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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2h

God forbid the rest of us get one.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 3h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

And would be an instant national scandal if a Democratic Cabinet Secretary every did it. Two totally different standards applied to two totally different parties. Every day. Every year. Every decade.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 2h

A lot of people think abusive behaviour is normal because that’s how they’ve rationalized being abused.

It’s also how they rationalize being abusers.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2h

Gavin Newsom had some choice words for Greg Abbott after Texas National Guard troops were spotted in another Democrat-run city.

Newsom Trolls MAGA Governor Over National Guard Hypocrisy

The California governor is one of several taking aim at Texas governor Greg Abbott.

trib.al

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Be careful out there.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Jan 29

skincare hack don’t leave the house don’t talk to anyone

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Again, textbook stuff:

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 3h

Hey remember when they decided they weren't even primarily a LE agency? Good times.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

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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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

He has the heart of a 65 year old. He keeps it in a jar in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

“While the president’s authority to grant clemency for federal crimes is virtually unfettered, the power to impose vengeance via prison assignments isn’t clear.”

Actually, the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It’s in the Bill of Rights. It’s pretty clear.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

“I’ve got no problem with gruel.” Under orders from Trump, officials seek to make the life sentences of 37 convicted killers more like a living hell. The men were spared the death penalty by Biden.

Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

“I’ve got no problem with gruel.” Under orders from Trump, officials seek to make the life sentences of 37 convicted killers more like a living hell. The men were spared the death penalty by Biden.

Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”

on.wsj.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 4h

If Covid was a hoax, why the fuck did Trump get the vaccine today?

And why go to Walter Reed to get it when he has a full medical staff at The White House?

Something smells fishy…

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Ernesto O. @ernest33141.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: #Trump got the Covid Booster today.

Smartest thing he has ever done!!!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2h

I hope they follow up their "I'm proud to smell bad" essay with "I'm proud to put my phone on speaker in public places" and "I'm proud to double park in urban areas."

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2h

IF YOU HAVE A CLEARANCE CALL A NATSEC LAWYER BEFORE YOU CALL THE TIP LINE

My info is in my profile. Or call @bradmossesq.bsky.social if you can't reach me.

Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 10h

TO ALL FEDERAL WORKERS: if you were illegally fired today and have information of wrongdoing or abuse of power by the Trump Administration, our whistleblower tip line is open.

We want to hear from you. All whistleblowers are federally protected.

Report Potential Wrongdoing Under the Trump Administration

Whistleblowers play a vital role in helping Congress conduct our constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities. If you have knowledge of corporate or government corruption and abuses of power; insights into the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates; or information regarding potential wrongdoing or waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars, your disclosure can make a difference.

oversightdemocrats.house.gov

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☝️SoSayU @sosayu.bsky.social · 2h

He needs these

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5h

It may be—for now—a mild form of fascism. Political opponents aren’t being jailed or shot, entire opposition media outlets aren’t being shuttered, and books aren’t being burned.

But from Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. trib.al/a0i8hTE

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h

this one is still an all-timer tho ⬇️

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Trump administration’s table of authorities in this filing:

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