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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 8m

As a school board member I can say without hesitation that this is going to break the financial back of many districts while genuinely harming untold thousands of families across the country. Special education services are a bedrock of our social contract that have had no party lines until now.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 56m

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 1h

This is how you do it.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 5h

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

I would assume that the Qatari Air Force facility in the US is entirely training focused.

That said, it's worth noting that Qatar has literally bribed the President and his family in multiple ways, to the tune of many millions of dollars.

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 1h

500 Electoral votes, easy.

leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 2h

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3h

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 5h

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 6h

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 2h

Also the commodification and technological optimization of everyone's time and hobbies play no small part in this. Nothing is cheap and fun anymore.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2h

3. According to the Fair Housing Justice Center, 2023 had the highest number of complaints ever reported in a single year — fully 3.5% higher than 2022 — meaning this is still a problem.

4. It would take years to rebuild if the firings go through.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2h

1. This is illegal as it makes enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 effectively impossible.

2. Congress appropriates more than $300M each year for enforcement because housing discrimination has one of the ugliest legacies in American history after slavery and Native American genocide.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 3h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans want to make your health insurance premiums to skyrocket while wiping out federal resources for preventing communicable and eradicated diseases

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

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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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 2h

Anti-corruption, good governance, and the expansion of participation in our democracy necessarily requires unrelenting, unconditional justice toward those who have sought or succeeded in undermining or destroying key pillars of American constitutional democracy. No exceptions.

muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 23h

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Justice for All - Truthdig

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

www.truthdig.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h

They think everyone else is as incompetent as they are at building things. They only know how to break things.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 3h

Is there even the most remote suggestion or implication from any source whatsoever that these jobs are being restored contingent on Democrats surrendering on the shutdown? Then why is it being described as leverage? It’s not. It’s just more White House lawbreaking that no one seems to care about.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously, how is this “pressure?” is there a memo we all don’t know about where the White House says that all these people will get hired back if Democrats vote to end the shutdown? Because if that’s the case, several people should be in prison right now.

wkow27news.bsky.social @wkow27news.bsky.social · 4h

The White House budget office announced Friday that mass layoffs of federal workers have begun, a move by President Donald Trump's administration aimed at increasing pressure on Democratic lawmakers amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown

Mass firings of federal workers have begun. That was the announcement Friday from the White House as Republicans worked to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers to end the government

www.wkow.com

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 7h

Translation: if the president has to give in to the Democrats’ demand for renewing health insurance subsidies, don’t worry. We can come back later with clawbacks (“rescissions”) that require a simple majority (“reconciliation bill”) to pass.

IOW, Johnson is announcing his intention to cheat.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21h

Read my interview with the peerless @tify330.bsky.social.

www.editorialboard.com/hakeem-jeffr...

Hakeem Jeffries: 'Republicans have zero credibility, zero'

The Democrats' message is breaking through, says Tiffany Carlock.

www.editorialboard.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 17h

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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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 5h

lol holy shit

a picture of a nuclear explosion with the words gifbin at the bottom

Alt: A mushroom cloud forms and expands as a chunky guy with glasses comes in from off screen left to give a "thumbs up" before turning to watch the explosion.

media.tenor.com

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 6h

You know what's crazy? Stealing the culture and art Black people created and when another WM (Eminen) does it better than you w/skill, rather than put in actual work, your mediocre ass rolls it into a cheesy fusion of rock and then country because the bar for talent in its original form is too high!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 6h

Expansion of participation in our democracy must be a crucial pillar of the platform.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans openly admit that extending democracy would be terrible for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 6h

What the fuck is the point of being a liberal billionaire if you won't spend money on shit that's actually important?

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 6h

Really seems like a thing that a consortium of blue states could set up in exile, maybe with corporate donation help.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

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: