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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 3h

Time to see if the crystalized "true grapefruit" has the nice furocoumarins like grapefruit spindrift does.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

More here: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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

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

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 4h

Just ignoring the law.

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 4h

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores!

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The. Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 4h

This reads as "we're only gonna release the hostages we already agree had no part at all in the conflict"

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5h

CNN reports Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The eminent pediatrician was detained in Dec. during Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, after he refused to abandon patients under siege.

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 4h

Sooooo

Just releasing civilian hostages they absolutely know did absolutely nothing in the conflict?

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 4h

So, uh, what part of "necessary to life, safety, or security of property" is bringing back HR staff to fire people?

Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 4h

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

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

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...

Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 4h

So, uh, what part of "necessary to life, safety, or security of property" is bringing back HR staff to fire people?

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 7h

"I smell like a bog" is a hell of an admission to make

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 7h

oh baby disease tracking is gonna get so much worse

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10d

Remembering when the CDC/FDA tracked all foodborne diseases

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 7h

I mean, they don't fit in consumer ovens so 🤷

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 7h

(I can't tell how many burners it's resting on, doesn't look like a standard half sheet pan though)

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 7h

Oh shit, is that the mystical full sheet pan?

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 7h

Emergency naked bike ride 50° and in the rain, now THAT is Portland

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9h

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8h

there's really just zero motivation for Ds to negotiate when they're saying things like this. if they're just going to rule by recissision anyway, might as well make them admit they're gutting the fillibuster in order to destroy healthcare.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 8h

Welp, that quote is going straight into a legal brief.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

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

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 9h

five noooHOOOSE rings
4 polycules
3 enbys
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And a gender studies p h deeeee

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

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

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 9h

Worst possible omelet

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 10h

What's the probable worst case for a single ICBM?

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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 10h

They finally hit 1,000.

Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 11h

Woman dies after riding Haunted Mansion at Disneyland: reports

A woman in her 60s died earlier this week after riding Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion attraction, according to news reports.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com · 10h

🤷

There are lots of terms that I think should probably be in-group use only because of how they have been used historically?

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lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social · 10h

I generally think that judges should be restrained in their usage of footnotes, but in this case I'm willing to make an exception.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

Holy footnote, Batman!

Hamilton: What kind of stupid, self-defeating, tyrannical maniac would send the National Guard hundreds of miles from home to oppress people in other states?! Sit down, Don.

$1 “A sample of this is to be observed in the exaggerated and improbable suggestions which have taken place respecting the power of calling for the services of the militia. That of New-Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New-Hampshire, of New-York to Kentuke and of Kentuke to Lake Champlain. Nay the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in Militia-men instead of Louis d’ors and ducats. At one moment there is to be a large army to lay prostrate the liberties of the people; at another moment the militia of Virginia are to be dragged from their homes five or six hundred miles to tame the republican contumacy of Massachusetts; and that of Massachusetts is to be transported an equal distance to subdue the refractory haughtiness of the aristocratic Virginians. Do the persons, who rave at this rate, imagine, that their art or their eloquence can impose any conceits or absurdities upon the people of America for infallible truths?$

If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism what need of the militia? If
there should be no army, whither would the militia, irritated by being called upon to undertake a distant
and hopeless expedition for the purpose of rivetting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen
direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a
project; to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power and to make them an example of the just
vengeance of an abused and incensed people? Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a
numerous and enlightened nation? Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of
their intended usurpations? Do they usually commence their career by wanton and disgustful acts of
power calculated to answer no end, but to draw upon themselves universal hatred and execration? Are
suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people? Or are they
the inflammatory ravings of chagrined incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts? 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.”
The Federalist No. 29, at 186-187 (Alexander Hamilton) (Jacob Ernest Cooke ed., 1961).

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

Holy footnote, Batman!

Hamilton: What kind of stupid, self-defeating, tyrannical maniac would send the National Guard hundreds of miles from home to oppress people in other states?! Sit down, Don.

$1 “A sample of this is to be observed in the exaggerated and improbable suggestions which have taken place respecting the power of calling for the services of the militia. That of New-Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New-Hampshire, of New-York to Kentuke and of Kentuke to Lake Champlain. Nay the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in Militia-men instead of Louis d’ors and ducats. At one moment there is to be a large army to lay prostrate the liberties of the people; at another moment the militia of Virginia are to be dragged from their homes five or six hundred miles to tame the republican contumacy of Massachusetts; and that of Massachusetts is to be transported an equal distance to subdue the refractory haughtiness of the aristocratic Virginians. Do the persons, who rave at this rate, imagine, that their art or their eloquence can impose any conceits or absurdities upon the people of America for infallible truths?$

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