Liz Ditz Still masking
@lizditz.bsky.social
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Trans rights are human rights. None of us are safe until all of us are safe. Dyslexia, autism, vaccines work. She/her.
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.
Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.
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peterbakernyt.bsky.social
Trump described Portland as a “war ravaged” city that was “under siege from attack by Antifa” mobs protesting ICE raids. But federal officers described the scene outside an ICE building in Portland this way: "low energy" @haleaziz.bsky.social Adam Goldman Anna Griffin www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’
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silvermoonfafo.bsky.social
The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance
Portland antifa frog
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donegan.bsky.social
BREAKING: Antifa leader Habeas Corpus has been arrested in Portland.
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
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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kamimagic.bsky.social
I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue
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cornucpoian.bsky.social
Friday night in Downtown Portland: a play at Portland Center Stage, delicious pho at Luc Lac. The city appears to be full of interesting people having fun. Nothing burning down (at all).
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wyden.senate.gov
Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.
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gelbach.bsky.social
Who elected President Miller would be a good question in one of these TRO hearings
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In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department of Defense personnel: Prepare to send in the troops.
Stephen Miller emerges as key architect of Trump’s offensive on Democratic cities | CNN Politics
In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department...
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michaeljohnshank.bsky.social
Apolitical motivation for tackling air pollution. “For every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The IRS is laying off people during the shutdown, even though it was rehiring staff it previously fired because it was so shorthanded.
This one stands out because firing IRS employees costs the government money, since they bring in about $6-8 for every dollar spent on tax enforcement
IRS Halts Layoff Plans, Begins Rehiring Amid Staffing Shortages
The agency is attempting to rebuild its workforce and restore public confidence.
Treasury Department: Treasury cut 1,446 employees on Friday. Two Internal Revenue Service employees confirmed layoffs were taking place at the tax agency, which has already shed more than 25,000 employees. One employee who was laid off was working Friday and exempt from shutdown furloughs.
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adamkeiper.com
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.
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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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
states can only do so much though, the fact is this nation NEEDS a CDC, and that is going to become more and more apparent as time goes on
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
my point is they are attacking in waves, we are already very far up shit creek. a dangerous place to be. states will need to continue to fill what gaps they can and flex their legal authorities
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
vought’s war of attrition on federal public health capacity to respond to outbreaks + collect health statistics is best seen as an erosion rather than a binary on/off. tonight is another chapter in that destruction, a very bad one. not much outbreak response capacity was left, this cuts even deeper
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
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
adamkeiper.com
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.
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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mikemca.bsky.social
Sarah is amazing!

It’s not often you have your own world view so completely validated - and from the perspective of a different Continent.

Important reading in these dark times.
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
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@bbkogan.bsky.social adds the point that the work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown.
bbkogan.bsky.social
Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise
Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views