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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 7h

Destroying America’s ability to fight disease, illness, injury, and pandemics which don’t respect our borders. They want you cowed and sick.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 1d

Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for:
- promoting democratic rights
- struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition
- At a time when democracy is under threat
- where democracy is in retreat
- more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm
www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en

Nobel Peace Center | Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway

The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo is the museum of the Nobel Peace Prize. Experience our exhibitions, events and guided tours inspired by the ideas and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.

www.nobelpeacecenter.org

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahahahahahah.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Huh. Gonna be an awkward day for Secretary of State-National Security Advisor-Acting Archivist Marco Rubio.

www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil...

Part of a letter sent by a bunch of GOP members of Congress in favor of granting Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won today.

The last three paragraphs, before Rick Scott and Marco Rubio's signature, reads:

The Maduro regime's abuses and assaults on the civil society and legitimate
political activity of Venezuelan citizens have caused millions to flee to other countries,
while millions more have had no choice but to remain in the prison Maduro has
imposed on them. The peace of the region has been greatly disturbed by Maduro’s
welcoming of some of the world’s worst actors, including terrorists and dictators who
support him.
It is our firm belief that María Corina Machado’s courageous and selfless
leadership, and unyielding dedication to the pursuit of peace and democratic ideals,
make her a most deserving candidate for this prestigious award. Her efforts not only
highlight the urgent need for international solidarity in the face of aggressive and
expansive authoritarianism but also serve as a reminder of the power of individual
bravery in the quest for justice.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 1d

Portland proud.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

And another day.

Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 6d

Another day for our neighbors in AZ-CD7 to go without representation in Congress.

Seat Adelita Grijalva.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 2d

Hope.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Relative calm returns to Gaza for the first time in months, as Palestinians hope first phase of deal will end the war.

Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza celebrate ceasefire news, joy in Tel Aviv

Relative calm returns to Gaza for the first time in months, as Palestinians hope first phase of deal will end the war.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 2d

This.

Never assume anything about the Middle East. Especially when it seems that an outcome so greatly hoped for is on the horizon.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2d

We should all be happy for any progress toward a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and especially for the release of the surviving hostages. That said: editors and writers need to be clear a temporary ceasefire is not a "peace" deal. What we're talking about is phase one of a multiphase plan.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 2d

Devil is in the details…

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

“Senior negotiators” doing a lot of heavy lifting here— at least on the U.S. side.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Senior negotiators from the US, Qatar and Turkey are set to join talks to end the war in Gaza. on.ft.com/47bv6xr

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

Johnson reminds me of Sergeant Schultz in that long-ago comedy from the 1960s, “Hogan’s Heroes.”

“I know nothing..nothing.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3d

Actually, Mike, if you're a young, pregnant American citizen woman who shows up in an ER in TEXAS or some other GOP-run states, THEY WON'T TREAT YOU AT ALL.

They'll wait until you're dying of sepsis. Then, when you're brain dead, they'll hook you up to tubes and treat your corpse as an incubator.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

This.

And this again. Trump, Rubio, Musk. They all lied. Again and again.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

We’re such fools.

Or, more correctly, led by fools.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

Know the feeling. Trying to figure out if brother will mail cat to me so I can stay in London.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another reason to love London: swing of wine glass in any direction and you’re going to hit a medieval or early modern historian. Last night attended talk by the always brilliant Helen Castor, tonight it’s early Tudor whisperer Nathen Amin. Happy times.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

And another day.

Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 6d

Another day for our neighbors in AZ-CD7 to go without representation in Congress.

Seat Adelita Grijalva.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 4d

He can’t remember.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 4d

When Trump finally gets tires of him and forgets his name, he’ll luckily have a short commute to the Ambassadors’ Training Seminar before he heads out to post.

Bastard.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s what to know: she’ll destroy a once-proud institution.

NPR @npr.org · 4d

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 4d

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

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