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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 8h

It can be nothing but an improvement of the force with the departure of any officer who might leave the NYPD if Mamdani gets elected.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 8h

Keep it up, Portland. ❤️

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 2d

I have heard rumors of "wooting" as well, but this is as yet unconfirmed.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 2d

Mariners win

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 2d

your reward for winning the baseball game that never ends is traveling to canada and playing another better team in less than 48 hours

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 2d

We are in the zone now where whoever wins really does not have time to get hammered after

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 2d

So, how y'all doing on the East coast?

Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 2d

Yup.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 2d

AH

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 2d

Yup.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I mean maybe everyone just repeatedly taking short term memory loss, brain fog and other blows to their brains, nervous and circulatory systems over the last five years helped create the conditions for the fascist total unreality

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 2d

When I worked as a government documents librarian I processed the weekly intake. The MMWR was the highlight of that work, and one of the things that shows the true good government can do.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

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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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 2d

*whimper*

Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 2d

I'm just not used to this...

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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 2d

Because this is actually like only an hour away from me, I would like to point out that Trump is not giving Qatar an air base, he is letting them build a training facility at an existing U.S. Air Force Base. Apparently, Singapore has a similar facility there as well. 1/2

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and Hegseth give Qatar an airbase in Idaho and Qatari pilots will be flying jets over American airspace. Their lavish gifts and personal business deals with Trump worth billions really paid off for them.

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 3d

(trying to gas up the bluesky execs as they crash out so i don’t get banned like Link):

“oh yah. you’re uhh… doing great champs! definitely keep posting through it. you called us dolls while defending a transphobe who obsessively fixates on children? absolute skibidi poasting yasss. epic bacon ftw”

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 3d

I am pleading with the world’s opinion columnists, with tears in my eyes, to please learn the difference between ammo depot and residential building

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 3d

If you still have a Washington Post subscription: why?

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 3d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 3d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3d

I give shit to Jeffries (and Schumer) when they suck, so it’s also important to recognize when they’re doing it right.

This is doing it right. More of this, indeed. *Everyone* involved in the corruption of this administration MUST face consequences for their actions.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Ornamental Hermit @smccain.bsky.social · 3d

It's science!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Autism antibodies are stored in the foreskin.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."