala all for a quick hit.
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thephatic.bsky.social
this has Russ Vought's fingerprints all over it - the executive, grabbing that purse
samhalpert.bsky.social
Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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chanda.blacksky.app
Military members lined up at a food bank because Trump's shutdown means that people aren't getting paid.

This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.
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qasimrashid.com
Reminder that a billionaire owns what is now this rag outlet & his only goal is to stroke Trump's ego so Trump helps him become a trillionaire.

Cancel these rag media outlets & invest in people committed to actual justice. No paywall. Paid sub is entirely optional:
www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
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reazlepuff.bsky.social
It was better when the Chinese owned the app

They just took our data but not our freedom
premthakker.bsky.social
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
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willbunch.bsky.social
America's collapse in one swath of the NYT homepage
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ufw.bsky.social
Halloween is coming soon. Lupe" sent us this photo of the pumpkins he helped harvest in the Bakersfield CA area. He shares he is proud of the work he and other farm workers do to bring fruits and vegetables to the tables across America. #WeFeedYou
A field full of pumpkins that were harvested by Farm workers
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”
leahlitman.bsky.social
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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steventdennis.bsky.social
This is the big fight other than health care. Will Congress acquiesce to Trump seizing the power to de-purse?
repdangoldman.bsky.social
No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.
 
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois — but blocked its use for active deployment. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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gregorykoger.bsky.social
Isn‘t this the arrangement Trump hounded Hunter Biden for?
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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audacityofdespair.bsky.social
To quote Mr. Mankewicz and Mr. Wells: "It's no trick to make an awful lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money."

When most of the U.S. electorate awakes to finally realize great wealth is no way conditional to or dependent on intelligence or morality, this country begins to heal.
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drpopcultureusa.bsky.social
October 11, 1975: "Saturday Night Live" premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host.