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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 1d

The law that Trump would be breaking by denying back pay to furloughed federal employees is a law that he himself signed into law during his first term.

That measure, known as the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, applied not only to that closure but also future fiscal lapses, quelling a major source of uncertainty for federal workers caught in the political fray.
Mr. Trump signed that measure into law in
2019. But his administration six years later now appears to have interpreted its guarantees much differently.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 1d

I really hope this is true because it will be so funny if this guy, who in 2020 made a huge stink about being banned from Delta because he refused to mask on planes, is now doing masked interviews regularly on Fox News. I guess he changed his mind on masking!

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel every word of this so hard.

Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder: Where is the place that isn’t Problematic? Every place seems to become a Nazi bar, over and over.

And we, the rats, scuttle away, ever smaller. We have our principle. We have our pride. But we no longer have a place.

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Backed into a corner

Where do I share, when every "where" is terrible?

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 5d

Bold of you to assume our politicians are bothering to even write their strongly worded letters and not just asking ChatGPT to do it.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 5d

I know this is a bit beside the point, but creating an entire social media dossier about a person in just 30 or 60min? The chance of errors & mistaken identity would be incredibly high due to how rushed the job would be and the likely use of GenAI (which would be the only way to meet the deadline).

The plan calls for strict turnaround times.
Urgent cases, such as suspected national security threats or people on ICE's Top Ten Most Wanted list, must be researched within 30 minutes. High-priority cases get one hour; lower-priority leads must be completed within the workday. ICE expects at least three-quarters of all cases to meet those deadlines, with top contractors hitting closer to 95 percent.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 6d

I despised Stigma to my very bones. There were certainly good parts to it, but I just cannot get over that a show that can’t even admit gay people exist would put out an entire episode about how sad it is gay people are stigmatized (via metaphor so they don’t have to say the word “gay”). #startrek

EnterpriseSplaining @enterprisesplain.bsky.social · 6d

New episode out today “Oops, I Hate it Again!” about the #startrek Enterprise episode Stigma where T'Pol deals with the repercussions of the events from Fusion via clunky metaphors for HIV/AIDS. Luckily there's a Trip B-plot that almost makes up for it but not quite.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 8d

Sorry for the misspelling. I’m trying to type with an iv in my arm and it’s hard ( I’m fine. Just waiting for a test)

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 8d

Chicagans! You can get a flu and covid vaccine for free at these vaccine clinics even if you don’t have an underlying condition. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/c...

Chicagoans Encouraged To Get Flu, COVID Shots As Health Department Breaks With Feds

Chicago residents can access free flu and COVID-19 shots at the city's four walk-in immunization clinics.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 8d

ICE agents arrested two elementary school age children who were playing in the water at the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park and now has them locked up. If a Batman villain did something like this, it may be considered a bit too over the top, yet here we are. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/f...

Family Taken By Feds Downtown Separated In Detention Centers: 'They're Locking Up Children'

The mother and two young children who were arrested Sunday in Millennium Park are being held at O'Hare Airport, while the father is in Broadview. A neighbor was able to bring the family some supplies ...

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth decrying "men in dresses" (aka trans women) and calling "females" (Ferengi voice) weak and incompetent

Transphobia is driven by misogyny, and white Christian nationalist fascism is founded in misogyny

Their system of oppression only works if rigid gender roles are enforced

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 9d

Actually this particular sign is one you probably should obey in advance.

A sign reading “do not obey in advance” on a sign marking the clearance height of an overpass.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 8d

I know so many women in the military who had to be better than their male colleagues to get promoted - accepted every bit of misogyny to serve & serve well. To hear this sexist asshole who can’t even properly do a pull up malign their service is renewing my determination to fight. We deserve better.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "I don't want me son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men"

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth forced generals to fly from the other side of the planet to VA (costing millions of dollars) just so he could call them a fat to their face. It’s giving HS bully.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

just the hubris on this guy! like every chauvinist mediocrity, he sincerely believes he is a top specimen, the pinnacle of human achievement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 8d

I obviously do not want a government shut down to happen, but the fact that every high ranking military member is going to be stuck in VA if the govt shuts down just because Hegseth scheduled his one-man-show military pep rally for the day before the shut down is very funny.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 8d

I cannot get over the fact that that man’s actual name is Tom Paris.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 8d

It’s truly wild that as a society we have decided that clothes made for women is often made in a way where we cannot dress or even undress ourselves.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 8d

I can tell from your scoffing at zippers on the back that you haven’t worn many women’s dresses! The other day I was stuck in a dress I wanted badly to take off because my partner was out on a run and despite my contortions could not reach the zipper and take it off on my own.

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 9d

This is my first time seeing the VOY uniforms. I assume Tuvok is the black dude who looks like he might be a Vulcan and not the white dude with the incredibly punchable face? Either way, it looks like they both have a ton of layers on. Why does trek uniforms have to have multiple undershirts?

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 9d

That Sisko photo is breaking my eyes. I thought the ds9 uniforms had a turtleneck underneath. Why does it look like he has a second uniform jacket in under his actual uniform jacket???

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Super Saiga @supersaiga.bsky.social · 12d

from 1400-1600 English experienced the great vowel shift, where the pronunciation of every long vowel in every dialect changed.

Now we are experiencing the great verb shift, where every verb will soon be a euphemism for shag / diddle / pork / bang / bonk / bone / screw / scoodleypoop / smash / boff

Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 12d

Hunter Bell did what to her mate????

Screenshot of a Guardian article about a World Athletics Championship race that starts with the line “Hunter Bell, meanwhile, ran her race and diddled her mate on the line”

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Jamie Boo!!stein @uajamie.bsky.social · 12d

Hunter Bell did what to her mate????

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