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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.

Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.

Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

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Morganne MacDonald @macmorganne.bsky.social · 17h

This cannot happen. No immunity, qualified or otherwise. None.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Morganne MacDonald @macmorganne.bsky.social · 17h

This was always the plan.

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Jill 💙🌊🌊💙 @pumpkin061.bsky.social · 1d

#deplorable

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Speak Your Truth @hopeandhappiness.bsky.social · 20h

When knowledge is your enemy, you are the problem. Why? Read a damn book and figure it out. Start with some of the books you’re banning.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22h

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21h

Fat Satan got his COVID booster shot yesterday. If he doesn’t listen to his Trumpshit-crazy HHS Secretary, why should we?

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spooky•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina got $20 billion this week.

the Argentinian public healthcare system is free for residents and tourists, funded through taxes.

America First, though, amirite??

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

“They obviously have Chinese investors,” major SpaceX investor Iqbaljit Kahlon said in newly unsealed testimony, adding that some are “directly on the cap table,” referring to the company’s capitalization table, which lists its shareholders.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

www.propublica.org

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💙 MaryH 💙 @maryh58.bsky.social · 1d

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 1d

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Yellow Dog Dem @simempreresist.bsky.social · 19h

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Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 22h

SCRAP THE CAP
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Morganne MacDonald @macmorganne.bsky.social · 19h

How's that Kavanaugh Stop working out?

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

Morganne MacDonald @macmorganne.bsky.social · 1d

Corruption in plain sight is not virtue. Putting our national security at risk daily for private, personal, profit is not an official act.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

Morganne MacDonald @macmorganne.bsky.social · 1d

Nice.

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Morganne MacDonald @macmorganne.bsky.social · 1d

They are prohibited from arresting journalists. Is no one briefing them on the court orders restraining their conduct?

Morganne MacDonald @macmorganne.bsky.social · 1d

May we all be who want to be in the end. RIP, John Lodge. Thanks for the beauty.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band

The late musician helped steer the Moody Blues into an exciting and groundbreaking new era of psychedelia

www.theguardian.com

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Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social · 1d

The security concerns are overwhelming. This is pretty much unbelievable except for a corrupt regime.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

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Morganne MacDonald @macmorganne.bsky.social · 2d

DJT's vision for states he wants to punish.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians

Agencies like Ice are way ahead of Donald Trump, who wants the military to treat cities like ‘training grounds’

www.theguardian.com

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