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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 2h

My oh my, @mariners.com! Congratulations on your historic win tonight in front of the best fans in MLB. There is nothing like October baseball in Seattle. Bring on the @bluejays.com! #SeizeTheMoment

Screenshot of Mariners tweet: THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO PLAY FOR THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMIONSHIP! 2025 ALCS Bound

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 2h

Us, clueless: why are there fireworks?

*gets on Facebook*

Us, enlightened: Ah, that’s why.

(For the first time in 24 years, the Mariners advance to the ALCS.)

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 2h

Nice to see the Mariners taking workplace safety seriously.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4h

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse.

For partisan political pain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 4h

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 4h

WELP.

CDC has fired their disease detectives and…

The MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) staff who according to a poster in the thread, is a KEY FRONTLINE INDICATOR of OUTBREAKS

AIDS as a new disease first showed up in this report…

Mask up and vaxx up folks

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

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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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 4h

Read this as "Our lawyers were on the way before the footage finished airing"

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 4h

Specifically how do you do it without destroying your back, because I don’t know how to look down at the paper I’m writing on without hunching. I am not new to writing longhand at volume but I am aging and can’t just tank the effects of bad posture anymore

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María @mariavictoria.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 5h

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

2025 is full of moments like this - learning about some awesomely good and important thing the government did that this evil administration is killing

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 5h

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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María @mariavictoria.bsky.social · 5h

What is happening tonight!?

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5h

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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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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María @mariavictoria.bsky.social · 6h

She isn’t perfect, but man I wish she was the one at the front right now. She gets the moment

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

AOC said Marjorie Taylor Green isn't mad because Bad Bunny is speaking Spanish. She said the real reason, "She's mad and they're mad [is] because she can barely speak English and the idea of introducing any new words is too much to bear. She may have just learned acetaminophen this week." ☠️

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

This is the way. Never cut deals with fascists.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Joe @itsjoe.bsky.social · 9h

Have you ever grown indoor cucumbers? I didn’t even know this was a thing until today. I think I’ll try them over the winter. It’ll give me something to do until spring comes.

🌱 #gardeningfeed

Quick Snack Cucumber Seeds

"Quick Snack" cucumbers were meant to grow in 6"-8" pots, indoors, on sunny windowsill, counter tops, or balconies. Because they are parthenocarpic, they do not need pollinators to produce fruit. Thes...

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 8h

Quite a shakedown operation for folks in uniform fencing goods.

Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 11h

New Mexico paying out $400,000 because agents for the attorney general and BCSO's deputies raided David McGhee’s home, destroying cameras, damaging the premises, assaulting his dog with a fire extinguisher & “unreasonably” seizing property and cash in a fruitless search for evidence of a crime

State pays Albuquerque's 'Mr. Discount' $400,000 to settle claim over home raid

Law enforcement assaulted his dog with a fire extinguisher and seized property and cash, according to David McGhee's tort claim notice.

www.santafenewmexican.com

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