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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11h

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

When Democrats controlled the White House, Senate and House there were no shutdowns because we acted like adults and negotiated with Republicans.

Now Republicans control everything and they're refusing to even show up for work. Because they think the chaos of a shutdown is fun.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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MCH @globalmch.bsky.social · 4d

💯 this!

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4d

The truth is, the government has been shutting down since January. Mass illegal firings, withholding funds, censorship, corruption. Making this fight about medicaid subsidies is fine. But no democrat should be voting to fund a dictatorship.

Call your dems and tell them to hold the line

5calls.org

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 5d

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 8d

Jesus healed the sick and you block medicine.

Children die while you boast of “faith.”

This is not Christian. This is cruelty.

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

www.washingtonpost.com

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MCH @globalmch.bsky.social · 5d

So proud and amazed by the work of former USAID colleagues, “the lifeboat crew” 💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾

Julie Hanson Swanson @juliehansonswanson.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... The blood on Rubio, Musk, and Vought's hands will never dry but thank god there are still decent people in this world saving lives. @altusaid.altgov.info @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social @usaidstopwork.bsky.social @wofava.bsky.social @rosefabs.bsky.social

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d

The story of the first 9 months of Trump's second term is a basic inhumanity.

Treating immigrants as animals.
Robbing people of basic health care to help billionaires.
Taking away people's freedom to speak.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 6d

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 6d

"We don't control what he's going to do" says Leader Thune as he literally tries to give Vought a blank check to do whatever the hell he wants.

Don't let them gaslight you — Senate Republicans are complicit in everything coming out of this White House.

Thune warns Democrats about Russ Vought: ‘We don’t control what he’s going to do’

The Senate majority leader spoke out as some Republicans express qualms about the White House slash-and-burn campaign.

www.politico.com

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 6d

University presidents it’s time for a united front. I mean, it’s past time. What are you going to do.

From the NYT: “The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation's top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump's political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 7d

Under Donald Trump, 688 prescription drugs have gotten MORE EXPENSIVE.

And last night, he shut down the government to avoid lowering Americans’ health care costs.

Donald Trump is making your life more expensive.

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braynsford.bsky.social @braynsford.bsky.social · 7d

100% Republicant owned shutdown.

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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 9d

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House.

If the government shuts down, it's because Republicans chose to shut it down rather than work with Democrats to pass a responsible budget.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 9d

Now, call me an amateur, but I think that’s actually exactly how negotiations function. In fact, you might say that’s exactly what a negotiation is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Vance: "You don't use your policy disagreements as leverage."

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 9d

bro we are so cooked

Alex Bolton
@alexanderbolton

Chuck Schumer tells reporters at White House that Trump seemed completely oblivious to impending increase in health insurance rates and closing of rural hospitals: "By his face and by the way he looked, I think he heard about them for the first time."
4:46 PM • 9/29/25 • 1K Views

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 9d

[tv commercial opens]
[a woman comes into a kitchen and puts down her grocery bags]

“as a busy mom, I’m always looking for faster, cheaper ways to launder hundreds of millions of dollars”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Eric Trump: "You're sitting there saying, 'Why can't I send hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin overseas instantly or receive it instantly with virtually no fees?' Bitcoin is the way of the future."

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 9d

This is what Schumer and Jeffries should be talking about. Every single day. This should be top billing in their discussions about the continuing resolution. Do not give Stephen Miller and ice a single penny.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

www.cbsnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

79. American citizen.

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