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R Towle @rtowle.bsky.social · 19m

Report with accuracy and include this is in no way lawful.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 50m

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 · 1h

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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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10h

WUT?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

this is an absolutely insane news conference for the Attorney General of the United States to be participating in.

(note how Benny Johnson describes the Annunciation shooting as an act of political violence, which is a lie)

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DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 10h

📣The Freedom Frogs are multiplying‼️

This is the way Portland 🫡❤️🐸
Video @oregonian.com

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 34m

we need to fix Section 230 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

If you are a paying subscriber to The Washington Post, this is what you get.

If you are a free subscriber to Democracy Docket, this is what you get.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 13h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 2h

Did you know that the 100 wealthiest corporations/people own about 8% of the world's entire wealth?

That's kind fucked up, right?

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1h

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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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 1h

Monsters. They are monsters. 👇

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 1h

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.

www.bloomberg.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

It’s unnerving but I’m starting to like it

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h

This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 59m

Imagine dressing like a Temu Richard Petty and criticizing anyone’s appearance

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15h

New Frankenstein Spider Found in Thailand Is Half Male and Half Female www.discovermagazine.com/new-frankens...

New Frankenstein Spider Found in Thailand Is Half Male and Half Female

A newly discovered species, Damarchus inazuma, displays a rare split-sex trait known as gynandromorphism and takes its name from a shape-shifting anime character.

www.discovermagazine.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 5h

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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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

TikTok video by Ms RK

www.tiktok.com

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R Towle @rtowle.bsky.social · 2h

When people say that I always wonder just how good they think the woman in question must be at sex. It’s a misogynistic and stupid saying. There may be the rare person that is so magically good at sex that they can then cast magic spells for self advancement, but generally not how sex works.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

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