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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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GG @ct-yankee.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

🤷🏽‍♂️ 🇺🇸 💰

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7h

Only a government run by billionaires would berate its employees for not wanting to work without pay.

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KM Apothecary @apothcarysees.bsky.social · 2h

The Shrinking Trump podcast with Dr. John Gartner and mental health professionals analyze Donald’s psychopathies, malignant narcissism, as well as his advancing dementia. The Goldwater Rule doesn’t apply to Trump as he’s a danger to the country per its author.

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visionexecution.bsky.social @visionexecution.bsky.social · 3h

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3h

After Careful Thought, Teen Applies To College Where Family Donated Building https://theonion.com/after-careful-thought-teen-applies-to-college-where-fa-1819577078/

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 6h

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 13h

Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.

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visionexecution.bsky.social @visionexecution.bsky.social · 4h

That's after they're mega companies.... I'm referring to the startup culture that gets them to mega companies.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 21h

MAGA Republicans in the White House, Senate, House of Representatives, or SCOTUS never miss a meal or the opportunity to screw over Americans or Federal Workers. #FDT and the GOP.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

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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visionexecution.bsky.social @visionexecution.bsky.social · 15h

I was working for the right words to describe it and you nailed it!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Not today, Satan‼️

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17h

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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visionexecution.bsky.social @visionexecution.bsky.social · 17h

I love plain speaking ❤️❤️❤️

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

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visionexecution.bsky.social @visionexecution.bsky.social · 17h

Sounds like she's trying to imitate musk

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

The cost of homeowners and auto insurance in FL is insane, but Republicans are always laser focused on the important distractions from all that stuff.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”