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DreadwoodGirl

@redwoodgirl.bsky.social

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Anti-fascist, Trekkie, ex-LucasArts-er. GenX, Level 58, Chico CA. Lover of universal healthcare, dense housing, poems, perfumes, flowers, trees, medieval city centers, & HSR. Poly. Mostly harmless. -> COVID isn't over and the CDC is dead, so mask up!

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 3d

Six former surgeons general, including the SG from Trump's first administration, wrote a joint op-ed in today's WaPo to saying that HHS Secy RFK Jr is endangering the health of the U.S. Public health is at a 5-alarm fire in the U.S. and most people won't even know it until the next pandemic hits.

Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 3d

Past surgeon generals alongside psychiatric bodies all calling for Kennedy to go citing his attacks on vaccines that look set to reduce access to vaccines and therapies to tackle substance abuse

Past surgeons general warn HHS Secretary Kennedy must go

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Natalie Maxson @nataliemaxson.bsky.social · 9h

So by Monday all the decent countries in the world are going to close their doors to anyone coming from the United Stars, right?

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

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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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

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Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6h

October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

No Kings
All Frogs

there won’t be an inflatable costume left for miles around

Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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lord-piltdown.bsky.social @lord-piltdown.bsky.social · 1d

You might be cool, but you'll never be as cool as Johnny Cash taking a break during his 1968 Folsom Prison concert.

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 7h

Matt Novak says this video is AI.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

This is AI.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8h

BREAKING: Jorge Polanco hit a game-ending single in the 15th inning, and the Seattle Mariners advanced to the AL Championship Series by outlasting the Detroit Tigers for a 3-2 victory in the longest winner-take-all postseason game in baseball history.

Polanco hits winning single in the 15th inning as the Mariners beat the Tigers to advance to ALCS

Jorge Polanco hit a game-ending single in the 15th inning, and the Seattle Mariners advanced to the AL Championship Series by outlasting the Detroit Tigers for a 3-2 victory in the longest winner-take-all postseason game in baseball history.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

This video is AI.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 8h

Let's send all the billionaires into space on a B Ark and tell them a giant space goat is about to eat the planet.

DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 8h

B Ark!

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe we should send billionaires to space in their rockets

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Kristina of ⭐️⭐️ @maytagsmom.bsky.social · 9h

EXACTLY. I was promised a Rosie from The Jetsons.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 17h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Covid-Safer SF/Bay Area @covidsafersf.bsky.social · 5d

(Oakland)(21+ event) Sat., 10/25, 7 p.m.-11:59 p.m.: This KN95-or-better-required event is looking for volunteers!
Sign ups and more info:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

OpenAI’s Sora puts a watermark on its videos but not enough people know what it means.

To complicate matters, people have built tools to easily remove and (oddly) add a Sora watermark. Sharing real videos with an AI watermark can make for a funny joke, but it also really fucks with the landscape.

AV🕯️ CTRL+ALT+DEL @yappydagger.bsky.social · 10h

There should be an AI labeler if there isn't already.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

This is AI.

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 5d

"Abolish ICE" left the stable a long time ago. They need to be tried in a special court.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 10h

Omfg. This is so embarrassingly pathetically false. Portland is FINE. tr*mp's dementia is not.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11h

All the doctors who teamed up with this guy instead of warning about him and his team own this.

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 11h

This is unconscionable. They're murdering U.S. public health. When/if we ever get a non-Republican president, the people responsible for this need to be tried for treason.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

Anne Frank and Underground Railroad analogies write themselves.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

"If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs."

Oh Alexander, honey.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

Quoted by Judge Perry today in her opinion in Illinois v Trump

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 1d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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