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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 8h

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

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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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 13h

lmao

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 15h

my genuine theory is that dems know once they admit to a little of the fascism they have to admit to all of it and they are trying to avoid that at all costs

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 15h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 14h

I wrote an article in January about where we have ended up in English law re. "deception as to sex", and what that means for trans people. I think it's likely we can expect to see more of these sorts of cases going forward.

www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-teen...

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 16h

the physical contrast is awfully validating, yeah

Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 18h

getting undressed by two guys at once was a definite all timer, one for tha books

Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 18h

I have like 2400 hours in this fuckin game

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 19h

If you have Twitch Prime, they're giving away XCOM 2 for free this week. It's a code for GOG.

If you already have XCOM 2, grab the code and give it to someone else who doesn't. It's a super great game and people need happy-making things now.

SHARE THE THINGS.

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 19h

youtu.be/NAQy8v0d_qo?...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Medium D. Holloween @mediumhollow.bsky.social · 20h

If your coffee shop has menu items like “Caffeine Orgasm”, “Raspberry Bitch Kiss” and “Slutty Little Mocha” I’m sneering my face off. I’m abruptly heel turning out the door. I’m 36 or 37 years old

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 1d

what a fucking dog

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delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

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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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Biden took more money from the Israel lobby over the past 34 years than any other politician in Washington.

Catholics are the only religious group other than Muslims with a net unfavorable view of Israel.

This is a ridiculous tweet.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 1d

I've joked before that the Democratic party is more of a money laundering scheme than a political project but, like. Stephen, they will FUCK YOU UP if you come for ActBlue. Like literally the only thing you could do to make Democrats fight back is touch their shitty email money

Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social · 1d

ActBlue, Open Society, Indivisible—terrorists all.

Note how slipshod, confused, and ramshackle this project sounds even from quoted behind-the-scenes insiders. Miller WANTS it to sound maximally ominous and intimidating. The targets should hold their heads high and carry on.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 1d

sounds like Hilary Cass 😱

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 1d

its so funny to be an obnoxious blogger, a vote for harris guy, saying "ohh ur doing their propaganda for them" one would think u of all people would understand how important propaganda is considering ur candidate lost to a guy who did it way better than her. take a walk around the block indeed

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Like, there’s a guy with a Hitler mustache in there. If you think that people can’t see this for exactly what it is, go take a walk around the block. You’re doing their propaganda for them.

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DM Skywalker @dmskywalker.bsky.social · 1d

You know, David Miscavige has really benefited from the fact that the world went really nuts right around the time he murdered his fucking wife and nobody with power checked in on it.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

dear Supreme Corut i am NOT owned. do NOT give my website to that guy i'm serious!!!!! stop!!!!

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over this

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

Cis people aren't angry enough about the conversion therapy case for my taste.

They'll legalize it, and then States will pass laws requiring it, and that will be how they try to exterminate us.

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jade @goblinmode.com · 1d

basically this will destroy the country. “lol”

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

Premium increases notices will soon arrive in the mailboxes of Americans all over the US.

The average increase? 114%.

For some, the numbers are even higher:

A couple making $129,000 with two adult children at home in Savannah, GA, will pay $3,150 more per month for insurance.

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