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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 1h

Rhey want a world without autism- so kick em out of schools.

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 3h

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 6h

The real Christians of America.

HJH82 @greatlakes88.bsky.social · 7h

Catholic Mass at ICE facility in Broadview.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 7h

Folks.

Everyone in DC is needed in Tuesday.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 8h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. Then do the same with immigration.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats need to go as hard branding protest as patriotism as Republicans are labeling it all insurrection.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 1d

The white guys of apartheid era are pretty horrific.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

New AI School should totally be fun and safe for academics. Totally.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 1d

Worst written skeet

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility.

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Jessica Blake @jessicablake.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Staff at the Education Department are affected by the mass layoffs that OMB Chief Russell Vought promised today on X.

A department spokesperson confirmed this but didn’t say how many employees will be affected or in which offices. ED has already lost half its staff to a previous RIF.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

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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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahahahahshshshshsh

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 1d

Mainer?

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 2d

Nah. He was always better.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 2d

Wood should get the Nobel for lit.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo in Dilexi te: “The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty.” (Full Text). www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

“If politicians and professionals do not listen to the poor democracy atrophies, turns into a slogan, a formality; it loses its representative character and becomes disembodied, since it leaves out the people in their daily struggle for dignity, in the building of their future.” - Pope in Dilexi te

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