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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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

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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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1h

It's so reassuring to see the promise of competent and principled leadership. And behind him stands the magnificent Maya Wiley, who could have been our *current* mayor.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 4h

A federal judge has ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its removal by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday.

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed

A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its remo…

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Incredible Congressional hearing opportunity here which is to ask Oz if he knows how numbers work.
Like, Katie Porter whiteboard stuff: "Ok, if the drug was $100 per month, and it was reduced by 650%, what would the price be?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 4h

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 4h

Trump’s new national security memo (NSPM-7) designates the following as terrorism "indicators":

🟥Anti-capitalism
🟥Anti-Christianity
🟥Anti-Americanism
🟥Extremism on gender
🟥Extremism on race

This encompasses pretty much everybody to the left of MAGA.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

disgusting

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 4h

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6d

This is very clearly what part of it is and it is extremely fucking sad. Entire generations being failed, stunted by an increasingly extractive existence so that a handful of guys can accumulate more money than God. Admitting this is too embarrassing for reasons that cut across left & right, though.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 6d

Broke: digital assistant
Woke: digital life coach

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6d

The one I actually find the most depressing is where it cuts to what is clearly a young couple on a first date cooking dinner in their apartment and the camera zooms out to show a prompt of something like “what’s a good first date recipe that doesn’t show I’m too invested” and chatgpt outlines it

Almond @breakfastallday.bsky.social · 6d

There's this ad where the guy asks AI what he should make for his sunday BBQ, and tbh it really depressed me. Make what sounds good to you? What you're craving? It feels like fully abandoning your personhood to have a computer assign you something like that. You're alive, live in your body and mind.

hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 15d

every AI ad is like

“hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?”

and then the phone is like

“sandwich”

and the guy is like

“wow”

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A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social · 5h

“But don’t worry, we also invented a new, sexy chatbot for you to talk dirty with while your wife is watching the kids!”

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 5h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

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The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 5h

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18h

It is being roundly criticized from the institutions that are named in its first volley of threats. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18h

Even conservatives don't like it. 5/ www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump's higher education compact isn't conservative. It's federal intimidation. | Opinion

President Trump is trying to impose an ideological checklist on universities. That's not conservative reform. That's an abuse of power.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18h

If you want to know about Trump's compact for higher education read these pieces. 4/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

A Compact for Control (opinion)

No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18h

Oligarchs are going to oligarch. Trump may love him, but we don't have to. He is a pernicious figure and should be scorned and mocked. Without his billions, no one would care what this man says. 3/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18h

Here is the tale of how he ran one hospital chain into the ground. It's gruesome reading. He is not a good person. 2/ prospect.org/power/2023-1...

The Moral Authority of Marc Rowan

The private equity billionaire is leading a boycott of an Ivy League oligarch factory over a Palestinian literary festival it held last month.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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