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Christine @buddhaclauser.bsky.social · 5h

THE CEO OF THE PRIVATE prison group working for ICE- GEO -CEO J. David Donahue - is very excited for all the money he will be making under Donald Trumps new immigrant detention plans - he said in May of this year!

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Private Prison Company GEO Group “Excited” About Mass Deportation

Exposing the harms of the criminal legal system and elevating solutions that keep all people safe.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Christine @buddhaclauser.bsky.social · 5h

What’s a chick? Someone let their blue Easter chicks loose again?! He is a freaking weirdo. Trump is the only thinking keeping him relevant. Too bad-so sad for him! And look how he grew up…

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 8h

I do absolutely think that there should be a "Best poll question of the year" award at the @aapor.bsky.social annual banquet. Needs to be released with TI-level disclosures, of course

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 8h

i stand with @dhmontgomery.com

(at the least, there should be a pollitzer)

The Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado — and not U.S. President Donald Trump, who argued his foreign policy actions merited the award. (Find out whether Americans agree below!)

Here at the Surveyor, though, we’re more concerned with the continuing injustice that is the lack of a Nobel Polling Prize. We at YouGov feel confident we’d receive such an honor on the basis of our powerful research findings, such as that 7% of men think they could win a fight with a grizzly bear or that Americans are evenly split over whether a straw has one or two holes.

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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 16h

You know the assignment 👍

It'd be a real shame if this photo of President Obama receiving his Nobel peace prize went viral today, for no particular reason

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

In Tron, you experience what it would be like if humans existed in digital space and if digital life existed in the physical world.

Through this journey of digital and human life interacting, you come away feeling that to live is to be free—and it is your duty to resist anything that prevents that.

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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 6h

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 6h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

This is fine.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

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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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 6h

Here I was getting mad at Ben Wikler for associating with a billionaire when I should have been annoyed for him associating with a child rapist.

Is there even a difference nowadays?

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 6h

Ha oh man, I was not aware Reid Hoffman is in the Epstein files too.

This scandal is so so so so bad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6h

All these oped writers think we should give the Nobel Peace Prize to the guy who’s gutting our medical infrastructure

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

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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freeworld99🍁🌻📎 @freeworld99.bsky.social · 6h

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Ian RSW @irmacdonald.bsky.social · 3d

Just playing with AI

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Christine @buddhaclauser.bsky.social · 6h

No. Democrats didn’t do this.

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 6h

Wow

Just.... wow

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

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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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 7d

If everyone bought one or two food/snack items on the list, spending between $10 and $15, these autistic students would be guaranteed breakfast and lunch -- as well as snacks throughout the day. We can't let them go hungry!

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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you if you've donated food/snacks to @mspetersen.bsky.social's autistic students in Wisconsin!

Many of Amanda's students live in foster care or are homeless and come to school without breakfast or lunch!

We are 40% to our goal and can hit 100% if you visit her link below and even spend $10:

Amanda Petersen @mspetersen.bsky.social · 24d

Can you help with snacks and drinks for our kids
I'm in high school life skills now and they have many needs
We are 2 special education teachers in a title 1 school
Can you help us get more items as we do not get funding #resist #proudblue #teacher #bluecrew #autism
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 6h

And also, this headline? Inadequate

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

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Christine @buddhaclauser.bsky.social · 6h

And the cowardly thieving criminals couldn’t even sign their name!

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Christine @buddhaclauser.bsky.social · 6h

And the cowardly thieving criminals couldn’t even sign their name!

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 7h

Blaming the layoffs on the Democrats is like blaming Sophie for making a choice.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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