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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4h

i am not interested in attempting to widen the gulf between me and the overwhelming majority of society, who has stopped taking any precaution about covid whatsoever in any situation including the fucking emergency room, by trying to get people to mask

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 4h

This is a cold civil war.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: The Trump administration has blocked or slowed almost $28 billion in federal aid since the shutdown began, largely harming Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, underscoring how the president has weaponized a fiscal stalemate

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Nyx @nyxicemane.bsky.social · 8h

There's a reason my police abolitionism is often expressed as "I don't call the cops because I don't want someone to roll up six hours later and shoot my dog" to folks I'm trying to warm up to the concept.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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CNN @cnn.com · 6h

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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Sharon (she/her) @chubacca.bsky.social · 8h

"you know who's a powerful majority that needs to be dunked on??

People who still mask and think it'd be nice for others to do so too"

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 9h

“Oh, but you can go back to school to reskin, to find something you can do even with LC”

Setting aside “that’s not how LC works”

they fired everyone in the office for civil rights in the department of education

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Trump Regime Fires Special Ed Staff. | Matthew Cortland

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 9h

people who have absolutely no idea, not the first clue, about how debilitating the brain fog is. And saying “oh, it’s okay, you can get SSDI” was *insulting* before, now during Trump II it’s straight up sadistic

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 9h

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things"
- Peter Drucker

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump-Vance Administration getting rid of biodefense personnel is, to state the blindingly obvious, a very bad choice.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 9h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Sharon (she/her) @chubacca.bsky.social · 8h

Honestly these days, I just want to stop getting harassed for masking. And includes harassment not just from MAGAts but also ""reasonable leftists"" who are so proud in public about making the world worse.

Sharon (she/her) @chubacca.bsky.social · 9h

I just think it's WILD that a small niche of people asking anyone who cares to wear a mask is treated like an ominous, ever-present threat, as if public opinion for "normalcy" hasn't completely skewed even medical offices and hospitals into fervent non-masking.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Sharon (she/her) @chubacca.bsky.social · 9h

I just think it's WILD that a small niche of people asking anyone who cares to wear a mask is treated like an ominous, ever-present threat, as if public opinion for "normalcy" hasn't completely skewed even medical offices and hospitals into fervent non-masking.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 13h

Mamdani transparently loves new york and new yorkers and has things he believes in. That seems replicable

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 15h

Mamdani is going to win. The question will now be, "Can you reproduce this?" It's doubtful. He's talented. But it's possible, first of all, if you remember all politics is local, and the more local you get - the more people recognize you - the more things like age and parties cease to matter.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 13h

The modern Institutional Review Board exists because of the worst human rights abuses of the last century.

I’ll list some of them below.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 14h

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

If I send you this, know I’ve lost my shit

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 2d

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 18h

Uh, the thing that killed the Aztecs was the fact that they DID subjugate their neighbors, a fact the Spanish were happy to exploit when looking for allies

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Claire 🇦🇺 @matchingpegs.bsky.social · 19h

Why stop at schools. Let’s do hospitals, workplaces, shopping centres, churches, gyms, all public buildings!

LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 1d

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality. Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation. Thanks to @davidcarel.bsky.social for this reminder.
www.the74million.org/article/a-se...

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality

Carel: Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation.

www.the74million.org

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Sharon (she/her) @chubacca.bsky.social · 1d

@nome.bsky.social woohoo!

gravelgal.bsky.social @gravelgal.bsky.social · 1d

It’s my understanding that Denver also refuses

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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Write to your Senators and Representative NOW!

Demand **ALL CDC employees to be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government**.

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Write to Congress: CDC Employees must be Reinstated

**Please write now to your Senators and Representative demanding that ALL CDC employees be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government.** Late on Friday, October 10, the Trump Admin...

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